The math behind encryption will be no match for quantum computers, forcing organizations to rethink cybersecurity. Here’s ...

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university blackboards: a quantum computer. These days, quantum computers—which ...

Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

The hardest idea in quantum mechanics to hold in a non-physicist’s head is that a thing can be in two states at once. Not ...

Aaron Lauda has been exploring an area of mathematics that most physicists have seen little use for, wondering if it might have practical applications. In a twist even he didn’t expect, it turns out ...

Quantum computing has been discussed for years, mostly as something that exists “just over the horizon.” It’s been important in theory, but still far from a day-to-day engineering reality. But now, ...

I founded Xanadu to build the world’s first scalable quantum computer. Keeping the industry here may be even harder.

The uncomfortable secret of digital security isn’t that quantum computers are coming, it’s that nobody can prove today’s locks will work when they do. Yoon Auh, founder and CEO of BOLTS Technologies, ...