Ion Trap MOC

Curated 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-gate is the virtual-phonon entangler, and ytterbium-hyperfine-qubit is 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.

Family structure

• ytterbium-hyperfine-qubit is the species-specific workhorse note for the commercial trapped-ion stack, especially the long-coherence clock-state story.
• molmer-sorenson-gate is the operational center of gravity for modern ion-trap entangling gates, so this MOC should read as a gate-plus-encoding bundle rather than a broad platform survey.
• The broader modality, transport architecture, and Cirac-Zoller lineage already live in trapped-ion-moc and trapped-ion-qubit; avoid duplicating that page here.

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.