Microsoft has just announced a chip that it claims will "redefine" how quantum computing works. But experts say there's a long way for that vision to become a reality.

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

Live Science reports that such a technology could use a beam of light to fix a magnetic bit in a superposition of both 1 and 0, similar to how qubits work in quantum computers.