Towards high-fidelity large-scale neutral-atom tweezer arrays

Neutral atom tweezer arrays have recently emerged as a promising platform for quantum computation, simulation, and metrology. Despite recent strides in achieving high-fidelity quantum operations, a practical demonstration of the scalability inherent to the neutral atom architecture – specifically the manipulation of thousands of atomic qubits – remains an outstanding challenge. Here, we present our progress toward constructing an experimental apparatus capable of trapping several thousands of cesium atoms in a two-dimensional optical tweezer array. We explore the challenges associated with scalability, including vacuum lifetime, coherence, and single-qubit gate fidelity.