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The dispersion cancellation feature of pulses which are entangled in frequency is employed to synchronize clocks of distant parties. The proposed protocol is insensitive to the pulse distortion caused by transit through a dispersive medium.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Giovannetti , S. Lloyd , L. Maccone , F. N. C. Wong

A systematic procedure to synthesize interval observers for nonlinear discrete-time systems is proposed. The feedback gains and other matrices are found from the solutions to semidefinite feasibility programs. Two cases are considered: (1)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Adam M Tahir , Behcet Acikmese

Precise time synchronisation underpins critical infrastructure from telecommunications and financial markets to power grids and scientific metrology. Several families of quantum protocols have been proposed and demonstrated for clock…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Michal Krelina , Utku Tefek , Zeki C. Seskir , Kadir Durak

We present an algorithm to detect the time and frequency difference of independent clocks based on observation of time-correlated photon pairs. This enables remote coincidence identification in entanglement-based quantum key distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-17 Caleb Ho , Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

High-precision time synchronization is a vital prerequisite for many modern applications and technologies, including Smart Grids, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), and 5G networks. Although the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) can accomplish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Andreas Finkenzeller , Oliver Butowski , Emanuel Regnath , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used by millions of hosts in Internet today to synchronize their clocks. Clock synchronization is necessary for many network applications to function correctly. Unsynchronized clock may lead to failure of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Nikhil Tripathi , Neminath Hubballi

One of the challenges of the modern photonics is to develop all-optical devices enabling increased speed and energy efficiency for transmitting and processing information on an optical chip. It is believed that the recently suggested…

When building linear or nonlinear models one is faced with the problem of selecting the best set of variable with which to predict the future dynamics. In nonlinear time series analysis the problem is to select the correct time delays in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Small

This paper presents a highly-parallelizable parallel-in-time algorithm for efficient solution of nonlinear time-periodic problems. It is based on the time-periodic extension of the Parareal method, known to accelerate sequential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Iryna Kulchytska-Ruchka , Sebastian Schöps

A statistical mechanic study of the $XY$ model with nonlinear interaction is presented on bipartite sparse random graphs. The model properties are compared to those of the $p$-clock model, in which the planar continuous spins are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-19 Alessia Marruzzo , Luca Leuzzi

The non-stationary evolution of observable quantities in complex systems can frequently be described as a juxtaposition of quasi-stationary spells. Given that standard theoretical and data analysis approaches usually rely on the assumption…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-18 S. Camargo , S. Duarte Queirós , C. Anteneodo

A new comprehensive approach to nonlinear time series analysis and modeling is developed in the present paper. We introduce novel data-specific mid-distribution based Legendre Polynomial (LP) like nonlinear transformations of the original…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay , Emanuel Parzen

Linear time-periodic (LTP) dynamical systems frequently appear in the modeling of phenomena related to fluid dynamics, electronic circuits, and structural mechanics via linearization centered around known periodic orbits of nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Caleb C. Magruder , Serkan Gugercin , Christopher A. Beattie

The problem of time synchronization in dense wireless networks is considered. Well established synchronization techniques suffer from an inherent scalability problem in that synchronization errors grow with an increasing number of hops…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 An-swol Hu , Sergio D. Servetto

We present two types of meta-algorithm that can greatly improve the accuracy of existing algorithms for integrating the equations of motion of dynamical systems. The first meta-algorithm takes an integrator that is time-symmetric only for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Yoko Funato , Eiichiro Kokubo , Junichiro Makino , Steve McMillan

We propose a mechanism for realization of exact control of parity-time (PT) symmetry by using a periodically modulated nonlinear optical coupler with balanced gain and loss. It is shown that for certain appropriately chosen values of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-26 Baiyuan Yang , Xiaobing Luo , QiangLin Hu , XiaoGuang Yu

This paper introduces a couple of new time-frequency transforms, designed to adapt their scale to specific features of the analyzed function. Such an adaptation is implemented via so-called focus functions, which control the window scale as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Pierre Warion , Bruno Torrésani

A method is proposed to generate an optimal fit of a number of connected linear trend segments onto time-series data. To be able to efficiently handle many lines, the method employs a stochastic search procedure to determine optimal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-11 Myrl G. Marmarelis

We experimentally demonstrate and numerically simulate a new adaptive method to maintain synchronization between coupled nonlinear chaotic oscillators, when the coupling between the systems is unknown and time-varying (e.g., due to…

We consider the External Clock Synchronization problem in dynamic sensor networks. Initially, sensors obtain inaccurate estimations of an external time reference and subsequently collaborate in order to synchronize their internal clocks…

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