P.C.M. Flores, R.C.F. Caballar, E.A. Galapon, “Synchronizing quantum and classical clocks made of quantum particles”, Physical Review A 94, 032123 (2016)

We demonstrate that the quantum corrections to the classical arrival time for a quantum object in a potential free region of space, as computed in Phys. Rev. A 80, 030102(R) (2009), can be eliminated up to a given order of ℏ by choosing an appropriate position-dependent phase for the object’s wave function. This then implies that we can make the quantum arrival time of the object as close as possible to its corresponding classical arrival time, allowing us to synchronize a classical and quantum clock, which tells time using the classical and quantum arrival time of the object, respectively. We provide an example for synchronizing such a clock by making use of a quantum object with a position-dependent phase imprinted on the object’s initial wave function with the use of an impulsive potential.

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Philip Flores is a 5-th year B.S. Physics student of the National Institute of Physics. He is currently working on his second paper on the problem of covariance of discrete and bounded time operators.