The Quantum Foundry: Google Including Neutral Atom Qubit Approach

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BigTech is charting their Quantum computing future more clearly in 2026. Many roadmaps point to 2030 as key year. However this full-stack dual qubit modality approach is promising.​

Michael Spencer
Mar 26, 2026


It’s March, 2026 and Google Quantum’s roadmap is getting a lot more tangible. Google Quantum AI is broadening its quantum computing roadmap by introducing a neutral atom quantum computing programme alongside its established superconducting qubit research. This is of course validation for Neutral Atom approach to qubit development.

As you know in a nutshell, The Neutral Atom approach is a method of quantum computing that uses uncharged atoms—typically alkali metals like Rubidium or Cesium—as qubits. These atoms are suspended in a vacuum and manipulated using highly focused laser beams.

The elegance of this approach is that neutral atoms are not held by magnetic or electric fields, but rather by the "pressure" of light.​

Which sounds almost poetic to me.

While Google’s Quantum unit is I think guilty of a lot of PR down the years, this is an interesting development signals to me that BigTech is taking Quantum computing and its future more seriously.

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https://www.thequantumfoundry.com/p/google-including-neutral-atom-qubit