Hey Everyone,
Recently Microsoft announced new advances to Azure Quantum aimed at accelerating scientific discovery. Given Microsoft’s initiatives such as AI4Science, and it’s bleeding edge research in topological qubits, I tend to take Microsoft a bit more seriously than some other names.
So what’s all the fuss about?
Microsoft says it has achieved an important physics breakthrough representing the first milestone in its long-term initiative to build a quantum supercomputer capable of solving some of the world’s most difficult problems. Among other things! It’s a PR avalanche for a company that could marry Quantum, supercomputers and Generative A.I. in a fairly interesting way sometime in the next decade.
A peer-reviewed paper in Physical Review B, a journal of the American Physical Society, confirmed that the company’s approach can create and control Majorana, a type of particle considered key to the future creation of scalable and stable qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information.
This is indeed worthy of our attention.
