Compression for Qubit Clocks

Abstract

Two-Ievel (qubit) clock systems are often used to perform precise measurement of time. In this work, we propose a compression protocol for $n$ identically prepared states of qubit clocks. The protocol faithfully encodes the states into $(1/2)\log n$ qubits and $(1/2)\log n$ classical bits and works even in the presence of noise. If the purity of the clock states is fixed, $(1/2)\log n$ qubits are sufficient. We also prove that this protocol requires the minimum amount of total memory among all protocols with vanishing error in the large $n$ limit.

arXiv comment5 pages; published version. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1703.05876

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