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Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum networking by demonstrating rapid temporal multiplexing of a nine-ion chain, potentially increasing entanglement generation rates nearly nine-fold for long-distance links. This advancement addresses the critical bottleneck of photon travel time limits that currently constrain probabilistic schemes over distances exceeding 10 km. By enabling faster distribution of quantum information using trapped ions as stationary qubits and photons as flying qubits, this work paves the way for scalable quantum internet architectures.
9-Ion Chain Moves at Rate of 86 µs for Quantum Interface Advance
Researchers demonstrated a quantum interface using a 9-ion chain, rapidly transporting the ions 74 µm in 86 µs.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated a temporally multiplexed ion-photon interface by rapidly transporting a chain of nine calcium ions across 74 micrometers within 86 microseconds. This multiplexing approach is a key technique to increase the limited entangling rates of existing long-distance quantum networking approaches. The work verifies the non-classical nature of the multiplexed photons with a second-order correlation function averaging 0.060(13), indicating negligible crosstalk between quantum channels, and finds coherent excitation of n_α≈ 110 after transport. This proof-of-principle implementation is expected to lead to a nearly nine-fold increase and enables large-scale quantum networking with trapped ions. Moving calcium ions…
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