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Quantum networks schedule distributed circuits under memory constraints

Online Scheduling and Distribution of Quantum Circuits over Quantum Networks

Abstract: Emerging quantum networks enable distributed quantum computing (DQC) by interconnecting modest, noisy quantum processors. However, practical deployments face tight memory budgets, probabilistic entanglement generation, and decoherence, all while serving multiple users. In realistic settings -- cloud execution, iterative/interactive workloads and concurrent jobs -- circuits do not arrive in a single batch but as a stream. This creates a fundamentally online problem: the system must react to stochastic arrivals, balance latency and throughput, and remain stable under varying loads without foresight of future jobs. We study Online Scheduling and Distribution of Quantum Circuits (OS-DQC) and formalize the online scheduling problem for quantum networks: circuits arrive over time and must be executed without knowledge of future arrivals. At each event time (arrival or completion), the system decides which waiting circuits to launch and how to place their qubits, while accounting for congestion from in-flight circuits and constraints due to finite memories and decoherence. The objective is to minimize the mean completion time and makespan under these physical and resource constraints.

Mon 19 OctEmerging Technologies
The gist
Running quantum computing jobs across connected quantum devices faces challenges like limited memory and unpredictable job arrivals. The authors studied how to schedule these jobs as they come in, without knowing future jobs, while managing limited resources and errors that happen over time. They formalized this scheduling problem so the system can minimize the total wait and completion times of quantum tasks under real-world constraints.
Open → 2610.25875v1