Week 178: Neutral Atoms & Photonics

Learning Objectives

• •**Calculate** Rydberg interaction strengths and blockade radii
• •**Design** two-qubit gate sequences using Rydberg blockade
• •**Explain** optical tweezer array operation and atom rearrangement
• •**Describe** GKP qubit encoding and its error correction properties
• •**Analyze** cat qubit biased noise and gate implementations
• •**Understand** linear optical quantum computing and the KLM protocol
• •**Compare** these platforms with superconducting and trapped ion systems