Quantum Clock Flagship
As part of the Quantum Engines and Instruments research program, the Quantum Clock Flagship aims to develop the hardware, architecture and theoretical foundations for improved quantum clock technologies.
Highly stable clocks are the cornerstone of precision measurement and improving quantum clock technology will accelerate the development of quantum computers and sensors. New clock and microwave signal synthesis hardware and quantum-information-inspired techniques will lead to improved qubit performance for quantum computing, and clock-characterisation routines, which are critical for harnessing full capabilities of our quantum clocks.
EQUS has strengths in low-noise oscillators, signal processing and quantum information. The Quantum Clock Flagship includes several new research directions that consolidate these strengths. It aims to develop:
a microwave qubit–clock synthesis chain;
a hybrid oscillator that couples solid-state qubits to mechanical oscillators; and
the theory for autonomous quantum clocks and fundamental limits to reducing noise in oscillators.
