Matters Arising: Distributed quantum sensing with mode-entangled spin-squeezed atomic states

Abstract: In ``Distributed quantum sensing with mode-entangled spin-squeezed atomic states" Nature (2022), Malia et. al. claim to improve the precision of a network of clocks by using entanglement. In particular, by entangling a clock network with up to four nodes, a precision 11.6 dB better than the quantum projection noise limit (i.e. precision without any entanglement) is reported. These claims are incorrect, Malia et. al. do not achieve an improved precision with entanglement. Here we show their demonstration is more than two orders of magnitude worse than the quantum projection noise limit.