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arxiv: 2512.00843 · v2 · submitted 2025-11-30 · 🪐 quant-ph

Multiqubit Rydberg Gates for Quantum Error Correction

David F. Locher , Josias Old , Katharina Brechtelsbauer , Jakob Holschbach , Hans Peter B\"uchler , Sebastian Weber , Markus M\"uller This is my paper

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keywords Rydberg gatesquantum error correctionneutral atomsmultiqubit gatesmeasurement-free QECFloquet codesCCZ gatefault-tolerant quantum computing
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Global three-qubit Rydberg gates enable competitive fault-tolerant quantum error correction in neutral atoms.

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The paper shows that multiqubit Rydberg gates, often avoided in quantum error correction because a single fault can create high-weight errors, become useful when realized with global laser pulses in single-species neutral-atom arrays. An open-source Python package generates analytical few-parameter pulses that implement CCZ gates for measurement-free protocols and three-qubit gates for Floquet stabilizer measurements while keeping Rydberg decay low. Simulations under circuit-level noise demonstrate that these gates cut shuttling overhead and allow logical performance to reach or approach break-even in error regimes already accessible to current hardware. A sympathetic reader would care because the approach relaxes the need for individual qubit addressing and may lower the experimental barrier to running fault-tolerant codes at scale.

Core claim

Multiqubit gates with three or more qubits can be beneficial for fault-tolerant quantum error correction when implemented via global pulses on neutral atoms. The work develops analytical, few-parameter pulses that realize CCZ operations in symmetric and asymmetric configurations and three-qubit gates for stabilizer readout, both while minimizing errors from Rydberg-state decay. Simulations with realistic noise then show that measurement-free QEC reaches break-even and that Floquet codes using three-qubit gates deliver competitive logical-qubit performance while requiring fewer shuttling operations.

What carries the argument

Analytical few-parameter pulses generated by an open-source Python package that implement CCZ and three-qubit Rydberg gates while minimizing Rydberg-state decay for atoms in symmetric or asymmetric arrangements.

If this is right

  • Break-even performance of measurement-free QEC becomes reachable with present-day single-qubit, two-qubit, and three-qubit gate error rates.
  • Three-qubit gates for stabilizer measurements in Floquet codes reduce the number of required shuttling operations.
  • Logical-qubit error rates remain competitive in experimentally relevant noise regimes when three-qubit gates replace separate two-qubit measurements.
  • The same global-pulse approach extends to fault-tolerant stabilizer readout in unrotated surface codes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Neutral-atom processors could run fault-tolerant protocols without individual laser addressing, simplifying optical hardware for larger arrays.
  • Lower shuttling demand may reduce cumulative motion-induced errors in scaled architectures.
  • The pulse-optimization method could be reused to design other multiqubit Rydberg operations beyond CCZ.

Load-bearing premise

The Rydberg-state decay and other modeled error channels remain the dominant limitations and the proposed analytical pulses can be realized experimentally without introducing unmodeled control errors or crosstalk.

What would settle it

An experiment that implements one of the proposed analytical pulses for a three-qubit gate, measures its actual error rate under realistic conditions, and runs a full stabilizer-measurement cycle showing logical error below physical error would confirm the performance claims; persistent failure to reach break-even once the pulses are deployed would falsify the simulation predictions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.00843 by David F. Locher, Hans Peter B\"uchler, Jakob Holschbach, Josias Old, Katharina Brechtelsbauer, Markus M\"uller, Sebastian Weber.

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Figure 13. Figure 13: investigates the four-qubit CCCZ gate in the perfect blockade regime. Similar to the gate CCZ = G3(π, π, π), we define the gate CCCZ as a unitary consisting of CZ, CCZ, and CCCZ gates acting on all possible subsets of qubits. Panels (a) and (b) show how the minimal gate duration Ω0T and minimal Rydberg time Ω0TR of the gate depend on the number of pulse parameters. Panel (c) plots pulse profiles for gates… view at source ↗
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Multiqubit gates that involve three or more qubits are usually thought to be of little significance for fault-tolerant quantum error correction because single gate faults can lead to errors of high Pauli weight. However, recent works have shown that multiqubit gates can be beneficial for measurement-free fault-tolerant quantum error correction and for fault-tolerant stabilizer readout in unrotated surface codes. In this work, we investigate multiqubit Rydberg gates that are useful for fault-tolerant quantum error correction in single-species neutral-atom platforms and can be implemented with global laser pulses that do not individually address atomic sites. We develop an open-source Python package to generate analytical, few-parameter pulses that implement the desired gates while minimizing gate errors due to Rydberg-state decay. The tool also allows us to identify parameter-optimal pulses, characterized by a minimal parameter count for the pulse ansatz. Measurement-free quantum error correction protocols require CCZ gates, which we analyze for atoms arranged in symmetric and asymmetric configurations. We investigate the performance of these schemes for various single-, two-, and three-qubit gate error rates, showing that break-even performance of measurement-free QEC is within reach of current hardware. Moreover, we study Floquet quantum error correction protocols that comprise two-body stabilizer measurements. Those can be realized using global three-qubit gates, and we show that this can lead to a significant reduction in shuttling operations. Simulations with realistic circuit-level noise indicate that applying three-qubit gates for stabilizer measurements in Floquet codes can yield competitive logical qubit performance in experimentally relevant error regimes.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript develops analytical few-parameter pulses for implementing multiqubit Rydberg gates (including CCZ and three-qubit gates) via global laser pulses in neutral-atom arrays, without individual site addressing. An open-source Python package is provided to generate these pulses while minimizing Rydberg-state decay errors. The work analyzes these gates for measurement-free QEC protocols and for stabilizer measurements in Floquet codes, reporting circuit-level noise simulations that indicate competitive logical performance and that break-even measurement-free QEC is within reach of current hardware.

Significance. If the central simulation results hold, the work provides a concrete route to lowering shuttling and measurement overhead in neutral-atom QEC by exploiting global multiqubit operations. The open-source pulse-generation tool is a clear strength for reproducibility and experimental adoption. The analysis of both symmetric/asymmetric atom configurations for CCZ and the reduction in shuttling for Floquet codes adds practical value.

major comments (1)
  1. [Results sections on Floquet QEC simulations and measurement-free QEC performance] The circuit-level noise simulations (described in the sections reporting logical error rates for Floquet codes and measurement-free QEC) employ standard independent local error models. Because the three-qubit gates are realized with global Rydberg-blockade pulses, residual Rydberg population, imperfect blockade, and laser-intensity fluctuations induce correlated phase or leakage errors across the three qubits. These correlations are not equivalent to independent Pauli channels and can raise the effective fault weight seen by the decoder, potentially pushing logical error rates above the reported thresholds in the experimentally relevant regimes claimed.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that 'realistic circuit-level noise' is used but does not list the precise per-gate error rates or the exact depolarizing/pauli probabilities; these parameters should be stated explicitly in the main text or a table for reproducibility.
  2. [Methods section on pulse generation] The description of the open-source package would benefit from a brief statement of how the analytical ansatz was validated against full numerical optimal control or against measured pulse fidelities.

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We thank the referee for their positive summary and for highlighting the practical value of our work on global multiqubit Rydberg gates. We address the single major comment below and describe the revisions we will make to strengthen the noise-model analysis.

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  1. Referee: [Results sections on Floquet QEC simulations and measurement-free QEC performance] The circuit-level noise simulations (described in the sections reporting logical error rates for Floquet codes and measurement-free QEC) employ standard independent local error models. Because the three-qubit gates are realized with global Rydberg-blockade pulses, residual Rydberg population, imperfect blockade, and laser-intensity fluctuations induce correlated phase or leakage errors across the three qubits. These correlations are not equivalent to independent Pauli channels and can raise the effective fault weight seen by the decoder, potentially pushing logical error rates above the reported thresholds in the experimentally relevant regimes claimed.

    Authors: We agree that the simulations reported in the manuscript rely on standard independent local Pauli error models, which is the conventional approach for establishing baseline thresholds in the literature. The referee correctly notes that global Rydberg-blockade pulses can in principle generate correlated errors (e.g., shared phase shifts or leakage from residual Rydberg population or intensity inhomogeneity). Our pulse-optimization package already minimizes Rydberg decay, but it does not yet incorporate a full microscopic model of these correlations into the circuit-level Monte Carlo runs. We will therefore revise the relevant results sections to (i) explicitly state the independent-error assumption, (ii) add a qualitative discussion of how residual Rydberg population and imperfect blockade translate into correlated channels, and (iii) include a limited set of additional simulations under a simple three-qubit correlated-error model (e.g., a shared phase-flip or leakage operator applied to the gate support). These additions will allow us to quantify whether the reported logical-error rates remain competitive or cross the threshold in the experimentally relevant regime. We do not claim that the independent model is exact; the revision will make the limitations transparent while preserving the central conclusion that global multiqubit gates can reduce shuttling overhead. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: performance claims rest on independent simulations and ansatz-based pulse generation

full rationale

The paper's central results derive from developing an open-source pulse-generation tool that produces analytical few-parameter pulses from a stated ansatz, followed by numerical simulations of logical error rates under circuit-level noise models. These steps do not reduce to self-definition or fitted inputs: the pulse parameters are chosen to minimize Rydberg decay errors independently of the QEC performance metric, and the reported logical-qubit thresholds are obtained from forward simulation rather than by construction from the same data. No load-bearing self-citation chains or uniqueness theorems imported from prior author work appear in the derivation. The simulations employ standard independent error channels whose assumptions are stated separately from the target performance numbers, rendering the chain self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on an assumed error model for Rydberg decay and control errors plus the existence of a pulse ansatz that can be optimized to low error; no new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (1)
  • pulse parameters in the analytical ansatz
    Few-parameter pulse shapes are optimized to minimize Rydberg decay errors; the exact number and values are chosen to achieve the target gate.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Rydberg-state lifetime and decay channels dominate gate infidelity under global driving
    Invoked when claiming the pulses minimize gate errors due to Rydberg-state decay.

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