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Developing state-of-the-art classical simulators of quantum circuits is of utmost importance to test and evaluate early quantum technology and understand the true potential of full-blown error-corrected quantum computers. In the past few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Salvatore Mandrà , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor G. Rieffel , Rupak Biswas

This paper compares quantum computing simulators running on a single CPU or GPU-based HPC node using the Quantum Volume benchmark commonly proposed for comparing NISQ systems. As simulators do not suffer from noise, the metric used in the…

Quantum Local Area Networks (QLANs) represent a promising building block for larger scale quantum networks with the ambitious goal -- in a long time horizon -- of realizing a Quantum Internet. Surprisingly, the physical topology of a QLAN…

An experimental Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) implementation requires advanced costly hardware, unavailable in most research environments, making protocol testing and performance evaluation complicated. Historically, this has been a major…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Konstantinos Gkouliaras , Vasileios Theos , Phil Evans , Stylianos Chatzidakis

As the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology supporting the pointto-point application matures, the need to build the Quantum Secure Communication Network (QSCN) to guarantee the security of a large scale of nodes becomes urgent.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Yaxing Wang , Qiong Li , Qi Han , Yumeng Wang

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

Distributed quantum information in networks is paramount for global secure quantum communication. Moreover, it finds applications as a resource for relevant tasks, such as clock synchronization, magnetic field sensing, and blind quantum…

Similar to the classical Internet, the quantum Internet will require knowledge regarding link qualities used for purposes such as optimal route selection. This is commonly accomplished by performing link-level tomography with or without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Takaaki Matsuo

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a fast-growing discipline within quantum computing. One popular QML algorithm, quantum kernel estimation, uses quantum circuits to estimate a similarity measure (kernel) between two classical feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Travis L. Scholten , Derrick Perry , Joseph Washington , Jennifer R. Glick , Thomas Ward

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

This paper presents QCommE2E as an open-source simulation framework for end-to-end quantum communication systems, with explicit tutorial emphasis. The primary objective is to develop a comprehensive framework that includes transmitters,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Omar Alnaseri

Quantum repeaters have long been established to be essential for distributing entanglement over long distances. Consequently, their experimental realization constitutes a core challenge of quantum communication. However, there are numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Julius Wallnöfer , Frederik Hahn , Fabian Wiesner , Nathan Walk , Jens Eisert

As various quantum computing technologies continue to compete for quantum supremacy, several parameters have emerged as benchmarks for the quality of qubits. These include fidelity, coherence times, connectivity, and a few others. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Daniel Koch , Avery Torrance , David Kinghorn , Saahil Patel , Laura Wessing , Paul M. Alsing

Quantum computing has made substantial progress in recent years; however, its scalability remains constrained on a monolithic quantum processing unit (QPU). Distributed quantum computing (DQC) offers a pathway by coordinating multiple QPUs…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sen Zhang , Lingjun Xiong , Yipie Liu , Brian L. Mark , Lei Yang , Zebo Yang , Weiwen Jiang

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

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

Due to the scarcity of quantum computing resources, researchers and developers have very limited access to real quantum computers. Therefore, judicious planning and utilization of quantum computer runtime are essential to ensure smooth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ning Ma , Heng Li

Quantum entanglement is an essential resource for quantum networks. However, the generation of entanglement between physical devices at remote network nodes is a challenging task towards practical implementation of quantum networks. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Allen Zang , Alexander Kolar , Joaquin Chung , Martin Suchara , Tian Zhong , Rajkumar Kettimuthu

The numerical simulation of quantum circuits is an indispensable tool for development, verification and validation of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms on near-term quantum co-processors. The emergence of exascale high-performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Thien Nguyen , Dmitry Lyakh , Eugene Dumitrescu , David Clark , Jeff Larkin , Alexander McCaskey

Quantum communication brings radically new capabilities that are provably impossible to attain in any classical network. Here, we take the first step from a physics experiment to a fully fledged quantum internet system. We propose a…