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Inspired by the question Are there emulators for quantum computers?, I'm curious to know if it's possible to emulate a quantum network on a classic computer. Additionally, is it possible to emulate a quantum network over a classic network?
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Is it possible to emulate a quantum network over a classic network?
Yes. The following projects are currently available:
SimulaQron is a distributed simulation of the end nodes in a future quantum internet with the specific goal to explore application development. The end nodes in a quantum internet are few qubit processors, which may exchange qubits using a quantum internet. Specifically, SimulaQron allows the installation of a local simulation program on each computer in the network that provides the illusion of having a local quantum processor to potential applications. The local simulation programs on each classical computer connect to each other classically, forming a simulated quantum internet allowing the exchange of simulated qubits between the different network nodes, as well as the creation of simulated entanglement.
The Simulator for Quantum Networks and Channels (SQUANCH) is an open-source Python library for creating parallelized simulations of distributed quantum information processing. The framework includes many features of a general-purpose quantum computing simulator, but it is optimized specifically for simulating quantum networks. It includes functionality to allow users to easily design complex multi-party quantum networks, extensible classes for modeling noisy quantum channels, and a multiprocessed NumPy backend for performant simulations.
Currently under development at QuTech, NetSquid is the world’s first network simulator that is capable of simulating the decay of quantum information over time together with noisy operations and stochastic feedback loops. Its primary use is the prediction of the performance of quantum network protocols in a physically-realistic setting.
I joined the Quantum internet Hackaton with Simulaqron We did simulations for the quantum leader election algorithms
Simulaqron is more an abstract simulator on a classical computer or classical network. Most important aspect is entanglement between 2 nodes. This can be done with only command called EPR and creates an entangled pair of qubits on different nodes, nice and easy setup for your quantum network. Keep in mind though that it is not an real entangled pair but only a classical local copy.
List of quantum network simulators, taken from Rodney van Meter's post to the Quantum Internet Research Group (QIRG) Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) mailing list on 31 March 2020:
QuISP, Keio/WIDE https://github.com/sfc-aqua/quisp
SimulaQron, QuTech http://www.simulaqron.org/
NetSquid, QuTech https://netsquid.org/
SeQueNCe, Suchara, Argonne https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/0/2327/files/2019/11/SeQUeNCe.pdf
SQUANCH, Bartlett https://pypi.org/project/SQUANCH/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07047
QuNetSim, DiAdamo https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06397
QKD simulator in ns-3, including routing, Mehic et al https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8935373 https://www.qkdnetsim.info/ https://twitter.com/mickeyze2
Physical-layer, online calculator for SPDC http://spdcalc.org/
