Detuning-robust Rydberg entangling gates from echoed pulses
Abstract
Rydberg-based two-qubit gate fidelities in neutral atom arrays are limited chiefly by laser intensity inhomogeneity and by detuning errors from frequency miscalibration, background-field drift, intermediate state light shift and Doppler shifts. Quantum optimal control can suppress the former, but no pulse can render a controlled-Z gate first-order insensitive to detuning. Here we show that this obstruction can be circumvented by designing Rydberg gate pulses with every leading-order detuning error relegated to single-qubit Z-rotations, which an echoed sequence removes. The resulting maximally-entangling ZZ gate has no leading-order response to arbitrary detunings on either atom, maintaining an infidelity below 10−3 within a much wider range of single-atom detunings than the time-optimal gates. We further show that a large fraction of residual error is dominated by population outside the computational subspace, which can be converted into heralded erasures. Our results significantly reduce the requirements on laser frequency stability and intensity homogeneity, field calibration and atomic temperature toward practical fault-tolerant quantum computing with neutral atoms.
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BibTeX
@misc{jia2026detuningrobust,
title = {{Detuning-robust Rydberg entangling gates from echoed pulses}},
author = {Zhubing Jia and Yichao Yu and Xiye Hu and Lintao Li and Jacob Zheng and Christopher Monroe and Jacob P. Covey},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.26446},
eprint = {2608.26446},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26446},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Detuning-robust Rydberg entangling gates from echoed pulses
AU - Zhubing Jia
AU - Yichao Yu
AU - Xiye Hu
AU - Lintao Li
AU - Jacob Zheng
AU - Christopher Monroe
AU - Jacob P. Covey
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.26446
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26446
AB - Rydberg-based two-qubit gate fidelities in neutral atom arrays are limited chiefly by laser intensity inhomogeneity and by detuning errors from frequency miscalibration, background-field drift, intermediate state light shift and Doppler shifts. Quantum optimal control can suppress the former, but no pulse can render a controlled-Z gate first-order insensitive to detuning. Here we show that this obstruction can be circumvented by designing Rydberg gate pulses with every leading-order detuning error relegated to single-qubit Z-rotations, which an echoed sequence removes. The resulting maximally-entangling ZZ gate has no leading-order response to arbitrary detunings on either atom, maintaining an infidelity below 10^−3 within a much wider range of single-atom detunings than the time-optimal gates. We further show that a large fraction of residual error is dominated by population outside the computational subspace, which can be converted into heralded erasures. Our results significantly reduce the requirements on laser frequency stability and intensity homogeneity, field calibration and atomic temperature toward practical fault-tolerant quantum computing with neutral atoms.
ER -