Leveraging Python Interpreters for Concurrency in SeQUeNCe

Abstract

With the advent of the Navy Research Laboratory’s announcement of the establishment of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Quantum Research Consortium (DC-QNet), there has been much interest in the modeling and simulation of the quantum communication network testbed. To that end, we explore in this research the basic functionality of the Simulator of QUantum Network Communication (SeQUeNCe), the developmental Python/C API Interpreters module, and their viability as technologies to be used for high-performance simulation of quantum networks. In this paper, we outline the integration of sub-interpreters with a parallel SeQUeNCe experiment to demonstrate true multi-threading concurrency in quantum network simulations