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We report on progress toward implementing mixed ion species quantum information processing for a scalable ion-trap architecture. Mixed species chains may help solve several problems with scaling ion-trap quantum computation to large numbers of qubits. Initial temperature measurements of linear Coulomb crystals containing barium and ytterbium ions indicate that the mass difference does not significantly impede cooling at low ion numbers. Average motional occupation numbers are estimated to be \(\bar{n} \approx 130\) quanta per mode for chains with small numbers of ions, which is within a factor of three of the Doppler limit for barium ions in our trap. We also discuss generation of ion–photon entanglement with barium ions with a fidelity of \(F \ge 0.84\), which is an initial step towards remote ion–ion coupling in a more scalable quantum information architecture. Further, we are working to implement these techniques in surface traps in order to exercise greater control over ion chain ordering and positioning.
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The supplementary material includes a video demonstration of shuttling from the loading region to the quantum region of the Sandia Y-Trap.
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The authors would like to thank Matthew R. Hoffman, Spencer R. Williams, and Anupriya Jayakumar for useful conversations. We would also like to acknowledge support from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity through the Multi-Qubit Coherent Operations Program and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1067054.
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Wright, J., Auchter, C., Chou, CK. et al. Toward a scalable quantum computing architecture with mixed species ion chains. Quantum Inf Process 15, 5339–5349 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-1220-9
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