2026/07/17 by Mu Qiao
#quant-ph #physics.atom-ph
Neutral-atom arrays and trapped-ion crystals offer complementary strengths for fault-tolerant quantum computing but lack a fast way to deterministically interact. Here we propose a controlled-Z gate generated by the charge-induced-dipole (C4) force between a Rydberg-excited atom and a trapped ion, balanced by a spin-dependent optical Magnus force on the ion that closes phase-space trajectories within a few microseconds. Toggling the Rydberg state extends the scheme to multi-ion crystals at negligible overhead. The resulting ∼5 kHz atom shuttle accelerates short-distance QCCD links and enables hybrid qLDPC memories in which atom logical qubits are written onto an ion block treated as a passive storage zone. We perform circuit-level Monte Carlo simulations and find that the hybrid architecture supports orders of magnitude more operations than atom-only or ion-only architectures at fixed code distance and logical error rate.