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Quantum navigation gyroscope
A quantum navigation gyroscope is a rotation sensor that uses the wave behavior of ultracold atoms to track a vehicle's motion without GPS, using atom interferometry instead of spinning masses or ring lasers.
Quantum network
A quantum network, also known as a quantum internet, is a distributed system of quantum devices that exchanges qubits and distributes entanglement between nodes, enabling quantum key distribution and distributed quantum computing.
Quantum network stack
The quantum network stack is a layered architecture for delivering entanglement between quantum nodes, rebuilt from the ground up rather than adapted from the classical Internet.
Quantum neural network
A quantum neural network (QNN) is a machine learning model where a parameterized quantum circuit maps input data to predictions, with a classical optimizer tuning the circuit parameters.
Quantum noise
Quantum noise is the fundamental and technical randomness that disturbs quantum systems; in quantum computing it corrupts qubits and gates, and is the central obstacle to reliable computation.
Quantum non-demolition measurement
A quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement is a quantum measurement that does not disturb the measured quantity, proposed by Vladimir Braginsky in the 1970s for gravitational-wave detectors.
Quantum non-demolition measurement of a single spin
A quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement of a single spin reads out the spin's state while leaving the measured spin component undisturbed, so repeated measurements give correlated results instead of randomizing the state.
Quantum non-demolition parity measurement
A quantum non-demolition parity measurement reveals whether a qubit register holds an even or odd number of excitations without disturbing it, serving as the error-detecting primitive of quantum error correction.
Quantum nonlocality
Quantum nonlocality is the property of quantum theory that measurement outcomes on entangled particles cannot be explained by any local theory, as John Bell proved in 1964.
Quantum number
A quantum number is a discrete value of a physical quantity, such as energy or angular momentum, that labels a quantum state like an electron in an atom.
Quantum of Solace
Quantum of Solace is a 2008 James Bond film, the 22nd in the series, directed by Marc Forster and starring Daniel Craig in his second outing as 007.
Quantum optical coherence tomography
Quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT) is an optical imaging technique proposed at Boston University in 2001 that uses entangled photon pairs to double resolution and cancel dispersion.
Quantum optics
Quantum optics is the branch of physics that treats light and its interaction with matter using the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, whose energy is carried in photons.
Quantum optomechanics
Quantum optomechanics is the physics field studying coherent coupling between light and mechanical motion, typically via radiation pressure, to control mechanical systems at the quantum level.
Quantum oscillations
Quantum oscillations are periodic variations in a metal's magnetization or resistivity with magnetic field, caused by Landau quantization and first observed in bismuth in 1930.
Quantum paraelectricity
Quantum paraelectricity is a dielectric state in which quantum fluctuations suppress ferroelectric order even at absolute zero, first identified in strontium titanate, whose dielectric constant saturates at low temperature.
Quantum parameter estimation
Quantum parameter estimation is the theory of estimating unknown parameters, such as a phase shift or frequency, from measurements on a quantum system; its Fisher-information bounds underlie quantum metrology, including squeezed-light sensing at LIGO.
Quantum phase estimation
Quantum phase estimation is a quantum algorithm that estimates the eigenvalue phase of a unitary operator, a central primitive behind Shor's factoring algorithm and quantum chemistry simulation.
Quantum phase slip
A quantum phase slip is a quantum tunneling event in a thin superconducting wire where the superconducting phase jumps by 2π, the dual of the Josephson effect.
Quantum pigeonhole effect
The quantum pigeonhole effect is a proposed quantum phenomenon, introduced by Yakir Aharonov and colleagues in 2014, in which three particles in two boxes appear to never share a box.
Quantum plane
The quantum plane, also called the Manin plane, is a noncommutative algebra generated by x and y with xy = qyx, introduced by Yuri Manin in 1988.
Quantum plasma
A quantum plasma is an ionized medium so dense or cold that quantum effects like degeneracy pressure and tunneling govern its behavior, as in white dwarfs.
Quantum plasmonics
Quantum plasmonics is a research field combining quantum optics with nanoscale plasmonics, studying how surface plasmons confined below the diffraction limit interact with quantum emitters.
Quantum point contact
A quantum point contact, also called a split-gate transistor, is a narrow constriction in a two-dimensional electron gas whose conductance is quantized in units of 2e²/h.
Quantum principal component analysis
Quantum principal component analysis (qPCA) is a quantum algorithm, introduced by Seth Lloyd and coauthors in 2014, that extracts the dominant eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a density matrix.
Quantum programming
Quantum programming is the practice of writing software that controls quantum computers, expressing programs as circuits of gates and measurements on qubits with classical control.
Quantum pushdown automata
A quantum pushdown automaton is a quantum version of the pushdown automaton, first proposed by Moore and Crutchfield in 1997 and redefined non-equivalently by Golovkins and Oswald in 2001.
Quantum query complexity
Quantum query complexity measures how many black-box queries a quantum algorithm needs to compute a function, the model that analyzes Grover search and Shor's factoring.
Quantum query model
The quantum query model is a model of computation in which input is accessed only via oracle queries, the standard setting for quantum speedups like Grover's search.
Quantum radar
Quantum radar is a proposed class of radar systems that use entanglement and quantum correlations to detect targets; despite laboratory demonstrations, microwave versions remain limited to ranges under 1 km.