Industrialization of quantum sensing: technology breakthroughs and integration of multi-field application scenarios

doi:10.12267/j.issn.2096-5931.2025.07.009

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Abstract:

Quantum sensing technology, as one of the three pillars of quantum information technology, utilizes effects such as quantum superposition and entanglement to achieve ultra-high precision measurement of physical quantities like time and frequency, electromagnetic fields, and gravity. The major economies around the world have accelerated their layout through policy support and capital investment, focusing on core technology research and development and industrial ecosystem construction. Currently, quantum sensing has achieved industrialization breakthroughs in multiple fields such as time-frequency measurement, power grids, new energy, biomedicine, metrology, and deep earth exploration, and is expected to become the direction of quantum technology that achieves large-scale application relatively quickly.

Key words: quantum information technology, quantum sensing, industrialization, multi-field application scenarios

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CAI Mingcheng, ZHAO Long, SUN Feng, XU Kebiao. Industrialization of quantum sensing: technology breakthroughs and integration of multi-field application scenarios[J]. Information and Communications Technology and Policy, 2025, 51(7): 70-77.

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