I find the editorialized title misleading. They trapped 17000 atom pairs in an optical lattice and demonstrated a high-fidelity quantum gate between the atoms of each pair in parallel. There is no interaction between the atoms of different pairs and no individual control. The experiment demonstrates a very robust gate scheme, but is a long way from a programmable computer.

“Demonstrates“ vs. “can be applied to 17,000 qubits simultaneously.“ - too completely different things, you know ...

Judging by the other comments on here, they learned to title their articles from OpenAI and Anthropic.

And ... can it run Crysis?

:-D

Seems like we are moving from theory to pactice faster than expected.

Non-paywalled research paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22112

For real? I wouldn't have thought so many would be possible so soon. Might actually need to look into quantum computing again after 20 years.

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