Quantum leap: scientists skeptical of Microsoft's invention of a new state of matter – The Week

Microsoft’s claims about a potential breakthrough in quantum computing and the creation of a new state of matter have created backlash from physicists who question the claim’s veracity. While the company’s researchers stand by their assessments, similar ones were ultimately rescinded the last time Microsoft made them. That puts a heavier burden of proof on the company this time around.

‘Fraught history of similar claims’

Microsoft’s announcement about its supposed breakthrough was “met with skepticism from some physicists in the field,” said Salon. Some say that the Microsoft research team did not include all the data in the research paper published in Nature to prove that this form of quantum computing could work. And due to a “fraught history of similar claims from the company being disputed and ultimately rescinded, some are extra wary of the results.”