Driven by the rapid progress in quantum hardware, recent years have witnessed a furious
race for quantum technologies in both academia and industry. Universal quantum …

Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

In order to bring quantum networks into the real world, we would like to determine the
requirements of quantum network protocols including the underlying quantum hardware …

The second quantum revolution brings with it the promise of a quantum internet. As the first
quantum network hardware prototypes near completion new challenges emerge. A …

Quantum entanglement enables important computing applications such as quantum key
distribution. Based on quantum entanglement, quantum networks are built to provide long …

Quantum networks will enable the implementation of communication tasks with qualitative
advantages with respect to the communication networks known today. While it is expected …

Scaling current quantum communication demonstrations to a large-scale quantum network
will require not only advancements in quantum hardware capabilities, but also robust control …

Entanglement routing establishes remote entanglement connection between two arbitrary
nodes, which is one of the most important functions in quantum networks. The existing …

We study the performance (rate and fidelity) of distributing multipartite entangled states in a
quantum network through the use of a central node. Specifically, we consider the scenario …

Quantum communication using qubits based on the principle of entangled photons is a
promising solution to improve network security. However, it is difficult to successfully create …