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The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for pioneering experiments that paved the way for the next generation…

Depending on how you think about it, there’s half a dozen or more approaches to the hardware. And I became excited that within the hardware approach,…

Mikhail Lukin (right) and colleagues with their neutral-atom quantum computer.Credit: Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff PhotographerA conveyor belt of atoms arranged in orderly rows could resolve a major…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math…

A British quantum computing entrepreneur has doubled the value of his stake in the business he founded to $2bn (£1.5bn), after the company achieved a $10bn…

Aaron Lauda has been exploring an area of mathematics that most physicists have seen little use for, wondering if it might have practical applications. In a…

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed…

Quantum computing is either a distant dream or an imminent reality depending on who you ask. And while much of this year’s Quantum Village at the…

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging…

QpiAI, an Indian startup that claims to integrate AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $32 million in a new funding round co-led…