A Solid-State Metrological Architecture via Active Stress-Tensor Cancellation and Topological Quasiparticle Decoherence

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Authors: John Drayton
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Abstract

The precision of state-of-the-art optical lattice clocks is inherently bounded bytheir susceptibility to localized environmental perturbations, specifically thermalnoise and gravitational potential variations (relativistic drift). We propose a solid-state chronometric architecture that fundamentally uncouples the oscillator frommacroscopic manifold distortions. Utilizing a CMOS-driven active-matrix meta-material, the system employs active electro-elastodynamic cancellation to generatea localized coordinate regime with a mathematically zeroed stress-energy tensor.Time is subsequently derived not from atomic transitions, but from the invariant de-coherence rate (γ) of an artificially induced, stable topological quasiparticle withinthis shielded boundary. This approach offers a metrological standard immune tolocalized spatial curvature and oscillator drift.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Frequency and Time Standards Relativity and Gravitational Theory Mechanical and Optical Resonators

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
3 March 2026
Language
EN