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Complex quantum networks are not only hard to establish, but also difficult to simulate due to the exponentially growing state space and noise-induced imperfections. In this work, we propose an alternative approach that leverage quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Wolfgang Dür

The quantum internet is envisioned as the ultimate stage of the quantum revolution, which surpasses its classical counterpart in various aspects, such as the efficiency of data transmission, the security of network services, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Kun Fang , Jingtian Zhao , Xiufan Li , Yifei Li , Runyao Duan

The absence of a common framework for benchmarking quantum networks is an obstacle to comparing the capabilities of different quantum networks. We propose a general framework for quantifying the performance of a quantum network, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Yuan Lee , Wenhan Dai , Don Towsley , Dirk Englund

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, communication protocols and algorithms are essential for cooperation and collaboration between UAVs. Simulation provides a cost-effective solution for prototyping, debugging, and analyzing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zihao Zhou , Zipeng Dai , Linyi Huang , Cui Yang , Youjun Xiang , Jie Tang , Kai-kit Wong

We introduce the Simulator for Quantum Networks and Channels ($\texttt{SQUANCH}$), an open-source Python library for creating parallelized simulations of distributed quantum information processing. The framework includes many features of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Ben Bartlett

Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems are becoming increasingly complex, heterogeneous and pervasive, integrating a variety of physical devices and virtual services that are spread across architecture layers (cloud, fog, edge) using different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Maria Salama , Yehia Elkhatib , Gordon S. Blair

Exploiting the properties of quantum information to the benefit of machine learning models is perhaps the most active field of research in quantum computation. This interest has supported the development of a multitude of software…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Francesco Di Marcantonio , Massimiliano Incudini , Davide Tezza , Michele Grossi

We describe a method of investigating the near-term potential of quantum communication technology for communication networks from the perspective of current networks. For this, we integrate an instance of the quantum network simulator…

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications of tensor networks and show that they are an important…

Quantum networks are expected to be heterogeneous systems, combining distinct qubit platforms, photon wavelengths, and device timescales to achieve scalable, multiuser connectivity. Building and iterating on such systems is costly and slow,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hayden Miller , Caitao Zhan , Michael Bishof , Joaquin Chung , Han Xu , Prem Kumar , Rajkumar Kettimuthu

We present qlbm, a Python software package designed to facilitate the development, simulation, and analysis of Quantum Lattice Boltzmann Methods (QBMs). qlbm is a modular framework that introduces a quantum component abstraction hierarchy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Călin A. Georgescu , Merel A. Schalkers , Matthias Möller

The first Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks are currently being deployed, but the implementation cost is still prohibitive for most researchers. As such, there is a need for realistic QKD network simulators. The \textit{QKDNetSim}…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-26 David Soler , Iván Cillero , Carlos Dafonte , Manuel Fernández-Veiga , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Francisco J. Nóvoa

We propose network benchmarking: a procedure to efficiently benchmark the quality of a quantum network link connecting quantum processors in a quantum network. This procedure is based on the standard randomized benchmarking protocol and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Jonas Helsen , Stephanie Wehner

The vision of a quantum internet is to fundamentally enhance Internet technology by enabling quantum communication between any two points on Earth. While the first realisations of small scale quantum networks are expected in the near…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wojciech Kozlowski , Stephanie Wehner

A viable approach for building large-scale quantum computers is to interlink small-scale quantum computers with a quantum network to create a larger distributed quantum computer. When designing quantum algorithms for such a distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Rhea Parekh , Andrea Ricciardi , Ahmed Darwish , Stephen DiAdamo

Software-defined networking offers a device-agnostic programmable framework to encode new network functions. Externally centralized control plane intelligence allows programmers to write network applications and to build functional network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Venkat R. Dasari , Ronald J. Sadlier , Ryan Prout , Brian P. Williams , Travis S. Humble

Recent advances in quantum information science enabled the development of quantum communication network prototypes and created an opportunity to study full-stack quantum network architectures. This work develops SeQUeNCe, a comprehensive,…

As the field of Quantum Computing continues to grow, so too has the general public's interest in testing some of the publicly available quantum computers. However, many might find learning all of the supplementary information that goes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Daniel Koch , Laura Wessing , Paul M. Alsing

Quantum networks will enable the implementation of communication tasks with qualitative advantages with respect to the communication networks we know today. While it is expected that the first demonstrations of small scale quantum networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Koji Azuma , Stefan Bäuml , Tim Coopmans , David Elkouss , Boxi Li

Quantum computing enables quantum neural networks (QNNs) to have great potentials to surpass artificial neural networks (ANNs). The powerful generalization of neural networks is attributed to nonlinear activation functions. Although various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Shilu Yan , Hongsheng Qi , Wei Cui