Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation Using Electrons
Quantum Teleportation A team of researchers claim to have achieved quantum teleportation using individual electrons. Quantum teleportation, or quantum entanglement, allows particles to affect each...
View ArticleScientists Create Quantum System That Stays Operational 10,000 Longer
Quantum computers only are useful to us when we know how the states of electrons relate to each other. But getting to a state where this relationship is known — "quantum coherence" — is extremely...
View ArticlePhysicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself
Pack It Up A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away, without altering it in the process. It's a simple concept, but extremely difficult to actually pull...
View ArticleChina Claims Quantum Supremacy
Quantum Supremacy 2.0 A team of researchers from University of Science and Technology of China have just claimed quantum supremacy, Wired reports — meaning their quantum computer completed a task that...
View ArticleResearchers Achieve First "Sustained" Long Distance Quantum Teleportation
A team of researchers claim to have achieved sustained, long-distance quantum teleportation for the first time. The research could lay the groundwork for "a viable quantum internet — a network in which...
View ArticleThis Quantum Desktop Computer Can Be Yours for Just $5,000
Head SpinQ A startup based in Shenzhen, China, called SpinQ has unveiled a quantum computer that can fit on a desk — and it costs less than $5,000, as Discover Magazine reports. That's only a tiny...
View ArticleMicrosoft Retracts Paper Claiming Quantum Computing Breakthrough
A controversial 2018 research paper about the discovery of an elusive subatomic particle has been retracted by the reputable journal Nature, the BBC reports. The team, led by researchers from...
View ArticleChinese Scientists Say They Now Have the World's Most Powerful Quantum Computer
A team of researchers in China has claimed a new record in quantum computing, saying its new computer is far more powerful than any that came before it — including the best effort by the...
View ArticleIBM Says It's Achieved a Huge Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Quantum Breakthrough? Quantum computing has come a long way, with researchers claiming over the last several years that their new creations are capable of completing complex tasks that would take a...
View ArticleUS Sanctions Chinese Quantum Computing Firms for... Reasons
The US government has slapped sanctions on several Chinese quantum computing organizations, barring any American companies from doing business with them unless expressly permitted. As PC Magazine...
View ArticleExperts Warn of "Quantum Apocalypse"
Quantum Apocalypse Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, a potentially dangerous fate for humanity that they're evocatively dubbing the...
View ArticleQuantum Computer Researcher Warns That the Industry Is Full of Ridiculous Hype
Quantum Hype The nascent field of quantum computing generates a steady drumbeat of attention-grabbing headlines about the looming "quantum apocalypse," "quantum supremacy," and endless new investments...
View ArticleUK Military Wants to Install Quantum Computers in Tanks for Some Reason
Small Package The UK Ministry of Defense just bought a quantum computer to investigate if the technology could one day make tanks smart, New Scientist reports. Richard Murray, the CEO of quantum...
View ArticlePhysicists Create New Phase of Matter With "Extra" Time Dimension
New Dimension Physicists say they've created a new phase of matter with an "extra" time dimension, according to a recently published study in the journal Nature. The researchers didn't set out with the...
View ArticleOxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It's Basically a...
Seriously Though Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov tore into the quantum computing industry this week, comparing the "fanfare" around the tech to a financial bubble in a searing commentary...
View ArticleScientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers
Brain Power As physicists endeavor to build bigger and better quantum computers, a powerful one may have already been lurking inside our heads all along. In a new study published this month in the...
View ArticleScientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something...
Future of Computing Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter in the process, according to a study...
View ArticleThose Headlines About Scientists Building a Wormhole Are Total Nonsense, People
Some fun but esoteric physics news broke this week: that researchers had simulated two black holes using a quantum computer, and managed to send a message between them, as if the virtual system was a...
View ArticleResearchers Say They've Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a...
Humans may have gotten one step closer to figuring out how to make wormholes thanks to fascinating new research. That's at least according to Hatim Saleh, a research fellow at the University of Bristol...
View ArticleIBM Says It's Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
Scientists at IBM say they've developed a method to manage the unreliability inherent in quantum processors, possibly providing a long-awaited breakthrough toward making quantum computers as practical...
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