The ability to create and sustain a quantum phase with Majorana zero modes and a measurable topological gap removes the biggest obstacle to producing a unique type of qubit, which Microsoft’s quantum ...

Willet is attempting to harness that state to build a “topological qubit” — an information-storing device analogous to the bits that make up ordinary computers, only far more complex and potent.

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 ...

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 ...

A logical qubit is the qubit at the level of the algorithm. At that hardware level, each logical qubit is represented in hardware by a number of physical qubits to enable protection of the logical ...

Topological qubits, however, would offer a fundamental advantage: Although they would rely on a rare and extraordinarily finicky quantum state (one so difficult to conjure that at present, only ...

The key advantage of Microsoft’s topological qubit is that fewer physical qubits are needed to make one logical qubit. One logical qubit will require 10 to 100 physical qubits with Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google performed a similar demonstration to Quantinuum’s, using the company’s own quantum computer, but they refuse to label it in the same way.“We did not realize a topological qubit ...

However, some scientists remain skeptical of Microsoft’s claims. For one, a paper hasn’t yet been published about its topological qubit claims for peers in the field to analyze.