Enabling Fast and Accurate Neutral Atom Readout through Image Denoising

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25982v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:30:30 GMT
• Title: Enabling Fast and Accurate Neutral Atom Readout through Image Denoising
• Abstract summary: Neutral atom quantum computers hold promise for scaling up to hundreds of thousands of qubits.<n> Measuring qubits currently takes milliseconds-much longer than the underlying quantum gate operations-making readout.<n>We show that image denoising can resolve this tension.<n>Our framework, GANDALF, uses explicit denoising to reconstruct clear signals from short, low-photon measurements.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neutral atom quantum computers hold promise for scaling up to hundreds of thousands of qubits, but their progress is constrained by slow qubit readout. Measuring qubits currently takes milliseconds-much longer than the underlying quantum gate operations-making readout the primary bottleneck in deploying quantum error correction. Because each round of QEC depends on measurement, long readout times increase cycle duration and slow down program execution. Reducing the readout duration speeds up cycles and reduces decoherence errors that accumulate while qubits idle, but it also lowers the number of collected photons, making measurements noisier and more error-prone. This tradeoff leaves neutral atom systems stuck between slow but accurate readout and fast but unreliable readout. We show that image denoising can resolve this tension. Our framework, GANDALF, uses explicit denoising using image translation to reconstruct clear signals from short, low-photon measurements, enabling reliable classification at up to 1.6x shorter readout times. Combined with lightweight classifiers and a pipelined readout design, our approach both reduces logical error rate by up to 35x and overall QEC cycle time up to 1.77x compared to state-of-the-art CNN-based readout for Cesium (Cs) Neutral Atom arrays.

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