@article{12343,
  author = {David Awschalom and Karl Berggren and Hannes Bernien and Sunil Bhave and Lincoln Carr and Paul Davids and Sophia Economou and Dirk Englund and Andrei Faraon and Martin Fejer and Saikat Guha and Martin Gustafsson and Evelyn Hu and Liang Jiang and Jungsang Kim and Boris Korzh and Prem Kumar and Paul Kwiat and Marko Lončar and Mikhail Lukin and David Miller and Christopher Monroe and Sae Nam and Prineha Narang and Jason Orcutt and Michael Raymer and Amir Safavi-Naeini and Maria Spiropulu and Kartik Srinivasan and Shuo Sun and Jelena Vučković and Edo Waks and Ronald Walsworth and Andrew Weiner and Zheshen Zhang},
  title = {Development of Quantum Interconnects (QuICs) for Next-Generation Information Technologies},
  abstract = {Just as “classical” information technology rests on a foundation built of interconnected information-processing systems, quantum information technology (QIT) must do the same. A critical component of such systems is the “interconnect,” a device or process that allows transfer of information between disparate physical media, for example, semiconductor electronics, individual atoms, light pulses in optical fiber, or microwave fields. While interconnects have been well engineered for decades in the realm of classical information technology, quantum interconnects (QuICs) present special challenges, as they must allow the transfer of fragile quantum states between different physical parts or degrees of freedom of the system. The diversity of QIT platforms (superconducting, atomic, solid-state color center, optical, etc.) that will form a “quantum internet” poses additional challenges. As quantum systems scale to larger size, the quantum interconnect bottleneck is imminent, and is emerging as a grand challenge for QIT. For these reasons, it is the position of the community represented by participants of the NSF workshop on “Quantum Interconnects” that accelerating QuIC research is crucial for sustained development of a national quantum science and technology program. Given the diversity of QIT platforms, materials used, applications, and infrastructure required, a convergent research program including partnership between academia, industry, and national laboratories is required.},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {PRX Quantum},
  volume = {2},
  pages = {017002},
  month = {Feb},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.017002},
  doi = {10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.017002},
}