THIS IS HOW MICROSOFT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD OF QUANTUM COMPUTING

One of the great fields that can literally revolutionize our way of understanding life is, without a doubt, quantum computing. A new way of understanding and processing data that is, as promised by many experts, achieve performance and speeds simply unattainable today with the hardware and software we have today.

For the ones who don't know what quantum computing is, is computing using quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entaglement. A quantum computer is a device that performs quantum computing.

Within this peculiar race to be the first company to create the first quantum computer whose performance is superior to any current computer we find large companies such as IBM, perhaps the most veteran within this field, Google, which did not too long ago it promised that its engineers, this same year, would be able to reach that peculiar objective of the quantum supremacy or Microsoft, whose investigations are beginning to give result.

MICROSOFT HAS MANAGED TO CREATE MUCH MORE STABLE QUITS THANKS TO THE MAJORANA PARTICLE.

Entering a little more in detail, the Majorana particle, also known as the Majorana fermion, is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. At the time, the Italian physicist, due to the limited technological capacity he had, was only able to declare his existence. In order to demonstrate its existence in practice, we had to wait until 2014, when the use of superconductors and temperatures close to absolute zero allowed physicists to corroborate their existence in the real world.

As you can see, we are talking about a very difficult particle to find and especially to work with it since it requires the use of a very specific field and very peculiar characteristics. In spite of this, in Microsoft they have the firm conviction that thanks to the use of this method the created qubits will be much more stable and much less prone to error than those created using traditional methods, a system used by all their rivals to this day . To get an idea of ​​the value that the company gives to this research, I leave you with a comment made by Professor Charlie Marcus, one of the people in charge of the project:

''We have invented a particle that never existed before and we have applied it to computation.''

There is still a long way to go to show that this discovery can be based on quantum computing.

As for the rivals, the truth is that, contrary to what we can suppose, everyone is much more interested in the results that this research developed by Microsoft can offer since, as they have practically confirmed, apparently they see this project more like a great opportunity although, as always, there are voices that speak of not 'losing your head' before the arrival of possible future disappointments.

Without going any further, as stated by one of the great eminences in this field, as is Professor John Morton, University College London, has commented that:

''This is one of the things that seem incredibly exciting, but physics has the habit of spoiling many plans.''