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Quantum computing experiments and testbeds with large qubit counts have until recently been a privilege afforded only to large companies or quantum technologies where scaling to hundreds or thousands of qubits does not require a substantial…

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Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mahdi Chehimi , Christina Chaccour , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

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

A protocol for synchronizing distant clocks is proposed that does not rely on the arrival times of the signals which are exchanged, and an optical implementation based on coherent-state pulses is described. This protocol is not limited by…

The operation of long-distance quantum networks requires photons to be synchronized and must account for length variations of quantum channels. We demonstrate a 200 MHz clock-rate fiber optic-based quantum network using off-the-shelf…

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…

Optical data center networks (DCNs) are renovating the infrastructure design for the cloud in the post Moore's law era. The fact that optical DCNs rely on optical circuits of microsecond-scale durations makes nanosecond-precision time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yiming Lei , Jialong Li , Zhengqing Liu , Raj Joshi , Yiting Xia

Accurate wireless timing synchronization has been an extremely important topic in wireless sensor networks, required in applications ranging from distributed beam forming to precision localization and navigation. However, it is very…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Marcelo Segura , S. Niranjayan , Hossein Hashemi , Andreas F. Molisch

A method is proposed to employ entangled and squeezed light for determining the position of a party and for synchronizing distant clocks. An accuracy gain over analogous protocols that employ classical resources is demonstrated and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

Cohesive Distributed Satellite Systems (CDSS) is a key enabling technology for the future of remote sensing and communication missions. However, they have to meet strict synchronization requirements before their use is generalized. When…

Understanding different aspects of time is at the core of many areas in theoretical physics. Minimal models of continuous stochastic and quantum clocks have been proposed to explore fundamental limitations on the performance of timekeeping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ludmila Viotti , Marcus Huber , Rosario Fazio , Gonzalo Manzano

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), such as GPS and Galileo, provide precise time and space coordinates globally and constitute part of the critical infrastructure of modern society. To reliably operate GNSS, a highly accurate and…

Quantum physics is known to allow for completely new ways to create, manipulate and store information. Quantum communication - the ability to transmit quantum information - is a primitive necessary for any quantum internet. At its core,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 W. J. Munro , A. M. Stephens , S. J. Devitt , K. A. Harrison , Kae Nemoto

Optical atomic clocks are our most precise tools to measure time and frequency. They enable precision frequency comparisons between atoms in separate locations to probe the space-time variation of fundamental constants, the properties of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 B. C. Nichol , R. Srinivas , D. P. Nadlinger , P. Drmota , D. Main , G. Araneda , C. J. Ballance , D. M. Lucas

High-precision frequency alignment with classical communication channels is difficult due to noise, propagation delays, and signal degradation. Current optical methods, commonly involving frequency combs, are capable of synchronising clocks…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Adam Walton , Benjamin T. H. Varcoe

Quantum sensors are used for precision timekeeping, field sensing, and quantum communication. Comparisons among a distributed network of these sensors are capable of, for example, synchronizing clocks at different locations. The performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Benjamin K. Malia , Yunfan Wu , Julián Martínez-Rincón , Mark A. Kasevich

The phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization is universal and only recently advances have been made in the quantum domain. Being synchronization a kind of temporal correlation among systems, it is interesting to understand its connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Fernando Galve , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

The clock synchronization problem is to determine the time difference $\Delta$ between two spatially separated clocks. When message delivery times between the two clocks are uncertain, $O(2^{2n})$ classical messages must be exchanged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Isaac Chuang

Time synchronization is important for a variety of applications in wireless sensor networks including scheduling communication resources, coordinating sensor wake/sleep cycles, and aligning signals for distributed transmission/reception.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-12-07 D. Richard Brown , Andrew G. Klein , Rui Wang

Time synchronization is a critical task in robotic computing such as autonomous driving. In the past few years, as we developed advanced robotic applications, our synchronization system has evolved as well. In this paper, we first introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Shaoshan Liu , Bo Yu , Yahui Liu , Kunai Zhang , Yisong Qiao , Thomas Yuang Li , Jie Tang , Yuhao Zhu