Microsoft has outlined its research in a peer-reviewed paper published today in Nature, explaining how its researchers were able to create the topological qubit. Microsoft has helped create a new material made from indium arsenide and aluminum, and it has placed eight topological qubits on a chip that it hopes can eventually scale to 1 million.

A team at Oxford University succeeded in getting two quantum processors to connect to each other and work together with particle entanglement.

Shares of quantum computing companies wavered on Thursday after jumping yesterday on renewed investor interest in the nascent technology. Quantum computing stocks like Rigetti (RGTI), Quantum Computing (QUBT),