Infleqtion and Royal Navy Demonstrate World's First Quantum Optical Clock on Underwater Autonomous Submarine to advance GPS-Free Navigation
OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infleqtion, a global leader in neutral atom–based quantum technology, today announced a successful trial with the Royal Navy and MSubs, marking the first-ever deployment of a quantum optical atomic clock on an underwater autonomous vehicle. The trial integrated Infleqtion's Tiqker optical atomic clock into the Royal Navy's Excalibur (XCal) testbed submarine, demonstrating precision timing capabilities critical for resilient positioning, navigation, and timing (. ...