Microsoft has announced an important milestone on the way to creating its quantum computer. Engineers on how such equipment should work and say that in a few years they will create a machine capable of normal operation.
Microsoft: fully operational quantum computer in just 10 years
Microsoft researchers have been working on the technology for several years, but so far it has been mostly theoretical research. Now the company boasted about its plans for the near future and revealed about the unit that it plans to build. First of all, the company managed to create the first topological qubits (although they still require refinement), i.e. one of the types of qubits, which are the smallest and indivisible units carrying quantum information. It is on qubits that the whole principle of operation of quantum computers is based, and topological qubits – according to Microsoft – are decisive in scaled quantum computing. They are very small, fast, stable and reliable, but very difficult to manufacture.
However, the manufacturer of Windows bet on them, because he believes that a computer based on this type of qubits will be fast enough (each qubit is supposed to perform one operation in less than one microsecond) to solve problems in weeks that normal computers would take decades or centuries to solve. It is also supposed to be small enough to fit in a room the size of a wardrobe and extremely infallible. This ratio was calculated at one error per trillion operations.
The Redmond company has already announced that its first quantum computer will be able to perform one million error-free quantum operations per second and will be built within the next 10 years. So it promises to be a real arms race, because more and more companies are achieving success in this matter. Companies such as: Google or IBM. Quantum computing is believed to be a revolution unlike anything seen in decades. They can change the way scientific research is conducted, remodel the work of financial markets and seriously mess up the field of cryptography (passwords considered unbreakable today will be able to be deciphered in a limited, short time).
Source: Gazeta
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