Universal Nested Quantum Switch
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2603.00236 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 27 Feb 2026] Title:Universal Nested Quantum Switch Authors:Jorge Miguel-Ramiro, Maria Flors Mor-Ruiz, Wolfgang Dür View a PDF of the paper titled Universal Nested Quantum Switch, by Jorge Miguel-Ramiro and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The quantum switch is a basic network primitive that allows one to connect multiple nodes in a quantum network via a central node. We show that the same functionality can be achieved with a different geometry that does not rely on a powerful and large central unit, but instead utilizes evenly distributed resources. This approach is resilient against node failures. We provide a nested construction with logarithmically many qubits per node and a total of $O(n\log n)$ Bell pairs, in contrast to other distributed approaches based on pre-shared entanglement that scale as $O(n^2)$. The construction achieves fully flexible pairwise connectivity, where the shared resource state can be locally transformed into $n/2$ arbitrarily distributed Bell states. We also present a graph state variant with just one qubit per node, which allows one to generate $O(n/\log^2 n)$ Bell pairs. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2603.00236 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2603.00236v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.00236 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Jorge Miguel-Ramiro [view email] [v1] Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:00:10 UTC (605 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Universal Nested Quantum Switch, by Jorge Miguel-Ramiro and 1 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-03 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?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) 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?)