After almost 20 years of research and experiments DQC partner Microsoft announced that they have managed to build the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core – the Majorana 1. This is a quite significant breakthrough because topological qubits are theorized to be more stable and less susceptible to errors compared to conventional qubits.
For Lauri Sainiemi, VP for Quantum Fabrication, based at Microsoft in Lyngby this is also a big milestone:
“I am very proud of our team here in Denmark and globally for achieving this important milestone. Majorana 1 represents a significant step forward in our efforts to develop a utility-scale quantum computer. I look forward to continuing to engage with the thriving Danish and Nordic quantum ecosystems”
The Danish contribution
For the Danish quantum ecosystem there is also reason to celebrate, as a significant part of the development of the quantum hardware was developed at Microsoft´s quantum laboratory in Denmark building on many years of collaboration between Microsoft and researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and DTU – Technical University of Denmark.
In 2017 Microsoft entered into a collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute with the scope of creating the first scalable quantum computer in the world. In 2018 Microsoft decided to open the Quantum Materials Lab in Lyngby – the first of its kind with the scope of developing the hardware that constitutes the heart of the computer.
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The results has been described in an open access article in Nature which can be accessed here:
