A team of German physicists has built a fully working version of quantum mechanics that uses only real numbers. Complex ...

Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

With potentially billions of dollars of government funding (and profit) at stake in the race to build functional quantum computers, there’s a massive hype machine to match. Last week Senate Majority ...

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

The search for materials that can power future quantum technologies is accelerating, but identifying the most promising candidates remains painfully slow. Evaluating whether a material can efficiently ...

Chip-based device paves the way for scalable and secure random number generation, an essential building block for future digital infrastructure Chip-based device paves the way for scalable and secure ...

A team including Scott Aaronson demonstrated what may be the first practical application of quantum computers to a real world problem. Using a 56-qubit quantum computer, researchers have for the first ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...