No-Cloning & Quantum Constraints
Quantum states can’t be perfectly copied — and they can’t be measured without being disturbed. These constraints aren’t technology limitations, but fundamental principles of nature: they define how quantum information can be stored, shared, and routed across the Quantum Internet.
Entanglement
Entanglement “connects” distant quantum devices in a way classical networks can’t do. It’s the fabric of the Quantum Internet: a fundamental network resource – created at the link level, extended by quantum repeaters, and consumed by applications.
Applications
The Quantum Internet enables capabilities with no classical counterpart: communication security guaranteed by the laws of nature, distributed quantum computing turning networked quantum processors into a single virtual machine—whose state space grows exponentially with the number of interconnected processors—and quantum-enhanced sensing with unprecedented precision beyond classical limits. By sharing entanglement across remote quantum nodes, the Quantum Internet makes tasks — that are impractical, and in some cases impossible, using classical signals alone — possible.
Main Research Areas
Quantum Internet theoretical design
Quantum Network Simulator
Quantum Internet Testbed
Quantum Internet theoretical design
Designing abstract models that support standardization by decoupling protocols from implementation details.
The peculiarities of quantum phenomena impose a major paradigm shift: there is no one-to-one mapping between the classical Internet protocol stack and a Quantum Internet protocol stack.
Part of this activity has been founded by the European Union under the ERC grant QNattyNet, n.101169850.
More information is available at
https://qnattynet.quantuminternet.it
Quantum Network Simulator
Developing software modules and libraries to support an open-source quantum network simulator, called Q2NS, by providing the scientific community with a flexible environment for testing and evaluating networking solutions.
This research area is fully funded by the European Union under the ERC grant QNattyNet, n.101169850.
More information is available at
https://qnattynet.quantuminternet.it
Quantum Internet Testbed
Exploit currently available technology to distribute entanglement over a metro-scale fiber network with a communication- engineering perspective.
We leverage proof-of-concept demonstrations as feedback for on-going research activities.
Open Projects
QNattyNet
Questing
QNattyNet
Quantum Native Communication Networks: from Quantum Message to Quantum Functioning.
QNattyNet envisions a fundamentally new Quantum Internet, built not as an extension of the classical Internet but as a quantum-native entity. Its core paradigm shift moves beyond simply mimicking existing classical network architectures. Instead, it places the distribution and coordinated use of quantum entanglement at the very heart of network design.
Questing
Designing, Managing and Debugging Quantum Networks.
The quantum revolution holds immense promise, but its true challenge lies not just in theory, but in practical implementation. To transform this potential into technologies that can redefine computing, communications, and cybersecurity, we must build scalable, reliable systems that integrate seamlessly with our existing digital world.
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