Lukin group's quantum processor with 48 logical qubits has been named the 2024 Breakthroughs of the Year by Physics World.

Dolev Bluvstein and Mikhail Lukin working on their quantum processor

Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year has been awarded to Mikhail Lukin, Dolev Bluvstein and colleagues at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and QuEra Computing, and independently to Hartmut Neven and colleagues at Google Quantum AI and their collaborators, for demonstrating quantum error correction on an atomic processor with 48 logical qubits, and for implementing quantum error correction below the surface code threshold in a superconducting chip, respectively.

Please read the announcement on the Physics World website and listen to Lukin and Bluvstein explain how they used trapped atoms to create 48 logical qubits on the Physics World Weekly Podcast.