Entanglement-Based Artificial Topology: Neighboring Remote Network Nodes
arXiv:2404.16204 · doi:10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3554052
Abstract
Entanglement is unanimously recognized as the key communication resource of the Quantum Internet. Yet, the possibility of implementing novel network functionalities by exploiting the marvels of entanglement has been poorly investigated so far, by mainly restricting the attention to bipartite entanglement. Conversely, in this paper, we aim at exploiting multipartite entanglement as inter-network resource. Specifically, we consider the interconnection of different Quantum Local Area Networks (QLANs), and we show that multipartite entanglement allows to dynamically generate an inter-QLAN artificial topology, by means of local operations only, that overcomes the limitations of the physical QLAN topologies. To this aim, we first design the multipartite entangled state to be distributed within each QLAN. Then, we show how such a state can be engineered to: i) interconnect nodes belonging to different QLANs, and ii) dynamically adapt to different inter-QLAN traffic patterns. Our contribution aims at providing the network engineering community with a hands-on guideline towards the concept of artificial topology and artificial neighborhood.
Accepted manuscript for publication in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. This work has been funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe ERC-CoG grant QNattyNet ("Quantum-Native Communication Networks: from Quantum Message to Quantum Functioning"), n.101169850. Details at https://qnattynet.quantuminternet.it
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