Quantum computing has made considerable progress since theoretical ideas were first formally explored in the 1970s. It promises a dramatic leap in our ability to understand the world, improve business ...

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 ...

An 18-year-old mathematical problem concerning the limits of quantum computing may finally have been ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) in the US turned to an often overlooked particle for storing and processing quantum information to overcome the fragility of quantum ...

An unreleased Anthropic model helped solve a longstanding problem in quantum computing — another major math problem solved ...

The Riemann hypothesis claims that the locations of prime numbers along the infinite number line all adhere to a beautiful and orderly but obscure formula. Yet 167 years after German mathematician ...

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

Flatiron applied mathematician Jason Kaye is bringing powerful new approaches to quantum physicists to help them answer big questions about small particles. Physicists have spent a long time ...

Using a proprietary internal large language model (LLM), OpenAI just released a result mathematicians have been chasing for decades: a formal proof validating the " quantum chromodynamics " that ...

A team of researchers from Poland have developed new mathematical methods that could help enable better control of quantum entanglement and teleportation experiments Artistic representation of quantum ...

Nov. 4, 2026 Researchers have proposed a breakthrough technique for reading quantum information without destroying the delicate states that make quantum computers work. By detecting an electrical ...