Entanglement-Efficient Distribution of Quantum Circuits over Large-Scale Quantum Networks

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Autori principali: Burt, Felix, Chen, Kuan-Cheng, Leung, Kin K.
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author Burt, Felix
Chen, Kuan-Cheng
Leung, Kin K.
author_facet Burt, Felix
Chen, Kuan-Cheng
Leung, Kin K.
contents Quantum computers face inherent scaling challenges, a fact that necessitates investigation of distributed quantum computing systems, whereby scaling is achieved through interconnection of smaller quantum processing units. However, connecting large numbers of QPUs will eventually result in connectivity constraints at the network level, where the difficulty of entanglement sharing increases with network path lengths. This increases the complexity of the quantum circuit partitioning problem, since the cost of generating entanglement between end nodes varies with network topologies and existing links. We address this challenge using a simple modification to existing partitioning schemes designed for all-to-all connected networks, that efficiently accounts for both of these factors. We investigate the performance in terms of entanglement requirements and optimisation time of various quantum circuits over different network topologies, achieving lower entanglement costs in the majority of cases than state-of-the-art methods. We provide techniques for scaling to large-scale quantum networks employing both network and problem coarsening. We show that coarsened methods can achieve improved solution quality in most cases with significantly lower run-times than direct partitioning methods.
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spellingShingle Entanglement-Efficient Distribution of Quantum Circuits over Large-Scale Quantum Networks
Burt, Felix
Chen, Kuan-Cheng
Leung, Kin K.
Quantum Physics
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Quantum computers face inherent scaling challenges, a fact that necessitates investigation of distributed quantum computing systems, whereby scaling is achieved through interconnection of smaller quantum processing units. However, connecting large numbers of QPUs will eventually result in connectivity constraints at the network level, where the difficulty of entanglement sharing increases with network path lengths. This increases the complexity of the quantum circuit partitioning problem, since the cost of generating entanglement between end nodes varies with network topologies and existing links. We address this challenge using a simple modification to existing partitioning schemes designed for all-to-all connected networks, that efficiently accounts for both of these factors. We investigate the performance in terms of entanglement requirements and optimisation time of various quantum circuits over different network topologies, achieving lower entanglement costs in the majority of cases than state-of-the-art methods. We provide techniques for scaling to large-scale quantum networks employing both network and problem coarsening. We show that coarsened methods can achieve improved solution quality in most cases with significantly lower run-times than direct partitioning methods.
title Entanglement-Efficient Distribution of Quantum Circuits over Large-Scale Quantum Networks
topic Quantum Physics
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16036