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Quasiparticle eggheads were 'caught up in the enthusiasm of the moment' Katyanna Quach Tue 9 Mar 2021 // 08:55 UTC Share Copy Updated A paper published in Nature two years ago and spearheaded by a Microsoft scientist has been retracted after it emerged that the data presented simply didn't add up. The work was produced at a quantum computer lab set up by Microsoft and QuTech, a research center co-founded by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The study, led by Microsoftie and TU Delft Professor Leo Kouwenhoven, reported the discovery of a ...

In the paper’s retraction, it notes that there were “several inconsistencies... between the raw measurement data that was made available to them and the figures that were published in the paper.” The scientists established that the data in two of the figures had been “unnecessarily corrected for charge jumps (corrections that were not mentioned explicitly in the paper)” and also that “one of the figure axes was mislabelled.” The retraction goes on to say that the data was replotted over the full parameter range and concludes with this statement: “We can therefore no longer cl...