Quantum Internet


The Quantum Internet is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.

Hence, weird phenomena with no counterpart in the classical Internet, such as no-cloning, quantum measurement and entanglement, have the disruptive potential to completely change markets and industries.

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Our current research topics

Quantum Internet Protocol stack

  • Designing an abstract model, enabling the standardization by abstracting from the particulars

  • Peculiarities of quantum phenomena impose a major paradigm shift: no one-to-one mapping between classical Internet and Quantum Internet protocol stack

    Latest key publication

  • Distributed Quantum Computing

  • Key application in the panorama of quantum technologies: bridge to step beyond current NISQ era

  • By inter-connecting spatially distributed quantum processors, we aim at achieving a computing power which scales exponentially with the computing resources

    Latest key publication

  • Quantum Paths

    Investigating the intriguing genuinely quantum instantiations of quantum channels and quantum operations for:
    - achieving capacities beyond Shannon limits
    - for generating entanglement and enabling universal quantum computing

    Latest key publication

    Quantum Internet Testbed

  • Exploit currently available technology for distributing entanglement via metro-scale fiber network with a communication-engineering perspective

  • Leveraging proof-of-concept demonstration as feedback for on-going research activities


  • Publications

      Quantum Internet Protocol stack
      Distributed Quantum Computing
      Quantum Paths
      Quantum Internet Testbed
      Invited Paper

    Journals

    L. d'Avossa, A. S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi "Modelling Quantum Transduction for Multipartite Entanglement Distribution", arXiv.2407.04015, July 2024.

    F. Mazza, M. Caleffi, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Intra-QLAN Connectivity: beyond the Physical Topology", arXiv.2406.09963, June 2024.

    S. Chen, J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Entanglement-Based Artificial Topology: Neighboring Remote Network Nodes", arXiv.2404.16204, April 2024.

    K. Simonov, M. Caleffi, J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Universal Quantum Computation via Superposed Orders of Single-Qubit Gates", arXiv:2311.13654, November 2023.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Viscardi, J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, "Entanglement Distribution in the Quantum Internet: Knowing when to Stop!", in press, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, August 2024.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, "Quantum Internet Addressing", IEEE Network, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 104-111, Jan. 2024.

    I. Dey, N.Marchetti, M.Caleffi, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Game Theory meets Quantum Networks", in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 90-96, August 2024.

    M. Caleffi, K. Simonov, A.S. Cacciapuoti "Beyond Shannon Limits: Quantum Communications through Quantum Paths", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, June 2023.

    S. Koudia, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Deterministic Generation of Multipartite Entanglement via Causal Activation in the Quantum Internet", IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 73863-73878, 2023.

    J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, M. Viscardi, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum MAC: Genuine Entanglement Access Control via Many-Body Dicke States", In IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 2090-2105, April 2024.

    M. Caleffi, M. Amoretti, D. Ferrari, J. Illiano, A. Manzalini, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Distributed Quantum Computing: a Survey", Computer Networks, Volume 254, December 2024, 110672.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, J. Illiano, S. Koudia, K. Simonov, M. Caleffi, "The Quantum Internet: Enhancing Classical Internet Services one Qubit at a Time", IEEE Network, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 6-12, September/October 2022

    J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, A. Manzalini, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey", Computer Networks, vol. 213, August 2022.

    D. Cuomo, M. Caleffi, K. Krsulich, F. Tramonto, G. Agliardi, E. Prati, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Optimized compiler for Distributed Quantum Computing", ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, January 2023.

    S. Koudia, A.S. Cacciapuoti, K. Simonov, M. Caleffi, "How Deep the Theory of Quantum Communications Goes: Superadditivity, Superactivation and Causal Activation", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 1926-1956, Fourthquarter 2022, August 2022.

    D. Chandra, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "The Entanglement-Assisted Communication Capacity over Quantum Trajectories", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 3632-3647, June 2022.

    D. Chandra, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, L. Hanzo, "Direct Quantum Communications in the Presence of Realistic Noisy Entanglement", in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 469-484, Jan. 2022.

    D. Ferrari, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Amoretti, M. Caleffi, "Compiler Design for Distributed Quantum Computing", IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 1-20, 2021.

    D. Cuomo, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Towards a Distributed Quantum Computing Ecosystem", Invited Paper, IET Quantum Communication, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-8, July 2020.

    M. Caleffi, D. Chandra, D. Cuomo, S. Hassanpour, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "The Rise of the Quantum Internet", IEEE Computer, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 67-72, June 2020.

    M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Switch for the Quantum Internet: Noiseless Communications through Noisy Channels", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 575-588, March 2020.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, R. Van Meter, L. Hanzo, "When Entanglement meets Classical Communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet", Invited Paper, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3808-3833, June 2020.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, F. Tafuri, F.S. Cataliotti, S. Gherardini, G. Bianchi, "Quantum Internet: Networking Challenges in Distributed Quantum Computing", IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 137-143, January/February 2020.

    M. Caleffi, "Optimal Routing for Quantum Networks", IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 22299-22312, October 2017.


    Conferences

    S. Chen, J. Illiano, A. S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Scaling Quantum Networks: Inter-QLANs Artificial Connectivity", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2024.

    F. Mazza, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum LAN: On-Demand Network Topology via Two-colorable Graph States", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC), 2024.

    L. d'Avossa, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Quantum Transduction Models for Multipartite Entanglement Distribution", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC), 2024.

    L. d'Avossa, M. Caleffi, C. Wang, J. Illiano, S. Zorzetti, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Towards the Quantum Internet: entanglement rate analysis of high-efficiency electro-optic transducer", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE), 2023.

    M. Viscardi, J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Entanglement Distribution in the Quantum Internet: an optimal decision problem formulation", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE), 2023.

    S. Chen, A.S. Cacciapuoti, X. Chen, M. Caleffi, "Multipartite Entanglement for the Quantum Internet", Proc. of IEEE ICC, 2023.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, J. Illiano, M. Viscardi, M. Caleffi, "Quantum Internet: the Dawn of the Quantum Paths", Invited Paper, Proc. of ACM NANOCOM, 2022.

    J. Illiano, M. Viscardi, S. Koudia, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Internet: from Medium Access Control to Entanglement Access Control", to appear in the Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2022.

    M. Caleffi, J. Illiano, S. Koudia, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "The Quantum Internet: a Communication Engineering Perspective”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2021.

    S. Koudia, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "From the Environment-Assisted Paradigm to the Quantum Switch", Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2021.

    D.Cuomo, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Experiencing the communication advantage of the Superposition of Causal Orders", Proc. of IEEE SPAWC, 2021.

    J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, A. Manzalini, M. Caleffi, "The Impact of the Quantum Data Plane Overhead on the Throughput", Proc. of ACM NANOCOM, 2021.

    A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Toward the Quantum Internet: a Directional-Dependent Noise Model for Quantum Signal Processing!", Invited Paper, Proc. of IEEE ICASSP, 2019.

    M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, G. Bianchi, "Quantum internet: from communication to distributed computing!", Invited Paper, Proc. of ACM NANOCOM, 2018.

    M. Caleffi, "End-to-end entanglement rate: Toward a quantum route metric", Proc. of IEEE Globecom Workshops, Dec 2017.


    Standards

    W. Kozlowski, S. Wehner, R. Van Meter, B. Rijsman, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, S. Nagayama , "Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet", RFC 9340, DOI , Mar 2023.



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