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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
May. 01, 2017
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Warren P. Grice, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Raphael C. Pooser, Knoxville, TN (US);
Phani Teja Kuruganti, Knoxville, TN (US);
Philip G. Evans, Konxville, TN (US);
Miljko Bobrek, Knoxville, TN (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of distributing time information to enable synchronization in an authenticated manner via a quantum channel. A source device may transmit a timing signal, T on a communication channel from the source device to a receiver device. The timing signal T may be include a time or times stored in memory or calculated using a previously agreed upon formula. The method may include transmitting a quantum system Q from the source device to the receiver device. The quantum system may be prepared in a randomly chosen state and may be measured by the receiver device in a randomly chosen measurement basis.