In simulating properties of molecules and materials, computational chemistry has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery for a wide variety of applications by reducing the need for costly and ...

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Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

One of the pieces of equipment for the quantum random number generator in the NIST Boulder laboratories. Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its ...

Microsoft this week described some of its advances in quantum computing, along with new resources for accelerating scientific and industry research. One of the new resources introduced was Azure ...

Qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers, can be made from many different technologies. One way to make a qubit is to trap a single neutral atom in place using a focused laser, a technique ...

Researchers have achieved a key milestone toward the development of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. They were able to demonstrate a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.5 percent -- higher than the 99 ...

Microsoft today announced that it has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to use its Azure Quantum Elements service to whittle down millions of ...

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a strange new behavior in “heavy” electrons — particles that act as if they carry far more ...

When mathematicians revived ignored mathematical structures, they found that overlooked particles, called "neglectons," could ...

The goal of quantum communication is to send information quickly and securely through encrypted channels. Improving that process is not an easy task and requires delicate work to control how light is ...