Quantum stopwatch: how to store time in a quantum memory

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2017.0773MaRDI QIDQ4557700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuxiang Yang, Giulio Chiribella, Masahito Hayashi

Publication date 26 November 2018

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05876

zbMATH Keywords

data compressionquantum clocksquantum metrology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: 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 accumulate, resulting in an overall inaccuracy that grows with the complexity of the setup. Here we introduce a method that in principle eludes the accumulation of errors by coherently transferring information from a quantum clock to a quantum memory of the smallest possible size. Our method could be used to measure the total duration of a sequence of events with enhanced accuracy, and to reduce the amount of quantum communication needed to stabilize clocks in a quantum network.

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