Ion-mediated interaction and controlled phase gate operation between two atomic qubits

Abstract: We propose a toy model of ion-atom hybrid quantum system for quantum computing. We show that when two atomic qubits in two largely separated optical tweezers interact with a single trapped ion through Rydberg excitation of the atoms, there exists an ion-mediated atom-atom interaction which exceeds the direct interatomic interaction at large separation. We employ this mediated interaction to demonstrate two-qubit control phase gate operation with 97\% fidelity by addressing the individual atomic qubits with lasers.