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most citedDistributed Quantum Computing: a Survey

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quant-ph2026

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…

quant-ph2025

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…

quant-ph2025

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…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

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…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Entanglement-Based Artificial Topology: Neighboring Remote Network Nodes

Si-Yi Chen, Jessica Illiano, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti +1

Entanglement is unanimously recognized as the key communication resource of the Quantum Internet. Yet, the possibility of implementing novel network functionalities by exploiting t…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Universal Quantum Computation via Superposed Orders of Single-Qubit Gates

Kyrylo Simonov, Marcello Caleffi, Jessica Illiano +2

Superposed orders of quantum channels have already been proved - both theoretically and experimentally - to enable unparalleled opportunities in the quantum communication domain. A…

quant-ph2023★ 17 cited

Entanglement Distribution in the Quantum Internet: Knowing when to Stop!

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Jessica Illiano, Michele Viscardi +1

Entanglement distribution is a key functionality of the Quantum Internet. However, quantum entanglement is very fragile, easily degraded by decoherence, which strictly constraints…

quant-ph2023★ 19 cited

Quantum Internet Addressing

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Jessica Illiano, Marcello Caleffi

The design of the Quantum Internet protocol stack is at its infancy and early-stage conceptualization. And different heterogeneous proposals are currently available in the literatu…

quant-ph2023★ 19 cited

Quantum MAC: Genuine Entanglement Access Control via Many-Body Dicke States

Jessica Illiano, Marcello Caleffi, Michele Viscardi +1

Multipartite entanglement plays a crucial role for the design of the Quantum Internet, due to its peculiarities with no classical counterpart. Yet, for entanglement-based quantum n…

quant-ph2022★ 227 cited

Distributed Quantum Computing: a Survey

Marcello Caleffi, Michele Amoretti, Davide Ferrari +4

Nowadays, quantum computing has reached the engineering phase, with fully-functional quantum processors integrating hundred of noisy qubits available. Yet -- to fully unveil the po…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

Quantum Internet: from Medium Access Control to Entanglement Access Control

Jessica Illiano, Michele Viscardi, Seid Koudia +2

Multipartite entanglement plays a crucial role for the design of the Quantum Internet, due to its potentiality of significantly increasing the network performance. In this paper, w…

quant-ph2022★ 28 cited

The Quantum Internet: Enhancing Classical Internet Services one Qubit at a Time

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Jessica Illiano, Seid Koudia +2

Nowadays, the classical Internet has mainly envisioned as the underlying communication infrastructure of the Quantum Internet, aimed at providing services such as signaling and coo…

cs.NI2022★ 206 cited

Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey

Jessica Illiano, Marcello Caleffi, Antonio Manzalini +1

Classical Internet evolved exceptionally during the last five decades, from a network comprising a few static nodes in the early days to a leviathan interconnecting billions of dev…