Single Temporal-Pulse-Modulated Parameterized Controlled-Phase Gate for Rydberg Atoms

We propose an adiabatic protocol for implementing a controlled-phase gate CZ0 with continuous 0 of neutral atoms through a symmetrical two-photon excitation process via the second resonance line, 6P in 87Rb, with a single-temporal-modulation-coupling of the ground state and intermediate state. Relying on different adiabatic paths, the phase factor 0 of the CZ0 gate can be accumulated on the logic qubit state |11) alone by calibrating the shape of the temporal pulse where strict zero amplitudes at the start and end of the pulse are not needed. For a wide range of 0, we can obtain the fidelity of the CZ0 gate over 99.7% in less than 1 mu s, in the presence of spontaneous emission from intermediate and Rydberg states. And in particular for 0 = 7r, we benchmark the performance of the CZ gate by taking into account various experimental imperfections, such as Doppler shifts, fluctuation of Rydberg-Rydberg interaction strength, inhomogeneous Rabi frequency, and noise of driving fields, etc., and show that the predicted fidelity is able to maintain at about 98.4% after correcting the measurement error. This gate protocol provides a robustness against the fluctuation of pulse amplitude and a flexible way for adjusting the entangling phase, which may contribute to the experimental implementation of near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum computation and algorithm with neutral-atom systems.

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This study proposes an adiabatic protocol for implementing a controlled-phase gate CZ0 with continuous 0 in neutral atoms. The protocol can achieve a high fidelity over 99.7% in less than 1 μs, even in the presence of spontaneous emission and various experimental imperfections.