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Reliable and efficient functioning of a quantum network depends on identifying and mitigating security risks originating from within and outside the network. We aim to construct a comprehensive framework for developing and assessing secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Salini Karuvade , Barry C. Sanders

The quantum technology revolution brings with it the promise of a quantum internet. A new -- quantum -- network stack will be needed to account for the fundamentally new properties of quantum entanglement. The first realisations of quantum…

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

The possibility of quantum computing has been proposed decades ago, at least as far back as the 1980s, and distributed quantum computing has been studied around two decades ago. Recent times have seen experimental successes and advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Seng W. Loke

Until quantum repeaters become mature, quantum networks remain restricted either to limited areas of directly connected nodes or to nodes connected to a common node. We circumvent this limitation by conceiving quantum networks using secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Gui-Lu Long , Dong Pan , Yu-Bo Sheng , Qikun Xue , Jianhua Lu , Lajos Hanzo

The aim of a quantum network is to enable the generation of end-to-end entangled links between end nodes of the network, so that they can execute quantum network applications. To facilitate this, it is desirable to have robust control of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Thomas R. Beauchamp , Scarlett Gauthier , Stephanie Wehner

One of the biggest concerns among cybersecurity professionals these days is the hype around quantum computing, its incomprehensible power, and its implications. The advancement in quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize our…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tajdar Jawaid

Internet-scale quantum repeater networks will be heterogeneous in physical technology, repeater functionality, and management. The classical control necessary to use the network will therefore face similar issues as Internet data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Rodney Van Meter , Joe Touch , Dominic Horsman

As the inevitable development trend of quantum key distribution, quantum networks have attracted extensive attention, and many prototypes have been deployed over recent years. Existing quantum networks based on optical fibers or quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Dong Jiang , Weicong Huang , Chaohui Gao , Jia Liu , Lijun Chen

In the past decade, several small-scale quantum key distribution networks have been established. However, the deployment of large-scale quantum networks depends on the development of quantum repeaters, quantum channels, quantum memories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Nitin Jha , Abhishek Parakh , Mahadevan Subramaniam

The main service provided by the coming Quantum Internet will be creating entanglement between any two quantum nodes. We discuss and classify attacks on quantum repeaters, which will serve roles similar to those of classical Internet…

Quantum networks will play a key role in distributed quantum information processing. As the network size increases, network-level errors like random breakdown and intentional attack are inevitable; therefore, it is important to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Bingzhi Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

In the coming years, quantum networks will allow quantum applications to thrive thanks to the new opportunities offered by end-to-end entanglement of qubits on remote hosts via quantum repeaters. On a geographical scale, this will lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

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

Quantum information technology has the potential to revolutionize computing, communications, and security. To fully realize its potential, quantum processors with millions of qubits are needed, which is still far from being accomplished.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Nicholas Skjellum , Mohamed Shaban , Muhammad Ismail

A critical aspect of next-generation wireless networks is the integration of quantum communications to guard against quantum computing threats to classical networks. Despite successful experimental demonstrations, integrating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Phuc V. Trinh , Shinya Sugiura , Carlo Ottaviani , Chao Xu , Lajos Hanzo

In the same way that classical computer networks connect and enhance the capabilities of classical computers, quantum networks can combine the advantages of quantum information and communications. We propose a non-classical network element,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-21 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

This paper considers a problem of quantum communication between parties that are connected through a network of quantum channels. The model in this paper assumes that there is no prior entanglement shared among any of the parties, but that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Hirotada Kobayashi , Francois Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura , Martin Roetteler

One of the first problems of studying the quantum internet is how to realize quantum interconnection between users in a quantum network. To address above problem, by referencing the classical Internet, developing the packet switching of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Hao Zhang , Yuan Li , Chen Zhang , Tao Huang

We investigate the classical and quantum networking regimes of the butterfly network and a group of larger networks constructed with butterfly network blocks. By considering simultaneous multicasts from a set of senders to a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Kieran N. Wilkinson , Thomas P. W. Cope , Stefano Pirandola

We introduce the characterization of a class of quantum PageRank algorithms in a scenario in which some kind of quantum network is realizable out of the current classical internet web, but no quantum computer is yet available. This class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 G. D. Paparo , M. A. Martin-Delgado