MIniature Sensing and Timing with QUantum Enhancement - MISTIQUE

MISTIQUE将加速量子传感器为社会带来的实际利益。MISTIQUE将从未来运输系统的创新需求中获得研究计划，并为真实的世界的实际部署奠定物理和工程基础。MISTIQUE将解决在不使用卫星导航服务的情况下提供精确导航和定时的解决方案的需求，或者当这些服务在一段时间内无法使用时。虽然卫星导航服务非常成功，每个人都可以在智能手机和汽车中使用，但它们有一个明显的缺点，即容易受到干扰。自然太阳活动或人为干扰和欺骗设备造成的这种破坏已成为对我们重要的国家基础设施和导航能力的威胁。量子传感器原则上可以为这一挑战提供一个非常有弹性的解决方案，但它们仍然过于笨重，昂贵和敏感，无法在移动平台上进行常规操作。MISTIQUE将建立在英国国家量子技术中心在传感器和定时方面的成功基础上，并磨练关键的研究挑战，这将允许在移动平台上部署量子传感器，这将为民用和国防应用领域的更大研究计划提供种子。它将为英国关键的国家基础设施提供小型，具有成本效益，强大和有弹性的解决方案，如通信，能源和交通网络，土地和水资源管理以及边境控制，并将相关知识注入国家供应链。

MISTIQUE will accelerate the practical benefits of quantum sensors for society. It will derive its research program from the innovation needs of future transport systems and lay the physics and engineering foundations for practical deployment in the real world.MISTIQUE will address the need for solutions providing accurate navigation and timing without the use of satellite navigation services, or when these are unusable for periods of time. While satellite navigation services are immensely successful and readily available to everyone in their smartphones and cars, they have one significant drawback in their vulnerability to disruption. Such disruption by natural solar activity, or manmade jamming and spoofing devices has become a threat to our critical national infrastructure and our ability to navigate. Quantum sensors can in principle provide an extremely resilient solution to this challenge, however they still are too bulky, costly and sensitive to be routinely operated on a moving platform.MISTIQUE will build upon the successes of the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing and hone in on the critical research challenges, which will allow the deployment of quantum sensors on moving platforms, ranging from marine vessels to aeroplanes in the first instance.This will provide the seed-corn to a larger research programme across civil and defence applications. It will provide the UK with small, cost-effective, robust and resilient solutions to critical national infrastructure, such as communication, energy and transport networks, land and water management as well as border control and instil the respective knowledge into the national supply chain.