Is Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum computing breakthrough fraudulent? Top scientists say it's "not reliable and must be revisited"
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Microsoft touts its Majorana 1 breakthrough as the world's first topoconductor, but some scientists claim it's unreliable.
  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    This is a piece of alleged technology that is based on basic physics that has not been established.

    That does sound like a problem.

      • SmoothOperator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        2 days ago

        Prime factorisation is indeed nobody’s primary idea of what a quantum computer will be useful for in practice any time soon, but it cannot be denied that Shor’s algorithm is the first and only method of prime factorisation we have discovered which can finish in realistic time with realistic resources.

        And that means that RSA is no longer as safe as it once was, justifying the process of finding alternatives.

          • SmoothOperator@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            2 days ago

            Indeed I did. They seem to be pointing to the fact that current machines are not factoring primes in any serious way.

            Does this contradict my point?

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      We should find out next week at APS Global if it’s really a problem or a case of Physicist Sergey Frolov, the author of that quote, failing to understand what’s been done.

      Microsoft could be full of shit about Majorana 1 of course but it would be damned odd for them to make a claim like this without being able to back it up; the fallout would be horrendous.

      • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        I have to agree with this. Say what you will about MS, but it’d be odd to claim something this crazy that they can’t at least sorta backup.