The scientific and technological progress of the EuRyQa project in the first reporting period has already had a significant impact on the scientific community. It allowed EuRyQa partners and the whole community to demonstrate that neutral atoms have a clear potential to becoming a leading platform for quantum computing in terms of multi-qubit gate fidelities in addition to its unique potential for scalability and flexibility of computing architecture. In a series of results stemming from intra-network collaborations, EuRyQa partners have provided key steps and protocols towards demonstrating high-fidelity two- and multi-qubit gates with neutral atoms, developed industry-level software, hardware and advanced electronics for controlling large arrays of neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers, while minimizing gate errors. Some of the control software is being shared among partners, other is made available to the general public via our Open Access policy. Advanced control electronics developed by EuRyQa partners are being now widely adopted within the network and outside of it. Furthermore, EuRyQa partners have progressed in devising and benchmarking strategies and software to minimize errors at the level of individual qubits, gates, and circuits. Some of this software is being made fully public via our Open Access policy. Going beyond the foreseen results at the start of the program, EuRyQa partners have also contributed key steps and blue-prints for hardware-specific components and architectures for quantum error correction with neutral atoms. As a result of all the progress by EuRyQa partners and by the whole community, neutral atoms bear a high promise to disrupt the field of quantum computing in the next few years.
