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Explore English articles about Quantum Computing.
An MIT research team has published a theoretical design for a superconducting 'arm qubit' that separates information storage from external coupling. Using a quarton coupler, their simulations predict a gate error rate of 8.6×10⁻⁵, surpassing existing experimental results—though building an actual device and verifying material losses remain future work.
Google, the superconducting-qubit leader, moved into neutral atoms in March 2026. Two months later, the U.S. Commerce Department signed $2.013 billion in preliminary term sheets with nine quantum companies spanning six different modalities. This piece connects the dots—from a space-versus-time map of all six approaches, to a modality-by-modality recount of the CHIPS Act allocations, to Japan's ¥100.4 billion quantum plan.
QuEra had Claude develop laser recovery logic on a dedicated testbed, achieving 695 successful recoveries out of 700 trials. In production, standalone code without AI runs the recovery, while effects on quantum performance await validation on live hardware.
Anthropic has begun a research preview of MHS, which connects AI to laboratory equipment. This article examines how it differs from existing standards, its 99.3% success rate demonstrated on a quantum computer, and the safety and disclosure challenges that remain.
C.L.A.Y. connects a Qiskit simulator, not actual quantum hardware, to Unity, using it to generate maps and branch the narrative. The game isolates this untested technology within a commercial RPG, and its real limits remain unverified.
A UCLA research team has achieved the first direct observation of phonon focusing—heat flowing in beam-like patterns—in boron arsenide crystals at room temperature (300 K). This article explains the physics behind this breakthrough in wave-like heat transport, previously confined to extreme cold, and the challenges that remain.
IMS's 'Shunkai' has begun operating with about 50 qubits. Being Japan's first isn't about scale—it's about integrating everything from software to the QPU, moving error-correction research onto real hardware.
A Chinese research team has succeeded in raising a material's superconducting transition temperature using vacuum fluctuations amplified inside a resonator, without any external energy input. By controlling material properties through interactions with virtual photons, the technique points toward a new way of engineering the vacuum itself.
IBM cooled two connected modular cryostat cells to below 15 millikelvin simultaneously. Here's what the demonstration actually proves—and what remains unverified for long-distance quantum wiring and qLDPC implementation.
The US critical and emerging technologies list has been reorganized from 18 domains to 14. While explicit references to data centers and battery storage have disappeared, federal R&D funding allocation is now tied to basic research and national security applications.
