Microsoft captured quantum news headlines on February 19, 2025 by publishing an arXiv blueprint for its future fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) using Majorana fermions, a Nature paper about the measurement of Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) in a chip containing the equivalent of half a physical topological qubit, and then a press release summarizing the whole and introducing […]

I’ve had a chance to contribute to the writing of a new pedagogical preprint paper on quantum physics foundations: The two-spin enigma: from the helium atom to quantum ontology by Philippe Grangier, Alexia Auffèves, Nayla Farouki, Mathias van den Bossche, and Olivier Ezratty, June 2024 (10 pages). PS: it was published in November 2024 in […]