What sounds like science fiction has just become reality: Microsoft has created an entirely new state of matter to power what may be the most significant computing breakthrough since the invention of the transistor.
A New Chapter In Computing History
After nearly 20 years of research, Microsoft has achieved something remarkable: the creation of the world’s first topological qubit processor, Majorana 1. As Microsoft Technical Fellow Krysta Svore explains, “A topological qubit is reliable, small, and controllable. This solves the noise problem that creates errors in qubits.”
What makes this achievement particularly significant is its foundation in an entirely new class of material – the topoconductor. This breakthrough required Microsoft’s engineers to construct…