Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:53:18 UTC No. 16591878

>>16591727
>Microsoft unveils the Majorana chip, a potential breakthrough in quantum computing. This chip uses Majorana fermions, offering greater stability and paving the way for practical quantum computers.

>With the exception of neutrinos, all of the Standard Model elementary fermions are known to behave as Dirac fermions at low energy (lower than the electroweak symmetry breaking temperature), and none are Majorana fermions. The nature of neutrinos is not settled – they may not be either Dirac or Majorana fermions.

>Microsoft has invested in research concerning anyons as a potential basis for topological quantum computing.[6] They may be useful in quantum computing as a form of memory.[6] Anyons circling each other ("braiding") would encode information in a more robust way than other known potential quantum computing technologies.[

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:54:56 UTC No. 16591881

>>16591727
>>16591878
Watch every last bit of their tech fail due to their poly psychosis, you're going to enjoy this ride.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:58:00 UTC No. 16591884

>>16591727
Oh no, it's still a scam, it's just they made something that looks like a breakthrough and are trying to use it to convince people that their scam is totally not a scam so give us more money please.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:45:12 UTC No. 16591918

>>16591727
>make the ""quantum computer"" out of brass or gold so that retards will think it's super amazing special and buy our stock
many such cases

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:48:22 UTC No. 16591922

>>16591727
Note particularly the custom-made straight slot screws. What is this, a clickspring project? It was made to look fancy like a custom built clock, using parts like that has no actual engineering justification. They're putting appearances first, because more than anything the purpose of this device is to pump up the company's value on the stock market.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:57:53 UTC No. 16591933

>>16591922
dude, shut up. you have no idea what you are talking about.
who knows, maybe they needed a screw made of special materials, and they couldn't just go down to Ace Hardware and rummage around to find one, so they machined it themselves.
RF and cyrogenics have a lot of hidden gotchas that can stymie seemingly good designs

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:09:27 UTC No. 16591941

>>16591918
>make advanced hardware scam
>looks like a tin cylinder which might store fish oil.
>why is no one investing in our scam?
>employ marketing specialists
>"You got to make it look good and fancy and bright"
>employ LSD brain fried artist to create the "whirly shiny thing sculpture with lots of bits and pieces looking like shit happens"
>very photographically pleasing.
>cash in

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:19:53 UTC No. 16591948

>>16591933
>you have no idea what you are talking about.
>who knows, maybe they needed a screw made of special materials
So in other words, you have no idea what you're talking about. All you know is you must defend M'Corporation's honor.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:39:29 UTC No. 16591961

>>16591918
Remember that image of Proxima Centauri released by that French scientist as a joke? A slice of chorizo (type of pork sausage).
Despite the fact that he revealed it as a "be wary of arguments from authority" message, there was still a public outcry. It made the retards seethe uncontrollably. He was forced to make a humiliating public apology. Might not have entirely wrecked his carer but probably hobbled it.
Well this is a joke too. Probably made by someone's rich and talented, friend who couldn't sell it through an art dealer.
"Hey we will take it and call it our quantum computer, haha!"
But they know if they admit to that now they will be crucified. They are probably just hoping people will forget all about it in time. I bet it makes them wet their pants with anxiety every time an image of it pops up in the internet.
I suggest we keep posting images of it on every social media on a regular basis.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:42:58 UTC No. 16591963

>>16591948
i have experience with RF research, and can appreciate that design decisions aren't always obvious at first glance

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:55:02 UTC No. 16591968

>>16591963
>um I'm a radio autist and therefore I am qualified to state that straight slot brass screws are definitely essential to quantum computers and definitely not just showing off to impress credulous investors
LOL

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:58:49 UTC No. 16591970

>>16591968
>he thinks that's brass
lmao

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:13 UTC No. 16591971

also, all those cables in >>16591918 are RF coax cables to excite and read out the quibits

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:01:37 UTC No. 16591972

>>16591970
I'm being generous here and giving them the benefit of the doubt. If it's gold that's even worse.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:40:29 UTC No. 16591986

>>16591972
digging that idiot hole even deeper, i see

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:43:23 UTC No. 16591990

>>16591933
I'd agree with you on how bespoke hardware like this would require contracting some overpaid engineer to choose some wacky hardware, it's a very expensive devboard.
It's still equally true that this press release is steeped with microsoft's hardware and "progress" masturbation instead of a breakthrough in theory or practicality. Hype > science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHmygPQukQ

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:47:24 UTC No. 16592132

>>16591918
Some refrigerator parts
Plastic tubing
Spares off a jet engine
Spray can of gold paint

WE BE QATUM CUMPUTUR KANZ NOW!

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:51:37 UTC No. 16592199

>>16591918
That's a cooling system for the quantum processor. For a bunch of smarty pants you guys are a bit retarded

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:56:18 UTC No. 16592206

>>16591727
A trillion dollar scam is not that easy to pull. This dork Altman got fucked by DeepSeek and now we have to improvise. We were also thinking about including alcantara in the design.

https://www.windowscentral.com/what-is-alcantara-microsoft-surface

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:57:22 UTC No. 16592207

>>16592199
that's the part that gets dunked into the cryogenic bath, none of that equipment in the picture is cooling equipment, it's all RF feed lines, RF power dividers, RF filters, etc.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:15:03 UTC No. 16592217

>>16592207
>Dilution fridge isn't cooling equipment
>Cryogenic bath

Zero people in this thread have ever worked with cryogenics and it shows

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:30:21 UTC No. 16592224

>>16592217
true, you caught me

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:34:44 UTC No. 16592229

>take a shit
>Call it quantum computer
>The shit particles communicate with each other by electromagnetic quantum spins

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:56:42 UTC No. 16592278

>>16592229
I AM LITERALLY TAKING A SHIT RIGHT NOW!

OMG! I have just given birth to a QUANTUM COMPUTER!

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:12:09 UTC No. 16592290

Imagine the porn.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:40:47 UTC No. 16592309

>>16591727
Could someone please explain to me what did these computers actually do? I've seen articles claiming they have completed computation at speeds 1000x of classical computers except they never say what they actually calculated.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:22:07 UTC No. 16592344

So how much qubit fidelity and lifespan did they achieve?

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:22:56 UTC No. 16592435

>>16592309
databases searches are done in √n instead of n time, if I remember right.
they were also able to make some calculation that would have taken an insane amount of time with classical computing, but the calculation itself was something utterly useless.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:01:14 UTC No. 16592485

>>16592309
>y what they actually calculated.
the goal is to find prime factors of large numbers, like how the number 15 can be writen as 5x3, 5 and 3 are the prime factors. Just the same but with large numbers

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:40:19 UTC No. 16592535

>>16592344
We don't talk about things like that. It would only confuse the average pop science article enjoyer.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:01:12 UTC No. 16592638

https://youtu.be/n4sL8pCmbyY

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:32:35 UTC No. 16593070

>>16591727
im still wondering why people think its a scam.

might as well call early binary computers a scam too

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:35:48 UTC No. 16593090

>>16591727
I know this will be a long shot but I hope there at least some competent people on /sci/ left. What exactly has microsoft done that is new in the topological superconductor space? I read their publication about this prototype but it just seems like a future business plan full of *future* goals. Have they made it easier to physically achieve Majorana zero nodes?

I have a background in theoretical topological superconductors like the Kitaev chain so please don't shy away from technical stuff.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:43:45 UTC No. 16593128

>>16592309
>what did these computers actually do?
quantum computers haven't done anything, its all simulations and investor hype that pretend decoherence isn't the final boss that will wreck them every time.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:21:34 UTC No. 16593298

>>16593128
>decoherence is
>A topological quantum computer is a type of quantum computer proposed by Russian-American physicist Alexei Kitaev in 1997.[2] It utilizes quasiparticles, known as anyons, in two-dimensional systems. These anyons' world lines intertwine to form braids in a three-dimensional spacetime (one temporal and two spatial dimensions). These braids act as the logic gates of the computer. The primary advantage of using quantum braids over trapped quantum particles is enhanced stability. While small but cumulative perturbations can cause quantum states to decohere and introduce errors in traditional quantum computations, such perturbations do not alter the topological properties of the braids. This stability is akin to the difference between cutting and reattaching a string to form a different braid versus a ball (representing an ordinary quantum particle in four-dimensional spacetime) colliding with a wall.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:25:10 UTC No. 16593314

The paper was interesting to read, but from what I understand it's more of a proof of concept of a topological qbit than a fully fledge quantum computer.
so far it mostly seem like a big publicity stunt o r am I missing something?

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:27:41 UTC No. 16593332

>>16593298
>proposed
so not even a sparkling gold prototype to grift investors? that's not how you do quantum computing, son.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:51:35 UTC No. 16593627

>>16593070
cause they haven't been able to factorize shit so far

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:44 UTC No. 16593635

>>16593332
>so not even a sparkling gold prototype to grift investors?
micosoft just made one

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:04:25 UTC No. 16593661

>>16591918
>many such cases
that's what this "CPU" goes into. it's not a desktop quantum computer, it's like your picrel, it goes in something similar.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:23:24 UTC No. 16594090

>>16593298
that sounds like 4chan, only instead of braids/strings we have threads, and instead of balls/walls, we have boards

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:24:25 UTC No. 16594092

>>16593298
and instead of anyons, we have anons

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:59:12 UTC No. 16594651

>>16593070
binary computers went from lab to commodity in less time than it took for quantum computers to go from lab to lab so far.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:50:43 UTC No. 16594689

>>16591727
This is fake. It's just for shareholders to wank each other over

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:56:24 UTC No. 16594695

>>16591727
I heard 5g is better than 4g too... And the newest iPhone is better than the recent one.. stockholders are you listening?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:01:12 UTC No. 16594873

this type of device is said to be resistant to noise

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:52:47 UTC No. 16595124

i see a lot of screeching and seething from ignorant zoomer undergrads itt, no one has any idea what they are talking about

DoctorGreen !DRgReeNusk at Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:54:15 UTC No. 16595791

>>16591878
>This chip uses Majorana fermions
is this a shitpost?

DoctorGreen !DRgReeNusk at Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:56:27 UTC No. 16595793

>>16591961
>Remember that image of Proxima Centauri released by that French scientist as a joke? A slice of chorizo (type of pork sausage).
>Despite the fact that he revealed it as a "be wary of arguments from authority" message, there was still a public outcry. It made the retards seethe uncontrollably. He was forced to make a humiliating public apology. Might not have entirely wrecked his carer but probably hobbled it.
it was such an interesting experiment

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:20:44 UTC No. 16595824

>>16593298
130iq is not going to be enough for me to understand this shit

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:07:08 UTC No. 16595937

>>16594689
they sure generate a lot of noise

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:36:15 UTC No. 16595958

>>16595791
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitaev_chain

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:29:15 UTC No. 16595983

At least with this I get some neat pictures of brass artwork instead of another calarts app trying to suck my wallet out through my phone