Microsoft’s controversial claim that its Majorana chip program will make possible a scalable quantum computer by 2029 has been thrown into new doubt by a scientific paper that questions whether the company has correctly interpreted its own experimental evidence.
According to a peer-reviewed from the University of St Andrews, published this week in Nature, Microsoft’s Topological Gap Protocol (TGP) framework, designed to infer the existence of quantum states in theorized Majorana particles, is flawed.
“Last year Microsoft claimed they had built the equivalent of a precision Swiss watch. However, when I opened the case to examine the mechanism, I found what looked like a chaotic jumble of mismatched parts,” .
Earlier this month, the company launched its successor, program.
“We stand by our results and our roadmap,” said technical fellow and vice president of quantum hardware, was accepted and published by Nature.”
Microsoft is not the only company researching quantum computing hardware, with .
This article originally appeared on NetworkWorld.
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