Dual-Isotope Sympathetic Cooling in a Long Ion Chain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23386v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:32:27 GMT
• Title: Dual-Isotope Sympathetic Cooling in a Long Ion Chain
• Abstract summary: One-dimensional ion chains are attractive building blocks for near-term quantum computers.<n>One-dimensional ion chains are susceptible to motional heating caused by fluctuating external electric fields.<n>This source of noise must be suppressed without inducing qubit decoherence or degrading qubit connectivity.<n>We show that our cooling sequence preserves qubit coherence, and evaluate its impact on single- and two-qubit gate operations.
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• Abstract: Owing to their high controllability and connectivity, one-dimensional ion chains are attractive building blocks for near-term quantum computers. However, long ion chains are susceptible to motional heating caused by fluctuating external electric fields. To enable deep computations, this source of noise must be suppressed without inducing qubit decoherence or degrading qubit connectivity. We demonstrate steady-state mid-circuit sympathetic cooling of all computationally-relevant motional modes of a 23-ion chain consisting of \qubit qubit and \coolant coolant ions without using any qubit operations. In a room-temperature system, our cooling scheme preserves the mean phonon occupations of the long-wavelength axial and radial modes near their values following state preparation, while keeping the modes used to implement entangling gates near their ground states throughout a 56-ms circuit. Crucially, we show that our cooling sequence preserves qubit coherence, and evaluate its impact on single- and two-qubit gate operations. Additionally, we demonstrate a parallel qubit reset protocol leveraging the shared radial mode coupling between species. Our sympathetic cooling scheme represents a critical step toward reducing gate errors in individually-addressed long ion chains and establishes a versatile platform for simulating open quantum systems.

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