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Researchers at Microsoft Declare Create the first “Qubits” in a device that stores information in a strange state of the material, in what may be a large boom for quantum computing.
At the same time, the researchers also published Paper And “and”Road map“For more work. The design of the Majurana 1 million quarter processor is supposed to suit, which may be sufficient to achieve many important goals Quantum– such as breaking codes, designing new medications and new materials.
if Microsoft The claims, the company may have jumped competitors like IBM and Google, who seem currently Driving To build a quantum computer.
However, the nature paper that the peers has reviewed only shows part of what researchers claimed, and the road map still includes many obstacles that must be overcome. Although the Microsoft press statement displays something that is supposed to be quantum computing devices, we have no independent confirmation of what you can do. However, the news from Microsoft is very promising.
Now you may have some questions. What is Qubit Tobiti? What is Qubit at all, for this issue? And why do people want computers in the first place?
It is difficult to build quantum bits
The quantum computers had dreamed for the first time in the eighties. Where an ordinary computer stores information in bits, a quantum computer stores information in quantum bits – or Qubits.
Normal bit can have a value of 0 or 1, but there can be a little quantity (thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics, which govern very small particles) that can have a mixture of the two. If you imagine an ordinary part of an arrow that can indicate up or down, Qubit is an arrow that can indicate in any direction (or so -called “overlapping” up and down).
This means that the quantum computer will be much faster than an ordinary computer for certain types of calculations – especially some of them are a relationship with immovable symbols and simulation of natural systems.
So far, so good. But it turns out that the real Qubits building and obtaining information inside and outside it is very difficult, because interactions with the outside world can destroy sensitive quantum situations at home.
The researchers have tried many different techniques for the manufacture of Qubits, using things such as besieged atoms in electric fields or swirls from current swirls in super connections.
Small wires and strange particles
Microsoft followed a completely different approach to building “Tobits Tobits”. They used the so -called majoraana molecules, which were first theory in 1937 by the Italian physicist Ettore Majoraana.
Majoraanas does not naturally occur molecules such as electrons or protons. Instead, it is only present within a rare type of material called the supermological tobi (which requires an advanced design of materials and must be cooled to very low temperatures).
