{"id":518183,"date":"2026-06-25T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518183\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:52:07","slug":"researchers-cast-new-doubt-on-microsofts-quantum-computing-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518183\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers cast new doubt on Microsoft\u2019s quantum computing advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Microsoft said its researchers had detected evidence of their existence, an apparently major breakthrough it was forced to retract when the data was successfully challenged. Nature\u2019s editors subsequently backed this up with the blunt note: \u201cThe results in this manuscript do not represent evidence for the presence of Majorana zero modes in the reported devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, Microsoft persisted, in 2025 publishing a new paper in Nature that claimed the company had worked out how to exploit the principle in a new \u201ctransistor for the quantum age,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3827995\/microsoft-braids-anyons-into-topological-cubits-on-new-majorana-quantum-chip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Majorana 1 chip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the company launched its successor, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/source\/features\/innovation\/majorana-2-microsoft-discovery-agentic-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Majorana 2<\/a>, claiming that AI had helped to achieve a 1,000-fold improvement in reliability compared to the earlier chip. \u201cWith this progress, the team now expects to achieve a scalable quantum computer by 2029, cutting its original timeline in half,\u201d the company announced. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2018, Microsoft said its researchers had detected evidence of their existence, an apparently major breakthrough it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-518183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}