The goal of the Q-ChronoS – System of Mobile Quantum Sensors with Optical Clocks Integrated in Telecommunication Networks project is to build a system of mobile quantum sensors based on optical atomic clocks and infrastructure for optical frequency transfer, which will enable their use in various locations in Poland. The project is aimed at a wide audience focused on quantum technologies, geodesy, metrology, physics, radiostrontium and communications.
The planned infrastructure includes terminals for free-space optical frequency transfer (free-space links) and via telecommunications fiber infrastructure, including those using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex (DWDM) technology. The potential of mobile quantum sensors with associated infrastructure will provide benefits for resilient timing infrastructure, future network synchronization, next-generation precision positioning and navigation, and applications such as underground exploration, monitoring and relativistic geodesy.
The infrastructure created will enable research and development work in such areas as: relativistic geodesy, studies of changes in gravitational potential, detection of seismic motions, in direct oceanographic measurement of sea level and ocean dynamics, radio astronomy research, standardization and time metrology, in fundamental research such as verification of invariant physical constants, coupling to fields of the standard model of ultralow scalar dark matter fields, dark energy models, general scalar field with hidden sectors, Kaluza-Klein theory of new physics, dilaton or soliton models, verification of Lorentz invariance, and as tests of quantum gravity, special theory of relativity, gravitational wave detection and search for cosmological topological defects.
The requested funds are entirely for the purchase and manufacture of equipment, apparatus and software. No construction works are planned, so no funds are planned for cubic facilities, linear facilities and civil works. The applicant has adequate infrastructure and technical facilities for the installation of additional servers.
Coordinator:
Leader:
- Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.
Partners:
- Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
- AGH University of Science and Technology.
Funding Institution:
European Union under Measure 2.4 of the European Funds for a Modern Economy program No. FENG.02.04-IP.04-0024/24-00.
Project value:
PLN 108,349,798.29.
EU funding:
PLN 79,002,564.01.
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