diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/enforce_distribution.rs b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/enforce_distribution.rs
index afed5dd37535..3d80b617626a 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/enforce_distribution.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/enforce_distribution.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 use std::fmt::Debug;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use super::output_requirements::OutputRequirementExec;
 use crate::config::ConfigOptions;
 use crate::error::Result;
 use crate::physical_optimizer::utils::{
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@ use datafusion_physical_plan::windows::{get_best_fitting_window, BoundedWindowAg
 use datafusion_physical_plan::ExecutionPlanProperties;
 
 use datafusion_physical_optimizer::PhysicalOptimizerRule;
+use datafusion_physical_optimizer::output_requirements::OutputRequirementExec;
 use itertools::izip;
 
 /// The `EnforceDistribution` rule ensures that distribution requirements are
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
     use crate::datasource::object_store::ObjectStoreUrl;
     use crate::datasource::physical_plan::{CsvExec, FileScanConfig, ParquetExec};
     use crate::physical_optimizer::enforce_sorting::EnforceSorting;
-    use crate::physical_optimizer::output_requirements::OutputRequirements;
+    use datafusion_physical_optimizer::output_requirements::OutputRequirements;
     use crate::physical_optimizer::test_utils::{
         check_integrity, coalesce_partitions_exec, repartition_exec,
     };
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/mod.rs b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/mod.rs
index 582f340151ae..a0c9c3697744 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/mod.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/mod.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ pub mod enforce_sorting;
 pub mod join_selection;
 pub mod limited_distinct_aggregation;
 pub mod optimizer;
-pub mod output_requirements;
 pub mod projection_pushdown;
 pub mod pruning;
 pub mod replace_with_order_preserving_variants;
diff --git a/datafusion/physical-optimizer/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/physical-optimizer/Cargo.toml
index 9c0ee61da52a..125ea6acc77f 100644
--- a/datafusion/physical-optimizer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/physical-optimizer/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,4 +33,6 @@ workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 datafusion-common = { workspace = true, default-features = true }
+datafusion-execution = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-physical-plan = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/lib.rs b/datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/lib.rs
index c5a49216f5fd..6b9df7cad5c8 100644
--- a/datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/lib.rs
+++ b/datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/lib.rs
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@
 #![deny(clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr)]
 
 mod optimizer;
+pub mod output_requirements;
 
 pub use optimizer::PhysicalOptimizerRule;
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/output_requirements.rs b/datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/output_requirements.rs
similarity index 95%
rename from datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/output_requirements.rs
rename to datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/output_requirements.rs
index cb9a0cb90e6c..d85daee7c00a 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/output_requirements.rs
+++ b/datafusion/physical-optimizer/src/output_requirements.rs
@@ -24,17 +24,19 @@
 
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use crate::physical_plan::sorts::sort::SortExec;
-use crate::physical_plan::{DisplayAs, DisplayFormatType, ExecutionPlan};
+use datafusion_execution::TaskContext;
+use datafusion_physical_plan::sorts::sort::SortExec;
+use datafusion_physical_plan::{DisplayAs, DisplayFormatType, ExecutionPlan, SendableRecordBatchStream};
 
 use datafusion_common::config::ConfigOptions;
 use datafusion_common::tree_node::{Transformed, TransformedResult, TreeNode};
 use datafusion_common::{Result, Statistics};
 use datafusion_physical_expr::{Distribution, LexRequirement, PhysicalSortRequirement};
-use datafusion_physical_optimizer::PhysicalOptimizerRule;
 use datafusion_physical_plan::sorts::sort_preserving_merge::SortPreservingMergeExec;
 use datafusion_physical_plan::{ExecutionPlanProperties, PlanProperties};
 
+use crate::PhysicalOptimizerRule;
+
 /// This rule either adds or removes [`OutputRequirements`]s to/from the physical
 /// plan according to its `mode` attribute, which is set by the constructors
 /// `new_add_mode` and `new_remove_mode`. With this rule, we can keep track of
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ enum RuleMode {
 ///
 /// See [`OutputRequirements`] for more details
 #[derive(Debug)]
-pub(crate) struct OutputRequirementExec {
+pub struct OutputRequirementExec {
     input: Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>,
     order_requirement: Option<LexRequirement>,
     dist_requirement: Distribution,
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ pub(crate) struct OutputRequirementExec {
 }
 
 impl OutputRequirementExec {
-    pub(crate) fn new(
+    pub fn new(
         input: Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>,
         requirements: Option<LexRequirement>,
         dist_requirement: Distribution,
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ impl OutputRequirementExec {
         }
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn input(&self) -> Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan> {
+    pub fn input(&self) -> Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan> {
         self.input.clone()
     }
 
@@ -179,8 +181,8 @@ impl ExecutionPlan for OutputRequirementExec {
     fn execute(
         &self,
         _partition: usize,
-        _context: Arc<crate::execution::context::TaskContext>,
-    ) -> Result<crate::physical_plan::SendableRecordBatchStream> {
+        _context: Arc<TaskContext>,
+    ) -> Result<SendableRecordBatchStream> {
         unreachable!();
     }