Entangling gate performance and fidelity limits with neutral atom Förster resonances

Rydberg Neutral-Atom Qubit is a neutral atom qubit approach for quantum computing hardware. Source: latex text.

Abstract

Neutral-atom entangling gates are commonly analyzed with a single effective Rydberg-pair state, but near Förster resonances the pair manifold contains resonantly coupled interaction channels that change both the control landscape and the achievable fidelity. We develop a two-eigenstate model for this regime and show that when allowing for coupling to both pair states in the resonance, the gate fidelity is bounded by $\mathcal{F}\le 1-(\pi /2)/(V{\tau }_R)$, for interaction strength $V$ and Rydberg lifetime ${\tau }_R$. We construct a gate protocol that saturates this bound in the large-Rabi-frequency limit, improving the existing fidelity limit by approximately $40\%$. We also evaluate common gate protocols near Förster resonances and find that retaining the exchange dynamics increases predicted fidelities by up to two orders of magnitude over earlier treatments.

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Links

• arXiv: 2605.19245

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