IonQ links two kinds of quantum hardware at 1,000 entangled pairs a second

Verdict: MONITOR

A real photonic link joins an ion qubit and a diamond memory; The measured cycle is slower, and a useful distributed computation remains ahead.

Reviewed, edited and approved by Joerg Germann, Editor · Editorial method

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