In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in midair, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.

Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that’s exponentially more powerful than conventional ...

A team led by Stanford senior author Jennifer Dionne has built a device that generates quantum light at room temperature by ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -IBM announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key milestone toward making useful quantum computers ...

Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

The Nvidia logo outside the company's offices in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. Credit - Qilai Shen—Bloomberg/Getty Images In the last two weeks, NVIDIA, the enabler and chief beneficiary ...

Quantum computers can produce randomness much more easily than previously thought, a surprising discovery that shows we still have much to learn about how the strange realm of quantum physics ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Classical computing gave us automation. What's coming next is something closer to a factory that thinks. But getting there requires two technologies converging in a way that many might not fully ...