{"id":25781,"date":"2025-04-16T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25781\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:31:15","slug":"microsoft-quantum-computing-breakthrough-faces-fresh-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25781\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft quantum computing \u2018breakthrough\u2019 faces fresh challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A physicist has cast doubt on a test that underlies a high-profile claim by Microsoft to have created the first \u2018topological qubits\u2019, a long-sought goal of the company\u2019s quantum-computing effort. The critique comes amid mounting speculation about the validity of Microsoft\u2019s claim. <\/p>\n<p>                    Competing Interests<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: The author of this story is related to Robert Garisto, the chief editor of Physical Review Letters, which is a sister journal of Physical Review B. The two had no contact about this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A physicist has cast doubt on a test that underlies a high-profile claim by Microsoft to have created&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[8668,3284,11704,3965,3966,7030,70,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-25781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computer-science","9":"tag-computing","10":"tag-condensed-matter-physics","11":"tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","12":"tag-multidisciplinary","13":"tag-quantum-information","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}