Microsoft Corp. today debuted the Majorana 1, an eight-qubit chip that it touts as a major breakthrough in quantum computing.The processor is powered by quasiparticles called Majorana zero modes.

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

For topological quantum computing, Majorana particles — more specifically Majorana zero modes — are the tool of choice. Named for Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, who predicted them in 1937, these ...

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A novel quantum visualization technique has confirmed that UTe 2 is an intrinsic topological superconductor, directly detecting Majorana fermions at its surface ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, researchers report on the discovery of a novel octupole topological insulating phase, protected by a 3D momentum-space nonsymmorphic group, within ...

Phase transitions in "conventional" materials – such as water turning into ice or a metal becoming magnetised – and topological phase transitions have long been treated as fundamentally distinct, ...