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Welcome to The Quantum Protocol Zoo - Explore, Learn, Code and Implement Quantum Protocols
The quantum protocol zoo is an open repository of protocols for quantum networks. It provides a compact and canonical way to explore such protocols and allows easy communication among computer scientists, engineers and physicists on one platform.
Getting started
Various functionalities and corresponding protocols for quantum communication (listed in Protocol Library) are presented according to the boxed structures given below. A page on Supplementary Information has been provided for any additional introduction to quantum computation. Various categories have also been used as 'tags' to link several protocols similar in some aspects. Any information on How to Submit or contact can be found in the Navigation menu on the sidebar. Users can leave their helpful comments in the Discussion section of the concerned wiki page.
Functionality File Format
- Functionality Description A lucid definition of functionality in discussion.
- Tags: Any related page or list of protocols is connected by this section
- Use Case (if available) compares security, efficiency and practicality of quantum protocols with its available classical analogues; connects protcols with real world applications.
- Protocols List of different types of example protocol achieving the functionality (Each protocol in this list is written in the format given below) depending on the task achieved or Network Stages required to achieve the same functioanlity
- Properties All properties that should be satisfied by any protocol achieving the concerned functionality and other common terminologies used in all the protocols.
- Further Information Any issue that could not be addressed or find a place in the above sections or any review paper discussing a feature of various types of protocols related to the functionality.
Protocol File Format
- Link to the corresponding functionality together with short description of the method used and properties satisfied by a protocol.
- Tags: Any related page or list of protocols is connected by this section
- Assumptions It describes the setting in which the protocol will be successful. Any assumption on the setup for the protocol below is listed in this section.
- Outline A non-mathematical detailed outline which provides a rough idea of the concerned protocol. A figure is accommodated for most protocols.
- Notation Connects the non-mathematical outline with further sections.
- Hardware requirements Order of digits related to threshold values, QBit Error Rate (QBER), parameters, etc.. are illustrated in this section.
- Properties A list of important information extracted from the protocol such as, parameters (threshold values), security claim, success probability, etc..
- Pseudo Code Mathematical step-wise protocol algorithm helpful to write a subroutine.
- Further Information Any useful information that could not find its place in the above description goes here. Also, some pages on protocols might include short description as below for list of protocols in the same class of functionality and network stage that are easy to interpret after reading the concerned formal description (or are variants of the protocol discussed above):
- Theoretical Papers:
- How is it different from the above protocol
- Requirements
- Security
- Experimental Papers:
- Which paper or protocol does it implement
- Benchmark values for this demonstration