For the past six years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces variational quantum computing: the barren plateau.

The agency is celebrating 2025 being designated as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with an educational campaign. Quantum science, and especially its most popular offshoot, ...

Those who follow tech news may have seen Microsoft’s recent announcement of Majorana 1, “the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture.” If that sounds like something ...

Sorta sparked by this comment someone made to me but it's similar to what other people have told me before: I was listening to a lecture on quantum electrodynamics and it helped me conceptualize the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear out of thin films instead of electron-positron pairs in a vacuum. Their ...

Quantum computing may sound like something out of a science fiction movie. However, large companies such as Google, IBM, and Microsoft are investing heavily in quantum computing research and ...