Revolutionizing Navigation Sensors with Quantum Entanglement.
Quantum entanglement has been found to significantly enhance the precision of sensors used for navigation without GPS. Optomechanical sensors can function as accelerometers, which can be used for inertial navigation on a planet that doesn’t have GPS satellites or within a building as a person navigates different floors. Quantum entanglement could make optomechanical sensors more accurate than inertial sensors currently in use. It could also enable optomechanical sensors to look for very subtle forces, such as identifying the presence of dark matter. The team's next steps are to miniaturize the system.