The ninth Biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications is awarded to Professors Antoine Browaeys (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay), Mikhail Lukin (Harvard), and Mark Saffman (UW-Madison) for pioneering contributions to quantum simulation and quantum computing with neutral atoms in optical tweezer arrays, including the development of large-scale programmable arrays for scalable quantum computation. The prize will be given at the eleventh international conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto. (CQIQC-XI, August 17-21, 2026)

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2. T. M. Graham, Y. Song, J. Scott, et al., M. Saffman, Multi-qubit entanglement and algorithms on a neutral-atom quantum computer. Nature 604 , 457-462 (2022).
3. D. Bluvstein, H. Levine, G. Semeghini, et al., M. D. Lukin, A quantum processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays, Nature 604, 451-456 (2022).