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This article introduces a level‑crossing‑free rapid adiabatic passage technique that pushes neutral‑atom entangling operations into the > 99.9 % fidelity regime for up to six qubits, a clear step beyond earlier Rydberg blockade gates which typically trade speed for error‑prone crossings. By shaping the Rabi drive antisymmetrically and using an even‑symmetric detuning, the protocol sidesteps diabatic losses while remaining tolerant of ±5 % pulse fluctuations—features that align well with the recent push toward scalable, fault‑tolerant neutral‑atom processors. If experimentally realized, the method could streamline deterministic preparation of Bell, W and GHZ states on emerging atom‑array platforms, accelerating both quantum simulation benchmarks and the construction of logical qubits for error‑corrected architectures.
— Mark Eatherly
Summary
We propose a rapid adiabatic passage (RAP) scheme based on level-crossing-free pulses for deterministic generation of multiqubit entangled states in Rydberg atom systems. Unlike conventional RAP protocols that rely on level crossings, our approach uses an antisymmetric Rabi frequency and an even-symmetric detuning, enabling robust population transfer without passing through any level crossing. By exploiting the Rydberg blockade effect, the protocol prepares entangled states directly from an initial product state. Specifically, two sequential RAP pulses separated by a pi_g pulse generate two-qubit Bell states, three-qubit W states, four-qubit GHZ states, and six-qubit honeycomb W states. Numerical simulations show that the fidelities exceed 0.9997 for the Bell and three-qubit W states, reach 0.997 for the four-qubit GHZ state, and surpass 0.9995 for the six-qubit honeycomb W state. The scheme demonstrates excellent robustness against pulse parameter fluctuations, with fidelities remaining above 0.99 under +/-5% parameter variations. This work provides a simple, efficient, and robust method for entangled-state preparation in neutral-atom quantum information processing.