The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

The hardest idea in quantum mechanics to hold in a non-physicist’s head is that a thing can be in two states at once. Not ...

Quantum computers, such as this one shown at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could run programs that ...

The world's first quantum battery prototype is here and it has some bizarre properties. Could these devices one day power ...

Imaged: quantum computer from IBM, not related to the present story. Credit: IBM. In the global race to build bigger and ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university blackboards: a quantum computer. These days, quantum computers—which ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. Two years ago, I spent about six months in deep discussions ...