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The quantum internet is a global network to distribute entanglement and communicate quantum information with applications in cybersecurity, quantum computing, and quantum sensing. Here, we propose building a quantum internet using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Alireza Shabani

Quantum networks are composed of nodes which can send and receive quantum states by exchanging photons. Their goal is to facilitate quantum communication between any nodes, something which can be used to send secret messages in a secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antonio Acin , J. Ignacio Cirac , Maciej Lewenstein

Quantum-energy teleportation (QET) has so far only been realised on a two-qubit platform. Real-world communication, however, typically involves multiple parties. Here we design and experimentally demonstrate the first multi-qubit QET…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Alif Elham Khan , Humayra Anjum , Mahdy Rahman Chowdhury

Quantum Teleportation is the key communication functionality of the Quantum Internet, allowing the "transmission' of qubits without either the physical transfer of the particle storing the qubit or the violation of the quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Angela Sara Cacciapuoti , Marcello Caleffi , Rodney Van Meter , Lajos Hanzo

A future quantum network will consist of quantum processors that are connected by quantum channels, just like conventional computers are wired up to form the Internet. In contrast to classical devices, however, the entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Andreas Reiserer

Quantum entanglement is so fundamentally different from a network packet that several quantum network stacks have been proposed; one of which has even been experimentally demonstrated. Several simulators have also been developed to make up…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Wojciech Kozlowski , Fernando A. Kuipers , Rob Smets , Belma Turkovic

We investigate prepare-and-measure scenarios in which a sender and a receiver use entanglement to send quantum information over a channel with limited capacity. We formalise this framework, identify its basic properties and provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Elna Svegborn , Jef Pauwels , Armin Tavakoli

The utilization of quantum entanglement as a cryptographic resource has superseded conventional approaches to secure communication. Security and fidelity of intranetwork communication between quantum devices is the backbone of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Prateek Chawla , Adithi Ajith , C. M. Chandrashekar

A Quantum Internet, i.e., a global interconnection of quantum devices, is the long term goal of quantum communications, and has so far been based on two-dimensional systems (qubits). Recent years have seen a significant development of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Davide Bacco , Jacob F. F. Bulmer , Manuel Erhard , Marcus Huber , Stefano Paesani

We present a protocol for generating multiqubit quantum states with translationally invariant pairwise entanglement. Our approach is tailored for digital quantum computers with restricted qubit connectivity, a common limitation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Francisco Albarrán-Arriagada , Guillermo Romero , Juan Carlos Retamal

In this paper, a novel protocol for bidirectional controlled quantum teleportation (BCQT) is proposed. Based on entanglement swapping of initiate Bell state, two users can teleport an unknown single-qubit state to each other under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Shima Hassanpour , Monireh Houshmand

The key objective of the Quantum Internet is the distribution and manipulation of entanglement to enable unprecedented applications. This requires a radical departure from classical Internet design principles, such as the end-to-end…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Marcello Caleffi , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

In this article, we introduce a generalization of one-way superdense coding to two-way communication protocols for transmitting classical bits by using entangled quantum pairs. The proposed protocol jointly addresses the provision of…

The second quantum revolution brings with it the promise of a quantum internet. As the first quantum network hardware prototypes near completion new challenges emerge. A functional network is more than just the physical hardware, yet work…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Wojciech Kozlowski , Axel Dahlberg , Stephanie Wehner

Owing to its outstanding parallel computing capabilities, quantum computing (QC) has been a subject of continuous attention. With the gradual maturation of QC platforms, it has increasingly played a significant role in various fields such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Wei Zhao , Tangjie Weng , Yue Ruan , Zhi Liu , Xuangou Wu , Xiao Zheng , Nei Kato

Quantum switches are critical components in quantum networks, distributing maximally entangled pairs among end nodes by entanglement swapping. In this work, we design protocols that schedule entanglement swapping operations in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Wenhan Dai , Anthony Rinaldi , Don Towsley

We develop new routing algorithms for a quantum network with noisy quantum devices such that each can store a small number of qubits. We thereby consider two models for the operation of such a network. The first is a continuous model, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Kaushik Chakraborty , Filip Rozpedek , Axel Dahlberg , Stephanie Wehner

We demonstrate quantum teleportation of a qutrit system using a complete set of two-qutrit entangled states obtained from the representation theory of the SU(3) group. All measurement gates essential for end-to-end teleportation are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Surajit Sen , Tushar Kanti Dey , Anushree Bhattacharjee , Sovik Roy

A quantum network is constructed via maximum entangled coherent states. The possibility of using this network to achieve communication between multi-participants is investigated. We showed that the probability of teleported unknown state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. El Allati , Y. Hassouni , N. Metwally

This paper presents a scheme for linear-optical implementation of a programmable quantum router. Polarization encoded photon qubit is coherently routed to various spatial modes according to the state of several control qubits. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Karel Lemr , Antonín Černoch