High-Fidelity Single-Qubit Gates on Neutral Atoms in a Two-Dimensional Magic-Intensity Optical Dipole Trap Array

As a conventional approach, optical dipole trap (ODT) arrays with linear polarization have been widely used to assemble neutral-atom qubits for building a quantum computer. However, due to the inherent scalar differential light shifts (DLS) of qubit states induced by trapping fields, the microwave-driven gates acting on single qubits suffer from errors on the order of 10(-3). Here, we construct a DLS compensated ODT array based upon a recently developed magic-intensity trapping technique. In such a magic-intensity optical dipole trap (MI-ODT) array, the detrimental effects of DLS are efficiently mitigated so that the performance of global microwave-driven Clifford gates is significantly improved. Experimentally, we achieve an average error of (4.7 +/- 1.1) x 10(-5) per global gate, which is characterized by randomized benchmarking in a 4 x 4 MI-ODT array. Moreover, we experimentally study the correlation between the coherence time and gate errors in a single MI-ODT with an optimum error per gate of (3.0 +/- 0.7) x 10(-5). Our demonstration shows that MI-ODT array is a versatile platform for building scalable quantum computers with neutral atoms.