Quantum computers

Image caption: “Quantum detective” Dr. Christina Giarmazzi of Macquarie University (pictured) led the team that created the first complete picture of how errors evolve over time inside quantum computers. Photo: Kate Field. Credit: Kate Field

Australian research team discovers why quantum computers have “memory problems” over time

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Researchers have found that the tiny errors that plague quantum computers don't appear randomly. Instead, they can remain in the computer, evolve over time, and even connect with each other across time.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Quantum tunneling, superconductors and quantum computers

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This year, three researchers from the University of Santa Barbara won for a series of groundbreaking experiments that established the superconducting qubit – the central component that scientists around the world are now using to build quantum computers. In the article
Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of quantum properties. © Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and the quantization of energy in an electric circuit"

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The Swedish Academy has announced that John Clark, Michelle Deborah and John Martinis have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of quantum phenomena in hand-held electrical circuits.
An advanced quantum system in a laboratory at Tel Aviv University. Photo: Tel Aviv University Spokesperson

Practical experience with a quantum computer – already in your undergraduate degree 

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Until now, practical experience in quantum computing was only open to researchers and graduate students, but now students at Tel Aviv University will be able to operate a quantum computer as early as their undergraduate degree.

Who will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year? All predictions

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The Nobel Prizes are announced at the beginning of October every year, and about a month before that rumors, predictions and speculations are spread about the identity of the candidates and the chances of winning. In recent years, using innovative data analysis tools, forecasting experts
Gravitational waves. Illustration: depositphotos.com

An innovation in gravitational wave detectors could help decipher cosmic secrets

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A significant development in thin layer technology could possibly improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors.
Laser in a physics lab. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A new method of creating quantum light sources will help in encryption and solving security problems

Prof. Adi Aryeh: "We are standing at the threshold of a new technological world, and with it comes a host of new opportunities alongside a host of problems we have not yet encountered."
The Fantastic Five: strontium ions in a vacuum chamber trapped in an array of electric fields and cooled using laser beams to a temperature several millionths of a degree above absolute zero

Israel enters the quantum computing club

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists present the first Israeli quantum computer; In its construction, innovative methods were applied that will help advance the field towards unprecedented computational capabilities

When light and matter work together

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The arrow of time works differently in the quantum world

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Intel has invented a production stream of spin qubits based on its 300mm process technology that uses isotopically pure wafers like this one. Credit: Intel.

Intel is testing silicon "spin qubits" to realize quantum computing

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Illustration: O. Usher (UCL MAPS).

An Israeli-international team is developing a quantum computer funded by the QuantERA Foundation

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Quantum computers will be able to crack encrypted transmissions that are considered unbreakable today, but it is likely that quantum encryption will predate them. Illustration: pixabay.

The race to build an uncrackable computer network

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New theories that attempt to unify quantum computing and space-time physics may provide new insights into the fabric of the universe. Chart: Johnstone / Wikimedia.

Bits interwoven in space-time

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A quantum computer. Illustration: shutterstock

The development of the quantum computer is progressing in an unexpected place

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Moshe Levinger. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Until alternatives to silicon are found, there is no choice but to place the chips in layers

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