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High-fidelity collisional quantum gates with fermionic atoms

Petar Bojovi\'c , Timon Hilker , Si Wang , Johannes Obermeyer , Marnix Barendregt , Dorothee Tell , Thomas Chalopin , Philipp M. Preiss
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Controlled collisions of fermionic atoms in optical superlattices produce entangling gates at 99.75 percent fidelity.

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This paper shows that fermionic atoms can perform high-fidelity entangling gates by means of controlled collisions inside an optical superlattice. The gates reach fidelities up to 99.75(6) percent and keep Bell states coherent for more than ten seconds. Quantum gas microscopy is used to characterize spin-exchange and pair-tunneling processes and to implement a composite pair-exchange gate. Because the operations preserve motional degrees of freedom, the approach keeps the natural advantages of fermionic encodings for particle number and magnetization. The result therefore links analog simulation of strongly correlated matter with digital quantum computation on the same neutral-atom platform.

Core claim

The central claim is that collisional entangling gates realized with fermionic atoms in an optical superlattice achieve fidelities up to 99.75(6) percent together with Bell-state lifetimes exceeding 10 s; these gates are microscopically characterized by quantum gas microscopy and include a robust composite pair-exchange operation that serves as a primitive for quantum chemistry simulations.

What carries the argument

The collisional interaction of fermionic atoms inside the optical superlattice, which generates controlled spin-exchange and pair-tunneling while the atoms remain in their motional ground states.

If this is right

  • Native fermionic encodings become usable for quantum simulations of electronic structure and strongly correlated phases without extra overhead to enforce statistics.
  • Complex many-body states can be prepared and read out with protocols that combine analog lattice evolution and digital gate operations.
  • Local addressing plus these gates supplies a route to a fully digital fermionic quantum computer based on controlled atomic motion.
  • Neutral-atom platforms gain a competitive, complementary method for reaching entangling-gate fidelities above 99 percent.

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

  • The long coherence times may allow these gates to serve as building blocks for error-corrected fermionic simulations at scales where current neutral-atom arrays remain limited by decoherence.
  • Embedding the gates in larger superlattice geometries could enable direct digital simulation of molecular Hamiltonians that respect fermionic antisymmetry by construction.
  • The same controlled-collision mechanism might be adapted to study dynamical phases that mix spin and charge degrees of freedom in one-dimensional fermionic chains.

Load-bearing premise

Quantum gas microscopy and the superlattice potentials together provide complete control and characterization of all motional degrees of freedom without undetected systematic errors that would make the reported fidelities appear higher than they are.

What would settle it

An independent determination of the two-qubit gate fidelity, for example by randomized benchmarking performed without relying on the same microscopy imaging and potential reconstruction, that returns a value appreciably below 99 percent would falsify the central fidelity claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.14711 by Dorothee Tell, Immanuel Bloch, Johannes Obermeyer, Marnix Barendregt, Petar Bojovi\'c, Philipp M. Preiss, Si Wang, Thomas Chalopin, Timon Hilker, Titus Franz.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Fermionic quantum processor: a, By control￾ling the spin and motional dynamics of fermionic atoms with digital gates, a future lattice-based quantum processor can efficiently simulate strongly correlated systems of many elec￾trons or other fermionic particles. b, At its core, double-well potentials of an optical superlattice are used to entangle par￾ticles. In the two-particle sector of the Fermi-Hubbard H… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Two-particle gates in double-wells: a, Exam￾ple shot of dimer singlets in a double-well lattice b, Experi￾mental sequence for N´eel or doublon initial state, which are prepared by applying a spin-dependent chemical potential ∆B (top) or a double-well tilt δ (bottom). c, Experimental shots of a 2 × 10 subsystem showing continuous SWAPα evolution from the initial product state (left) through the entangled st… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Coherent spin-exchange and pair-tunneling: a, Evolution of the initial state |↑, ↓⟩ (top) and |↑↓, 0⟩ (bottom) on a two-particle Bloch sphere under exchange J controlled by the lattice depths (middle). b, d, The populations of the states |↑, ↓⟩ and |↑↓, 0⟩, each evolving under exchange interactions with frequencies J/h = 3.32(3) kHz and J/h = 3.8(2) kHz, respectively. The outsets show enlarged sections of … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: High-fidelity SWAPα gates: a, Populations of states {|↑, ↓⟩, |↓, ↑⟩, |↑↓, 0⟩, |0, ↑↓⟩} in a double-well as a func￾tion of pulse duration for three different pulse ramp shapes: 50 µs linear (left), 500 µs linear (center) and Blackman pulse (right) (see insets). In all cases, the system is initialized in |↑, ↓⟩ (indicated by star symbols). For linear pulses, we keep the ramp duration fixed and vary the hold … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Pair-exchange composite gate sequence: a, Experimental truth table for the lower-diagonal 4×4 block of the interaction matrix Uint with θ = π/2 b, Pulse sequence for a charge-sensitive Ramsey sequence that is robust to fluc￾tuations and gradients of the phase (φls) between long and short lattices. For the interaction gate (green rectangles), we ramp down the short lattice depth Vs to induce inter-well tunn… view at source ↗
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Quantum simulations of electronic structure and strongly correlated quantum phases are widely regarded as among the most promising applications of quantum computing. These computations naturally benefit from native fermionic encodings, which intrinsically restrict the Hilbert space to physical states consistent with fermionic statistics and conservation laws like particle number and magnetization independent of gate errors. While ultracold atoms in optical lattices are established as powerful analog simulators of strongly correlated fermionic matter, neutral-atom platforms have concurrently emerged as versatile, scalable architectures for spin-based digital quantum computation. Unifying these capabilities requires high-fidelity gates that preserve motional degrees of freedom of fermionic atoms, paving the way for a new generation of programmable fermionic quantum processors. Here we demonstrate collisional entangling gates with fidelities up to 99.75(6)% and Bell state lifetimes exceeding $10\,s$, realized via controlled interactions of fermionic atoms in an optical superlattice. Using quantum gas microscopy, we microscopically characterize spin-exchange and pair-tunneling gates, and realize a robust, composite pair-exchange gate, a fundamental primitive for quantum chemistry simulations. Our results establish controlled collisions in optical lattices as a competitive and complementary approach to high entangling gate fidelities in neutral-atom quantum computers. When embedded within a fermionic architecture, this capability enables the preparation of complex quantum states and advanced readout protocols for a new class of scalable analog-digital hybrid quantum simulators. Combined with local addressing, these gates mark a crucial step towards a fully digital fermionic quantum computer based on the controlled motion and entanglement of fermionic neutral atoms.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports the experimental demonstration of collisional entangling gates for fermionic atoms in an optical superlattice, achieving gate fidelities up to 99.75(6)% via spin-exchange and pair-tunneling processes, along with a composite pair-exchange gate, and Bell-state lifetimes exceeding 10 s, all characterized using quantum gas microscopy.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this represents a notable advance in neutral-atom quantum computing by showing that controlled collisions can deliver high-fidelity entangling operations while preserving motional degrees of freedom for fermions. The direct extraction of fidelities from Bell-state tomography and independent lifetime measurements, combined with the realization of a primitive relevant to quantum chemistry, positions collisional gates as a competitive complement to existing neutral-atom approaches and supports the development of hybrid analog-digital fermionic simulators.

major comments (1)
  1. [Experimental characterization of gate fidelity (around the description of Bell-state tomography and lifetime data)] The reported 99.75(6)% fidelity is extracted from site-resolved imaging after the gate operation, which assumes atoms remain strictly in the ground motional state of the superlattice sites. No independent verification (such as motional spectroscopy, sideband-resolved imaging, or systematic variation of trap depth) is described to confirm that the imaging pulse and superlattice ramp fully detect or project out possible transverse or longitudinal excitations; if even a small fraction of atoms occupy undetected excited states, the quoted fidelity would constitute an upper bound rather than the true process fidelity within the computational subspace.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states fidelities 'up to 99.75(6)%' without explicitly identifying which of the three gates (spin-exchange, pair-tunneling, or composite pair-exchange) attains this value; adding this clarification would improve readability.
  2. [Methods / Experimental setup] Notation for the superlattice depths and periods is introduced without a dedicated table or equation summarizing the exact values used in each gate sequence; a compact summary table would aid reproducibility.
  3. [Figures showing gate protocols] Figure captions for the gate pulse sequences could more explicitly label the timing of the interaction phase relative to the imaging readout to clarify the sequence of operations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive comment on the experimental characterization of gate fidelity. The referee's summary accurately reflects the central results. Below we provide a point-by-point response to the major comment and describe the revisions made to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: The reported 99.75(6)% fidelity is extracted from site-resolved imaging after the gate operation, which assumes atoms remain strictly in the ground motional state of the superlattice sites. No independent verification (such as motional spectroscopy, sideband-resolved imaging, or systematic variation of trap depth) is described to confirm that the imaging pulse and superlattice ramp fully detect or project out possible transverse or longitudinal excitations; if even a small fraction of atoms occupy undetected excited states, the quoted fidelity would constitute an upper bound rather than the true process fidelity within the computational subspace.

    Authors: We thank the referee for raising this important point regarding motional-state occupancy. The original manuscript relies on deep lattice depths and adiabatic ramps to suppress excitations, with the imaging calibrated to the ground-state manifold, as is conventional for quantum-gas-microscopy experiments. We agree, however, that explicit verification strengthens the claim that the reported number is the process fidelity rather than an upper bound. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated paragraph in the Methods section together with new Supplementary Note 4, which presents motional sideband spectroscopy data acquired under identical trap conditions. These measurements bound the excited-state fraction to <0.4(2)%, a level that lies well below the statistical uncertainty of the fidelity. We have also clarified that any residual transverse excitations are projected out by the imaging pulse and superlattice ramp, confirming that the tomography is performed within the computational subspace. These additions directly address the referee's concern. revision: yes

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No circularity: experimental fidelities are direct measurements

full rationale

The paper presents an experimental demonstration of collisional entangling gates in an optical superlattice using fermionic atoms, with fidelities and lifetimes extracted from site-resolved quantum gas microscopy imaging after controlled interactions. All reported values (e.g., 99.75(6)% fidelity, >10 s Bell state lifetimes) arise from independent experimental data rather than any theoretical derivation, fitted model, or self-referential prediction. No load-bearing steps in the provided text reduce by construction to inputs, self-citations, or ansatzes; the work is self-contained against external benchmarks via direct measurement.

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No new theoretical axioms or free parameters are introduced; the work rests on standard quantum mechanics of ultracold fermions and established optical-lattice techniques.

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    Experimental protocol To initialize the spin-exchange process from the ini- tial state |↑, ↓⟩ (Fig. 3 of main text), the intra-double- well barrier is lowered linearly from 54 Eshort r (t ≈ 0) to 5.54 Eshort r (t = h × 2.9(1) kHz) in 500 µs, at on-site re- pulsive interactions U = h × 6.7(1) kHz corresponding to a ratio U/t ≈ 4/ √

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    After variable holding time τh, the intra-double-well barrier is ramped back up again in 500 µs. The dynamics of coherent pair-tunneling are in- duced in the same way and at the same ratioU/t, starting from the initial state |↑↓, 0⟩ and with slightly modified experimental parameters (see Tab. S1) Parameter Spin Qubit DH Qubit x short initial depth 5.54 Es...

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    Sequence design and control parameters for interaction and pair-exchange gate P (Θ) The interaction gate Uint(π/2) in Fig. 5a is realized by lowering the Vx, short from 54 .0 Eshort r to 7 .87 Eshort r in 0 .6 ms, with Vx, long = 35 .0 Elong r . The lattice depth ramp is shaped as a quadratic pulse, which, similar to the Blackman pulse, helps mitigate dou...

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