Quantum Computing
Microsoft Azure Quantum innovates across every layer of the quantum stack, from software and applications to control and devices. This includes the pursuit of fault-tolerant topological qubits that scale towards a general-purpose quantum computer.
FrodoKEM: A conservative quantum-safe cryptographic algorithm
The recent advances in quantum computing offer many advantages—but also challenge current cryptographic strategies. Learn how FrodoKEM could help strengthen security, even in a future with powerful quantum computers.
Accelerating the discovery of fusion reactor materials
One persistent challenge in fusion reactor design involves building the interior “first wall,” which must withstand extreme heat and particle bombardment. At the Microsoft Research Fusion Summit, Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum…
Ideas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak
Microsoft announced the creation of the first topoconductor and first QPU architecture with a topological core. Dr. Chetan Nayak, a technical fellow of Quantum Hardware at the company, discusses how the breakthroughs are redefining the…
Microsoft Quantum Innovator Series: The Path to Quantum at Scale
Get the inside, first-hand account of Microsoft’s strategy to scaled quantum computing. In this series, you will hear directly from Microsoft’s Azure Quantum scientists and leaders about the path to quantum at scale and how…
Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.
Research Focus: Week of January 9, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Jan P. Unsleber, Hongbin Liu, Leopold Talirz,…
