Microsoft's Topological Qubit and the Future of Quantum Machines

New data available today as of November 17th, 2022

Hey Everyone,

I’ve always had a bit of trouble understanding Microsoft’s approach to Topological Qubits. Perhaps you have as well? They are trying to provide more data on it. Will Azure end up being an ambassador for Quantum computing? They appear to take it rather seriously.

There is an elegance to what Azure and Amazon Braket are trying to do:

Whether you are IBM, Google, Amazon or Microsoft the age of quantum computing is approaching.

Microsoft is making available a new, extensive set of experimental data and simulations of our quantum devices. Now anyone can access the same data as our scientists to better understand Microsoft’s recent physics breakthrough and our approach to building a scalable, full-stack quantum machine. The results shown in this data are the first of their kind and follow more than two decades of research at Microsoft.

The Topological Qubit

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 machine will use to store and compute information, called a topological qubit.

• It’s the foundation for Microsoft’s approach to building a quantum computer that is expected to be more stable than machines built with other types of known qubits, and therefore scale like no other.

“Figuring out how to feed the world or cure it of climate change will require discoveries or optimization of molecules that simply can’t be done by today’s classical computers, and that’s where the quantum machine kicks in,” said Microsoft’s quantum corporate vice president Zulfi Alam