quantum field theory

  • How Microsoft’s Quantum Boast Went Bust

    How Microsoft’s Quantum Boast Went Bust

    Microsoft is an outlier among the companies investing in quantum computing research. Unlike Google, IBM, or the handful of startups that have built noisy experimental prototypes out of superconducting circuits, ions, or photons, the company is trying to build a quantum computer by using objects known as Majorana particles — distinctive patterns of electrons in…