• Watch IonQ’s Quantum World Congress 2025 Keynote On Demand. • Achieving Remote Ion-Ion Entanglement: Paving the Way for Scalable Quantum Networking We recently achieved the second major technical milestone on our journey in photonic interconnects, our core technology that we believe will enable quantum networking between and within quantum computers. • The recently achieved milestone - ion-ion interconnect entanglement - marks first-time remote entanglement in a commercial environment of two qubits. • Building off ourion-photon entanglementachievement announced in February, this demonstration showcases the second out of four milestones on the path to developing photonic interconnects. • Scale: Enabling Expansive Growth Through Our Unique Architecture {{video}} Quantum computing is making massive strides, and at IonQ, scalability guides every technical and architectural decision we make. • At the core of this mission is modularity, which is the most important enabler of efficient scalability and essential to IonQ’s ability to expand quantum processing power.
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- IonQ announced that it has achieved the second milestone in its photonic‑interconnect roadmap: remote entanglement between two ion qubits in a commercial setting. This follows the company’s February 2024 success in entangling a single photon with an ion qubit (Milestone 1). The new demonstration uses entangled photons to link separate quantum‑processing units (QPUs), enabling qubits to be entangled across distinct processors. IonQ’s modular architecture relies on these photonic links to scale quantum computing power, with the goal of building large‑scale, networked QPU systems. The milestone marks a key step toward commercially viable quantum networking.
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