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Rydberg Atomic Quantum Receivers for OFDM Systems: An Atomic-Comb Design

Yuanbin Chen·Chong Meng Samson See·Chau Yuen
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Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQR) exhibit exceptional sensitivity to radio-frequency (RF) signals, positioning them as promising candidates for next-generation wireless systems. Extending their capabilities to orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), however, requires atomic responses that go beyond broadband reception and are tailored to the structured interference of multicarrier signals. To bridge this gap, we develop an atomic-comb Rydberg receiver based on six-wave mixing (SWM) transduction. In particular, injecting a multi-tone local oscillator (LO) into the RAQR generates frequency-shifted replicas of the intrinsic SWM response. By subtly tuning the amplitude and phase of each LO tone, constructive and destructive interference can be selectively induced to preserve desired response components while attenuating harmful frequency offsets. Furthermore, we harness the response-reshaping capability of the proposed atomic comb to proactively mitigate OFDM interference. More explicitly, by exploiting the discrete difference-frequency structure of both carrier-frequency-offset (CFO)-induced and phase-noise (PN)-induced inter-carrier interference (ICI), we optimize the atomic-comb response to suppress dominant ICI components directly. We further reveal an intrinsic coupling between spectral shaping and the time-domain effective channel memory, motivating a joint optimization of both ICI and inter-symbol interference (ISI), which simultaneously suppresses inter-carrier leakage and post-cyclic-prefix (CP) tail energy. Extensive simulation results validate our atomic-comb design, unveiling that the proposed atomic comb can effectively reshape the receiver response over the OFDM, while mitigating ICI, shortening the effective channel memory, and substantially lowering CP overhead.

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Yuanbin Chen, Chong Meng Samson See, Chau Yuen. 2026-10-11. Rydberg Atomic Quantum Receivers for OFDM Systems: An Atomic-Comb Design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15306

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