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Fault-tolerant quantum computing with a microwave Cat Bus

Quantum Physics 2026-08-02 v1

Abstract

The scalability of fault-tolerant neutral-atom quantum computers is constrained by the latency of shuttling with optical tweezers, imposing a stringent trade-off between qubit overhead and circuit depth in quantum algorithm compilation. Here we propose a hardware-efficient, shuttling-free architecture that achieves all-to-all connectivity. Remote Rydberg atoms are resonantly entangled through a microwave ``Cat Bus''---a cavity mode autonomously stabilized in a bosonic cat state. The Cat Bus natively supports the highly parallelized execution of one-to-many CZn\mathrm{CZ}^n gates with exponentially suppressed crosstalk. We derive the resulting cat--atom error channel from the underlying interactions and physical constraints. For fault-tolerant operation, we develop a hardware-aware scheduling scheme that exploits the native cat--atom CZn\mathrm{CZ}^{n} gate to construct a syndrome-extraction circuit with minimum depth. We benchmark the architecture using hypergraph-product (HGP) codes and estimate a 180-fold reduction in syndrome-extraction cycle time at N=105N=10^5 data qubits compared with an atom-rearrangement-based architecture. Under matched two-qubit depolarizing noise, the corresponding error threshold increases from 0.55%0.55\% to 0.72%0.72\%. Under the hardware-derived error model, we obtain a threshold of 0.80%0.80\%, corresponding to a threshold cooperativity of Cth=7.8×104C_{\mathrm{th}}=7.8 \times 10^4, compatible with experimentally accessible parameters for Rydberg-coupled microwave-cavity systems. By avoiding atom transport, the Cat Bus provides a route towards high-speed, fault-tolerant neutral-atom quantum computation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2608.01111,
  title  = {Fault-tolerant quantum computing with a microwave Cat Bus},
  author = {Yanyan Chen and Xinyang Yu and Yueyang Min and Zhihao Zhang and Shuaifan Cao and Xiaopeng Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.01111},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13+14 pages, 4+6 figures