High-fidelity entangling gates and nonlocal circuits with neutral atoms
The generation and manipulation of entanglement with low error are essential in quantum information systems. In practice, two-qubit entangling gates constitute a dominant error source, limiting circuit depths and performance in fault-tolerant architectures. Using a neutral-atom quantum processor, we realized entangling controlled- Z gates with a high-Rabi-frequency smooth-amplitude pulse, employing state-selective readout and qubit reuse for fast calibration, and achieved a fidelity of 99.854(4)%, which improved to 99.941(3)% upon loss postselection, with stable performance for 10 hours. We then used these low-error gates in quantum circuits with coherent atom rearrangement. Performance was benchmarked by creating and disentangling cluster states, and subsequently, we studied nonlocally entangled states with scrambling circuits featuring longer-range connectivity. Our approach provides a route toward deep-circuit, efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Authors
- Alexandra A. Geim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-4941)
- Dolev Bluvstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-9530)
- Nishad Maskara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5775-9542)
- Markus Greiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2935-2363)
- Muqing Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0208)
- Marcin Kalinowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5785-6366)
- Christian Kokail (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8024-4272)
- J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5518-7907)
- Mikhail D. Lukin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8658-1007)
- Simon J. Evered (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8986-1103)
- Sophie H. Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-9906)
- Vladan Vuletić
Institutions
- Harvard University (US)
- QuEra Computing (United States) (US)
- Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science
- Published
- 2026-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aei1312
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00