Overview

• The Endres Lab trapped 6,100 cesium atoms using optical tweezers, splitting a laser into 12,000 beams to form a reconfigurable grid.
• Qubits maintained superposition for about 13 seconds while individual control operations reached 99.98% accuracy.
• Researchers demonstrated atom shuttling across the array by hundreds of micrometers without losing superposition.
• The work, published in Nature, sets a new scale benchmark for neutral-atom hardware previously limited to hundreds of qubits.
• Next goals include entangling the full array and pursuing multi‑thousand‑qubit error correction to progress toward fault tolerance.