Boundary Time Crystals as AC sensors: enhancements and constraints
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06273v2
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 08:24:23 GMT
- Title: Boundary Time Crystals as AC sensors: enhancements and constraints
- Authors: Dominic Gribben, Anna Sanpera, Rosario Fazio, Jamir Marino, Fernando Iemini,
- Abstract summary: We find an enhanced sensitivity of the BTC when its spins are resonant with the applied AC field.
Despite its long coherence time and multipartite correlations, the entropic cost of the BTC hinders an optimal decoding of the AC field information.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: We investigate the use of a boundary time crystals (BTCs) as sensors of AC fields. Boundary time crystals are non-equilibrium phases of matter in contact to an environment, for which a macroscopic fraction of the many-body system breaks the time translation symmetry. We find an enhanced sensitivity of the BTC when its spins are resonant with the applied AC field, as quantified by the quantum Fisher information (QFI). The QFI dynamics in this regime is shown to be captured by a relatively simple ansatz consisting of an initial power-law growth and late-time exponential decay. We study the scaling of the ansatz parameters with resources (encoding time and number of spins) and identify a moderate quantum enhancement in the sensor performance through comparison with classical QFI bounds. Investigating the precise source of this performance, we find that despite of its long coherence time and multipartite correlations (advantageous properties for quantum metrology), the entropic cost of the BTC (which grows indefinitely in the thermodynamic limit) hinders an optimal decoding of the AC field information. This result has implications for future candidates of quantum sensors in open system and we hope it will encourage future study into the role of entropy in quantum metrology.
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