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Quantum Communication and Quantum Network Explorer

01 /Introduction to QNE platform 02 /Components of a quantum network 03 /Overview of simulators 04 /The QNE Community Application Library 05 /Quantum Key Distribution in QNE 06 /Applications beyond QKD in QNE 07 /QNE-ADK Installation 08 /QNE-ADK basics 09 /Creating your own application 10 /Uploading applications to QNE-CAL 11 /Introduction to SquidASM 12 /Files overview & Hello world 13 /Basic application writing 14 /Advanced application writing 15 /Network configuration 16 /Program input & output 17 /Parameter sweeping

Introduction to SquidASM

This video will introduce SquidASM, an alternative to QNE-ADK for quantum network application development. We recap and expand on the relationship between SquidASM and the other software packages: NetSquid, QNE-ADK and NetQASM. Terminology is introduced regarding the meaning of program vs application and we introduce the concept of the Quantum networking processing unit (QNPU).

Main takeaways

  • There is a small difference in application writing style between QNE-ADK and SquidASM SquidASM (With the “Stack” variant) provides capabilities that are required for research usage.
  • A program is the code running on a single node, while an application is the combination of programs to fulfil a certain purpose.
  • A node is split into two parts a “host” and “QNPU”.
    • The QNPU is a combination of classical controller with Quantum hardware
    • The host is a classical computer that sends instructions to the QNPU via NetQASM language routines

Further thinking

What is the main difference in application writing style between SquidASM and QNE-ADK? 

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Further readings

More details regarding SquidASM, can be found on its documentation page: