Quantum computers have the potential to complete certain types of computations exponentially faster than traditional computers. While the technology is far from commercially viable today, quantum ...

Jian-Wei Pan is director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Microsoft has published the culmination of 20 years of research into subatomic particles, known as Majorana fermions, which it aims to use to build a million-qubit quantum computer. The research ...

In a recent publication in Physical Review C, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the InQubator for Quantum Simulations ... the speed of the particle is much slower ...

This particle has some unique properties, and it's long been theorized that Majorana particles could prove useful for quantum computing. In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Microsoft (NASDAQ ...

Sivan declined to name any of those specific customers — although the list ... quantum processor that’s built using what it described as “a new state of matter” called the Majorana particle.

Microsoft says it has created a long-theorised “Goldilocks” particle that could allow it to make a large-scale quantum computer within the next few years, potentially leapfrogging competitors ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that ...

AI is the technology trend of the moment—but what’s 10 years down the road? Some experts say quantum computing will be the next game changer. WSJ visited IBM’s quantum computing lab to learn ...