Chetan Nayak leads Microsoft’s quantum computing effort.Credit: John Brecher for MicrosoftAnaheim, CaliforniaA Microsoft researcher today presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing.Inside Microsoft’s quest for a topological quantum computerIn front of a packed room at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Chetan Nayak, a theoretical physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum...