Qubit ZooCurated map of Zoo entries in the Ion Trap family.
Entries
| Entry | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| molmer-sorenson-gate | gate | demonstrated |
| ytterbium-hyperfine-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
Composition
- gate: 1
- qubit: 1
Conceptual anchors
- motional-mode-coupling-in-ion-traps is the mechanism note that binds this family together:
molmer-sorenson-gateis the virtual-phonon entangler, andytterbium-hyperfine-qubitis one of the cleanest qubit encodings that rides on that bus. - coherence-time-hierarchy is the right lens for understanding why hyperfine clock states are attractive here despite slower gate times than superconducting platforms.
Curated synthesis
This page should read as the practical trapped-ion stack that most commercial and benchmark-focused discussion now defaults to.
ytterbium-hyperfine-qubitis the memory-and-readout anchor: clock-state storage, straightforward fluorescence detection, and the long coherence margins that make Yb such a durable systems choice.molmer-sorenson-gateis the control-and-entanglement anchor: virtual-phonon XX interactions, robustness to imperfect ground-state cooling, and the pulse-shaping path to 99.9%+ two-qubit fidelities.- Read together, the pair explains why many modern trapped-ion conversations collapse into a single operational bundle: Yb hyperfine qubits for clean storage, MS gates for routine entanglement, and motional engineering as the shared bottleneck.
Boundary with the broader trapped-ion family
- trapped-ion-moc owns the modality-wide story: the original Cirac-Zoller logic, the broader platform tradeoff, and QCCD scaling architecture.
- This page is narrower on purpose. It is for the question, “what is the modern workhorse ion-trap stack in practice?”
- Do not let it become a duplicate of
trapped-ion-qubit; keep it centered on the species-plus-gate bundle that dominates current implementations.
Routing rule
- Enter here when the comparison is about real deployed trapped-ion systems, clock-state hyperfine memories, or why Mølmer-Sørensen gates displaced stricter Cirac-Zoller-style sequences.
- Route back to trapped-ion-moc for modality history or architectural scaling, and out to trapped-ion-qubit when a reader needs the whole platform picture before species-specific detail.
Editorial note
Treat this family as the “practical Yb + MS stack” slice of trapped-ion hardware. It should stay tighter and more operational than the broader trapped-ion family page.