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An Orbit-qubit Quantum Processor of Ultracold Atoms

Quantum Gases 2025-09-23 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

It is challenging to build scalable quantum processors capable of both parallel control and local operation. As a promising platform to overcome this challenge, optical lattices offer exceptional parallelism. However, it has been struggling with precise local operations due to relatively narrow lattice spacings. Here, we introduce a new quantum processor incorporating orbit-qubit encoding and internal states (as auxiliary degrees of freedom) to achieve spatially selective operations together with parallel control. With this processor, we generate one-dimensional and two-dimensional cluster states using minimal layers of controlled-Z gates. We experimentally detect the multipartite entanglement of a two-dimensional cluster state involving 123 orbit qubits through direct stabilizer measurements, verifying the full bipartite non-separability. Furthermore, we demonstrate measurement-based quantum computation by implementing single-qubit and two-qubit logical gates, highlighting the flexibility of orbit-qubit operations. Our results establish orbit-qubit optical lattices as a scalable quantum processing architecture, opening new pathways for quantum computation applications.

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@article{arxiv.2509.10797,
  title  = {An Orbit-qubit Quantum Processor of Ultracold Atoms},
  author = {Ming-Gen He and Wei-Yong Zhang and Zhen-Sheng Yuan and Jian-Wei Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10797},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9+8 pages, 5+4 figures