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A: Fachverband Atomphysik

A 26: Poster V

A 26.8: Poster

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 17:00–19:00, Tent C

Rymax one: A neutral atom quantum processor to solve optimization problems — Tobias Ebert¹, •Jonas Witzenrath², Benjamin Abeln¹, Silvia Ferrante¹, Kapil Goswami¹, Jonas Gutsche², Hendrik Koser¹, Rick Mukherjee¹, Jens Nettersheim², Jose Vargas¹, Niclas Luick¹, Thomas Niederprüm², Dieter Jaksch¹, Henning Moritz¹, Herwig Ott², Peter Schmelcher¹, Klaus Sengstock¹, and Artur Widera² — ¹University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany — ²RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

From efficient distribution of workload in industrial manufacturing plants to short vehicle routes for parcel delivery - computationally hard optimization problems are a crucial part of our modern society. While finding solutions using classical solvers requires substantial computational resources, quantum processors promise to yield better solutions in less time.

To explore the potential of quantum computing for real-world applications we are building Rymax One (www.rymax.one), a quantum processor specifically designed to solve hard optimization problems. By using ultracold neutral Ytterbium atoms trapped in arbitrary arrays of optical tweezers, we aim for hardware-efficient encoding of optimization tasks. The level structure of ¹⁷¹Yb provides qubit realizations with long coherence times, Rydberg-mediated interactions and high-fidelity gate operations, allowing us to realize a scalable platform for quantum processing. On that we will explore the performance of novel quantum algorithms to tackle real-world problems.

Keywords: neutral atom quantum computer; tweezer arrays; Ytterbium; Rydberg