Aquark Deploys Cold Atom Quantum Tech on Drone System

University of Southampton spinout Aquark Technologies has demonstrated continuous trapping of cold atoms suitable for sensing while flying on a drone. Cold atom-based quantum technologies support quantum computing and high-precision sensing, with implications for measuring time, acceleration, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields, and rotation. The approach uses groups of one or two elements, such as rubidium, in ultrahigh vacuum conditions and precisely tuned lasers to confine and slow down atoms for the manipulation of quantum states of superposition and entanglement.