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This study explores an approach to routing in quantum networks, which targets practical scenarios for quantum networks, mirroring real-world classical networks. By addressing practical constraints, we examine the impact of heterogeneous…

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We present an approach to purification and entanglement routing on complex quantum network architectures, that is, how a quantum network equipped with imperfect channel fidelities and limited memory storage time can distribute entanglement…

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 study classical capacity regions of quantum Gaussian multiple access channels (MAC). In classical variants of such channels, whilst some capacity superadditivity-type effects such as the so called {\it water filling effect} may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 L. Czekaj , J. K. Korbicz , R. W. Chhajlany , P. Horodecki

Quantum networks are envisioned to enable reliable distribution and manipulation of quantum information across distances, forming the foundation of a future quantum internet. The fair and efficient allocation of communication resources in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Sounak Kar , Arpan Mukhopadhyay

The amount of information transmissible through a communications channel is determined by the noise characteristics of the channel and by the quantities of available transmission resources. In classical information theory, the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikio Fujiwara , Masahiro Takeoka , Jun Mizuno , Masahide Sasaki

Quantum neural networks represent a new machine learning paradigm that has recently attracted much attention due to its potential promise. Under certain conditions, these models approximate the distribution of their dataset with a truncated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Mo Kordzanganeh , Daria Kosichkina , Alexey Melnikov

This article summarises the current status of classical communication networks and identifies some critical open research challenges that can only be solved by leveraging quantum technologies. By now, the main goal of quantum communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Roberto Ferrara , Riccardo Bassoli , Christian Deppe , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Holger Boche

Quantum networks rely on both quantum and classical channels for coordinated operation. Current architectures employ entanglement distribution and key exchange over quantum channels but often assume that classical communication is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Xin Jin , Nitish Kumar Chandra , Mohadeseh Azari , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Junyu Liu

Capacity of a quantum channel characterizes the limits of reliable communication through a noisy quantum channel. This fundamental information theoretic question is very well studied specially in the setting of many independent uses of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

Characterizing quantum nonlocality in networks is a challenging, but important problem. Using quantum sources one can achieve distributions which are unattainable classically. A key point in investigations is to decide whether an observed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Tamás Kriváchy , Yu Cai , Daniel Cavalcanti , Arash Tavakoli , Nicolas Gisin , Nicolas Brunner

It is shown that tailored breaking of the translational symmetry through weak scattering in waveguides and optical fibers can control chromatic dispersions of the individual modes at any order; thereby, it overcomes the problem of coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 A. Mandilara , C. A. Valagiannopoulos , V. M. Akulin

Since the introduction of quantum computation by Richard Feynman in 1982, Quantum computation has shown exemplary results in various applications of computer science including unstructured database search, factorization, molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Hemant Rana , Nitin Verma

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks enable unconditionally secure key exchange using quantum mechanical principles. However, routing cryptographic keys across multi-hop quantum networks introduces challenges unique to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ivan Cvitic , Dragan Perakovic , Armando Nolasco Pinto

The capability of a given channel to communicate information is, a priori, distinct from its capability to distribute shared randomness. In this article we define randomness distribution capacities of quantum channels assisted by forward,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Raul Garcia-Patron , William Matthews , Andreas Winter

Efficient entanglement distribution is the foundational challenge in realizing large-scale Quantum Networks. However, state-of-the-art solutions are frequently limited by restrictive operational assumptions, prohibitive computational…

A multi-channel quantum router with four nodal cavities is constructed by two coupled-resonator waveguides and four single cavities. We can achieve directional routing by adjusting the probability of photon exiting from the specified port…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xu Yang , Lei Tan , Wu-Ming Liu

As superconductor quantum technologies are moving towards large-scale integrated circuits, a robust and flexible approach to routing photons at the quantum level becomes a critical problem. Active circuits, which contain parametrically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 A. Metelmann , H. E. Türeci

Quantum communication demands efficient distribution of quantum entanglement across a network of connected partners. The search for efficient strategies for the entanglement distribution may be based on percolation theory, which describes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Michael Siomau

Well defined quantum key distribution between two users requires both calibration to ensure quantum effects and synchronization to stabilize the bit parity of the results. Here we present two quantum effects regarding two entangled photons…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Billy E. Geerhart , Venkat R. Dasari