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Reading a Quantum Clock Costs More Energy Than Actually Running One

“Quantum clocks running at the smallest scales were expected to lower the energy cost of timekeeping, but our new experiment ...

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Reading a quantum clock uses more energy than operating it

Quantum timekeeping is supposed to be the ultimate in efficiency, with tiny devices that tick using the rules of quantum ...

Reading a quantum clock costs more energy than running it, study finds

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of ...