Microsoft recently announced it created Majorana 1, a new quantum computing chip powered by the world’s first topoconductor. This chip will help build meaningful quantum computers in years, not decades.
More specifics on the news:
- Microsoft has created topoconductors (Topological Superconductors) – a special category of material Microsoft has created that can achieve a new state of matter – not a solid, liquid, or gas, but a topological state. This new state of matter is what makes the following possible:
- Quantum chip: Microsoft is creating quantum systems that can scale to 1 million qubits on a single chip that fits in the palm of your hand. This is a novel design of qubit architecture.
- Topological Core: Based on this new state of matter, Microsoft has created 8 topological qubits, which are smaller, faster, and more stable qubits that can fit in 1/100th of a millimeter. These qubits are reliable by design, with hardware-based error resistance built-in, and are controlled digitally.
Microsoft is also sharing academic and government validation. Nature published a peer-reviewed paper providing validation for Microsoft’s bet on its topoconductor qubit approach. In addition, the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Microsoft’s topoconductor approach to unlock the nation’s path to utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing.
For access to the blogs, research, videos, and images, visit the news microsite which includes a Microsoft Source story and Azure Quantum Blog.
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