Exploring controllable interactions lies at the heart of quantum science. Neutral Rydberg atoms provide a versatile route toward flexible interactions between single quanta. Previous efforts mainly focused on the excitation annihilation~(EA) effect of the Rydberg blockade due to its robustness against interaction fluctuation. We study another effect of the Rydberg blockade, namely, the transition slow-down~(TSD). In TSD, a ground-Rydberg cycling in one atom slows down a Rydberg-involved state transition of a nearby atom, which is in contrast to EA that annihilates a presumed state transition. TSD can lead to an accurate controlled-{footnotesize NOT}~({footnotesize CNOT}) gate with a sub-$mu$s duration about $2pi/Omega+epsilon$ by two pulses, where $epsilon$ is a negligible transient time to implement a phase change in the pulse and $Omega$ is the Rydberg Rabi frequency. The speedy and accurate TSD-based {footnotesize CNOT} makes neutral atoms comparable~(superior) to superconducting~(ion-trap) systems.
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