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Ticking-clock performance enhanced by nonclassical temporal correlations
- Source :
- Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033051 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We investigate the role of nonclassical temporal correlations in enhancing the performance of ticking clocks in a discrete-time scenario. We show that the problem of optimal models for ticking clocks is related to the violation of Leggett-Garg-type temporal inequalities formulated in terms of, possibly invasive, sequential measurements, but on a system with a bounded memory capacity. Ticking clocks inspire the derivation of a family of temporal inequalities showing a gap between classical and quantum correlations, despite involving no input. We show that quantum ticking-clock models achieving accuracy beyond the classical bound are also those violating Leggett-Garg-type temporal inequalities for finite sequences and we investigate their continuous-time limit. Interestingly, we show that optimal classical clock models in the discrete-time scenario do not have a well-defined continuous-time limit, a feature that is absent in quantum models.<br />Comment: 8+12 pages, 5 figures
- Subjects :
- Quantum Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033051 (2021)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2005.04241
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033051