Single-atom-based asynchronous photonic interconnect for scalable modular quantum computing
Abstract
Scaling quantum computation beyond the capacity of a single quantum processing unit requires quantum interconnects between modular processors. Optical photons are natural carriers for distributing entanglement between these processors. Most loss-resilient protocols use photonic Bell-state measurements based on the linear-optics type-II fusion gate. The resulting entanglement rate scales quadratically with each processor's typically low photon-delivery probability. Here we analyze a memory-assisted quantum interconnect using a near-deterministic, robust photon--atom controlled-Z gate via a single atom trapped in a high-finesse cavity. Detecting and measuring a photon from one processor heralds entanglement between that processor and the atom. This entanglement is preserved while the process repeats with the second processor until the second photon is detected and measured. Reading out the atomic qubit finalizes the entanglement between the processors. As the entanglement is mediated by the atom, the photons from both processors do not need to be indistinguishable, removing a major source of infidelity. Furthermore, by removing the simultaneous photon-arrival requirement, the protocol allows the entanglement rate to scale linearly rather than quadratically with photon-arrival probability over a wide parameter range. We derive entanglement rates under realistic parameters, accounting for decay of the atom's entanglement with the first processor and for decoherence caused by unheralded photon interactions. The nanosecond-scale of the gate and read-out operations leads to orders-of-magnitude entanglement-rate gain over linear optics, removing a key bottleneck in modular quantum computing.
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BibTeX
@misc{raskop2026singleatombased,
title = {{Single-atom-based asynchronous photonic interconnect for scalable modular quantum computing}},
author = {Jérémy Raskop and Nadav Kandel and Geva Arwas and Yaniv Amichy and Yaron Jarach and Tal Kanonich and Andrei Militaru and Johannes Fink and Barak Dayan},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.21961},
eprint = {2609.21961},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21961},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Single-atom-based asynchronous photonic interconnect for scalable modular quantum computing
AU - Jérémy Raskop
AU - Nadav Kandel
AU - Geva Arwas
AU - Yaniv Amichy
AU - Yaron Jarach
AU - Tal Kanonich
AU - Andrei Militaru
AU - Johannes Fink
AU - Barak Dayan
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/22
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.21961
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21961
AB - Scaling quantum computation beyond the capacity of a single quantum processing unit requires quantum interconnects between modular processors. Optical photons are natural carriers for distributing entanglement between these processors. Most loss-resilient protocols use photonic Bell-state measurements based on the linear-optics type-II fusion gate. The resulting entanglement rate scales quadratically with each processor's typically low photon-delivery probability. Here we analyze a memory-assisted quantum interconnect using a near-deterministic, robust photon--atom controlled-Z gate via a single atom trapped in a high-finesse cavity. Detecting and measuring a photon from one processor heralds entanglement between that processor and the atom. This entanglement is preserved while the process repeats with the second processor until the second photon is detected and measured. Reading out the atomic qubit finalizes the entanglement between the processors. As the entanglement is mediated by the atom, the photons from both processors do not need to be indistinguishable, removing a major source of infidelity. Furthermore, by removing the simultaneous photon-arrival requirement, the protocol allows the entanglement rate to scale linearly rather than quadratically with photon-arrival probability over a wide parameter range. We derive entanglement rates under realistic parameters, accounting for decay of the atom's entanglement with the first processor and for decoherence caused by unheralded photon interactions. The nanosecond-scale of the gate and read-out operations leads to orders-of-magnitude entanglement-rate gain over linear optics, removing a key bottleneck in modular quantum computing.
ER -