Microsoft Makes Moves Toward Quantum Computing Quantum Leap

Microsoft believes it may be closer to commercially-viable error free quantum computing, by using elementary sub-atomic particles known as Majorana fermions.

If scientists at the tech giant are right, then Microsoft could find itself leaping past other rivals such as Google, IBM, and Intel, in the quantum computing race to build a fully viable quantum computer.

By trying to utilize Majorna particles however, Microsoft has taken a gamble and is following a different approach than others in the field. The major difference is that Microsoft believe their method will allow them to make quantum computers that are not only produce less errors, but will allow them to produce quantum computers that can be used for a variety of purposes.
 

Microsoft hope Majorana fermions will make their quantum computers error free.

Different approach

Majorana fermions could prove to the special missing ingredient in quantum computing, because they are particles that can be their own antiparticle, according to Bloomberg. Microsoft hope that these particles can be used in quantum computers to produce significantly lower error rates compared to arch-rivals, Alphabet and IBM.

Trailing

The problem at the moment is that while other companies such as Google have created their own fully functioning quantum computers that can process 50 qubits (the basic working block of quantum computers) Microsoft have yet to create a computer that can process one qubit.

Quantum leap

But by combining Majorna particles with the existing science surrounding the field of quantum computing, Microsoft researchers and scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, now believe they have found the key to creating a quantum computer.

If their theory, proves to be right, Microsoft will find itself catapulted from last place all the way to the front of the quantum computing race.

Impressive

The existence of particles that would also contain their own anti-particle was postulated by Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937. But researchers only observed evidence suggesting the unique fermions actually existed in 2012.

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By trying to utilize Majorna particles however, Microsoft has taken a gamble and is following a different approach than others in the field.

The major difference is that Microsoft believe their method will allow them to make quantum computers that are not only produce less errors, but will allow them to produce quantum computers that can be used for a variety of purposes.

Majorana fermions could prove to the special missing ingredient in quantum computing, because they are particles that can be their own antiparticle, according to Bloomberg.

Microsoft hope that these particles can be used in quantum computers to produce significantly lower error rates than arch-rivals, Alphabet and IBM.

The problem at the moment is that while other companies such as Google have created their own fully functioning quantum computers that can process 50 qubits (the basic working block of quantum computers) Microsoft have yet to create a computer that can process one qubit.

But by combining Majorna particles with the existing science surrounding the field of quantum computing, Microsoft researchers and scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute now believe they have found the key to creating a quantum computer.

If their theory, proves to be right, Microsoft will find itself catapulted from last place all the way to the front of the quantum computing race.

*The existence of particles that would also contain their own anti-particle was postulated by Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937. But researchers only observed evidence suggesting the unique fermions actually existed in 2012.