Talk:Quantum compass

Changing article title to Quantum inertial navigation, or perhaps just Quantum navigation?

It seems this article talk about navigation using inertial measurements. A compass implies getting an azimuth reference, rather than getting inertial measurements.

Additionally it seems the technology is more often mentioned as quantum inertial navigation or just quantum navigation, and a device a quantum inertial measurement unit rather than than a quantum compass.

For example:

• Infleqtion calls the technology Quantum Inertial Navigation System (Q-INS). (Un-Jammable Quantum Tech Takes Flight to Boost UK’s Resilience Against Hostile Actors, Infleqtion, May 13, 2024.)
• Boeing and AOSense calls a device they tested an quantum inertial measurement unit (IMU). (Matt Swayne, August 9, 2024, Boeing’s Quantum-based Navigation System Takes Flight in Historic Test, Quantum Insider.)
• The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) calls the technology quantum inertial navigation. (Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, April 5, 2024, NRL Charters Navy’s Quantum Inertial Navigation Path To Reduce Drift.)
• Finally one of the article's sources calls a device a quantum inertial measurement unit (Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality, SciTechDaily, August 18, 2024, "A complete quantum compass — more precisely called a quantum inertial measurement unit — would require six atom interferometers.".)

—Johan G (KJG2007 | talk) 20:26, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@KJG2007

Hi there,

I had the same thought when I found the article -- the present title is misleading. I don't have the time to work on it, but I do support changing the title. CA2MI (talk) 00:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)