Arqon: A suite of control applications enabling a reliable quantum network
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2604.08692 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 9 Apr 2026] Title:Arqon: A suite of control applications enabling a reliable quantum network Authors:Scarlett Gauthier, Thomas R. Beauchamp, Stephanie Wehner View a PDF of the paper titled Arqon: A suite of control applications enabling a reliable quantum network, by Scarlett Gauthier and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:A quantum network's purpose is to enable users to execute applications on end nodes. This requires the network to provide the service of creating entangled links between those nodes. Users of mature networks, such as the internet or the telephone network expect accepted service demands to be met reliably. We first define reliability requirements that extend classical computer network concepts to quantum network service delivery. We then introduce Arqon, a suite of control applications designed to deliver reliable service in centrally controlled quantum networks. We demonstrate through both analytic and numerical evaluation that Arqon satisfies all reliability requirements for accepted demands. These evaluations consider static network topologies. We provide a complete Python implementation and perform complexity analysis showing that admission control scales as $O(k^3)$ in the number of incoming demands $k$ and schedule computation scales as ${O(N^3)}$ in the number of accepted demands to schedule $N$. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.08692 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2604.08692v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.08692 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Scarlett Gauthier [view email] [v1] Thu, 9 Apr 2026 18:25:44 UTC (1,668 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Arqon: A suite of control applications enabling a reliable quantum network, by Scarlett Gauthier and 2 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.ET cs.NI 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?)