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I don't think having a fast classical supercomputer gives one any edge in checking if these claims are true or not.
Of course, having trustworthy institutes supporting this research provides some indication the claims are not completely bogus, but appealing to authority has not always shown to be a reliable metric to confirm extraordinary claims. I hope they will soon share more details about their experiments so that other groups can try to reproduce the physics and science can advance in concert rather than hidden behind IP from one specific company. Of course, I understand the incentives at play, so it's normal that Microsoft is trying to gain some advantage here, but until they or others can provide more evidence, I'll be remaining skeptical.
As a physicist, I of course truly hope they are right. Majorana fermions have been a theoretical object for too long. We are really living in exciting times for condensed matter physics.
110% quatum will be an entirely different computer structure but given we have to learn about it to build it the only way to do the calculations and more importantly the simulations esp. when it comes to materials science is going to be with El Capitan and Frontier.
Odds are with the National Lab backlog its going to be roughly a year. Everyone wants computation and the only way they could get further ahead in line I would assume would be to trade in Azure Compute power. The US DOE have launched 5 NQISRC that are specializing in the QIS research https://nqisrc.org/
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