The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Quantum computing is widely believed to be a revolutionary new technology. In fact, it is a double-edged sword. If efficient quantum computers can be manufactured in near future, many of the current ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Are quantum computers worth the billions that are being invested in them? The answer is probably many years away. However, the machines could prove to be particularly suited to solving problems in ...

While quantum computing has vast potential, it could also threaten cybersecurity. “Current encryption methods are less secure in the face of the superior computation power of quantum computing” says ...

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have enhanced a computationally efficient technique referred to as the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA), a type of physics shortcut that simplifies quantum ...

Big data has gotten too big. Now, a research team with statisticians from Cornell has developed a data representation method inspired by quantum mechanics that handles large data sets more efficiently ...