D-Wave Systems Inc. logo of a Canadian quantum computing company is seen on a smartphone screen. Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Quantum computing stocks rallied Wednesday, spurred by a directive from Microsoft urging businesses to get “quantum-ready” in 2025, and as investors returned to “risk on” trades after December core inflation came in […]
It happens every working morning now, between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. ET, the adoption of a couple of stocks, hijacked from their closing price and gunned so hard that you have to wonder exactly what kind of game is being played. Some of the time the stocks are oddball biotechs, the kinds that just […]
Scientists say they have reached “a critical inflection point” after developing a technology that makes silicon-based quantum processors more viable. Quantum computing company Equal1 has created a quantum processing unit (QPU) that can be built using conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes. This negates the complexity and expense typically involved with producing quantum processors using exotic materials […]
It gets better. What if B is also anchored to a quantum object that’s in a superposition of two locations? Then A’s quantum state is now smeared out in two different ways, depending on the possible locations of B. Because determining B’s quantum state determines A’s state, A and B are now entangled. Renato Renner, […]
The microwaved grape trick also shows their promise as alternative microwave resonators for quantum sensing applications, according to the authors of this latest paper. Those applications include satellite technology, masers, microwave photon detection, hunting for axions (a dark matter candidate), and various quantum systems, and driving spin in superconducting qubits for quantum computing, among others. […]
Front row, from left to right: Peter Wolynes, Guido Pagano and Jose Onuchic. Back row, from left to right: Roman Zhuravel, Midhuna Duraisamy Suganthi and Visal So. Credit: Alex Becker/Rice University Researchers at Rice University have made a meaningful advance in the simulation of molecular electron transfer—a fundamental process underpinning countless physical, chemical and biological […]
In this week’s science news, we take a journey to the past, as far back as our very earliest human ancestors. First stop, ancient Egypt, where archaeologists working at a temple in Taposiris Magna have discovered what they believe is a bust of Queen Cleopatra VIIfamed for her romances with Roman leaders Julius Caesar and […]
Quantum computing stocks are in focus after Google unveiled its new quantum computing chip, Willow, which contributed to Alphabet stock’s recent gains. D-Wave (QBTS), a quantum computing company, announced it secured $175 million in funding. CEO Alan Baratz joins Catalysts Co-Hosts Seana Smith and Madison Mills to break down what’s going on in the quantum […]
Experts believe that one day, quantum computers could make today’s systems of encryption utterly obsolete. But Google tells The Verge its new “breakthrough” Willow chip is nowhere near ready for that. “The Willow chip is not capable of breaking modern cryptography,” Google Quantum AI director and COO Charina Chou tells The Verge. A so-called “cryptanalytically […]
Google’s quantum computing lab just achieved a major milestone. On Monday, the company revealed that its new quantum computing chip, Willow, is capable of performing a computing challenge in less than five minutes — a process Google says would take one of the world’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, or longer than the age of […]
