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Cavity-Coupled Neutral Atom Array Part 1: Site-selective Cavity Readout

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Abstract

Neutral atom arrays coupled to optical cavities have emerged as a powerful platform for quantum information science. Optical cavities facilitate fast and non-destructive readout of individual atomic qubits. However, scaling to large qubit arrays remains a challenge. By employing locally addressed excited-state Stark shifts to detune atoms from resonance, we achieve site-selective hyperfine-state cavity readout across a 10-site array. The state discrimination fidelity reaches 0.994(1) for a single atom and averages 0.989(2) across the entire array, with a survival probability of 0.975(1). These advancements pave the way towards fault-tolerant quantum computing by enabling repeated rounds of error correction.

Publication: Hu, B., Sinclair, J., Bytyqi, E., Chong, M., Rudelis, A., Ramette, J., Vendeiro, Z., & Vuletić, V. (2024). Site-selective cavity readout and classical error correction of a 5-bit atomic register. arXiv:2408.15329

Presenters

  • Edita Bytyqi

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

Authors

  • Edita Bytyqi

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

  • Beili Hu

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Josiah John Sinclair

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Michelle Chong

    University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Alyssa Rudelis

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Joshua Ramette

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Zachary Vendeiro

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Atom Computing

  • Vladan Vuletic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology