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Microsoft’s Majorana 1 is the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new topological core architecture offers a clear path to fit a million qubits on a single palm-sized chip. To put things into perspective, all the world’s current computers operating together can’t do what a one-million-qubit quantum computer will be able to accomplish.
A topological superconductor is basically a special category of material capable of creating an entirely new state of matter – not a solid, liquid or gas but a topological state. This state is leveraged to produce a more stable qubit that is fast, small and can be digitally controlled, without the tradeoffs required by current alternatives. A new materials stack, made of indium arsenide and aluminum, had to be designed by Microsoft as well as fabricated atom by atom.
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We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years. The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO at Microsoft.
