Microsoft brings its quantum dev kit to macOS, Linux; new kind of qubit this year

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft released the first version of its quantum development kit and a new quantum computing programming language Q# last December. Today, the company has released an update that adds support for quantum development on macOS and Linux. Both the Q# language, and the company’s quantum simulator, will run on these platforms in […]

Careful phasing of a photonic qubit brings light under control

Enlarge / Splitting photons up into a collection of neighboring frequencies may help with quantum computation. (credit: NIST) Way back when I started writing for Ars, experimental quantum computing had just started to take off. At the time, the big demonstrations of quantum computation were very simple calculations, performed using single photons as repositories of […]