European Conference on Trapped Ions (ECTI)

Our quantum computer consists of a chain of trapped 171Yb+ ions with individual Raman beam addressing and individual readout. This fully connected system can be configured to run any sequence of single- and two-qubit gates, making it in effect an arbitrarily programmable digital quantum computer. The high degree of control can be used for digital, but also for analog and hybrid quantum...

In this talk, I will present experiments carried out with long ion strings and planar ion crystals with engineered long-range spin-spin interactions. In a first experiment, we variationally prepare low- and high-energy states of a nearest neighbor Heisenberg spin chain. Subsequently, measurements are carried out to learn the entanglement Hamiltonian describing subsystems of the spin chain that...

To apply today's quantum hardware to challenging problems, we need to efficiently use native interactions while minimizing the effects of noise. While operations on trapped ion qubits can be first-order resilient to noisy electric fields, deep computations with long ion chains suffer from high axial temperatures. To counter this, we employ sympathetic cooling in $^{171}$Yb$^+$-$^{172}$Yb$^+$...

Coupling a spin qubit to a mechanical system provides a route to prepare the mechanical system's motion in nonclassical states, such as a Fock state or an entangled state. Such quantum states have already been realized with superconducting qubits coupled to clamped mechanical oscillators. We are interested in achieving an analogous coupling between a spin and a levitated oscillator — namely, a...