California Institute of Technology

Milestones

• Caltech and Oratomic estimate Shor's algorithm could run on 10,000 atomic qubits (Mar 31, 2026)
• Caltech traps 6,100 atom qubits in a single array of laser tweezers (Sep 24, 2025)
• Amazon unveils Ocelot, a chip built on error-resistant "cat qubits" (Feb 26, 2025)
• Amazon announces Braket, a cloud service for several makers' quantum computers (Dec 2, 2019)
• John Preskill names the "NISQ" era of noisy, intermediate-scale quantum computers (Jan 2, 2018)
• John Preskill coins the term "quantum supremacy" (Mar 26, 2012)
• Feynman proposes computers that run on quantum physics (May 1981)