The allure of quantum computers is, at its heart, quite simple: by leveraging counterintuitive quantum effects, they could perform computational feats utterly impossible for any classical computer.

Measured against the mammoth computers for which they were designed, the tiny bits of ceramic hardly seem significant. But the memory units developed by the Sandia Corp. of Albuquerque may succeed in ...

As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real intellectual discovery. “There’s some instinct or ...