Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible. Microsoft’s new quantum chip is ...

Microsoft is claiming to have created a topological qubit—something engineers have been trying to achieve for years. If it’s true, their new Majorana 1 chip could make quantum computing a ...

Majorana 1 Microsoft has unveiled a quantum processor with a “topological core”. (Courtesy: John Brecher/Microsoft) Researchers at Microsoft in the US claim to have made the first topological quantum ...

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

Microsoft Quantum. Those elements of Microsoft's approach are mostly theoretical until proven. And there are grounds for caution because the very existence of a topological qubit is something that ...

Microsoft describes its scientific breakthrough — enabling the creation of the world’s first “topological” qubit — in a research paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. [Update ...

“As far as the press announcement that they have a topological qubit, I would say most scientists would dispute that,” Lee said. “They are far from having a working qubit. ...

Creating a topological qubit requires provoking electrons in a material to dance just-so. The electron collective behaves like a hypothetical, particle-ish thing: a quasiparticle known as a Majorana.

Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather ...

Microsoft is claiming to have created a topological qubit—something engineers have been trying to achieve for years. If it’s true, their new Majorana 1 chip could make quantum computing a ...