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

 





December 20, 2024

 

 

     ![Dolev Bluvstein and Mikhail Lukin working on their quantum processor](/sites/g/files/omnuum6476/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/physworls2024.jpg?h=2bf40b37&itok=na0z2wW_) 

 



 

*Physics World* 2024 Breakthrough of the Year has been awarded to [Mikhail Lukin](/people/facpages/lukin), [Dolev Bluvstein](https://lukin.physics.harvard.edu/people/dolev-bluvstein) and colleagues at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and [QuEra Computing](https://www.quera.com/), and independently to [Hartmut Neven](https://research.google/people/hartmutneven/) and colleagues at [Google Quantum AI](https://quantumai.google/) and their collaborators, for [demonstrating quantum error correction on an atomic processor with 48 logical qubits](https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-processor-integrates-48-logical-qubits/), and for [implementing quantum error correction below the surface code threshold](https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-processor-enters-unprecedented-territory-for-error-correction/) in a superconducting chip, respectively.

Please read the announcement on the [Physics World website](https://physicsworld.com/a/two-advances-in-quantum-error-correction-share-the-physics-world-2024-breakthrough-of-the-year/) and listen to Lukin and Bluvstein explain how they used trapped atoms to create 48 logical qubits on the [Physics World Weekly Podcast](https://physicsworld.com/a/mikhail-lukin-and-dolev-bluvstein-explain-how-they-used-trapped-atoms-to-create-48-logical-qubits/#:~:text=This%20year,%20we%20awarded%20half,processor%20with%2048%20logical%20cubits.).