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Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics

Accepted submission by SlimmPickens at 2014-10-15 08:33:08
Science

SlimmPickens [soylentnews.org] writes:

Technology Review reports [technologyreview.com] that since 2004 Microsoft has had a quantum computing project lead by Michael Freedman who proved the Poincaré conjecture in dimension four.

he was drawn into physics in 1988 after a colleague discovered a connection between some of the math describing the topology of knots and a theory explaining certain quantum phenomena. “It was a beautiful thing,” says Freedman. He immediately saw that this connection could allow a machine governed by that same quantum physics to solve problems too hard for conventional computers. Ignorant that the concept of quantum computing already existed, he had independently reinvented it.

Unsurprisingly, this effort centers around a "topological qubit" which is theorized to be more stable and scalable than other qubits. The topological qubit has been proven and at least one team has announced that they have found evidence of the Majorana fermion it depends upon however that appears to be controversial.

A number of other teams including one at Bell Labs are working on same or similar things.

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