Quantum Information and Simulation with Neutral Atoms

Presentations

• Dolev Bluvstein

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Dolev Bluvstein

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Dolev Bluvstein

    • Harvard University

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• Improving Two-Qubit Gate Fidelity in Arrays of ¹⁷¹Yb

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Guillaume Bornet

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Guillaume Bornet

    • Princeton University

  • Genyue Liu

    • Princeton University

  • Bichen Zhang

  • Mingxuan Xiao

    • Princeton University

  • Michael Peper

    • Princeton University

  • Chenyuan Li

    • Princeton University

  • Jeff Thompson

    • Princeton University

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• Fast, continuous and coherent atom reloading in a neutral atom qubit array

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: [1] Li, Yiyi, et al. "Fast, continuous and coherent atom replacement in a neutral atom qubit array." arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.15633 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Yiyi Li

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Yiyi Li

    • Princeton University

  • Chenyuan Li

    • Princeton University

  • Yicheng Bao

    • Princeton University

  • Michael Peper

    • Princeton University

  • Jeff Thompson

    • Princeton University

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• Engineering Highly Entangled States Using a Rydberg Simulator

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Hatem Barghathi

    • University of Tennessee

  Authors

  • Hatem Barghathi

    • University of Tennessee

  • Kaustav Mukherjee

    • University of Tennessee Chattanooga

  • Rick Mukherjee

    • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  • Adrian Del Maestro

    • University of Tennessee

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• Hybrid qubit-oscillator module with motional states of two trapped interacting atoms

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jaeyong Hwang

    • JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Jaeyong Hwang

    • JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Tianrui Xu

  • Sean Muleady

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Steven Pampel

    • JILA, NIST, and University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gur Lubin

  • Dawson Hewatt

  • Cindy Regal

    • JILA, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Ana Maria Rey

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Ultrafast neutral-atom entangling gate via collective ultrastrong coupling

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Ebubechukwu Ilo-Okeke

    • The College of William and Mary

  Authors

  • Ebubechukwu Ilo-Okeke

    • The College of William and Mary

  • Tongzhou Wang

  • Valentin Ivannikov

  • Tim Byrnes

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• Integrated micro-optics for neutral atom quantum processing and photon beam shaping

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Raman Kumar

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Raman Kumar

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Sebastian Will

    • Columbia University

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• Efficient Entanglement Purification Circuit Design for Dual-Species Atom Arrays

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: arXiv: 2509.12370

  Presenters

  • Bikun Li

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Bikun Li

    • University of Chicago

  • Daniel Dilley

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Alvin Gonzales

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Thomas Hahn

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Ryan White

    • University of Chicago

  • Rotem Arnon

  • Hannes Bernien

    • UChicago

  • Zain Saleem

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Liang Jiang

    • University of Chicago

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• Quantum antennas for distributed neutral atom quantum networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2508.08439

  Presenters

  • Xiaoshui Lin

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  Authors

  • Xiaoshui Lin

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  • Yefeng Mei

    • Washington State University

  • Chuanwei Zhang

    • Washington University, St. Louis

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• Creating Motional-State Qubits with Anharmonic Optical Tweezer Potentials

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Publication: Creating Motional-State Qubits with Anharmonic Optical Tweezer Potentials (planned paper)

  Presenters

  • Steven Pampel

    • JILA, NIST, and University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Steven Pampel

    • JILA, NIST, and University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gur Lubin

  • Jaeyong Hwang

    • JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Sean Muleady

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Dawson Hewatt

  • Conall McCabe

    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado in Boulder

  • Tianrui Xu

  • Ana Maria Rey

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Cindy Regal

    • JILA, University of Colorado Boulder

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• Native, parallel fermionic gates in Rydberg atom arrays using analog control

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Henning Schloemer

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Henning Schloemer

    • Harvard University

  • Hong-Ye Hu

  • Liyuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  • Alexander Schuckert

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Susanne Yelin

    • Harvard University

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• Collisional gates protected by quantum geometry and symmetry

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2507.22112v1
  arXiv:2409.02984v3

  Presenters

  • Konrad Viebahn

    • ETH Zurich

  Authors

  • Konrad Viebahn

    • ETH Zurich

  • Yann Kiefer

    • ETH Zurich

  • Zijie Zhu

  • Lars Fischer

  • Marius Gächter

    • ETH Zurich

  • Giacomo Bisson

  • Samuel Jele

  • Tilman Esslinger

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• Proposal for realizing Heisenberg-type quantum-spin models in Rydberg atom quantum simulators

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Publication: M. Kunimi and T. Tomita, arXiv: 2507.22461 (accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A Letters).

  Presenters

  • Masaya Kunimi

    • Tokyo University of Science

  Authors

  • Masaya Kunimi

    • Tokyo University of Science

  • Takafumi Tomita

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