A quantum-classical cold atom system for inertial navigation

Rowley, Maxwell and Webber-Date, Alex and Osborn, Paul F. and Shah, Robert and Krastev, Teodor and Cannon, Rachel and Griffin, Paul and Riis, Erling and Cotter, Joeseph and Burrow, Oliver and Boughton, Edward; (2025) A quantum-classical cold atom system for inertial navigation. In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC). 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) . IEEE, DEU. ISBN 979-8-3315-1252-1 (https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec65582.2025...)

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Abstract

Global positioning and navigation using satellites has been a crucial part of modern infrastructure since the development of GPS in the 1970s, providing a positioning uncertainty less than 5 meters. However, such signals cannot be accessed underground or underwater and may be jammed or spoofed with relative ease. There remains, therefore, an important and practical need for precision navigation that does not rely on communication with an external source.

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Rowley, Maxwell, Webber-Date, Alex, Osborn, Paul F., Shah, Robert, Krastev, Teodor, Cannon, Rachel, Griffin, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0134-7554, Riis, Erling ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3225-5302, Cotter, Joeseph, Burrow, Oliver ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-4439 and Boughton, Edward;