The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...
Complexity theory is a branch of computer science that studies the resources required to solve computational problems, particularly focusing on the classification of problems based on their inherent ...
A research team from Google Quantum AI has developed a new quantum algorithm that is intended to enable a verifiable quantum ...
Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran an algorithm for a quantum computer that ...
Google published research showing that, for the first time, a quantum computer can run a verifiable algorithm on hardware.
A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing ...
The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem. Many aspects of modern applied research ...
Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...