Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series of challenges and conundrums. One of them relates ...

Researchers and tech companies are in a global race to develop quantum computers that can solve hard scientific problems that conventional computers can’t, and that they hope can eventually support ...

Newswise — You are no doubt viewing this article on a digital device whose basic unit of information is the bit, either 0 or 1. Scientists worldwide are racing to develop a new kind of computer based ...

What is qubit (short for quantum bit)? A qubit (short for quantum bit) is the basic unit of information in quantum computing and counterpart to the bit (binary digit) in classical computing. A qubit ...

A team led by Professor Andrea Morello at UNSW Sydney has just demonstrated the operation of a new type of quantum bit, called "flip-flop" qubit, which combines the exquisite quantum properties of ...

The estimate assumes cat qubits that go about a century without a bit-flip, while Alice & Bob's largest demonstrator runs on ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. An illustration of the qubit platform made of ...