Enabling Neutral Atom Integration: Redesigning Device Models for Universal Quantum Ecosystems

Quantum Physics arXiv:2607.20616 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 22 Jul 2026] Title:Enabling Neutral Atom Integration: Redesigning Device Models for Universal Quantum Ecosystems Authors:Yannick Stade, Lukas Burgholzer, Ludwig Schmid, Robert Wille View a PDF of the paper titled Enabling Neutral Atom Integration: Redesigning Device Models for Universal Quantum Ecosystems, by Yannick Stade and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Quantum computing is transitioning from an academic idea to a practical technology, driven by recent hardware advancements and clear paths toward real-world applications. Universal quantum ecosystems (e.g., Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane) facilitate this transition by providing a consistent interface to diverse quantum devices, abstracting hardware-specific details through a device model that captures each device's computational capabilities. However, these device models have historically been shaped by superconducting hardware, assuming static qubit positions and fixed coupling maps. This prevents them from representing the unique computational capabilities of emerging technologies such as neutral atoms, which feature dynamic qubit rearrangement and zoned operations. As a result, although numerous specialized compilers for neutral atom devices already exist, they cannot retrieve the hardware information they need through these ecosystems - creating a technology lock that hinders or even prevents the integration of neutral atom devices. In this work, we demonstrate how this limitation leads to suboptimal compilation results and can exclude certain devices entirely. Motivated by this, we propose rethinking current device models to faithfully represent neutral atom devices, enabling their seamless integration into universal quantum ecosystems. Evaluations conducted within the Quantum Device Management Interface (QDMI) demonstrate that the proposed device model unlocks a routing overhead fidelity improvement by a factor of up to 100,000 on a circuit with 16 qubits and 600 gates. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) Cite as: arXiv:2607.20616 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2607.20616v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.20616 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Yannick Stade [view email] [v1] Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:00:02 UTC (357 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Enabling Neutral Atom Integration: Redesigning Device Models for Universal Quantum Ecosystems, by Yannick Stade and 3 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-07 Change to browse by: cs cs.ET References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)