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Practical Routing and Criticality in Large-Scale Quantum Communication Networks
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
The efficacy of a communication network hinges upon both its physical architecture and the protocols that are employed within it. In the context of quantum communications, there ex…
An Overview of CV-MDI-QKD
Alasdair I. Fletcher, Cillian Harney, Masoud Ghalaii +6
As quantum key distribution (QKD) emerges as a robust defense against quantum computer threats, significant advancements have been realized by researchers. A pivotal focus has been…
Quantum-enhanced pattern recognition
Giuseppe Ortolano, Carmine Napoli, Cillian Harney +6
The challenge of pattern recognition is to invoke a strategy that can accurately extract features of a dataset and classify its samples. In realistic scenarios this dataset may be…
End-to-End Capacities of Hybrid Quantum Networks
Cillian Harney, Alasdair I. Fletcher, Stefano Pirandola
Future quantum networks will be hybrid structures, constructed from complex architectures of quantum repeaters interconnected by quantum channels that describe a variety of physica…
End-to-End Capacities of Imperfect-Repeater Quantum Networks
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
The optimal performance of a communication network is limited not only by the quality of point-to-point channels, but by the efficacy of its constituent technologies. Understanding…
Analytical Methods for High-Rate Global Quantum Networks
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
The development of a future, global quantum communication network (or quantum internet) will enable high rate private communication and entanglement distribution over very long dis…
Secure Quantum Pattern Communication
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
We propose a multi-mode modulation scheme for Continuous Variable (CV) quantum communications, which we call quantum pattern encoding. In this setting, classical information can be…
Mixed State Entanglement Classification using Artificial Neural Networks
Cillian Harney, Mauro Paternostro, Stefano Pirandola
Reliable methods for the classification and quantification of quantum entanglement are fundamental to understanding its exploitation in quantum technologies. One such method, known…
Analytical Bounds for Dynamic Multi-Channel Discrimination
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
The ability to precisely discriminate multiple quantum channels is fundamental to achieving quantum enhancements in data-readout, target detection, pattern recognition, and more. O…
Idler-Free Multi-Channel Discrimination via Multipartite Probe States
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
The characterisation of Quantum Channel Discrimination (QCD) offers critical insight for future quantum technologies in quantum metrology, sensing and communications. The task of m…
Ultimate Limits of Thermal Pattern Recognition
Cillian Harney, Leonardo Banchi, Stefano Pirandola
Quantum Channel Discrimination (QCD) presents a fundamental task in quantum information theory, with critical applications in quantum reading, illumination, data-readout and more.…
Entanglement Classification via Neural Network Quantum States
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola, Alessandro Ferraro +1
The task of classifying the entanglement properties of a multipartite quantum state poses a remarkable challenge due to the exponentially increasing number of ways in which quantum…