Microsoft has unveiled the Majorana 1 quantum chip, featuring a Topological Core that is incredibly small, paving the way for creating chips with millions of qubits in a single chip.
The Topological Core harnesses the phenomenon of Majorana Zero Modes (MZM), as predicted by Ettore Majorana in 1937. Microsoft’s research team can construct the Topological Core on the chip using superconducting materials, then read the values by shooting microwave pulses into the quantum dots on the chip.
Currently, the error rate of the Topological Core in the Majorana 1 chip is 1% and decreasing. Future developments aim to create quantum chips with more qubits, enabling quantum error detection and eventually quantum error correction. It is expected that resilient chips against errors will be developed in just a few years.
TLDR: Microsoft introduces the Majorana 1 quantum chip with a Topological Core for high-qubit density, paving the way for advanced quantum error correction capabilities.
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