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 […]

Welcome to the 78th episode of Decode Quantum, where we continue to travel around the world. We are now in the UK with Sebastian Weidt, the founder and CEO of Universal Quantum, a startup creating scalable trapped-ions quantum computers. Sebastian Weidt is the CEO and co-founder of Universal Quantum since 2019, when the company was […]