Majorana-Based Topological Qubits: A Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Date :
Friday, November 7th, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Place :
Seminar Room 5 (A615), 6th Floor, ISSP
Lecturer : Dr. Bela Bauer Affiliation : Microsoft Station Q Committee Chair : Masaki Oshikawa (ex. 63275)
e-mail: oshikawa@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jpLanguage in Speech : English
e-mail: oshikawa@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jpLanguage in Speech : English
Microsoft’s tetron qubit—built from hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanowires hosting pairs of Majorana zero modes–marks a key advance in topological quantum computing.This talk presents the latest experimental results, including the first demonstration of two distinct fermion parity measurements in a Majorana-based system. It also outlines our roadmap from single tetrons to multi-qubit arrays capable of quantum error correction, charting a concrete path toward scalable, reliable quantum computation.
(Published on: Monday October 27th, 2025)