Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research is the basic-research division of Microsoft; its quantum hardware group, formerly Station Q, pursues a topological approach to qubits, aiming to encode information in Majorana zero modes within semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures such as indium arsenide nanowires and aluminum. The group published measurements of Majorana-related devices and, in 2025, announced the Majorana 1 chip, though its qubits remain a research-stage effort with debate over the evidence for the underlying physics. On the software side, Microsoft developed the Q# language and Quantum Development Kit and operates Azure Quantum, a cloud service that brokers access to hardware from third-party quantum vendors.

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Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, USA
Founded: 1991
Status: Public

topological algorithms software

Coverage

arXiv quant-ph30 September 2026

Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States for Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces in Second Quantization

Researchers have introduced a geometry-conditioned neural-network quantum state for molecular electronic structure formulated in second quantization. The method aims to share wavefunction coefficient representations across molecular geometries, so that a single trained network can describe a potential energy surface rather than being retrained for each nuclear configuration.

OutlookPlausible

Within two years, this approach could be benchmarked against established potential energy surface datasets for small molecules, providing accuracy comparable to multi-reference methods at a fraction of the repeated training cost.

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