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The origin and nature of time in complex systems is explored using quantum (or 'Feynman') clocks and the signals produced by them. Networks of these clocks provide the basis for the evolution of complex systems. The general concept of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Hitchcock

Static metasurfaces have shown to be prominent compact structures for reciprocal and frequency-invariant transformation of electromagnetic waves in space. However, incorporating temporal variation to static metasurfaces would result in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Atomic clocks use atomic transitions as frequency references. The susceptibility of the atomic transition to external fields limits clock stability and introduces systematic frequency shifts. Here, we propose to realize an atomic clock that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri

Multi-node optical clock networks will enable future studies of fundamental physics and enable applications in quantum and classical communications as well as navigation and geodesy. We implement the first ever multi-node optical clock…

We develop new econometric methods for the comparison of nonparametric time trends. In many applications, practitioners are interested in whether the observed time series all have the same time trend. Moreover, they would often like to know…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-09-23 Marina Khismatullina , Michael Vogt

The number of IoT devices is expected to continue its dramatic growth in the coming years and, with it, a growth in the amount of data to be transmitted, processed and stored. Compression techniques that support analytics directly on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Francesco Taurone , Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér , Qi Zhang

This article discusses how the automation of tensor algorithms, based on A Mathematics of Arrays and Psi Calculus, and a new way to represent numbers, Unum Arithmetic, enables mechanically provable, scalable, portable, and more numerically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-27 John L. Gustafson , Lenore M. Mullin

Recent experimental progress in controlling neutral group-II atoms for optical clocks, and in the production of degenerate gases with group-II atoms has given rise to novel opportunities to address challenges in quantum computing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Andrew J. Daley

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the quantum-enhanced Monte Carlo method [Nature, 619, 282-287 (2023)], aimed at identifying the optimal working point of the algorithm. We observe an optimal mixing Hamiltonian strength and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Johannes Christmann , Petr Ivashkov , Mattia Chiurco , Guglielmo Mazzola

The time precision achievable using standard analog methods is well known. Several expressions for timing methods using digitized signals have been recently proposed in workshops, conferences or training courses. Most of them are only…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-20 Eric Delagnes

We propose a digital-controlled conveyor-belt shuttling method for silicon-based quantum processors, addressing the scalability challenges of conventional analog sinusoidal implementations. By placing a switch matrix and low-pass filters in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Ryo Nagai , Takashi Takemoto , Yusuke Wachi , Hiroyuki Mizuno

Supervised learning with irregularly sampled time series have been a challenge to Machine Learning methods due to the obstacle of dealing with irregular time intervals. Some papers introduced recently recurrent neural network models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Rafael T. Sousa , Lucas A. Pereira , Anderson S. Soares

A practical way to deal with the problem of time in quantum cosmology and quantum gravity is proposed. The main tool is effective equations, which mainly restrict explicit considerations to semiclassical regimes but have the crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-20 Martin Bojowald , Philipp A Hoehn , Artur Tsobanjan

A system-of-systems (SoS) is a large information processing system formed by the integration of autonomous computer systems (called constituent systems, CS), physical machines and humans for the purpose of providing new synergistic services…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Hermann Kopetz

While quantum simulation is one of the most promising applications of modern quantum devices, accessible simulation times are fundamentally limited by finite coherence times due to omnipresent noise. Based on the ideas of relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sebastian Gemsheim , Felix Fritzsch

The paper reports the obtained results for the projection and realization of a digitally system aiming to assist the equipment for a regulatory and pre-regulatory tools and holding tools within the flexible fabrication systems (FFS).…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viorel Putz , Mihai V. Putz

A spin precessing in a magnetic field is often used as a quantum clock, for example in tunneling-time measurements. We show that such a clock can exist in a coherent superposition of opposite temporal orientations, treating the arrow of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Yakov Bloch

Investigating the temporal behavior of digital circuits is a crucial step in system design, usually done via analog or digital simulation. Analog simulators like SPICE iteratively solve the differential equations characterizing the circuits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Josef Salzmann , Ulrich Schmid

On a chassis of gear model, we have offered a quantitative description for our method to synthesize a chemical clock signal with various duty cycles in Part I. As Part II of the study, this paper devotes itself in proposing a design…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-23 Chuan Zhang , Lulu Ge , Xiaohu You

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