Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s algorithm, the theoretical tool capable of breaking widely used public-key ...

Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and ...

The new Caltech and Oratomic paper, posted to the arXiv preprint server, argues that the ratio of physical to logical qubits can be slashed by combining high-rate quantum error-correcting codes, ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...

The U.S. and China are racing to develop computers based on the properties of quantum physics – with implications for science ...

Quantum algorithms for integer factorisation employ quantum mechanical principles to decompose composite numbers into prime factors with greater efficiency than classical approaches. Central to this ...