Abstract: Quantum technologies offer novel possibilities for storing, processing, and transmitting information. Combining these functionalities into a network capable of exchanging quantum states between remote quantum processors will allow for creation of a Quantum Internet. Such future Quantum Internet will enable implementation of communication tasks inaccessible to the classical Internet alone. This includes quantum-safe message encryption, as well as distributed quantum computing where multiple quantum computers can exchange quantum data in a similar way as classical computers exchange classical data over the Internet that we have today. In this talk I will introduce our vision for the future Quantum Internet and present an overview of the scientific efforts all over the world which aim to bring that vision into reality. I will then discuss the main challenges that we face in realizing that goal and review various solutions for overcoming them. These theoretical proposals will then be evaluated with respect to the state-of-the-art experiments on quantum networks and quantum communication. Moreover, I will motivate how our knowledge and experience with classical communication networks can help us transform various proposed schemes for long-distance quantum information transfer into a reliable and robust Quantum Internet service. Finally, I will describe my future research plans related to hybrid quantum networks in which multiple different quantum network architectures as well as different physical platforms will be combined together to obtain the optimal trade-off between the network performance and required resource cost.
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