{"id":229073,"date":"2026-01-15T01:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/neutral-atom-arrays-a-rapidly-emerging-quantum-computing-platform-get-a-boost-from-researchers"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:25:19","slug":"neutral-atom-arrays-a-rapidly-emerging-quantum-computing-platform-get-a-boost-from-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/neutral-atom-arrays-a-rapidly-emerging-quantum-computing-platform-get-a-boost-from-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Neutral-atom arrays, a rapidly emerging quantum computing platform, get a boost from researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutral-atom-arrays-a-rapidly-emerging-quantum-computing-platform-get-a-boost-from-researchers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art quantum computers have around 1,000 qubits. Columbia physicists Sebastian Will and Nanfang Yu have their sights set much higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are laying critical groundwork to enable quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits,\u201d Will said.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09961-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, Will, Yu, and their colleagues combine two powerful technologies\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-08-miniature-lens-atoms.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">optical tweezers<\/a> and metasurfaces\u2014to dramatically scale the size of neutral-atom arrays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art quantum computers have around 1,000 qubits. Columbia physicists Sebastian Will and Nanfang Yu have their sights set much higher. \u201cWe are laying critical groundwork to enable quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits,\u201d Will said. In a paper published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}