Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After trying out algorithmic trading on a quantum computer, HSBC recently joined a growing list of companies to ...

A vital ingredient for making quantum computers truly useful just might be conventional computers. That was the message from a gathering of researchers this month, which explained that classical ...

Quantum computers are powerful, but a practical quantum machine that’s useful for everyday tasks remains elusive. In fact, proponents of quantum computing say it could be another 10 years before there ...

with Microsoft, Atom Computing, and QuEra leading efforts to deliver small, error-corrected machines. enabling error correction and a plausible path to scaling up ...

Quantum computing is growing, but it's still a work in progress.

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...

What is superconducting quantum computing? Superconducting quantum computing (SQC) describes one way that a quantum computer can be built. A computer built on these principles uses tiny ...