At IEEE Quantum Week 2026 in Toronto, research connected to QUARKS will be presented across three contributions spanning quantum hardware, quantum links, and distributed quantum computing.
On Monday, 14 September, Sakineh Ghaderi will present “Scheduling Under Stochastic Control Drift in a Room-Temperature NV-Center Quantum Processor.” The work starts from calibration records from an operating NV-center processor and examines how measured control drift can inform decisions about when recalibration is worth its cost.
On Tuesday, 15 September, “When Can Passive Link Metrics Certify a Distributed Quantum Circuit? An Identifiability Analysis” turns to quantum interconnects. It asks whether quantities such as heralding rate and a single Bell-pair fidelity measurement contain enough information to determine whether a distributed circuit remains feasible.
The final contribution, “On the Limitations of Distributed Quantum Computing for Future Communication Networks,” will be part of Friday’s Distributed Quantum Computing Systems and Infrastructure (DQC-SI) workshop. It considers the broader systems question of when distributing computation across multiple QPUs is actually useful once the constraints of the network are taken into account.


