Mediating gates between polar molecules using microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms
Abstract
We propose a scheme for mediating many simultaneous, fast entangling gates between pairs of polar molecules using Rydberg atoms. By using microwave drives, the dipolar interactions between Rydberg atoms are nullified. Using the freedom left in the microwave dressing parameters, the Rydberg van der Waals interactions are minimized and the Rydberg-molecule interaction is tuned into resonance, allowing for the mediation of a modified iSWAP gate between molecules. In the example of mediating gates between 23Na 133Cs molecules with 133Cs atoms, the gate is more than two orders of magnitude faster than an equivalent direct molecule-molecule gate. We model the decay of the dressed Rydberg states and the motion of the atom and molecules and obtain a leading-order estimate of the resulting gate infidelities. Finally, we show that by detecting the state of the Rydberg atom after a gate, a subset of gate errors can be converted into erasure errors and mitigated by post-selection or quantum error-correction.
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BibTeX
@misc{gerritsen2026mediating,
title = {{Mediating gates between polar molecules using microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms}},
author = {Bas Gerritsen and Sean R. Muleady and Arghavan Safavi-Naini and Alexey V. Gorshkov and Jeremy T. Young},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28694},
eprint = {2609.28694},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28694},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Mediating gates between polar molecules using microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms
AU - Bas Gerritsen
AU - Sean R. Muleady
AU - Arghavan Safavi-Naini
AU - Alexey V. Gorshkov
AU - Jeremy T. Young
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28694
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28694
AB - We propose a scheme for mediating many simultaneous, fast entangling gates between pairs of polar molecules using Rydberg atoms. By using microwave drives, the dipolar interactions between Rydberg atoms are nullified. Using the freedom left in the microwave dressing parameters, the Rydberg van der Waals interactions are minimized and the Rydberg-molecule interaction is tuned into resonance, allowing for the mediation of a modified iSWAP gate between molecules. In the example of mediating gates between ^23Na ^133Cs molecules with ^133Cs atoms, the gate is more than two orders of magnitude faster than an equivalent direct molecule-molecule gate. We model the decay of the dressed Rydberg states and the motion of the atom and molecules and obtain a leading-order estimate of the resulting gate infidelities. Finally, we show that by detecting the state of the Rydberg atom after a gate, a subset of gate errors can be converted into erasure errors and mitigated by post-selection or quantum error-correction.
ER -