Q-ChronoS: A Mobile Quantum Sensors System in Telecommunication Networks

Q-ChronoS: A Mobile Quantum Sensors System in Telecommunication Networks

“The system of mobile quantum sensors with optical clocks integrated into telecommunication networks (Q-ChronoS)” is a project related to the development of systems of two mobile quantum sensors based on optical atomic clocks and an infrastructure for optical frequency transfer, which will enable their use in various locations in Poland. The project is aimed at a wide range of recipients focused around quantum technologies, geodetics, metrology, physics, radiostrontium and communication.

The Q-ChronoS consortium consists of four institutions: PSNC (the leader), CBK PAS in Borówiec, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and AGH University in Kraków.

The project project is coordinated by:

dr Jerzy Nawrocki from the Astrogeodynamic Observatory in Borowiec (CBK PAS),

dr hab. inż. Przemysław Krehlik from the AGH University in Kraków,

dr hab. Michał Zawada from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Wojbor Bogacki who is the manager of Q-ChronoS from the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center,

dr Krzysztof Turza also from PSNC.

The planned infrastructure includes free-space links and utilizes Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex technology. The potential of mobile quantum sensors will provide benefits for resilient time infrastructure, future network synchronization, precise positioning and next-generation navigation, as well as applications such as underground exploration, monitoring and relativistic geodetics.

The infrastructure created within the Q-ChronoS project will enable the research and development works in areas such as: relativistic geodetics, research on changes in gravitational potential, detection of seismic movements, direct oceanographic measurement of sea level and ocean dynamics, radioastronomical research, standardization and metrology of time; as well as fundamental research such as verification of the invariance of physical constants, couplings to fields of the Standard Model of ultralight scalar dark matter fields, dark energy models, general scalar field with hidden sectors, Kaluza-Klein new physics theory, dilaton or soliton models, verification of Lorentz invariance, and as tests of quantum gravity, special relativity, detection of gravitational waves, and searches for cosmological topological defects.

The total cost of this project (FENG.02.04-IP.04-0024/24) is 108 349 798,29 PLN, including 79 002 564,01 PLN from the European Funds.