Quantum networks connect quantum information processors, and will enable various unprecedented quantum applications at scale, including quantum key distribution, quantum voting, distributed quantum sensing, distributed quantum computing, etc. Experimental efforts in quantum networking have reached several impressive milestones, e.g. continental-scale space-based photonic quantum communication and metropolitan-scale entanglement distribution quantum networks based on matter systems.
Practically useful quantum networks will have even larger scale, both in the distance between connected nodes and the amount of resources and operations, both quantum and classical. Due to their innate complexity, analysis of quantum networks is far beyond the reach of an analytic approach. In order to evaluate the performance, stability, and reliability of quantum networks, one must resort to simulation. To this end, three major quantum network simulations emerged around the year 2020, namely NetSquid by TUDelft, QuISP by Keio, and SeQUeNCe by ANL and UChicago. In the meantime, various research teams develop new simulators, extend existing simulators, and perform customized ad hoc simulations to study quantum networks as well.
Recognizing the importance of quantum network simulation for quantum network research and development, the Workshop on Quantum Network Simulations aims at developing and strengthening the quantum network simulation community by bringing together researchers to share state-of-the-art progress in quantum network simulation practice.
Scope
The workshop is soliciting contributed talks on all aspects of quantum network science and engineering that involve computer simulations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
The workshop is soliciting contributed talks on all aspects of quantum network science and engineering that involve computer simulations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Development and extension of quantum network simulators
- Physical layer of quantum networks, including hardware components and their manipulation, etc.
- Link layer of (first-generation) quantum networks, including entanglement generation, swapping and purification, etc.
- Higher generation quantum repeater networks and quantum error correction in quantum networking
- Quantum network architectures
- Applications of quantum networks, including quantum key distribution, distributed quantum computing, distributed quantum sensing, etc.
- High performance computing for large-scale quantum network simulation
- Routing in quantum networks
- Quality of service of quantum networks
- Traffic management in quantum networks
- Dynamic and multi-user quantum networks
- Quantum networks as complex systems
Submission Instructions
Submission should include a title, an author list, an abstract, contact information (email address) for notification of result, and optionally a link to an available manuscript. The submission will be reviewed by the program committee in a single-blind process and the decisions will be made on a rolling basis. The call for contributed talks will be closed when we have enough talks.
The workshop will not have the proceedings. Authors are welcome to submit talks based on research work that has been submitted or published outside the QCE, and on-going research projects.
At least one of the authors of any accepted contributed talk must register for QCE24, and be available to present in person at the Workshop which is in conjunction with QCE24 on Sept. 16, 2024.
