La quantum computing It is that paradigm on which many companies work and for which many economic resources are being invested. Such is the case and the investment necessary to be able to demonstrate that a company is at the forefront in this matter that, among the most advanced investigations, we find teams of researchers that literally belong to and are financed by multinational companies of the stature Google, IBM or Microsoft.
Among these it seems that there is a fairly close war to be the first to get its prototype quantum computer, once and for all, achieve that milestone that until now is resisting from to be more powerful, in terms of data processing capacity, than a supercomputer of which some powers such as China or the United States currently have, a milestone that is much closer to being achieved thanks to the discoveries in quantum computing harvested by Google or Microsoft.
Microsoft could hit the table in the war to develop the first quantum computer
As reported by Financial Time, both Google and Microsoft are about to announce two important advances in the world of quantum computing harvested as a result of their research. On the one hand, it seems that Google would be about to finally announce the creation of that 50 qubit quantum computer while Microsoft will announce what may be an unprecedented milestone such as the creation of a revolutionary qubit.
Heeding the words of todd holmdahl, none other than the scientist who leads Microsoft's quantum computing research project, apparently his group of engineers is about to solve one of the biggest problems that this technology presents such as the fragility of a qubit, a problem that is the cause of numerous errors both reading and writing that interfere with the performance of the system.
Microsoft engineers would have been able to create a revolutionary qubits
Apparently and as has been officially reported, Microsoft has been working to develop a new type of qubit capable of fractionating electrons. Thanks to this, it has been achieved that this minimum unit can store information in different places at the same time. In the worst case of all, just when quantum decoherence occurs, that is, the moment in which a system, under certain specific conditions, stops showing quantum effects to behave like a typically classical system, the stored information is never lost .
Without a doubt we are facing one of the most important findings today in the world of quantum computing since, as Todd Holmdahl has explained, while other quantum computers will need 1.000 or 10.000 qubits to be able to control errors that occur in the system, that of Microsoft will only need a single qubit to perform this task. At this point, it should be noted that the problem of quantum computers in this sense lies in the fragility of the qubits, due to this current platforms require extensive error correction.
We still have to wait until finally Microsoft officially announces the creation of this qubit capable of revolutionizing the world of quantum computing.
At this point, remind you that, in the specific case of Microsoft, the company has been working on this issue for more than 12 years and, to date, they had not been able to produce any operational qubit, so if they really managed to develop a qubit with these properties, we would be facing what has been classified by many experts in the field as a true technological revolution.
Unfortunately, for the moment we can only wait to see what Microsoft has to say about this whole matter since, although there are reports, the truth is that the company has not yet made any kind of official announcement, a publicity event expected to be imminent.