Deterministic atom-shuttle interconnects via ultrafast atom-ion entangling gate
Abstract
Neutral-atom arrays and trapped-ion crystals offer complementary strengths for fault-tolerant quantum computing but lack a fast way to deterministically interact. Here we propose a controlled- gate generated by the charge-induced-dipole () force between a Rydberg-excited atom and a trapped ion, balanced by a spin-dependent optical Magnus force on the ion that closes phase-space trajectories within a few microseconds. Toggling the Rydberg state extends the scheme to multi-ion crystals at negligible overhead. The resulting kHz atom shuttle accelerates short-distance QCCD links and enables hybrid qLDPC memories in which atom logical qubits are written onto an ion block treated as a passive storage zone. We perform circuit-level Monte Carlo simulations and find that the hybrid architecture supports orders of magnitude more operations than atom-only or ion-only architectures at fixed code distance and logical error rate.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.15597,
title = {Deterministic atom-shuttle interconnects via ultrafast atom-ion entangling gate},
author = {Mu Qiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15597},
year = {2026}
}