We demonstrate a native CNOT gate between two individually
addressed neutral atoms based on electromagnetically induced transparency
(EIT). This protocol utilizes the strong long-range interactions of Rydberg
states to enable conditional state transfer on the target qubit when operated
in the blockade regime. An advantage of this scheme is it enables
implementation of multi-qubit CNOTk gates using a pulse sequence independent
of qubit number, and provides an simple gate for efficient implementation of
quantum algorithms and error correction. We achieve a loss corrected gate
fidelity of FCNOTcor=0.82(6), and prepare an
entangled Bell-state with FBellcor=0.66(5),
limited at present by laser power. We present a number of technical
improvements to advance this to a level required for fault-tolerant scaling.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures plus Supplementary Materia