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Rydberg mediated entanglement in a two-dimensional neutral atom qubit array
We demonstrate high fidelity two-qubit Rydberg blockade and entanglement in a two-dimensional qubit array. The qubit array is defined by a grid of blue detuned lines of light with 121 sites for trapping atomic qubits. Improved experimental methods have increased the observed Bell state fidelity to FBell = 0.86(2). Accounting for errors in state preparation and measurement (SPAM) we infer a fidelity of F−SPAM Bell = 0.89. Including errors in single qubit operations we infer that the Rydberg mediated CZ gate has a fidelity of F−SPAM CZ= 0.91. Comparison with a detailed error model shows that further improvement in fidelity will require colder atoms and lasers with reduced noise.
- Award ID(s):
- 1720220
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10120889
- Journal Name:
- ArXiv.org
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- 1908.06103
- ISSN:
- 2331-8422
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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