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Enhancing the precision of measurements by harnessing entanglement is a long-sought goal in the field of quantum metrology. Yet attaining the best sensitivity allowed by quantum theory in the presence of noise is an outstanding challenge,…

Time synchronization is a crucial requirement in quantum key distribution (QKD)8 protocols, ensuring accurate key generation via the correct assignment of bits of raw key and9 enabling eavesdropping detection via the precise recording of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Lukas Tiefenthaler , Hannah Thiel , Davide Rusca , Antia Lamas Linares

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…

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

Quantum control techniques are employed to perform adiabatic quantum computing in the presence of noise. First, we analyze the adiabatic entanglement protocol (AEP) for two qubits. In this case, we found that this protocol is very robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Marllos E. F. Fernandes , Emanuel F. de Lima , Leonardo K. Castelano

We present a multi-party quantum clock synchronization protocol that utilizes shared prior entanglement and broadcast of classical information to synchronize spatially separated clocks. Notably, it is necessary only for any one party to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marko Krco , Prabasaj Paul

Long-distance transfer of quantum states is an indispensable part of large-scale quantum information processing. We propose a novel scheme for the transfer of two-electron entangled states, from one edge of a quantum dot array to the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Yue Ban , Xi Chen , Sigmund Kohler , Gloria Platero

Thanks to common-mode noise rejection, differential configurations are crucial for realistic applications of phase and frequency estimation with atom interferometers. Currently, differential protocols with uncorrelated particles and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Robin Corgier , Marco Malitesta , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

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

Exquisite quantum control has now been achieved in small ion traps, in nitrogen-vacancy centres and in superconducting qubit clusters. We can regard such a system as a universal cell with diverse technological uses from communication to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Naomi H. Nickerson , Joseph F. Fitzsimons , Simon C. Benjamin

Quantum synchronization has been a subject of intensive research in the last decade. In this work, we propose a quantum Li\'enard system whose classical equivalent features two limit cycles to one of which the system will converge. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Tobias Kehrer , Christoph Bruder , Parvinder Solanki

We present two scalable and entanglement-free methods for estimating the collective state of an n-qubit quantum computer. The first method consists of a fixed set of five quantum circuits-regardless of the number of qubits-that avoid the…

Entanglement lies at the core of quantum algorithms designed to solve problems that are intractable by classical approaches. One such algorithm, quantum annealing (QA), provides a promising path to a practical quantum processor. We have…

The current algorithms are based on linear model, for example, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) which requires frequent synchronization in order to handle the effects of clock frequency drift. This paper introduces a nonlinear approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Frank Wang , Danjue Li

In nature, instances of synchronisation abound across a diverse range of environments. In the quantum regime, however, synchronisation is typically observed by identifying an appropriate parameter regime in a specific system. In this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Joseph Tindall , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Berislav Buča , Dieter Jaksch

Quantum computation has revolutionary potential for speeding algorithms and for simulating quantum systems such as molecules. We report here a quantum computer design that performs universal quantum computation within a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Ari Mizel

The quantum clock synchronization algorithm proposed by I. L. Chuang (Phys. Rev. Lett, 85, 2006(2000)) has been implemented in a three qubit nuclear magnetic resonance quantum system. The effective-pure state is prepared by the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jingfu Zhang , Guilu Long , Zhiwei Deng , Wenzhang Liu , Zhiheng Lu

We present a scheme for speeding up quantum measurement. The scheme builds on previous protocols that entangle the system to be measured with ancillary systems. In the idealised situation of perfect entangling operations and no decoherence,…

High-precision remote clock synchronization is crucial for many classical and quantum network applications. Evaluating options for space-Earth links, we find that traditional solutions may not produce the desired synchronization for low…

Two-Ievel (qubit) clock systems are often used to perform precise measurement of time. In this work, we propose a compression protocol for $n$ identically prepared states of qubit clocks. The protocol faithfully encodes the states into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Yuxiang Yang , Giulio Chiribella , Masahito Hayashi