Progress on the design of a full stack quantum control framework for trapped ion quantum information processors

We present an initial design of a full stack quantum control framework for specifying atomic and quantum information experiments on trapped ion quantum information processors. The framework is intended to improve the usability of quantum information processors for users at varying levels of expertise by allowing experiments to be expressed at multiple levels of abstraction appropriate for the knowledge of the user and nature of the experiment. The modular design of the framework will enable better portability of the control stack between different trapped ion apparatuses. Here, we focus on prototype expressions for specifying quantum simulation and atomic physics experiments and calibrations and how they compile to an example trapped ion apparatus.