A quantum computer made of charged atoms can catch its own errors when performing any operation – a meaningful step towards more reliable and practical quantum computers. Conventional computers ...

Astronaut John Glenn was wary about trusting a computer. It was 1962, early in the computer age, and a room-sized machine had calculated the flight path for his upcoming orbit of Earth — the first for ...

There’s widespread agreement that most useful quantum computing will have to wait for the development of error-corrected qubits. Error correction involves ...

The idea that quantum computers might one day solve complex problems at lightning speed on microscopic chips has long been touted. But the race to show that these processors can outperform their ...

Physicists at Google have reached what they describe as their second milestone along the path to a useful quantum computer. At a laboratory in Santa Barbara ...

It's possible to calculate the standard error in MATLAB by running a one-line command. Standard error is a measurement of the variability of a data set and how ...