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Entanglement Meets Reality: A Network Engineering Assessment and Forecast of Rackable Entanglement Sources
Laura d'Avossa, Daniela Salvoni, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti +1
Quantum networks are transitioning from labo- ratory experiments to real-world deployments, with entangle- ment as their fundamental resource. Since an entanglement source effectiv…
Engineering Quantum Links: Noise and Quantum-State-Degradation Metrics over Metropolitan Fiber Network
Marcello Caleffi, Laura d'Avossa, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
Deploying quantum networks over existing network infrastructures requires the same engineering foundations that underpin classical communications: quantitative models of the channe…
A Dynamic-Kernel/QPacket Executable for Quantum Repeater Chains in Q2NS/ns-3
Adam Pearson, Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
The Quantum Internet operates on entanglement, a non-local, non-copyable, stateful network resource, which motivates protocol organization beyond classical layering. We present a f…
Towards Quantum Networks: Characterizing Raman Noise over Metropolitan-scale Fiber Network
Marcello Caleffi, Laura d'Avossa, Italo Ignacio Machuca Flores +3
The coexistence of quantum and classical signals in optical fiber infrastructures represents a major challenge for large-scale quantum networks, as noise sources such as Raman scat…
Interconnection of Quantum Networks at Urban scale: Analysis of Temporal Stability of Entangled Photon Sources
Laura d'Avossa, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi
Time synchronization is a fundamental requirement in entanglement-based quantum networks, where the indistinguishability of photons in the time domain is essential for enabling Hon…
Optimization of C-band quantum traffic coexisting with O-band classical traffic: preliminary results
Laura d'Avossa, Elena Montella, Marco Grillo +2
The coexistence of quantum and classical signals in the same optical fiber is a critical challenge for the deployment of quantum networks. Indeed, selecting an optimal channel for…
Q2NSViz: An Open-source Standalone Visualizer for Quantum Network Simulations
Francesco Mazza, Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
The unique and non-classical features of quantum networks make their simulation and intuitive understanding inherently difficult. In this work, we present Q2NSViz, an open-source P…
Quantum Routers: A Switching-Fabric Framework for Quantum-Native Forwarding
Jessica Illiano, Caterina De Risi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti +1
Forwarding in quantum networks cannot be realized by directly transposing classical switching fabrics, since the no-cloning theorem and the quantum measurement postulate constrain…
A Resource-Driven Framework for Configurable Entanglement in Quantum Networks
Francesco Mazza, Claudio Pellitteri, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti +1
Shared multipartite entanglement defines a ``whatever channel'', i.e., a latent communication substrate that does not determine a priori which end-to-end entangled links are activa…
Entanglement Generation During Distribution via Spatial Superposition
Claudio Pellitteri, Rajiuddin Sk, Marcello Caleffi +1
The exploitation of quantum coherence at the level of propagation represents a powerful paradigm for quantum communication networks. In this work, we show that the coherent superpo…
Quantum Routing Beyond Pathfinding: Multipartite Entanglement Complementation
Si-Yi Chen, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi
Conventional quantum routing operates under the entrenched assumption that pathfinding is a prerequisite for routing. This classical-inspired routing model imposes a restricting de…
Q2NS Demo: A Quantum Network Simulator Based on ns-3
Francesco Mazza, Adam Pearson, Marcello Caleffi +1
Q2NS is an open-source quantum network simulator built on ns-3, the de facto standard for classical network simulation. By inheriting ns-3's mature classical stack and event-driven…
An Extensible Quantum Network Simulator Built on ns-3: Q2NS Design and Evaluation
Adam Pearson, Francesco Mazza, Marcello Caleffi +1
As quantum networking hardware remains costly and not yet widely accessible, simulation tools are essential for the design and evaluation of quantum network architectures and proto…
Optimized Compilation for Distributed Quantum Computing
Michele Bandini, Davide Ferrari, Stefano Carretta +1
In many practical applications, quantum algorithms require several qubits, significantly more than those available with current noisy intermediate-scale quantum processors. Distrib…
A Quantum Internet Protocol Suite Beyond Layering
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi
Layering, the protocol organization principle underpinning the classical Internet, is ill-suited to the Quantum Internet, built around entanglement, which is non-local and stateful…
Flexible Qubit Allocation of Network Resource States
Francesco Mazza, Jorge Miguel-Ramiro, Jessica Illiano +4
The Quantum Internet is still in its infancy, yet identifying scalable and resilient quantum network resource states is an essential task for realizing it. We explore the use of gr…
QPing: a Quantum Ping Primitive for Quantum Networks
Jorge Miguel-Ramiro, Jessica Illiano, Francesco Mazza +5
We introduce the concept of Quantum Ping (QPing) as a diagnostic primitive for future quantum networks, designed to assess whether two or more end nodes can establish practical qua…
Quantum Paths: a Quantum Walk approach
Claudio Pellitteri, Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
The quantum switch, a process enabling a coherent superposition of different orders of quantum channels, has garnered significant attention due to its ability to enable noiseless c…
Polynomial-time Extraction of Entanglement Resources
Si-Yi Chen, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi
The extraction of EPR pairs and n-qubits GHZ states among remote nodes in quantum networks constitutes the resource primitives for end-to-end and on-demand communications. However,…
Beyond Traditional Quantum Routing
Si-Yi Chen, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi
Existing quantum routing implicitly mimics classical routing principles, with finding the ``best'' path (aka pathfinding), according to a selected routing metric, as a core mechani…
Quantum Internet Architecture: unlocking Quantum-Native Routing via Quantum Addressing
Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
The key objective of the Quantum Internet is the distribution and manipulation of entanglement to enable unprecedented applications. This requires a radical departure from classica…
Quantum Data Centres: Why Entanglement Changes Everything
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Claudio Pellitteri, Jessica Illiano +4
The Quantum Internet is key for distributed quantum computing, by interconnecting multiple quantum processors into a virtual quantum computation system. This allows to scale the nu…
On the Efficient Extraction of Entangled Resources
Si-Yi Chen, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi
In the Quantum Internet, multipartite entanglement enables a rich and dynamic overlay topology, referred to as artificial topology, upon the physical one, that can be exploited for…
Simulation of Entanglement-Enabled Connectivity in QLANs using SeQUeNCe
Francesco Mazza, Caitao Zhan, Joaquin Chung +3
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 Quant…