Microsoft has demonstrated the world’s first topological qubit using Majorana Zero Modes in specially-engineered topoconductor materials, achieving measurement-based control through quantum dot interactions while securing DARPA support to build a fault-tolerant prototype that could scale to one million qubits and revolutionize scientific discovery.
A groundbreaking discovery in quantum physics has revealed a novel electronic state in twisted graphene layers, where electrons exhibit the paradoxical behavior of being simultaneously frozen yet capable of conducting current along edges without resistance.
Physicists have discovered how to switch topological states on and off in a strongly correlated metal using magnetic fields, a breakthrough made possible by the collective behavior of electrons that dramatically amplifies the material’s response to external magnetic fields and could enable new applications in quantum computing and sensor technology.
Researchers theoretically demonstrate how spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in optical cavities can generate topological optical transparencies with Dirac cones and edge-like states, potentially advancing quantum computation through enhanced light-matter interactions that exhibit phase transitions controllable via Raman detuning and atomic damping.
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) scientists have discovered a pioneering laser-driven approach to generate a topological state in graphene.