Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

A new presidential initiative called QMIT will advance the development of quantum technologies—and help ensure that they are used for good. As MIT navigates a difficult and constantly changing higher ...

Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward—is one image that helps us picture how a quantum computer handles ...

Quantum computing is on course to take several steps forward this year. Quantum computing is a cutting-edge technology that has yet to be proven out, but numerous companies are working on producing ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation. Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be ...