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In a seminal paper [8] it was shown that Heisenberg-limited measurements could be achieved without using entangled states by coupling the quantum resources to a common environment that could be measured, at least, in part. The authors also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 D. Ballester , Yu. V. Arkhipov , I. M. Tkachenko

Building scalable quantum systems that demonstrate genuine performance enhancement based on entanglement is a major scientific goal for fields including computing, networking, simulations, and metrology. The tremendous challenge arises from…

We describe separable joint states on bipartite quantum systems that cannot be prepared by any thermodynamically reversible classical one-way communication protocol. We argue that the joint state of two synchronized microscopic clocks is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

The precise synchronization of distant clocks is a fundamental requirement for a wide range of applications. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a novel approach of quantum clock synchronization utilizing entangled and correlated photon…

We introduce an interaction mechanism between oscillators leading to exact anti-phase and in-phase synchronization. This mechanism is applied to the coupling between two nonlinear oscillators with a limit cycle in phase space, leading to a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-02-08 Rui Dilao

We demonstrate that two spatially separated parties (Alice and Bob) can utilize shared prior quantum entanglement, and classical communications, to establish a synchronized pair of atomic clocks. In contrast to classical synchronization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Richard Jozsa , Daniel S. Abrams , Jonathan P. Dowling , Colin P. Williams

In this paper we present a novel method of atomic clock synchronisation combining digital error correction and phase tracking. Microwave broadcasts are used to measure the difference in frequency between a pair of atomic clocks. We use the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-14 Adam Walton , Abigail McGlone , Benjamin Varcoe

Quantum entanglement offers powerful opportunities for enhancing measurement sensitivity beyond classical limits, with optical atomic clocks serving as a leading platform for such advances. This chapter introduces the principles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Raphael Kaubruegger , Adam M. Kaufman

Spin squeezing is a form of entanglement that can improve the stability of quantum sensors operating with multiple particles, by inducing inter-particle correlations that redistribute the quantum projection noise. Previous analyses of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Boris Braverman , Akio Kawasaki , Vladan Vuletic

We introduce a distributed algorithm for clock synchronization in sensor networks. Our algorithm assumes that nodes in the network only know their immediate neighborhoods and an upper bound on the network's diameter. Clock-synchronization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-02-05 Rodolfo M. Pussente , Valmir C. Barbosa

A method to synchronise, at the sub-nanosecond level, clocks used for neutrino time-of-flight measurements is proposed. Clocks situated near the neutrino source and target are compared with a moveable clock that is transported between them.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 J. H. Field

We critically discuss the measure of very short time intervals. By means of a Gedankenexperiment, we describe an ideal clock based on the occurrence of completely random events. Many previous thought experiments have suggested fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-14 Luciano Burderi , Tiziana Di Salvo , Rosario Iaria

In standard quantum theory, time is not an observable. It enters as a parameter in the Schr\"odinger equation, but there is no measurement operator associated to it. Nevertheless, one may take an operational viewpoint and regard time as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Sandra Stupar , Christian Klumpp , Renato Renner , Nicolas Gisin

The accuracies of modern quantum logic clocks have surpassed those of standard atomic fountain clocks. These clocks also provide a greater degree of control, because before and after clock queries, we are able to apply chosen unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-28 Michael Mullan , Emanuel Knill

In a recent study (Ref. [1]), quantum annealing was reported to exhibit a scaling advantage for approximately solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). However, this claim critically depends on the choice of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 J. Pawlowski , P. Tarasiuk , J. Tuziemski , L. Pawela , B. Gardas

Measuring time means counting the occurrence of periodic phenomena. Over the past centuries a major effort was put to make stable and precise oscillators to be used as clock regulators. Here we consider a different class of clocks based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Dario Cilluffo

A multi-party protocol for distributed quantum clock synchronization has been claimed to provide universal limits on the clock accuracy, viz. that accuracy monotonically decreases with the number n of party members. But, this is only true…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Radel Ben-Av , Iaakov Exman

Measure synchronization is a well-known phenomenon in coupled classical Hamiltonian systems over last two decades. In this paper, synchronization for coupled Harper system is investigated in both classical and quantum contexts. The concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Saikat Sur , Anupam Ghosh

Quantum-enhanced measurements use quantum mechanical effects in order to enhance the sensitivity of the measurement of classical quantities, such as the length of an optical cavity. The major goal is to beat the standard quantum limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Daniel Braun , John Martin

This article develops a protocol to synchronize clocks on board a network of satellites equipped with quantum resources. We show that, in such a constellation, satellites reinforce each other's sync capabilities, forming a common clock that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Sage Ducoing , Ivan Agullo , James E. Troupe , Stav Haldar