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The scalability of quantum computing is constrained by the physical and architectural limitations of monolithic quantum processors. Modular multi-core quantum architectures, which interconnect multiple quantum cores (QCs) via classical and…

Multi-core quantum architectures offer a solution to the scalability limitations of traditional monolithic designs. However, dividing the system into multiple chips introduces a critical bottleneck: communication between cores. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Maurizio Palesi , Enrico Russo , Davide Patti , Giuseppe Ascia , Vincenzo Catania

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

Modular quantum processor architectures are envisioned as a promising solution for the scalability of quantum computing systems beyond the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices era. Based upon interconnecting tens to hundreds of…

Quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising application domain for near-term quantum hardware, particularly through hybrid quantum-classical models that leverage both classical and quantum processing. Although numerous hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Dominik Freinberger , Philipp Moser

As quantum computing scales toward practical workloads, future systems are expected to move beyond single monolithic processors toward modular architectures that connect multiple QPUs. Different platforms realize this modularity through…

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

Existing and near-term quantum computers can only perform two-qubit gates between physically connected qubits. Research has been done on compilers to rewrite quantum programs to match hardware constraints. However, the quantum processor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Wei Hu , Yang Yang , Weiye Xia , Jiawei Pi , Enyi Huang , Xin-Ding Zhang , Hua Xu

Scalable quantum computing is fundamentally bottlenecked not by qubit count or fabrication yield, but by a rigid temporal mismatch: macroscopic classical coordination latency ($\tau_c$) inevitably grows with system diameter, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Bo Fan , Renzhou Fang , Yuntao Zhang , Xiaolong Yuan , Dafa Zhao

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

Quantum communications have progressed significantly, moving from a theoretical concept to small-scale experiments to recent metropolitan-scale demonstrations. As the technology matures, it is expected to revolutionize quantum computing in…

Being a very promising technology, with impressive advances in the recent years, it is still unclear how quantum computing will scale to satisfy the requirements of its most powerful applications. Although continued progress in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Santiago Rodrigo , Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón , Carmen G. Almudever

Current monolithic quantum computer architectures have limited scalability. One promising approach for scaling them up is to use a modular or multi-core architecture, in which different quantum processors (cores) are connected via quantum…

Quantum computing offers the potential to solve certain complex problems, yet, scaling monolithic processors remains a major challenge. Modular and distributed architectures are proposed to build large-scale quantum systems while bringing…

The quantum computing community is increasingly positioning quantum processors as accelerators within classical HPC workflows, analogous to GPUs and TPUs. However, many real-world applications require scaling to hundreds or thousands of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Vinooth Kulkarni , Aaron Orenstein , Xinpeng Li , Shuai Xu , Daniel Blankenberg , Vipin Chaudhary

Near-term quantum networks face a bottleneck due to low quantum communication rates. This degrades performance both by lowering operating speeds and increasing qubit storage time in noisy memories, making some quantum internet applications…

As we enter the era of useful quantum computers we need to better understand the limitations of classical support hardware, and develop mitigation techniques to ensure effective qubit utilisation. In this paper we discuss three key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 James R. Cruise , Neil I. Gillespie , Brendan Reid

Quantum computing promises potential for science and industry by solving certain computationally complex problems faster than classical computers. Quantum computing systems evolved from monolithic systems towards modular architectures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Nishant Saurabh , Shantenu Jha , Andre Luckow

Modularity is a promising approach for scaling up quantum computers and therefore integrating higher qubit counts. The essence of such architectures lies in their reliance on high-fidelity and fast quantum state transfers enabled by…

In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally analyze sequential processors with limited communication between parts. We compare the expressivity of sequential quantum and classical processors under the same constraints. They consist…

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