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Last month, Microsoft announced an advance that could be an important step forward in the long road to building a quantum computer—if true.
A Microsoft research team claims to have built “the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits,” and that it is on track to build a prototype of a scalable quantum computer “in years, not decades.” If that weren’t enough, the company also said it had created in the process “a new state of matter”: a topoconductor.
Joseph Polidoro is a Sarasota, Florida-based independent science writer. His work has appeared in Scientific American and Science News.
