Quantum computer systems have to measure small items of time very precisely
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There’s a basic trade-off between making a clock correct and counting ever shorter ticks, because of the second regulation of thermodynamics. This trade-off may sooner or later be essential for clocks in quantum computer systems, the place computing operations happen on extraordinarily quick timescales with excessive accuracy.
A typical approach of expressing the second regulation of thermodynamics is that the quantity of dysfunction in a system (its entropy) should at all times enhance over time. As a consequence of this rising dysfunction, there may be…
