Microsoft-DARPA collaboration yields possible quantum chip breakthrough

Researchers at Microsoft, with support from DARPA, say they’ve designed a quantum computer chip that could lead to artificial-intelligence tools that use far fewer computer resources and energy. According to a Microsoft blog on the announcement and their accompanying paper, the team has developed a new way to check the state of a quantum computation without disrupting the delicate information underlying it. This technique, called interferometric single-shot parity measurement, was tes