Enhanced and Long-Lived Spin Squeezing in 2D Finite-Range Systems via Global Control Fields

Spin squeezing is both a fundamental witness of quantum entanglement and a key resource for quantum-enhanced metrology. While all-to-all interactions provide a paradigmatic route to generate spin squeezing, many programmable quantum simulators naturally realize finite-range interactions that induce coupling between collective spin dynamics and finite-momentum spin-wave modes, thereby degrading the achievable squeezing. Here we develop an optimization-based global-control strategy for enhancing spin squeezing in a two-dimensional XX model with dipolar interactions. By combining rotor-spin-wave theory with an extension to open boundary conditions, we enable efficient optimization of control protocols for large finite-range interacting systems. We show that a single collective transverse field generates squeezing beyond the conventional two-axis-twisting benchmark across system sizes accessible to numerical benchmarking. The optimized dynamics exploits squeezing-axis reorientation while suppressing spin-wave excitations, thereby stabilizing strong squeezing over extended times. We further implement the optimized protocol in a two-dimensional Rydberg-atom array and experimentally observe enhanced, long-lived spin squeezing in good agreement with theory.