Neutral Atom MOC

Curated map of Zoo entries in the Neutral Atom family.

Entries

Entry	Type	Status
alkaline-earth-neutral-atom-clock-qubit	qubit	demonstrated
neutral-atom-qubit	qubit	demonstrated
nuclear-spin-neutral-atom-qubit	qubit	demonstrated
rydberg-neutral-atom-qubit	qubit	demonstrated

Composition

• qubit: 4

Conceptual anchors

• rydberg-blockade-mechanism is the common interaction layer across this whole family, even when the storage states differ sharply between alkali, clock-state, and nuclear-spin variants.
• coherence-time-hierarchy is the right comparison lens for the internal split between fast gate-first Rydberg stacks and coherence-first alkaline-earth / nuclear-spin stacks.
• erasure-error-vs-pauli-error matters here because atom loss can sometimes be detected and converted into a more structured fault model instead of behaving like anonymous depolarizing noise.

Family structure

• neutral-atom-qubit should remain the umbrella systems note: tweezer assembly, array scale, and the general Rydberg-enabled processor story live there.
• rydberg-neutral-atom-qubit is the alkali-heavy execution stack where blockade physics is the main differentiator and the main error budget driver.
• alkaline-earth-neutral-atom-clock-qubit and nuclear-spin-neutral-atom-qubit form the coherence-first branch: they separate long-lived storage states from temporary access to interacting excited manifolds.
• The two alkaline-earth notes are related but not duplicates: one is the clock-state architecture framing, the other is the memory-encoding framing.

Editorial note

Use this MOC to clarify the family split between interaction primitive and storage encoding. Keep species-specific experimental detail in the source entries, and keep this page focused on why several different neutral-atom notes still belong to one architectural cluster.