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SUMMARY:IEM Seminar Series: Hardware-Efficient\, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Co
 mputation with Rydberg Atoms
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DTEND:20230426T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Iris Cong\,\nPhysics Department\, Harvard University\nA lig
 ht lunch will be served from 12:30 to 13:00 in front of ELA 1 !\n\nAbstrac
 t\nThroughout human history\, the specialization of labor has led to remar
 kable advances in knowledge and productivity. Analogously\, in quantum inf
 ormation\, general-purpose quantum error correction protocols can only be 
 as efficient as the society in which every member has the same duties. Ind
 eed\, despite major efforts across different platforms\, most general-purp
 ose approaches for error-corrected quantum computation are still out of re
 ach even for the most advanced systems because of significant overhead in 
 extra qubits and quantum gates. Motivated by these considerations\, we pro
 pose and analyze the specialized design of fault-tolerant quantum computat
 ion protocols tailored to a quantum computer built from arrays of neutral 
 Rydberg atoms\, atoms in which one electron is in a very highly excited st
 ate.\n\nInspired by recent experimental advances in quantum control of arr
 ays exceeding 200 atoms\, our work provides the first comprehensive study 
 of the relevant error channels in this system and identifies several decay
  mechanisms that are challenging to address using traditional\, general-pu
 rpose techniques. We exploit the specific structure of the error model to 
 considerably simplify several error-correction requirements\, and we make 
 use of important features of neutral atoms to greatly facilitate the key s
 teps in our protocols. Our approach to error correction for neutral Rydber
 g array quantum computation is dramatically more efficient than existing m
 ethods and could be implemented in near-term experiments involving hundred
 s of programmable atoms.\n\nBio\nDr. Iris Cong is a 2022 PhD graduate from
  Harvard University\, where she studied quantum information and atomic phy
 sics in Prof. Mikhail Lukin's group. She received her B.S. degree in Compu
 ter Science from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2017. Dr. C
 ong's research interests include quantum machine learning\, quantum error
  correction\, and topological phases of matter. Her work has been recogniz
 ed with accolades including the Goldwater Scholarship\, the National Defen
 se Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship\, the Fannie and J
 ohn Hertz Fellowship\, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship\, and Harvard's
  Goldhaber Prize for Outstanding Graduate Students in Physics.
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