Stanford physicists have engineered a sophisticated optical cavity capable of harvesting single photons from individual atoms.

Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

The research demonstrates a practical method for overcoming a long standing bottleneck in quantum computing, bringing closer ...

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art quantum computers have around 1,000 qubits. Columbia physicists Sebastian ...

A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

Quantum computing has spent years in the realm of lab demos and marketing decks, promising breakthroughs that never quite arrived at commercial scale. With NTT now tying its long-term network vision ...

Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers ...

China is accelerating efforts in optical computer chips to overcome chip restrictions and lead the next wave of AI innovation ...

Gates-backed silicon photonics startup unveils optical transistors 10,000× smaller and chips with 1,000× squared matrix ...

NTT and OptQC aim to build a 1-million qubit quantum computer based on light, rather than electricity, to enhance reliability, scalability and practicality. Use cases for a practical optical quantum ...