Microsoft Quantum | Quantum Roadmap

Our Quantum roadmap

8 billion reasons to build a quantum supercomputer

Our growing global footprint of 8 billion people requires new innovations to reverse climate change and address food insecurity. Scientists are on a mission to make discoveries that will solve humanity’s hardest problems. This is why we are pushing the boundaries to empower scientists to innovate at scale, with speed.

Quantum Supercomputer

Microsoft is developing a topological qubit that is unique, small, fast, and controllable, which will unlock a scaled Quantum Supercomputer.

Quantum Computing Implementation Levels

To achieve utility scale, quantum computing must graduate through three implementation levels: Level 1 Foundational, Level 2 Resilient, Level 3 Scale.

Quantum Networking

Quantum networking has the potential to unlock capabilities by connecting remote quantum computers and solving problems distributed on quantum clusters.

Quantum Computing Implementation Levels

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Level 1 Foundational

Noisy physical qubits

Level 2 Resilient

Reliable logical qubits

Level 3 Scale

Quantum supercomputers

The path to a Level 3
Quantum Supercomputer

Microsoft is on the path to engineer a brand-new type of qubit and has identified the key hardware milestones for unlocking a scaled Quantum Supercomputer.

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MILESTONE 01: Create & control Majoranas

For the first time in history, Microsoft engineered devices allow us to induce and control the topological phase of matter bookended by Majorana Zero Modes. This breakthrough enables the engineering of a new type of qubit.*

*Accomplished in May 2023 with the peer-reviewed research published in American Physical Society journal

MILESTONE 02: Hardware Protected Qubit

Our protected qubit, with built-in error protection, extends our first breakthrough by changing qubit technology from analog to digital control.

MILESTONE 03: High Quality Hardware Protected Qubits

To scale operations and reduce errors, digitally controlled hardware-protected qubits can be entangled and braided with a series of quality advances.

MILESTONE 04: Multi-qubit System

A variety of quantum algorithms can be executed when multiple qubits operate together as a programmable Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) in a full stack Quantum Machine.

MILESTONE 05: Resilient Quantum System

A Quantum Machine, when operating on true logical qubits, demonstrates higher quality operations than the underlying physical qubits. This breakthrough enables the first reliable quantum operations and opens the gates to quantum supercomputing.

MILESTONE 06: Quantum Supercomputer

The Quantum Supercomputer solves scientific or commercial problems faster than classical computers, starting at 1 million reliable rQOPS/sec with an error rate below 1 in a trillion, scaling to 100 million rQOPS/sec for advanced chemistry and materials science challenges.

Quantum Networking

Roadmap to a quantum internet

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Stage 1: Point-to-Point

Entanglement delivered between two sepatrate quantum devices

Stage 2: Many-to-One

Connections between sites

Stage 3: Quantum internet

Long-distance quantum communication

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Quantum & crypto

Grow your understanding of the intersection of quantum computing and cryptography with Azure Quantum Resource Estimator and Copilot in Microsoft Quantum.

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