Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others have invented a new class of photonic devices that allow for the accurate and scalable broadcasting of light from the chip into free ...

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.

MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a ...

The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quantum error correction has ...

Researchers have pushed quantum chip design into a new era by simulating every physical detail before fabrication. Using a supercomputer with nearly 7,000 GPUs, they modeled how signals travel and ...

Researchers from MIT, Cambridge, Mass., and elsewhere have developed what they call “a new class of photonic devices that ...

Although the potential applications of quantum computing are widespread, a new feasibility study suggests quantum computers ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...