Assembly and coherent control of a register of nuclear spin qubits - Part I*

Neutral-atom quantum computing architectures are advantageous because of their scalability and their long qubit coherence times, resulting from the naturally occurring long-lived states of the atom. In particular, alkaline earth atoms (AEA) have multiple such excited states, separated in energy from the ground state by an optical transition and have added benefits for both state preparation and measurement. In this talk, I will discuss how we assemble, reload and characterize our 2D register of individually, optically-trapped nuclear spin qubits of 87Sr. This process involves preparing atoms into the target qubit state through several stages of laser-cooling and loading these nuclear spin qubits into our holographically generated trapping potentials.