Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum ...

Strongly interacting systems play an important role in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. Stochastic methods such as Monte Carlo simulations are a proven method for investigating such systems.

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for real-world applications. Researchers have developed a method for ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. Researchers in Europe say they recently solved a “decades-old ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to correcting common quantum computing errors, which could pave the way for more ...

TL;DR: A California-based startup, D-Wave, has achieved quantum computational supremacy by solving a complex materials simulation problem beyond the reach of classical computers. Their annealing ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...