Nickel superconductor works above -233°C threshold at normal pressure
A team of engineers and physicists at Southern University of Science and Technology, in China, has created a nickel-based material that behaves as a superconductor above the -233°C (40 K) threshold ...
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A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers
Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...
Pressure-driven phase transition induces simultaneous negative photoconductivity and superconductivity
A research team led by Prof. Wang Xianlong and Dr. Wang Pei from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese ...
Microsoft’s New Majorana 1 Processor Could Transform Quantum Computing
The processor uses qubits that can be measured without error and are resistant to outside interference, which the company ...
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Superconductivity achieved at room temperature with new materials
SLAC and Stanford achieve ambient-temperature superconductivity in nickelates without high pressure, boosting efficiency.
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How Microsoft is rewriting the rules of reality with quantum computing
Traditional quantum computing needs intricate and cumbersome procedures to control each and every qubit. However, with ...
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Microsoft Majorana 1 Chip Has 8 Qubits Right Now with a Roadmap to 1 Million Raw Qubits
Microsoft team behind the recent breakthrough in physics and quantum computing demonstrated by the new Majorana 1 chip, ...
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Microsoft Says It's Made a Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip
Its Majorana 1 chip, made of a new material, can perform high-level computing tasks with greater speed and accuracy, ...
Microsoft demonstrates working qubits based on exotic physics
Quasiparticles are collections of particles (and, in some cases, field lines) that can be described mathematically as if they ...
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Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are Skeptical
With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies ...
Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum computing chip uses a new kind of superconductor
Microsoft has introduced Majorana 1, a chip for quantum computing, which it said will enable computers to solve incredibly ...
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Breakthrough quantum chip that harnesses new state of matter could set us on the path to quantum supremacy
Microsoft scientists have created a quantum processor that taps into a rare state of matter that was first theorized in the ...