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Cold mixtures of alkaline-earth-metal ions and alkali-metal atoms have recently emerged as a new field of research at the crossroad of quantum physics and chemistry [1–3]. Hybrid systems of trapped ions and ultracold atoms combined in a single experimental setup have opened the way for exciting applications ranging from studying cold collisions [4–8] and controlled chemical reactions [9–15] to quantum simulation of solid-state physics [16–18] and quantum computation [19].