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Neutral atom arrays have emerged as a powerful platform for a variety of quantum information tasks. Scaling these capabilities further requires fast, non-destructive mid-circuit readout, efficient single-atom photon interfaces for networking, and high-cooperativity light-matter coupling for new paradigms in quantum simulation. Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) offers a promising well-known route to all of these, but effectively integrating cavity QED tools with atom arrays remains an outstanding challenge. In this talk, I will describe two new approaches to meeting it.
The first is based on a new class of macroscopic, lens-based optical resonators that can achieve wavelength-scale mode waists, enabling strong single-atom coupling. I will show how arrays of such resonators can be interfaced with tweezer-trapped atom arrays — in the context of efforts to build cavity-atom arrays of Ytterbium — with an eye towards quantum information enhanced sensing, and networking of optical clocks.
The second approach uses Rydberg atoms coupled to superconducting resonators. These can potentially achieve single-particle cooperativities orders of magnitude beyond what has been realized on optical transitions, with promising implications for quantum simulation.