{"id":230696,"date":"2026-02-06T05:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/quantum-computers-will-finally-be-useful-whats-behind-the-revolution"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:29:13","slug":"quantum-computers-will-finally-be-useful-whats-behind-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/quantum-computers-will-finally-be-useful-whats-behind-the-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computers will finally be useful: what\u2019s behind the revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-will-finally-be-useful-whats-behind-the-revolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Lukin\u2019s team at Harvard presented a \u201cuniversal\u201d design for neutral-atom processors with robust error-correction capabilities using just 448 qubits, alongside a 3,000-qubit processor that can run for hours.<\/p>\n<p>As Lukin notes: \u201cThese are really new kinds of instruments\u2014by some measures, they\u2019re not even computers\u2026 What\u2019s really exciting is that these systems are now working already at a reasonable scale and we can start experimenting with them to figure out what we can do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A string of surprising advances suggests usable quantum computers could be here in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikhail Lukin\u2019s team at Harvard presented a \u201cuniversal\u201d design for neutral-atom processors with robust error-correction capabilities using just 448 qubits, alongside a 3,000-qubit processor that can run for hours. As Lukin notes: \u201cThese are really new kinds of instruments\u2014by some measures, they\u2019re not even computers\u2026 What\u2019s really exciting is that these systems are now working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230696","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}