Concerns that quantum computers may start easily hacking into previously secure communications has motivated researchers to work on innovative new ways to encrypt information. One such method is ...

A key challenge in developing stable quantum systems is protecting quantum information from environmental disturbances. It is also one of the biggest hurdles in achieving and maintaining unique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quantum systems are so delicate that even observing them can lead to disturbance. The conventional techniques used for taking a ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

The new method, which uses quantum dots, performs as well as or better than current infrared light sources while being much ...

Duplicating the information held in quantum computers was thought to be impossible thanks to the no-cloning theorem, but researchers have now found a workaround ...

Quantum computer research is advancing at a rapid pace. Today's devices, however, still have significant limitations: For example, the length of a quantum computation is severely limited—that is, the ...

Researchers have developed a new protocol for characterizing quantum gate errors, paving the way toward more reliable quantum simulations and fault-tolerant quantum computing. Researchers have ...