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

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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Northeastern University, Google ...

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

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum computers in their development. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explores ...

QKD offers a fundamentally different approach to securing communications, but cost, infrastructure and scalability challenges ...