As quantum computing develops, scientists are working to identify tasks for which quantum computers have a clear advantage over classical computers. So far, researchers have only pinpointed a handful ...

Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for real-world applications. Researchers have developed a method for ...

Simulations of quantum many-body systems are an important goal for nuclear and high-energy physics. Many-body problems involve systems that consist of many microscopic particles interacting at the ...

A team of physicists from the University at Buffalo has developed a user-friendly method that allows researchers to solve complex quantum problems, once thought to require massive supercomputers, on ...

Quantum-inspired optimisation algorithms represent a class of metaheuristic techniques that draw inspiration from quantum mechanics to tackle combinatorial optimisation problems on classical hardware.

Quantum computers located in a data center. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa (Photo by Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images) To understand what quantum computers actually threaten, you first need to know ...