The resulting signals are very sensitive to the property it measures - but the sensitivity is a double-edged sword because the physical environment and the mounting platforms add noise and confound the signals. In the commercial realm, Q-Ctrl counts Airbus as one of its customers (Airbus Ventures is also an investor and on the Q-Ctrl board) and is currently working to test and characterize its software-ruggedized quantum sensors to provide the next generation of GPS backup on commercial aircraft. The reason is the messy Heisenberg uncertainty principle which posits that simultaneously measuring position and momentum of atoms is not possible (a corollary to this is the inverse relationship between measurement error and measurement time, which means that lower the time available for measurement, higher the measurement error).
Author: Sabbir Rangwala, Senior Contributor, Sabbir Rangwala, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/sabbirrangwala/
Published at: 2025-10-08 22:26:55
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