Motional refocusing for trap-off Rydberg gates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04812v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:15:16 GMT
• Title: Motional refocusing for trap-off Rydberg gates
• Abstract summary: Rydberg entangling gates in optical-tweezer arrays are commonly executed with the trapping light switched off.<n>Every gate contains a release-and--recapture cycle that heats the atomic motion and can ultimately limit circuit depth.<n>We develop a motional refocusing protocol that exactly removes this heating in the harmonic approximation using only programmable intensity switching of the trapping light.
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• Abstract: Rydberg entangling gates in optical-tweezer arrays are commonly executed with the trapping light switched off, so every gate contains a release--and--recapture cycle that heats the atomic motion and can ultimately limit circuit depth. We develop a motional refocusing protocol that exactly removes this heating in the harmonic approximation using only programmable intensity switching of the trapping light. The protocol closes the release--and--recapture cycle for every matched harmonic mode, returning arbitrary motional populations and coherences exactly up to ordinary evolution under the static trap. We derive the recovery sequence in closed form for arbitrary catch depth and prove that, within the experimentally relevant regime, it is the unique globally time-optimal solution under bounded trap intensity. The harmonic theory is then extended in two directions. First, we construct exact common-intensity recovery sequences that simultaneously refocus several nondegenerate harmonic modes, including radial--axial and fully anisotropic three-dimensional traps. Second, we derive a composite sequence that suppresses the leading anharmonic correction of weakly anharmonic traps by canceling all first-order motional transitions induced by the quartic anharmonicity, changing the residual heating law from $U_0^{-2}$ to $U_0^{-4}$. Wave-packet simulations in realistic Gaussian tweezers validate the analytic theory and quantify the residual effects of anharmonicity, finite switching ramps, trap ellipticity, and control errors. Applied to representative cesium Rydberg gates, the protocol suppresses the dominant recapture heating to the anharmonic floor and prevents the associated motional Doppler contribution from increasing with circuit depth. The resulting framework provides a practical route toward heating-free trap-off neutral-atom gates using only trap-intensity modulation.

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