Quantum computer systems have to measure small models of time very precisely
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There is a elementary trade-off between making a clock accurate and counting ever shorter ticks, as a result of second legislation of thermodynamics. This trade-off might at some point be vital for clocks in quantum computer systems, the place computing operations happen on extraordinarily quick timescales with excessive accuracy.
A standard manner of expressing the second legislation of thermodynamics is that the quantity of dysfunction in a system (its entropy) should at all times improve over time. As a consequence of this rising dysfunction, there may be…