{"id":235620,"date":"2026-04-20T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-long-sought-quantum-computing-milestone-arrives-as-fermionic-atom-gates-top-99-accuracy"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:36:12","slug":"a-long-sought-quantum-computing-milestone-arrives-as-fermionic-atom-gates-top-99-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-long-sought-quantum-computing-milestone-arrives-as-fermionic-atom-gates-top-99-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"A long-sought quantum computing milestone arrives as fermionic atom gates top 99% accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-long-sought-quantum-computing-milestone-arrives-as-fermionic-atom-gates-top-99-accuracy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two independent research teams have each demonstrated collisional quantum gates using fermionic atoms: a long-sought milestone in quantum computing where logic operations are performed through the direct physical overlap of atoms, rather than forcing them into fragile, highly excited states.<\/p>\n<p>The studies have been published simultaneously in <i>Nature<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10356-3\" target=\"_blank\">the first<\/a> led by Petar Bojovi\u0107 at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-robust-noise-geometric-phase-swap.html\">the second<\/a> by Yann Kiefer and colleagues at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two independent research teams have each demonstrated collisional quantum gates using fermionic atoms: a long-sought milestone in quantum computing where logic operations are performed through the direct physical overlap of atoms, rather than forcing them into fragile, highly excited states. The studies have been published simultaneously in Nature: the first led by Petar Bojovi\u0107 at [\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-235620","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\/235620","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=235620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}