Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: We investigate methods to broadcast timing information from a central clock to all other clocks by the use of multipartite entanglement. This task is a necessary step in establishing a coordinated universal time, currently performed using classical synchronization methods. Using an entanglement-based method has the advantage that the timing results are independent of the intervening medium. We generalize existing bipartite quantum clock synchronization methods and take special care to address issues of different phase conventions being adopted at each node (the ``Preskill phase problem''). Using supersinglet purification, we show that this allows for a scalable method with a time signal that is a constant with respect to the number of nodes.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Oujaa, Hatim A., Liu, Qiao, Ilo-Okeke, Ebubechukwu O., Ivannikov, Valentin, Dowling, Jonathan P., Byrnes, Tim
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415960219
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