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Continuous clocks, i.e. the clocks that measure time in a continuous manner, are regarded as an essential component of sensing technology. Precision and recurrence time are two basic features of continuous clocks. In this paper, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Mehdi Ramezani , Morteza Nikaeen , Alireza Bahrampour

In the course of the last decades entropic uncertainty relations have attracted much attention not only due to their fundamental role as manifestation of non-classicality of quantum mechanics, but also as major tools for applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Andreas Ketterer , Otfried Gühne

We show that the sensitivity of an atomic clock can be enhanced below the shot-noise level by initially squeezing, and then measuring in output, the population of a single atomic level. This can simplify current experimental protocols which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 L. Pezze , A. Smerzi

Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental tradeoff between the accuracy of time measurements and the size of the systems used as clocks. When the measurements of different time intervals are combined, the errors due to the finite clock size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Yuxiang Yang , Giulio Chiribella , Masahito Hayashi

Living systems operate far from thermal equilibrium by converting the chemical potential of ATP into mechanical work to achieve growth, replication or locomotion. Given time series observations of intra-, inter- or multicellular processes,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Dominic J. Skinner , Jörn Dunkel

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

In this work we use optimal control to generate Discrete Time Crystals (DTC) in generic many-body quantum systems. We define appropriate cost functions, which, when optimized, result in the formation of DTCs. This hitherto unexplored method…

We introduce the concept of an entangled clock, where the flow of time is operationally defined by the discrete registration of measurement outcomes on a singlet state. Comparing the synchronization rate of two such clocks against classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Karl Svozil

We study the computational complexity of simulating the time-dependent expectation value of a local operator in a one-dimensional quantum system by using temporal matrix product states. We argue that such cost is intimately related to that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 Stefano Carignano , Carlos Ramos Marimón , Luca Tagliacozzo

We explore the notion of generated entropy in open quantum systems. We focus on the study of the discrete-time quantum walk on the line, from the entropy production perspective. We argue that the evolution of the coin can be modeled as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Andrés Vallejo , Alejandro Romanelli , Raúl Donangelo , Renato Portugal

We investigate how the temperature calculated from the microcanonical entropy compares with the canonical temperature for finite isolated quantum systems. We concentrate on systems with sizes that make them accessible to numerical exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-05 Phillip C. Burke , Masudul Haque

Information-theoretically provable unique true random numbers, which cannot be correlated or controlled by an attacker, can be generated based on quantum measurement of vacuum state and universal-hashing randomness extraction. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Xiaomin Guo , Ripeng Liu , Pu Li , Chen Cheng , Mingchuan Wu , Yanqiang Guo

Energy-time uncertainty plays an important role in quantum foundations and technologies, and it was even discussed by the founders of quantum mechanics. However, standard approaches (e.g., Robertson's uncertainty relation) do not apply to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Patrick J. Coles , Vishal Katariya , Seth Lloyd , Iman Marvian , Mark M. Wilde

Understanding the computational power of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is of both fundamental and practical importance to quantum information science. Here, we address the question of whether error-uncorrected noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Kyungjoo Noh , Liang Jiang , Bill Fefferman

Estimating vibrational entropy is a significant challenge in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics due to its reliance on quantum mechanical properties. This paper introduces a quantum algorithm designed to estimate vibrational entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Shangjie Guo , Corneliu Buda , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum algorithms such as dynamical decoupling can be used to improve the sensitivity of a quantum sensor to a signal while suppressing sensitivity to noise. Atomic clocks are among the most sensitive quantum sensors, with recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 M. H. Zaheer , N. J. Matjelo , D. B. Hume , M. S. Safronova , D. R. Leibrandt

We study the current rectification of particles moving in a pulsating channel under the in uence of an applied force. We have shown the existence of diferent rectification scenarios in which entropic and energetic effects compete. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-13 M. Florencia Carusela , J. Miguel Rubi

Entropic dynamics is a framework in which the laws of dynamics are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. Its successes include the derivation of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory from probabilistic principles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-29 Pedro Pessoa , Felipe Xavier Costa , Ariel Caticha

We analyze the entropy production and the maximal extractable work from a squeezed thermal reservoir. The nonequilibrium quantum nature of the reservoir induces an entropy transfer with a coherent contribution while modifying its thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Gonzalo Manzano , Fernando Galve , Roberta Zambrini , Juan M. R. Parrondo

We present an enhanced entangled quantum clock protocol that incorporates a quantum phase estimation algorithm to directly estimate proper-time differences as an unknown phase. By employing highly entangled multi-clock states, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Won-Young Hwang