Quantum catalysts are specialized resources that enable quantum state transformations previously thought impossible, holding ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is.

Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron motion is effectively quenched and strong ...

Researchers have pushed quantum chip design into a new era by simulating every physical detail before fabrication. Using a ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Nation-states and malicious actors are collecting encrypted data so they can read it with future quantum computers. These ...

Stonehenge, the pyramids, the Bermuda Triangle, D.B. Cooper and now, the Quantum Bagel Incident. Hyperbole? OK, but just ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Two scientists just won computing's Nobel Prize for an idea from 1984: use quantum mechanics to make eavesdropping physically ...