Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Milestones

• Harvard-led team combines the key parts of a fault-tolerant atom quantum computer (Nov 10, 2025)
• Harvard and MIT keep a 3,000-qubit atom array running for over two hours (Sep 15, 2025)
• QuEra, Harvard and MIT distill magic states on error-protected logical qubits (Jul 14, 2025)
• Harvard-led team runs algorithms on up to 48 logical qubits made of atoms (Dec 6, 2023)
• MIT physicists propose QAOA, a quantum algorithm for approximate optimization (Nov 14, 2014)
• Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd publish a quantum algorithm for solving linear equations (Oct 7, 2009)
• First quantum algorithms run on small NMR quantum computers (Jan 1998)
• Seth Lloyd proves Feynman's conjecture on simulating quantum systems (Aug 23, 1996)
• Feynman proposes computers that run on quantum physics (May 1981)