{"id":206855,"date":"2025-02-20T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/microsoft-deploys-new-state-of-matter-in-its-first-quantum-computing-chip"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:05:35","slug":"microsoft-deploys-new-state-of-matter-in-its-first-quantum-computing-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/microsoft-deploys-new-state-of-matter-in-its-first-quantum-computing-chip","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-deploys-new-state-of-matter-in-its-first-quantum-computing-chip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The achievement comes after the company spent nearly two decades of research in the field, but Microsoft claims that building Majorana 1 required that it create an entirely new state of matter, which it is referring to as a topological state.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, and aluminum, which is a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difficulty of developing the right materials to create the exotic particles and their associated topological state of matter is why most quantum efforts have focused on other kinds of qubits,\u201d the company said in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/source\/features\/ai\/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\">a blog<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The achievement comes after the company spent nearly two decades of research in the field, but Microsoft claims that building Majorana 1 required that it create an entirely new state of matter, which it is referring to as a topological state. Microsoft\u2019s quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}