Massive Microsoft Quantum Computer Breakthrough Uses New State Of Matter

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has invented an entirely new kind of quantum computer. Its new quantum chip, Majorana 1 , is a quantum processor analogous to transistors in classical computers’ semiconductor chips and offers a path to million-qubit systems in a single relatively small quantum computing fridge.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/02/19/massive-microsoft-quantum-computer-breakthrough-uses-new-state-of-matter/

In February 2025, Microsoft claimed to have built the first topological qubit that features Majorana zero modes.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer

In superconducting materials, a quasiparticle can emerge as a Majorana fermion (non-fundamental), more commonly referred to as a Bogoliubov quasiparticle in condensed matter physics. Its existence becomes possible because a quasiparticle in a superconductor is its own antiparticle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion#Majorana_bound_states