OQC builds quantum chips by placing transmon qubits atop a thin layer of sapphire. According to the company, its engineers create the qubits using photolithography techniques and an electron beam. The other side of the sapphire substrate hosts devices called resonators that are responsible for extracting calculation results from qubits.

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a new topological quantum processor that uses lead-based materials, delivers longer qubit lifetimes, and supports the company's goal of scalable quantum computing by 2029.

The US Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion in grants to American quantum-computing companies, half of which will go to IBM, in a bid to bolster the buildout of super computers that could solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Researchers at Monash University have built a tiny on-chip circuit that can generate, direct, and read light-based information for both artificial intelligence inference and quantum computing operations.

Quantum power is calculated in qubits. Every 10 qubits supports 1,024 computations, giving hackers 1,024 times the power to break encryption in one swoop, Steward illustrated. There are now machines with up to 6,100 qubits in processing power, and this number keeps growing.

Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, materials science, nuclear physics, and more.

What happens when AI begins helping design quantum hardware? A processor now suggests the answer could arrive sooner than expected.

Quantum computing could lead to revolutions in cryptography, materials design and telecommunications. But fulfilling those promises could be many years away

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Within a crystal's atomic structure, tiny atomic-scale flaws will naturally occur where electrons can become trapped. These defects have emerged as one of the leading platforms for quantum information processing.

The brains behind Microsoft’s bid to build a quantum computer within three years is also helping BHP dig more copper out of the ground to wire everything from electric cars to data centres.