Microsoft performs operations with multiple error-corrected qubits

Enlarge / Quantinuum's H2 "racetrack" quantum processor. (credit: Quantinuum)

On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series of announcements related to its Azure Quantum Cloud service. Among them was a demonstration of logical operations using the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet.

"Since April, we've tripled the number of logical qubits here," said Microsoft Technical Fellow Krysta Svore. "So we are accelerating toward that hundred-logical-qubit capability." The company...