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Microsoft-led team retracts quantum ‘breakthrough’ – BBC News
The team believed they had found evidence of particles useful to developing quantum computing.
By Cody Godwin and James ClaytonBBC News, San Francisco
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A Microsoft-led team has withdrawn a controversial research paper into quantum computing, published in 2018.
The research claimed to have found evidence of an elusive subatomic particle Microsoft suggested could help the development of more powerful computers.
But it now says mistakes were made.
The journal Nature has published a retraction. And the paper’s authors have apologised for “insufficient scientific…
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