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Coordinated international comparisons between optical clocks connected via fiber and satellite links

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Pith's one-line read This paper reports the largest coordinated comparison of optical clocks to date, simultaneously comparing ten clocks in six countries over fiber and satellite links and presenting 38 frequency ratios, including four measured directly for…

desk verdict Largest multi-lab optical clock comparison to date, with a genuinely useful dataset and correlation analysis, but the satellite-link uncertainty budget is partly self-calibrated and needs scrutiny before the numbers feed the least-squares adjustment. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.06763 v1 pith:RQEFMTNY submitted 2025-05-10 physics.atom-ph

Thomas Lindvall (1) , Marco Pizzocaro (2) , Rachel M. Godun (3) , Michel Abgrall (4) , Daisuke Akamatsu (5 , 6) , Anne Amy-Klein (7) , Erik Benkler (8)
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The paper reports the largest coordinated international comparison of optical clocks carried out to date: ten clocks in six countries ran simultaneously for 45 days, and frequency ratios between them were measured over phase-stabilized fiber and satellite (GNSS-IPPP) links. The authors present 38 frequency ratios, including the first direct measurements of the Yb+(E3)/Yb, In+/Yb, Sr+/Sr, and Sr+/Yb ratios, and compute the correlations among all of them. The campaign is designed to test whether optical clocks from different laboratories agree within their claimed uncertainties, to expose hidden systematic errors, and to build the cross-checked dataset needed before the SI second can be redefined on an optical transition. The redefinition of the second, targeted for the 2030s, requires such validation of clock uncertainty budgets, so this campaign is a concrete step toward making optical clocks the basis of international timekeeping.

What carries the argument

The central object is the optical frequency ratio between two clock transitions, with a total fractional uncertainty made of clock systematic uncertainties ($u_B$), relativistic redshift uncertainty ($u_{RRS}$), link statistics, and maser extrapolation. The comparison machinery is a star-shaped phase-stabilized fiber network, whose links contribute under $10^{-18}$ after 1000 s, plus satellite links using Integer Precise Point Positioning (IPPP), with hydrogen masers acting as flywheels so that clock data gaps can be bridged. The load-bearing model is the IPPP frequency transfer uncertainty $FTU = 1\times10^{-15}/(T/\mathrm{d})$, and the new analytical tool is the covariance calculation: the Fourier-transform method for extrapolation uncertainty is generalized to compute the covariance between two ratios that share a common maser, yielding correlation coefficients up to 0.94 for fiber ratios and 0.80 for GNSS ratios.

What would settle it

A direct comparison of the same two clocks over both a satellite link and a fiber link for at least 30 days would settle whether the transfer-uncertainty model holds: if the satellite-versus-fiber disagreement exceeds the combined uncertainties consistently, the model is optimistic. For the specific $4\times10^{-16}$ offset seen with the Italian Yb clock, feeding the same clock signal to two independent receivers through separate distribution chains during a GNSS-versus-fiber comparison would confirm whether the offset originates in the signal distribution.

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Core claim

On its own terms, the paper establishes that a coordinated multi-clock, multi-link campaign can produce a dense, redundant set of optical frequency ratios whose cross-checks verify uncertainty budgets and expose inconsistencies. The 38 ratios include several GNSS links with total uncertainties below $1.8\times10^{-16}$, improving on the best previous satellite comparison, and the first direct measurements of Yb+(E3)/Yb, In+/Yb, Sr+/Sr, and Sr+/Yb. The redundancy revealed that all satellite-based ratios involving the Italian Yb clock are offset by about $4\times10^{-16}$ from fiber-based results, likely due to an unidentified problem in its signal distribution; the French Sr clock shows excess scatter and offsets near $1\times10^{-16}$; and the German Sr clock may have been a few $10^{-17}$ low. Because several discrepancies are ambiguous—a clock may be wrong, or the reference value derived from previous data may be wrong—the paper presents the results with a full $38\times38$ correlation matrix so future adjustments can use them correctly.

Load-bearing premise

The satellite-based results rest on the assumption that the noise added by the satellite link and by the auxiliary hydrogen clocks used to fill gaps in the optical-clock data is no larger than the model used to compute the uncertainties; if the real noise is larger, the reported uncertainties on the thirty satellite-based ratios are too small and the comparisons built on them shift.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The first direct measurements of the Yb+(E3)/Yb, In+/Yb, Sr+/Sr, and Sr+/Yb ratios will feed into the next least-squares adjustment of recommended optical frequencies, with the fiber-based Yb+(E3)/Yb value (about $5\times10^{-17}$ uncertainty) expected to pull the optimized value significantly.
  • Several satellite-based ratios with total uncertainties below $1.8\times10^{-16}$ show that IPPP with maser flywheels can audit optical clocks across continents at a level previously reached only by fiber or local comparisons.
  • The full correlation matrix, with 242 non-zero coefficients, allows all 38 ratios to be combined in future multivariate adjustments without double-counting shared clocks, links, and masers.
  • The campaign's identified inconsistencies—the Italian Yb satellite offset, the French Sr scatter, and the possible German Sr offset—demonstrate that redundant multi-clock, multi-link measurements can uncover problems that pairwise comparisons would leave hidden.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the FTU model continues to hold, the same satellite-plus-maser procedure could make routine intercontinental comparisons of optical clocks at the $10^{-16}$ level, and the covariance formalism could be extended to networks that mix fiber and future free-space optical links.
  • A testable extension would be to operate the Italian Yb clock with two independent radio-frequency distribution paths during a simultaneous fiber-and-GNSS comparison; if the $4\times10^{-16}$ offset reproduces only on the satellite side, the problem is in the distribution chain rather than the clock itself.
  • The correlation machinery for common-maser extrapolation could be reused for optical time scales, where a single flywheel oscillator bridges gaps in real time; the same covariance formulas would quantify how much of the time-scale noise is shared between successive clock comparisons.
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Summary. This manuscript reports a 45-day coordinated campaign in 2022 in which ten optical clocks at six institutes were compared simultaneously, using a mix of local, international optical-fiber, and GNSS IPPP links. The paper presents 38 optical frequency ratios, of which four are claimed as first direct measurements (Yb+(E3)/Yb, In+/Yb, Sr+/Sr, Sr+/Yb), and it provides a 38x38 correlation analysis. The authors identify several anomalies, most notably an unexplained ~4e-16 offset in all GNSS comparisons involving the INRIM Yb clock, a possible uncontrolled shift in the SYRTE Sr clock, and a possible few-1e-17 offset in the PTB Sr clock. The abstract and conclusions use these results to argue that coordinated multi-lab optical clock networks are feasible and that the data will support the redefinition of the second.

Significance. If the uncertainty estimates are accepted, this is a landmark dataset: it is the densest simultaneous cross-checked comparison of optical clocks to date, it demonstrates the operation of a multi-link network with two independent transfer techniques, and it adds genuinely new direct frequency ratios that will feed into the next CIPM adjustment. The paper's strengths are its internal cross-checks (fiber versus GNSS, same-transition ratios, double GNSS receivers), the explicit correlation analysis, and the unusually candid reporting of anomalies. The main risk is that the uncertainty budget for the satellite-based ratios is not fully independent of the measured data, and the paper itself warns that some quoted uncertainties may be too small. Because the reliability of the quoted error bars is load-bearing for the '38 ratios', the 'lowest satellite comparison uncertainty' claim, and the offsets interpreted in Section 5, the manuscript needs revision before the results can be used with confidence.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 4 and Supplementary Material Sec. 3.4] The uncertainties of the 26 GNSS-based ratios rest on noise models that are calibrated, at least in part, with the campaign's own data. The hydrogen-maser noise models in Table S2 are stated to be 'estimated using optical clock vs HM data from the campaign and/or prior information' (Section 4), and the IPPP phase-noise model in Eq. (5) has its amplitude k^-1 adjusted 'to make the FTU agree with the conservative estimate' and its low cutoff f_l = 1/(30 d) chosen to reproduce the autocorrelation from the same IPPP-fiber comparison (Supplementary Sec. 3.4). This makes the uncertainty budget not fully independent of the measured ratios, so an unmodeled common excess noise during this particular campaign would be invisible and would propagate into all GNSS ratios. Please add a sensitivity analysis (e.g., doubling the maser noise coefficients and the IPPP amplitude, or using independent long-term maser characterizations) and report how the claimed uncertainties and the 'lowest satellite comparison uncertainty' statement change.
  2. [Section 5.1 and Table 2] The paper declares 'we consider the results of all the frequency ratios via GNSS to INRIM to be unreliable' but still lists these seven ratios (rows 14, 16, 24, 25, 27, 28 and 29) in Table 2 with quantitative uncertainties and includes them in Fig. 2 and in the '38 frequency ratios' claims of the abstract and Section 7. This ambiguity is load-bearing because a reader combining these ratios with future data or with the CIPM adjustment could use uncertainties that the authors themselves state are wrong by about 4e-16. Please either mark these rows explicitly as unreliable (and exclude them from the headline count of usable ratios), or add a systematic uncertainty term that accounts for the observed offset.
  3. [Section 5.2 and the Birge-ratio treatment in Section 3] The paper reports a fractional frequency difference of 1.46(21)e-16 between PTB Sr and SYRTE Sr on the fiber link and states that SYRTE Sr had an uncontrolled shift at the 1e-16 level and PTB Sr possibly a few 1e-17, with Birge ratios of 3.3-5.3 for ratios involving SYRTE Sr (Supplementary Fig. S1). Nevertheless, Table 2 does not add any correlated systematic uncertainty for these clocks, so the 'agreement within 1-2 sigma' statements for the Sr/Sr and Yb+(E3)/Sr comparisons are likely understated. The Birge-ratio inflation acts on each ratio independently and cannot capture a common-mode clock shift that affects all ratios sharing a clock. Please either assign an additional, explicitly correlated uncertainty to the suspect clocks or clearly reclassify the affected ratios as consistency checks rather than precision results.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Table 2 caption] The caveat that 'some of the frequency ratios have significantly larger uncertainties than the estimates shown here' should be made actionable: list the affected row numbers and state explicitly whether users should treat those ratios as upper limits, as invalid, or as needing an extra uncertainty.
  2. [Fig. 2] The ratio ID numbers and the 'inv' markers are difficult to read at publication size; please enlarge the labels or split the figure so that the GNSS and fiber/local panels are legible.
  3. [Data Availability Statement] For a paper whose central contribution is a dataset, 'Data underlying the results ... may be obtained from the authors upon reasonable request' limits reproducibility; please consider releasing at least the daily-binned ratios and the correlation/covariance matrix.
  4. [Section 7, first paragraph] The sentence 'We have demonstrated agreement between GNSS and optical fiber links over a continental scale' should be qualified, since Section 5.1 removes the INRIM GNSS data from that conclusion.

Circularity Check

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No formal circularity: the 38 ratios are direct measurements cross-validated against independent link techniques and external reference values.

full rationale

The paper's central deliverable is a set of measured optical frequency ratios obtained from simultaneous clock operation, fiber links, and GNSS/IPPP comparison. The values are not derived from a fitted model or from a self-citation. Cross-checks include fiber-vs-GNSS agreement, same-transition ratios expected to equal 1, and comparisons against the CIPM 2021 least-squares reference values, which are external to this campaign. The Birge-ratio inflation, maser-noise models estimated partly from campaign data, and the IPPP autocorrelation model are uncertainty-estimation procedures; they affect the quoted error bars but do not enter the frequency-ratio values, so they are self-calibration limitations rather than circular derivations. The Table 2 caveat that some GNSS ratios may have significantly larger uncertainties is an honesty flag about the uncertainty model, not a circular reduction. The single use of the authors' prior work to interpret the PTB Sr offset ([29]) relies on further measurements and does not support the measured ratios, so it is not load-bearing. Consequently, no step satisfies the 'reduces by construction' test; score 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim relies on standard metrology background and on several empirical or numerical models whose parameters are fitted or chosen within the campaign. No new physical entities are introduced. The largest self-calibrated components are the maser noise models, Birge ratio inflation, and the IPPP PSD model.

free parameters (6)
  • IPPP frequency transfer uncertainty coefficient = 1e-15/(T/d), and 1.3e-15/(T/d) for the NM0D receiver
    Sets the GNSS link noise floor used for all satellite ratios; taken as an empirical prior and adjusted for one receiver.
  • IPPP phase PSD model amplitude = k^-1 = 4.6e-22 s^2/Hz
    Supplementary Section 3.4; amplitude increased slightly from a fit to IPPP-fiber data so the model matches the FTU target of 1e-15/(T/d).
  • IPPP phase PSD low cut-off frequency = 1/(30 d)
    Chosen to give best agreement between the model autocorrelation and the IPPP-fiber comparison data.
  • Maser noise model coefficients = Six sets of h2, h0, h-1, h-2 and optional Lorentzian peak parameters, see Table S2
    Used for maser extrapolation uncertainties and correlations; fitted using campaign clock-vs-maser data and/or prior information.
  • Birge ratio inflation factors = 1 to 2.1 for most fiber and local ratios; 3.3 to 5.3 for ratios involving SYRTE Sr
    Computed from daily-bin scatter and applied to statistical uncertainties of fiber and local ratios.
  • Hydrogen maser drift rates = Per institute, from linear fits to clock-vs-maser data
    Used to correct mean frequencies to the center of the analysis interval in Section 4.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption The empirical IPPP frequency transfer uncertainty FTU = 1e-15/(T/d), and 1.3e-15/(T/d) for the NM0D receiver, bounds GNSS link noise over analysis intervals up to about 100 days.
    Used in Section 4 to set the dominant statistical uncertainty for all GNSS ratios; validated in prior references, not re-derived here.
  • domain assumption Hydrogen maser frequency noise is stationary and can be described as power-law noise (white phase, white frequency, flicker, random walk) plus optional Lorentzian bumps, with parameters from Table S2.
    Assumed in Supplementary Section 3.3 for extrapolation uncertainties and correlations; some parameters are fitted using campaign data.
  • domain assumption Excess daily scatter in fiber ratios is fully captured by inflating statistical uncertainties by the Birge ratio computed from those same daily bins.
    Section 3 and Supplementary Section 2; the procedure converts observed scatter into uncertainty without identifying its physical source.
  • domain assumption The 2021 CIPM least-squares reference frequency ratios provide valid expected values for different-transition ratios, except where the paper argues the reference is suspect, for Sr+ and In+.
    Used in Section 5 and Figure 2 to define offsets; several conclusions about clock discrepancies depend on trusting these references.
  • domain assumption The relativistic redshift correction relative to the conventional potential W0 = 62,636,856.00 m^2/s^2 is accurate to the u_RRS uncertainties in Table 1.
    Needed for all remote comparisons, used in Section 3 and Table 1.
  • ad hoc to paper The unidentified 4e-16 offset observed in GNSS ratios involving INRIM affected all and only those GNSS ratios during the campaign, so excluding all such ratios is valid.
    Section 5.1; the cause was never identified, so this is a campaign-specific post hoc exclusion rule rather than an independently established fact.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Coordinated international comparisons between optical clocks connected via fiber and satellite links},
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Optical clocks provide ultra-precise frequency references that are vital for international metrology as well as for tests of fundamental physics. To investigate the level of agreement between different clocks, we simultaneously measured the frequency ratios between ten optical clocks in six different countries, using fiber and satellite links. This is the largest coordinated comparison to date, from which we present a subset of 38 optical frequency ratios and an evaluation of the correlations between them. Four ratios were measured directly for the first time, while others had significantly lower uncertainties than previously achieved, supporting the advance towards a redefinition of the second and the use of optical standards for international time scales.

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Figure 1. Overview of the clock comparison campaign: ten optical clocks in six different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Frequency ratios measured in March 2022 via GNSS links (blue squares), [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Graphical representation of the correlation values between the ratios reported in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗

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