Superconducting qubit design takes center stage at the 2026 Quantum Device Design Workshop, which opened Monday at UCLA.

In the previous article titled “The Basics: How Quantum Computers Work and Where the Technology is Heading,” we provided an overview of foundational quantum computing concepts, including qubits ...

One intriguing method that could be used to form the qubits needed for quantum computers involves electrons hovering above liquid helium. But it wasn't clear how data in this form could be read easily ...

Microsoft and Quantinuum have demonstrated 12 logical qubits built from 97 physical qubits, running fault-tolerant algorithms ...

Neutral atom quantum computing works by using lasers to corral atoms into a vacuum chamber (not on a chip per se). Different ...

Researchers at QuTech in Delft, The Netherlands, have developed a new chip architecture that could make it easier to test and scale up quantum processors based on semiconductor spin qubits Researchers ...

Using commercially available technology and innovative methods, researchers at NBI have pushed the limits of how fast you can detect changes in the sensitive quantum states in the qubit. Their work ...

Quantum computing, once only a theoretical possibility, promises to deliver faster, more energy-efficient computers—but only ...

A gold superconducting quantum computer hangs against a black background. Quantum computers, like the one shown here, could someday allow chemists to solve problems that classical computers can’t.

The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that qubits are measured. A research group introduces a new ...

Conventional computers work by performing operations on bits encoded in silicon. But no one is really sure how qubits will be encoded in the quantum computers of the future. Half a dozen or so ...

Quantum computing advances raise concerns over 10,000 qubits breaking P‑256 encryption using Shor’s algorithm, driving ...