Electron juggling: Approaching the atomic physics limit of the attempt rate in trapped ion photonic interconnects

Quantum Physics arXiv:2510.27005 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 30 Oct 2025] Title:Electron juggling: Approaching the atomic physics limit of the attempt rate in trapped ion photonic interconnects Authors:I. D. Moore, B. M. White, B. Graner, J. D. Siverns View a PDF of the paper titled Electron juggling: Approaching the atomic physics limit of the attempt rate in trapped ion photonic interconnects, by I. D. Moore and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Photonic interconnects are a key technology for scaling up atomic based quantum computers. By facilitating the connection of multiple systems, high-performance modular quantum processing units may be constructed to perform deeper and more useful algorithms. Most previous implementations of photonic interconnects in trapped ions utilize the scheme of preparing a state, exciting it, and collecting single photons from decays of the excited state. State preparation is responsible for the vast majority of the total attempt time, often taking hundreds of nanoseconds to several microseconds. Here, we describe and analyze a novel technique called ``electron juggling" to speed up photonic interconnects by reducing the state preparation step substantially. Using a theoretical framework, we illustrate how this scheme can significantly increase remote entanglement generation rates, approaching the atomic physics limit of the attempt rate in trapped-ion photonic interconnects. Our results indicate that this scheme holds the possibility of achieving remote entanglement generation rates of over 1,000 Bell pairs per second. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2510.27005 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2510.27005v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.27005 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Isam Moore [view email] [v1] Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:11:06 UTC (244 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Electron juggling: Approaching the atomic physics limit of the attempt rate in trapped ion photonic interconnects, by I. D. Moore and 3 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2025-10 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)