Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, ...

Quantum computers lack useful functionality without the right algorithms to facilitate their operation. Currently, there are ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in ...

Junqiao Lin has won the best student paper award at STOC, a premier conference in theoretical computer science held in Salt ...

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For the past six years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces variational quantum computing: the barren plateau.