Towards a Distributed Quantum Computing Ecosystem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11808v2
• Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:00:16 GMT
• Title: Towards a Distributed Quantum Computing Ecosystem
• Authors: Daniele Cuomo, Marcello Caleffi and Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
• Abstract summary: The Quantum Internet is a network capable of supporting functionalities with no direct counterpart in the classical world. This paper provides an overview about the main challenges and open problems arising with the design of a Distributed Quantum Computing ecosystem.
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• Abstract: The Quantum Internet, by enabling quantum communications among remote quantum nodes, is a network capable of supporting functionalities with no direct counterpart in the classical world. Indeed, with the network and communications functionalities provided by the Quantum Internet, remote quantum devices can communicate and cooperate for solving challenging computational tasks by adopting a distributed computing approach. The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview about the main challenges and open problems arising with the design of a Distributed Quantum Computing ecosystem. For this, we provide a survey, following a bottom-up approach, from a communications engineering perspective. We start by introducing the Quantum Internet as the fundamental underlying infrastructure of the Distributed Quantum Computing ecosystem. Then we go further, by elaborating on a high-level system abstraction of the Distributed Quantum Computing ecosystem. Such an abstraction is described through a set of logical layers. Thereby, we clarify dependencies among the aforementioned layers and, at the same time, a road-map emerges.

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