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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…

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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…

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

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

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) is being actively investigated as a means of scaling the number of qubits across multiple connected quantum devices. This includes quantum circuit compilation and execution management on multiple quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Gongyu Ni , Davide Ferrari , Lester Ho , Michele Amoretti

Quantum networks are complex systems formed by the interaction among quantum processors through quantum channels. Analogous to classical computer networks, quantum networks allow for the distribution of quantum computation among quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Matheus Guedes de Andrade , Wenhan Dai , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

The second quantum revolution brings with it the promise of a quantum internet. As the first quantum network hardware prototypes near completion new challenges emerge. A functional network is more than just the physical hardware, yet work…

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

Distributed quantum information processing seeks to overcome the scalability limitations of monolithic quantum devices by interconnecting multiple quantum processing nodes via classical and quantum communication. This approach extends the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Johannes Knörzer , Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

The scalability of quantum computing is currently limited by physical, technological, and architectural constraints that hinder the integration of a large number of qubits within a single quantum processor. Distributed quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 F. Javier Cardama , Jorge Vázquez-Pérez , Tomás F. Pena , Andrés Gómez

Quantum computers face inherent scaling challenges, a fact that necessitates investigation of distributed quantum computing systems, whereby scaling is achieved through interconnection of smaller quantum processing units. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Felix Burt , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Kin K. Leung

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) provides a way to scale quantum computers using multiple quantum processing units (QPU) connected through quantum communication links. In this paper, we have built a distributed quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Sreraman Muralidharan

Interconnecting clusters of qubits will be an essential element of scaling up future quantum computers. Operations between quantum processing units (QPUs) are usually significantly slower and costlier than those within a single QPU, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Edwin Tham , Ilia Khait , Aharon Brodutch

We define some of the programming and system-level challenges facing the application of quantum processing to high-performance computing. Alongside barriers to physical integration, prominent differences in the execution of quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Keith A. Britt , Fahd A. Mohiyaddin , Travis S. Humble

Rapid advancements in cloud based platforms providing access to quantum computing capabilities have opened up several challenges for efficient usage of these highly delicate and costly devices. Although most of the current systems use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Abhishek Sawaika , Udaya Parampalli , Rajkumar Buyya

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

We propose an architecture, called NVQLink, for connecting high-performance computing (HPC) resources to the control system of a quantum processing unit (QPU) to accelerate workloads necessary to the operation of the QPU. We aim to support…

This paper addresses the challenge of scaling quantum computing by employing distributed quantum algorithms across multiple processors. We propose a novel circuit partitioning method that leverages graph partitioning to optimize both qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Eneet Kaur , Hassan Shapourian , Jiapeng Zhao , Michael Kilzer , Ramana Kompella , Reza Nejabati

The realization of the Quantum Internet promises transformative capabilities in secure communication, distributed quantum computing, and high-precision metrology. However, transitioning from laboratory experiments to a scalable,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Athanasios Gkelias , Felix T. A. Burt , Kin K. Leung

Quantum networks are complex systems formed by the interaction among quantum processors through quantum channels. Analogous to classical computer networks, quantum networks allow for the distribution of quantum operations among quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Matheus Guedes de Andrade , Nitish K. Panigrahy , Wenhan Dai , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley