Quantum key distribution (QKD) constitutes a symmetric secret key negotiation protocol
capable of maintaining information-theoretic security. Given the recent advances in QKD …

Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in quantum information
technology, from theoretical studies to experimental demonstrations. Revolutionary quantum …

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 …

Quantum Teleportation is the key communication functionality of the Quantum Internet,
allowing the “transmission” of qubits without the physical transfer of the particle storing the …

In distributed quantum computing architectures, with the network and communications
functionalities provided by the Quantum Internet, remote quantum processing units can …

Practical distributed quantum computing requires the development of efficient compilers,
able to make quantum circuits compatible with some given hardware constraints. This …

For most practical applications, quantum algorithms require large resources in terms of qubit
number, much larger than those available with current noisy intermediate-scale quantum …

In Quantum Local Area Networks (QLANs)-the near-term building block of the Quantum
Internet-the choice of the physical network topology is not so restrictive and binding as in …

Satellites and aerial platforms can be significant in the development of new
telecommunications networks, allowing to deploy networks with extremely high performance …

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