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An ion-trap chip package is mounted on a green circuit board inside a circular metal vacuum assembly.
Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Ion-trap hardware from the HQAN testbed

The atomic-ion hardware of a distributed quantum computing and network testbed at the NSF Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks institute.

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Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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