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In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a surface-code quantum error correction experiment that crossed below the ...

Google claims to have developed a quantum computer algorithm that is 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputers. This would bring the technology another step closer to real-world ...

A research note published in the news this week by Citi warns that recent advances in quantum computing have compressed the ...

The scale of chemistry simulations with quantum computing has increased dramatically in just the last few months. In the ...

After decades as an emerging technology, quantum computing is moving rapidly toward commercialization. And in doing so, it is ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling ...