An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

You're late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you ...

Reading time 3 minutes According to physicist Paul Davies, a tried-and-true “quantum” device exploits the odd rules of ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

A new quantum system called giant superatoms could protect quantum information and enable entanglement between multiple ...

Cryptography pioneers Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard introduced the BB84 protocol the uses the principles of ...

An international team of physicists has uncovered a subtle but important twist in how “memory” works in quantum systems.

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Researchers showcased a new method for generating single photons in a diamond-based quantum system. This progress brings ...