{"id":22486,"date":"2025-02-19T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22486"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:27:10","slug":"microsoft-says-it-has-created-a-new-state-of-matter-to-power-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22486","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.<\/p>\n

Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter in its quest to make a powerful machine, called a quantum computer<\/a>, that could accelerate the development of everything from batteries to medicines to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Microsoft\u2019s scientists said they had built what is known as a \u201ctopological qubit\u201d based on this new phase of physical existence, which could be harnessed to solve mathematical, scientific and technological problems.<\/p>\n

With the development, Microsoft is raising the stakes in what is set to be the next big technological contest, beyond today\u2019s race over artificial intelligence.<\/a> Scientists have chased the dream of a quantum computer \u2014 a machine that could exploit the strange and exceedingly powerful behavior of subatomic particles or very cold objects \u2014 since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The push heated up in December when Google unveiled an experimental quantum computer<\/a> that needed just five minutes to complete a calculation that most supercomputers could not finish in 10 septillion years \u2014 longer than the age of the known universe.<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s quantum technology could leapfrog the methods under development at Google. As part of its research, the company built multiple topological qubits inside a new kind of computer chip that combines the strengths of the semiconductors that power classical computers with the superconductors that are typically used to build a quantum computer.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter in its quest to make a powerful machine, called a quantum computer, that could accelerate the development of everything from batteries to medicines to artificial intelligence.On Wednesday, Microsoft\u2019s scientists said they had built what is known as a \u201ctopological qubit\u201d based on this new phase of physical existence, which could be harnessed to solve mathematical, scientific and technological problems.With the development, Microsoft is raising the stakes in what is set to be the next big technological contest, beyond today\u2019s race over artificial intelligence. Scientists have chased the dream of a quantum computer \u2014 a machine that could exploit the strange and exceedingly powerful behavior of subatomic particles or very cold objects \u2014 since the 1980s.The push heated up in December when Google unveiled an experimental quantum computer that needed just five minutes to complete a calculation that most supercomputers could not finish in 10 septillion years \u2014 longer than the age of the known universe.Microsoft\u2019s quantum technology could leapfrog the methods under development at Google. As part of its research, the company built multiple topological qubits inside a new kind of computer chip that combines the strengths of the semiconductors that power classical computers with the superconductors that are typically used to build a quantum computer.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22488,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22489,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486\/revisions\/22489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}