A Trapped ion Digital-Analog Quantum Computer for Grovers Oracle

Digital-Analog quantum computing is an emerging method that may enable impactful calculations despite hardware limitations. A collection of trapped ions is a leading platform for both quantum computation and quantum simulation. This is especially true for quantum simulation architectures using 2D crystals or long chains of ions due to the inherent all-to-all connectivity between qubits or spins. We present an experimental setup that combines existing techniques for digital and analog computation in an individually-addressed chain of 171Yb+ ions. Using only analog couplings and single qubit gates, we aim to implement Grovers oracle, which would otherwise be unachievable on the same experimental setup.