It turns out that imaginary numbers aren’t really needed for quantum mechanics.

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

An exact expression for a key process needed in many quantum technologies has been derived by a RIKEN mathematical physicist and a collaborator. This could help to guide advances in quantum ...

Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated how ordinary supermarket grapes can enhance the performance of quantum sensors, potentially leading to more efficient quantum technologies. The study ...

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t ...

Latin squares are arrangements of symbols in a grid in which every symbol appears exactly once in each row and column. These ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university blackboards: a quantum computer. These days, quantum computers—which ...

Encryption—the process of sending a scrambled message that only the intended recipient’s device can decode—allows private and public sectors alike to safeguard information. Traditional encryption uses ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Most executives are not losing sleep over cryptographic algorithms, and they should not have ...

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t ...