@article{dc67a6ff4ded4a579ff3f0f22a79005b,
title = "High-fidelity entanglement and detection of alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms",
abstract = "Trapped neutral atoms have become a prominent platform for quantum science, where entanglement fidelity records have been set using highly excited Rydberg states. However, controlled two-qubit entanglement generation has so far been limited to alkali species, leaving the exploitation of more complex electronic structures as an open frontier that could lead to improved fidelities and fundamentally different applications such as quantum-enhanced optical clocks. Here, we demonstrate a novel approach utilizing the two-valence electron structure of individual alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms. We find fidelities for Rydberg state detection, single-atom Rabi operations and two-atom entanglement that surpass previously published values. Our results pave the way for novel applications, including programmable quantum metrology and hybrid atom–ion systems, and set the stage for alkaline-earth based quantum computing architectures.",
author = "Madjarov, {Ivaylo S.} and Covey, {Jacob P.} and Shaw, {Adam L.} and Joonhee Choi and Anant Kale and Alexandre Cooper and Hannes Pichler and Vladimir Schkolnik and Williams, {Jason R.} and Manuel Endres",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge discussions with C. Greene and H. Levine as well as funding provided by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center grant (no. PHY-1733907), an NSF CAREER award (1753386), AFOSR YIP (FA9550-19-1-0044), the Sloan Foundation and F. Blum. Research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and funded through the President{\textquoteright}s and Director{\textquoteright}s Research and Development Fund (PDRDF). J.P.C. acknowledges support from the PMA Prize postdoctoral fellowship and J.C. acknowledges support from the IQIM postdoctoral fellowship. H.P. acknowledges support by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. A.K. acknowledges funding from the Larson SURF fellowship and Caltech Student-Faculty Programs. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/s41567-020-0903-z",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "857--861",
journal = "Nature Physics",
issn = "1745-2473",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "8",
}