By Catherine Bolgar
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 11:14:00
While this type of materials research began long before the advent of agent AI, the team used it to manage the manufacturing of the new device, and Microsoft Discovery will be used more widely for future Majorana materials work.
Critical parts of the Majorana quantum devices are designed atom by atom. To keep each atom in its proper place, another material, an impurity, can be added to the crystal structure. But adding too much or in the wrong way disrupts it, making it difficult to find a balance, said Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of quantum at Microsoft.
“Finding the exact recipe, the right amount to use to get the desired energy structure, requires a lot of experimentation in the old world order. In the new world order, you can see through simulations where the most likely target is. And then with…
