Building a plane while flying it isn’t typically a goal for most, but for a team of Harvard-led physicists that general idea might be a key to finally building large-scale quantum computers.
Described in a new paper in Nature, the research team, which includes collaborators from QuEra Computing, MIT, and the University of Innsbruck, developed a new approach for processing quantum information that allows them to dynamically change the layout of atoms in their system by moving and connecting them with each other in the midst of computation.
Image: Dolev Bluvstein, Harry Levine (on the laptop), Sepehr Ebadi and Mikhail Lukin, on right, standing next to their neutral atom quantum computer, on left. Their new quantum processor can move atoms while preserving their quantum entanglement, enabling new types of computations where any two qubits can be entangled, even if they are far apart. Credit: Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
