# IonQ reports quantum memory link exceeding 1,000 connections per second

_Published Friday, October 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM EDT · Science · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

IonQ says hardware testing demonstrated a photonic link generating more than 1,000 quantum entanglement events per second between a trapped ion qubit and a silicon vacancy quantum memory. Entanglement creates quantum connections between the two systems, a building block for distributed quantum computing.

The company reports a rate more than four times faster than the previous trapped-ion record held by co-founder Chris Monroe's research group. Technical details appear in an arXiv preprint. IonQ says the rate can support distributed quantum applications; the demonstrated result is an end-to-end hardware link.

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