David Lucas

Professor David Lucas is an experimental atomic physicist at Oxford whose research focuses on trapped‐ion quantum computing. He leads a group working on precision control, coherence, and error reduction in ion trap qubits, pushing toward fault-tolerant quantum logic. Recently his team set a new global benchmark for single-qubit gate fidelity—achieving an error rate of just 0.000015% (one in 6.7 million) —and has demonstrated distributed quantum computation by linking remote ion processors via photonic interfaces.