Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays

Abstract

Suppressing errors is the central challenge for useful quantum computing 1 , requiring quantum error correction (QEC) 2–6 for large-scale processing. However, the overhead in the realization of error-corrected ‘logical’ qubits, in which information is encoded across many physical qubits for redundancy 2–4 , poses substantial challenges to large-scale logical quantum computing. Here we report the realization of a programmable quantum processor based on encoded logical qubits operating with up to 280 physical qubits. Using logical-level control and a zoned architecture in reconfigurable neutral-atom arrays 7 , our system combines high two-qubit gate fidelities 8 , arbitrary connectivity 7,9 , as well as fully programmable single-qubit rotations and mid-circuit readout 10–15 . Operating this logical processor with various types of encoding, we demonstrate improvement of a two-qubit logic gate by scaling surface-code 6 distance from d = 3 to d = 7, preparation of colour-code qubits with break-even fidelities 5 , fault-tolerant creation of logical Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) states and feedforward entanglement teleportation, as well as operation of 40 colour-code qubits. Finally, using 3D [[8,3,2]] code blocks 16,17 , we realize computationally complex sampling circuits 18 with up to 48 logical qubits entangled with hypercube connectivity 19 with 228 logical two-qubit gates and 48 logical CCZ gates 20 . We find that this logical encoding substantially improves algorithmic performance with error detection, outperforming physical-qubit fidelities at both cross-entropy benchmarking and quantum simulations of fast scrambling 21,22 . These results herald the advent of early error-corrected quantum computation and chart a path towards large-scale logical processors.

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