Neutral-atom quantum computing is among the most promising platforms for scalable quantum computation, and compilation toolchains are crucial for leveraging capabilities such as qubit shuttling and parallel gate execution. An important challenge, however, is that existing neutral-atom compilers are often evaluated using metrics computed over different parts of the toolchain and under non-equivalent assumptions. Consequently, fair quantification and comparison of compiler performance remain difficult. Reported metrics may depend on inconsistent transpilation optimization levels, different movement-duration models, different sets of considered fidelity sources, and even minor implementation bugs or undocumented representation choices. To address this problem, we present a unified and reproducible evaluation framework for neutral-atom compilers. Our framework introduces RSQASM (Routed and Scheduled QASM), a QASM-inspired post-compilation representation that captures mapped, routed, and scheduled circuits, including explicit parallel gate execution and shuttling operations. As part of the framework, we provide adapter scripts that translate existing compiler outputs and intermediate artifacts into RSQASM. As a case study, we compare three well-known neutral-atom compilation toolchains: HybridMapper, DasAtom, and Enola, motivated by the large performance differences reported in prior work. Using our framework and representation, we perform a new evaluation and show that several previously claimed performance gaps become substantially smaller and, in some cases, are not reproduced once evaluation inconsistencies are removed.
翻译:中性原子量子计算是最有前景的可扩展量子计算平台之一,而编译工具链对于利用量子比特穿梭和并行门执行等能力至关重要。然而,一个重要挑战在于现有中性原子编译器通常基于工具链不同部分计算的指标并在非等价假设下进行评估。因此,编译器的公平量化与比较仍然困难。所报告的指标可能依赖于不一致的编译优化级别、不同的移动时长模型、不同的保真度来源集合,甚至是微小的实现错误或未记录的表示选择。为解决该问题,我们提出了一个统一且可复现的中性原子编译器评估框架。该框架引入RSQASM(路由调度量子汇编语言),这是一种受QASM启发、捕获了映射、路由和调度后的电路(包括显式并行门执行和穿梭操作)的编译后表示。作为框架的组成部分,我们提供了适配脚本,可将现有编译器输出和中间产物转换为RSQASM。通过案例研究,我们基于先前工作中报告的巨大性能差异,比较了三种著名的中性原子编译工具链:HybridMapper、DasAtom和Enola。利用我们的框架和表示,我们进行了新评估,结果表明先前声称的若干性能差距大幅缩小,且在某些情况下,一旦消除评估不一致性,这些差距便不再复现。