Entropic costs of the quantum-to-classical transition in a microscopic clock

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00096v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:00:00 GMT
• Title: Entropic costs of the quantum-to-classical transition in a microscopic clock
• Authors: Vivek Wadhia, Florian Meier, Federico Fedele, Ralph Silva, Nuriya Nurgalieva, David L. Craig, Daniel Jirovec, Jaime Saez-Mollejo, Andrea Ballabio, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni Isella, Marcus Huber, Mark T. Mitchison, Paul Erker, Natalia Ares,
• Abstract summary: We experimentally realize a quantum clock by using a charge sensor to count charges tunneling through a double quantum dot (DQD) Our results suggest that the entropy produced by the amplification and measurement of a clock's ticks is the most important and fundamental thermodynamic cost of timekeeping at the quantum scale.
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• Abstract: We experimentally realize a quantum clock by using a charge sensor to count charges tunneling through a double quantum dot (DQD). Individual tunneling events are used as the clock's ticks. We quantify the clock's precision while measuring the power dissipated by the DQD and, separately, the charge sensor in both direct-current and radio-frequency readout modes. This allows us to probe the thermodynamic cost of creating ticks microscopically and recording them macroscopically, which we refer to as the quantum-to-classical transition. Our experiment is the first to explore the interplay between the entropy produced by a microscopic clockwork and its macroscopic measurement apparatus. We show that the latter contribution not only dwarfs the former but also unlocks greatly increased precision, because the measurement record can be exploited to optimally estimate time even when the DQD is at equilibrium. Our results suggest that the entropy produced by the amplification and measurement of a clock's ticks, which has often been ignored in the literature, is the most important and fundamental thermodynamic cost of timekeeping at the quantum scale.

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