Modular Quantum Computing Blueprint Published by JQI: A Roadmap for Logistics-Grade QPU Deployment

Around February 25, 2014, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute published an architecture spotlighting scalability through modular quantum design. Their blueprint details how separate ion-trap modules, each handling local qubit operations, could be optically networked via fiber cables, routed with micro-electromechanical mirrors (MEMS) that act like reconfigurable switchboards.

This design underscores key logistical engineering principles—decentralization, modularity, and flexible routing—but applied to quantum hardware. For future logistics applications, it foreshadows quantum processing units that could be distributed across a supply chain—each performing local optimizations and communicating entangled data with other hubs as needed. It offered a compelling early vision of distributed quantum logic models appropriate for complex optimization.