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Quantum feedback is a technique for measuring a qubit and applying appropriate feedback depending on the measurement results. Here, we propose a new on-chip quantum feedback method where the measurement-result information is not taken from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 K. Kakuyanagi , A. Kemp , T. Baba , Y. Matsuzaki , H. Nakano , K. Semba , S. Saito

A genuine feature of projective quantum measurements is that they inevitably alter the mean energy of the observed system if the measured quantity does not commute with the Hamiltonian. Compared to the classical case, Jacobs proved that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Kay Brandner , Michael Bauer , Michael T. Schmid , Udo Seifert

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

Feedback uses past detection outcomes to dynamically modify a quantum system and is central to quantum control. These outcomes can be stored in a memory, defined as a stochastic function of past measurements. In this work, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Alberto J. B. Rosal , Patrick P. Potts , Gabriel T. Landi

No quantum measurement can give full information on the state of a quantum system; hence any quantum feedback control problem is neccessarily one with partial observations, and can generally be converted into a completely observed control…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mazyar Mirrahimi , Ramon van Handel

We investigate an optomechanical system as a model of an autonomous mechanical pendulum clock in the quantum regime, whose operation relies only on incoherent (thermal) resources. The escapement of the clock, the mechanism that translates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Matteo Brunelli , Mohammad Mehboudi , Nicolas Brunner , Patrick P. Potts

We investigate how the quantum dynamics of gravitational models depends on the internal clock employed in quantisation. Our previous result on the quantum Friedmann-Lemaitre model demonstrates that almost all physical predictions from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-01 Przemyslaw Malkiewicz

The development of precise atomic clocks has led to many scientific and technological advances that play an increasingly important role in modern society. Shared timing information constitutes a key resource for positioning and navigation…

We introduce a general framework, based on collision models and discrete CP-maps, to describe on an equal footing coherent and measurement-based feedback control of quantum mechanical systems. We apply our framework to prominent tasks in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Alfred Harwood , Matteo Brunelli , Alessio Serafini

Feedback control in open quantum dynamics is crucial for the advancement of various coherent platforms. However, currently only a handful of feedback master equations exist in the literature, which are restricted to specific types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Alberto J. B. Rosal , Patrick P. Potts , Gabriel T. Landi

Coherent feedback is a non-measurement based, hence a back-action free, method of control for quantum systems. A typical application of this control scheme is squeezing enhancement, a purely non-classical effect in quantum optics. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Sanae Iida , Mitsuyoshi Yukawa , Hidehiro Yonezawa , Naoki Yamamoto , Akira Furusawa

We show that applying feedback and weak measurements to a quantum system induces phase transitions beyond the dissipative ones. Feedback enables controlling essentially quantum properties of the transition, i.e., its critical exponent, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 D. A. Ivanov , T. Yu. Ivanova , S. F. Caballero-Benitez , I. B. Mekhov

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

Programmable quantum hardware provides an emerging platform for exploring and controlling non-unitary quantum dynamics through measurement-based operations. In this work, we introduce feedback-directed circuit architectures that integrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ruizhe Shen , Ching Hua Lee

Currently, the most accurate and stable clocks use optical interrogation of either a single ion or an ensemble of neutral atoms confined in an optical lattice. Here, we demonstrate a new optical clock system based on an array of…

A fundamental description of time can be consistent not only with the usual monotonic behavior but also with a periodic physical clock variable, coupled to the degrees of freedom of a system evolving in time. Generically, one would in fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Martin Bojowald , Luiz Martinez , Garrett Wendel

Nonequilibrium phases of quantum matter featuring time crystalline eigenstate order have been realized recently on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. While ideal quantum time crystals exhibit collective subharmonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-26 Gonzalo Camacho , Benedikt Fauseweh

I show that incoherent dynamics can lead to metrological advantages in quantum sensing. The results rely on the fact that incoherent dynamics lead to an additive contribution to the quantum Fisher information about time. Such an additive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Luis Pedro García-Pintos

We give an introduction to feedback control in quantum systems, as well as an overview of the variety of applications which have been explored to date. This introductory review is aimed primarily at control theorists unfamiliar with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kurt Jacobs

Measurements are ordinarily described with respect to absolute "Newtonian" time. In reality however, the switching-on of the measuring device at the instance of the measurement requires a timing device. Hence the classical time $t$ must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aharon Casher , Benni Reznik