Hardware-Economic Manipulation of Dual-Type ${}^{171}$Yb$^+$ Qubits

TL;DR

This paper presents a cost-effective method to control dual-type ${}^{171}$Yb$^+$ qubits using a single pulsed laser, enabling simplified manipulation and entanglement of different qubit types in quantum computing.

Contribution

It introduces a hardware-economic approach employing a single laser to control dual-type ${}^{171}$Yb$^+$ qubits, including entangling operations, reducing complexity and cost.

Findings

Successful control of both qubit types with one laser

Demonstration of a direct entangling gate between qubit types

Simplified hardware and software manipulation of ${}^{171}$Yb$^+$ qubits

Abstract

The dual-type qubit scheme is an emerging method to suppress crosstalk errors in scalable trapped-ion quantum computation and quantum network. Here we report a hardware-economic way to control dual-type $^{171}\mathrm{Yb}^+$ qubits using a single $355\,$nm mode-locked pulsed laser. Utilizing its broad frequency comb structure, we drive the Raman transitions of both qubit types encoded in the $S_{1/2}$ and the $F_{7/2}$ hyperfine levels, and probe their carrier transitions and the motional sidebands. We further demonstrate a direct entangling gate between the two qubit types. Our work can simplify the manipulation of the $^{171}\mathrm{Yb}^+$ qubits both at the hardware and the software level.