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Re:Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor by fsh on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:56PM (#43105887)
They have never demonstrated even a single physical qubit.

Microsoft has claimed for a while to have observed some signatures of quantized Majorana conductance which might potentially allow building a qubit in the future. However, other researches in the field have strongly criticized their analysis, and the field is full of retracted papers and allegations of scientific misconduct.

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Re:Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor by ABS on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:14PM (#43106125)
this is from 2 days ago:

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12252

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Re:Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor by dwnw on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:27PM (#43107938)
it is amazing at what passes for an academic paper these days
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Re:Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor by ABS on Thursday February 20, 2025 @01:13AM (#43111662)
via the Quantum Buillshit Detector account:

https://bsky.app/profile/spinespresso.bsky.social/post/3lijd...

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