Christopher Monroe

New Capabilities

As of June 2026: Leading trapped-ion research at the Duke Quantum Center

For years, building a bigger quantum computer has mostly meant cramming more qubits onto one chip. Duke University and the company IonQ just showed a different path. They wired three separate ion processors together with optical fiber and got all three to share one quantum state, with no shared chip and no logic gate at a central hub.

Updated Jun 22