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Microsoft’s quantum computing technology called into question, again<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/microsofts-quantum-computing-technology-called-150226831.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-24 11:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Stephen Nellis<\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 (Reuters) – A new critique in the scientific journal Nature is raising fresh questions about Microsoft’s claimed quantum computing breakthrough last year, which underpinned the company’s announcement this month that it will have a working quantum system by 2029.<\/p>\n

Quantum computers \u200ccould solve scientific and cybersecurity problems beyond the reach of conventional machines. They have become a priority for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, which \u200cinvested $2 billion in the field and this week set goals for a scientific quantum system by 2028.<\/p>\n

Like Big Tech rivals IBM, Alphabet’s Google and others, Microsoft is developing its own quantum computer. But \u200bwhile rivals are engineering machines based on better-understood quantum technologies, Microsoft has spent nearly two decades trying to break new scientific ground on a technology it says could help it leapfrog competitors.<\/p>\n

In a formal reply to the critique and an interview with Reuters, Microsoft said it stands behind its research and that its quantum program is making practical progress despite any concerns.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s scientific effort has drawn skepticism. Two previous Microsoft-backed papers were retracted from Nature, while editors flagged alerts about possible research problems in two others, one \u200cin Nature and another in Science.<\/p>\n

Microsoft said the previously \u2060retracted papers in Nature were done outside its labs and it did not review the data in them before publication.<\/p>\n

The peer-reviewed critique published in Nature on Wednesday by Henry Legg, a lecturer in quantum physics at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, \u2060raises concerns about a fifth paper, published in February 2025, and an associated press announcement. The paper, which is not being retracted, is central to all of Microsoft’s subsequent quantum efforts.<\/p>\n

Microsoft said publicly last year it had found the Majorana, a long-theorized subatomic particle central to its approach. However, it…<\/p>\n

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