The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

The collaboration of TU Wien with research groups in China has resulted in a crucial building block for a new kind of quantum ...

In the event that quantum computers one day become capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography, roughly 1 million BTC attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin network, could become ...

For decades, quantum computing has been heralded as a technology of the future, promising to solve problems far beyond the reach of supercomputers. But its practical use has remained elusive. That’s ...

New evidence suggests a rare triplet superconductor may help quantum computers stay in sync by preserving electron spin ...

Reservoir computing is a promising machine learning-based approach for the analysis of data that changes over time, such as ...

The Bitcoin network took its first step towards quantum-computing resistance with the addition of BIP 360 to its repository.

Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly ...