AQUA
Advancing Quantum Architecture Research Group
Our mission
Bridging the gap between theoretical algorithms and real-world experiments to accelerate the deployment of useful quantum information technology.
News
Rodney Van Meter delivered a keynote at the 2026 Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer System Architecture in Daejeon, Korea, presenting recent directions in large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer architecture. Naphan Benchasattabuse also gave an invited talk on distributed qLDPC architectures. (2026/08/29)
AQUA researchers presented new work at IEEE QCE 2025 (Quantum Week) across quantum networking, distributed quantum computing, entanglement distillation, quantum architecture, and quantum algorithms. Amin Taherkhani and collaborators received the 2nd Place Best Paper Award for Automatic Configuration Protocols for Optical Quantum Networks. (2025/09)
AQUA presented multiple papers at IEEE QCE 2024, including work on all-photonic quantum repeaters, heterogeneous quantum networks, satellite quantum links, Bell-state-analyzer switching networks, fault-tolerant qRAM, and quantum network control. (2024/09)
Our undergraduate textbook, Quantum Communications, is now available on the arXiv and in source from GitHub. It is licensed Creative Commons CC-BY-SA. Use, reuse, extend, and enjoy! The current version in English only, but we are working on translations into multiple languages. If you would like to contribute, please contact us! (2023/11/04)
Our latest paper: Fight or Flight: Cosmic Ray-Induced Phonons and the Quantum Surface Code will be presented at QCE 2023 (IEEE Quantum Week) (2023/7/31)
We released our quantum network simulator QuISP!!(04/09/2020)