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Re:Anyons: Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought... by 3PS on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:55PM (#23741413)
If I recall correctly, Microsoft has gone all-in on topological quantum computing as an alternative to the superconducting loops preferred by Google and IBM. I'm really hoping their work pans out, since it would mean a lot for our future abilities to create large error-corrected quantum circuits.
Re:Anyons: Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought... by Whirl on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:30PM (#23741674)
This is accurate. As far as I can tell, this work is akin to discovering the Josephson effect for superconducting qubits. Still a lot of work to be done to figure out how to braid anyons or build better anyons, etc.

TBH I didn’t even expect anyone to find them at all for another few decades, so this result is pretty cool.