Rymax-One: A neutral atom quantum processor to solve optimization problems

Quantum computers are set to advance various domains of science and technology due to their ability to efficiently solve computationally hard problems. Of particular interest are combinatorial optimization problems, whose solutions could provide the basis for optimal supply chains or efficient vehicle routing. Here, we present our project Rymax-One (www.rymax.one) - which aims at building a quantum processor using single ¹⁷¹Yb atoms trapped in arbitrary and reconfigurable arrays of optical tweezers. Thereby we not only enable hardware efficient encoding of optimization tasks, but also qubit realizations with long coherence times, Rydberg-mediated interactions and high-fidelity gate operations. Solving open questions on the details of the interaction and excitation scheme will yield the high fidelities that allow us to implement specialized quantum algorithms and tackle real-world problems.