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D-Wave’s New Gate Keeps Its Qubits’ Errors Easy to Spot
Quantum Technology

D-Wave’s New Gate Keeps Its Qubits’ Errors Easy to Spot

Most qubits fail unnoticed. Something nudges the quantum state, the information corrupts, and the machine has no idea until error...
A Qubit That Lasts Longer, Because of What It’s Made Of
Quantum Technology

A Qubit That Lasts Longer, Because of What It’s Made Of

A superconducting qubit is a beautiful, fragile thing. It holds quantum information for a flicker, a fraction of a millisecond...
A Secret That Can’t Be Copied, Even After the Key Is Out
Quantum Security

A Secret That Can’t Be Copied, Even After the Key Is Out

Copy an encrypted file and you’ll have two encrypted files, both openable with the same key. That’s how digital information...
A Quantum Advantage Result You Can Actually Check
Quantum Technology

A Quantum Advantage Result You Can Actually Check

Most quantum-advantage claims have two soft spots. You usually can’t verify the answer, since the whole point is that it’s...
A Warm Atom Cloud and a Cold Quantum Dot, Emitting Identical Photons
Quantum Technology

A Warm Atom Cloud and a Cold Quantum Dot, Emitting Identical Photons

A quantum network is a mix-and-match problem. You want bright, fast photon sources for sending information, and you want atomic...
Where Classical Supercomputers Stopped Agreeing, a Quantum Chip Held On
Quantum Technology

Where Classical Supercomputers Stopped Agreeing, a Quantum Chip Held On

Point one of the world’s fastest supercomputers at a hard enough physics problem and, eventually, it starts giving you answers...
The Lab That Bent Light Backwards Is Going Quantum
Quantum Technology

The Lab That Bent Light Backwards Is Going Quantum

Natural materials bend light in predictable ways. Glass slows it and tilts it toward you, and water does much the...
An AI Learned to Write Quantum Circuits, Then Outdid Its Teacher
Quantum Technology

An AI Learned to Write Quantum Circuits, Then Outdid Its Teacher

Before a quantum computer can tell you anything useful about a molecule, it has to be coaxed into a state...
Sound Could Carry Quantum Signals Across a Whole Chip – On Paper
Quantum Technology

Sound Could Carry Quantum Signals Across a Whole Chip – On Paper

Here’s a small, stubborn problem at the heart of building a big quantum computer. The qubits can usually only talk...
The Quantum Neural Network That Refuses to Go Flat
Quantum Technology

The Quantum Neural Network That Refuses to Go Flat

Quantum machine learning has a cruel little paradox at its heart. Build a quantum model simple enough to train reliably,...