Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping

arXiv:2605.30498 · physics.optics, physics.app-ph, physics.atom-ph, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-05-28 · Read on arXiv

physics.optics, physics.app-ph, physics.atom-ph, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-05-28

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Aperture — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inverse Design — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
• Shor's algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits
• Silicon-on-sapphire metasurfaces generate arrays of dark and bright traps for neutral atoms
• Trapping 11,000 Atoms in a Tweezer Array Generated by a Single Metasurface
• A scalable infrastructure for strontium optical clocks with integrated photonics

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