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Tech giant Microsoft has announced an ambitious plan to build the first quantum supercomputer in the decade. The American company Microsoft is proposing an ambitious phased plan with
Tech giant Microsoft has announced an ambitious plan to build the first quantum supercomputer in the decade.
The American company Microsoft is proposing an ambitious phased plan with the aim of building a quantum supercomputer within the next ten years. There was also a link to an extensive blog.
These plans are based on topological qubits. These are less vulnerable qubits that have been stabilized through structural manipulation and a protective layer of chemical compounds. The topological properties of quasiparticles in topological qubits protect them from noise. For example, Microsoft’s quantum hardware is more resilient to errors. More stability means more computing power.
A next step is the production of topological qubits (or hardware protected qubits) of higher quality. Microsoft wants to “intertwine” it into a whole and then let it act as a whole. That would result in a higher success rate for the complex tasks these qubits have to do, since they have built-in error protection.
Next, Microsoft wants to build a multi-qubit system to handle complex algorithms. Such a system is called a Quantum Processing Unit or QPU and would be programmable.
After these stages, one can envision a resilient quantum machine running on strong, logical qubits. They operate at a higher level than the underlying physical qubits. This is the real gateway to quantum computing.
That is of course the big goal, a quantum supercomputer. It can solve complex calculations much faster than current, classic computers. That’s about a million reliable quantum operations per second or rQOPS, with a margin of error of barely one step per trillion.
In addition to this phased plan, Microsoft also presented two innovations in the field of quantum technology:
In Belgium, Proximus carried out a successful test in the field of quantum communication earlier this week.
Source: IT Daily
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