Trapping 11,000 Atoms in a Tweezer Array Generated by a Single Metasurface
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2606.02715 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 1 Jun 2026] Title:Trapping 11,000 Atoms in a Tweezer Array Generated by a Single Metasurface Authors:Yuqing Wang, Zhongchi Zhang, Tao Zhang, Yuxuan Liao, Hanteng Wang, Ye Tian, Binjie Ji, Yujia Wu, Luming Ma, Chen Qing, Chengshu Li, Wei Zhang, Yidong Huang, Wenjun Zhang, Xue Feng, Wenlan Chen, Hui Zhai View a PDF of the paper titled Trapping 11,000 Atoms in a Tweezer Array Generated by a Single Metasurface, by Yuqing Wang and 16 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The scalability of physical qubit numbers is a central challenge toward a universal fault-tolerant quantum computer. The inherent scalability of atom array quantum computers stems from the identical nature of atomic qubits, so the available qubit resource is primarily limited by the number of atoms that can be trapped and controlled. Here, we robustly trap 11,000 individual atoms in a tweezer array, thereby enabling the available qubit resource to reach the tens-of-thousands scale for the first time among all quantum computation platforms. This advance is enabled by a single metasurface, approximately 2 cm in diameter, that generates the entire tweezer array without the need for microscope objectives, thereby maximizing laser-power efficiency. The large aperture ensures a working distance of about 1.5 cm, allowing the metasurface to be placed outside the vacuum cell and avoiding the technical complications of in-vacuum operation. We further characterize the randomly loaded atom array using the statistical theory of percolation phase transitions. This work takes an important first step toward a quantum computer at the 10,000-qubit scale. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) Cite as: arXiv:2606.02715 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2606.02715v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.02715 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Yuqing Wang [view email] [v1] Mon, 1 Jun 2026 18:00:04 UTC (4,294 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Trapping 11,000 Atoms in a Tweezer Array Generated by a Single Metasurface, by Yuqing Wang and 16 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-el 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?)