Addressing a device in a quantum network: A quantum approach including routing
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2604.05321 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 7 Apr 2026] Title:Addressing a device in a quantum network: A quantum approach including routing Authors:Alexander Pirker View a PDF of the paper titled Addressing a device in a quantum network: A quantum approach including routing, by Alexander Pirker View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this work we propose an addressing scheme for quantum networks which relies on quantum states held by devices. Quantum network devices use their address state together with a request state that encodes the tasks to be executed. Our approach not only removes the necessity to classically communicate addresses, but also the need to communicate the operations a device must apply. It turns out that utilizing entanglement to encode addresses of devices in a quantum network leads to interesting applications such as overlaying different network states. We present a distributed quantum routing protocol using entanglement that coherently selects a route in a network of Bell-states for controlled-teleportation and lastly we prove that addressing using quantum states is equivalent to performing tasks in superposition in a quantum network. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2604.05321 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2604.05321v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.05321 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Alexander Pirker [view email] [v1] Tue, 7 Apr 2026 01:47:28 UTC (319 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Addressing a device in a quantum network: A quantum approach including routing, by Alexander PirkerView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-04 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)