# Chip-Scale Laser Achieves 99.6% Qubit Fidelity

- slug: chip-scale-laser-achieves-996-qubit-fidelity
- date: 2026-03-30
- category: Quantum Computing

The Nature Communications paper hit 99.6% qubit fidelity using a chip-scale laser instead of rooms of vibration-isolated optics. The “shrink quantum computers” framing is the press release talking, not the physics. The paper shows one laser on one ion.

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