Quantum Computing

Ph.D. students Ben Soloway and Grant Smith chat in a quantum optics lab at the University of Chicago on April 7, 2021. 13227331P

April 12, 2021 at 6:01 am

Quantum technology emerges from the lab to spark a mini startup boom

Quantum technology is starting to seep out of academic labs and into the real world. The technology seeks to harness the peculiar laws of quantum...

This Feb. 27, 2018, photo shows a quantum computer, encased in a refrigerator that keeps the temperature close to zero kelvin in the quantum computing lab at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Describing the inner workings of a quantum computer isn’t easy, even for top scholars. That’s because the machines process information at the scale of elementary particles such as electrons and photons, where different laws of physics apply. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NYSW108

December 1, 2020 at 4:50 pm

Amazon is laying the groundwork for its own quantum computer

Amazon.com is laying the groundwork for a quantum computer, deepening efforts to harness technology that can crunch in seconds vast amounts of data that take...

Professor Robert Schoelkopf works on a dilution refrigerator, used to cool superconducting qubits to cryogenic temperatures, at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 13, 2017. Schoelkopf is at the forefront of a worldwide effort to build the world’s first quantum computer, a machine that, if it can be built, would use the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems today’s computers never could. (Roger Kisby for The New York Times)

February 10, 2020 at 4:56 pm

White House earmarks new money for AI and quantum computing

The technologies are expected to become an important part of national security, and some worry the United States is behind China in their development.

December 26, 2019 at 9:30 am

China’s top quantum scientist has ties to the country’s defense companies

Pan Jian-Wei, a physicist known in China as the "father of quantum," helps oversee the country's efforts to harness quantum particles to build powerful computers...

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October 23, 2019 at 2:26 pm

Google claims blazing fast breakthrough. Here’s quantum computing explained (in mere minutes!) WATCH

Here’s what you need to know about quantum computing and the importance of Google’s claim.

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October 23, 2019 at 2:15 am

Google claims breakthrough in blazingly fast computing

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google announced Wednesday it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing, saying it has developed an experimental processor that took just...

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October 21, 2019 at 12:59 pm

Quantum computing is coming, bit by qubit VIEW

By exploiting the properties of quantum weirdness, companies are now designing and building starter versions of computers that could do gazillions of calculations simultaneously

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August 18, 2019 at 4:46 pm

The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront

China’s formidable investment in new technology which could transform information processing is helping it catch up with Western research and, in a few areas, pull...

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Christopher Savoie, founder and chief executive of Zapata, at his startup’s office in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 11, 2018. Savoie said he had offered jobs to three foreign scientists who specialize in quantum computing. He’s still waiting for their visas to be approved. By some estimates, only 1,000 or so researchers can claim to understand the technology. Finding more could become a national security issue. (Tony Luong/The New York Times) XNYT82 XNYT82

October 28, 2018 at 2:15 pm

The next tech talent shortage: quantum computing researchers

Unless policies and priorities change, U.S. businesses and universities will have trouble attracting the talent needed to build quantum technology, which could make today’s computers...

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June 17, 2018 at 9:42 am

Quantum computing finds its lobbying voice

A commercially useful quantum computer has not yet been demonstrated, but industry advocates are pushing for coordinated federal action to help develop one.

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