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IonQ has achieved a significant milestone by demonstrating entanglement rates exceeding 1,000 events per second between trapped-ion qubits and solid-state silicon-vacancy memory via photonic interconnects. This breakthrough addresses a critical bottleneck for scaling quantum systems, effectively combining the high coherence of ion traps with the efficient light coupling of solid-state platforms to enable future networked quantum data centers.
IonQ Demonstrates 1,000 Entanglement Events per Second in Quantum Interconnect

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced the achievement of entanglement rates above 1,000 per second (1 kHz) between a trapped ion qubit and a solid-state memory, through a photonic interconnect. Entanglement is the quantum connection that lets separate systems work together, and it […]
IonQ has demonstrated entanglement rates exceeding 1,000 events per second between a trapped-ion qubit and a silicon-vacancy solid-state quantum memory using a photonic interconnect. The company says the result is more than four times faster than the previous trapped-ion interconnect record and could support distributed quantum computing. The work supports IonQ’s participation in DARPA’s…
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