{"id":192681,"date":"2024-07-10T00:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/no-gps-no-problem-researchers-are-making-quantum-sensing-tools-more-compact-and-accurate-to-replace-gps"},"modified":"2024-07-10T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:23:51","slug":"no-gps-no-problem-researchers-are-making-quantum-sensing-tools-more-compact-and-accurate-to-replace-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/no-gps-no-problem-researchers-are-making-quantum-sensing-tools-more-compact-and-accurate-to-replace-gps","title":{"rendered":"No GPS, no problem: Researchers are making quantum sensing tools more compact and accurate to replace GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-gps-no-problem-researchers-are-making-quantum-sensing-tools-more-compact-and-accurate-to-replace-gps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fundamental physics\u2014let alone quantum physics\u2014might sound complicated to many, but it can actually be applied to solve everyday problems.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine navigating to an unfamiliar place. Most people would suggest using GPS, but what if you were stuck in an underground tunnel where radio signals from satellites were not able to penetrate? That\u2019s where quantum sensing tools come in.<\/p>\n<p>USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute researchers Jonathan Habif and Justin Brown, both from ISI\u2019s new Laboratory for Quantum-Limited Information, are working at making sensing instruments like atomic accelerometers smaller and more accurate so they can be used to navigate when GPS is down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamental physics\u2014let alone quantum physics\u2014might sound complicated to many, but it can actually be applied to solve everyday problems. Imagine navigating to an unfamiliar place. Most people would suggest using GPS, but what if you were stuck in an underground tunnel where radio signals from satellites were not able to penetrate? That\u2019s where quantum sensing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}