Quantum Sensing
Using quantum systems to make measurements with precision beyond what classical sensors can achieve. One of the most commercially advanced quantum technologies.
Quantum sensing uses the sensitivity of quantum systems, their susceptibility to environmental perturbations, as a feature rather than a bug. Where decoherence is the enemy in quantum computing, quantum sensors are designed to detect precisely the perturbations that cause decoherence.
Quantum sensors can detect magnetic fields, gravitational variations, time, rotation, temperature, and other physical quantities with extraordinary precision. Many are already commercially deployed.
The commercial maturity of quantum sensing is significantly ahead of quantum computing. Atomic clocks, atomic magnetometers, and quantum gyroscopes are already in active use in defense, navigation, and telecommunications applications.
Infleqtion has quantum sensors in active defense deployment, commercially shipped products, not prototypes. NIST Boulder is the birthplace of atomic clock technology, which is the original quantum sensor. Colorado has arguably more commercially deployed quantum sensing products than anywhere else in the country.