Developing the omg architecture in ¹⁷¹Yb for applications in quantum error correction and quantum metrology

Quantum information processing with neutral atoms has rapidly progressed in recent years. As the field has advanced, several key challenges have emerged, which must be addressed to fully exploit the scalability of the platform for large-scale quantum computation based on quantum error correction. Example hardware-level challenges include the time for state detection, high fidelity parallelized mid-circuit operations, high fidelity two-qubit gates, qubit robustness in deep circuits, and atom loss. I will report on our development of tools for quantum information processing and entanglement generation using ¹⁷¹Yb, which offers promising strategies based on the so-called optical-metastable-ground qubit (omg) architecture for addressing these challenges. I will also describe how this set of tools can be used to advance the field of metrology using optical clocks.