Emergingby GlyphIonQ filed an 8-K: completed an acquisition or disposition; sold unregistered shares
SEC Form 8-K, items 2.01, 3.02.
SEC EDGAR
Quantum sensing
Early commercialmomentum 365,592 papers a year (+22%)$74M raised in 12 months21 companies
Devices that use quantum states of atoms or light to measure time, motion or fields precisely, or to link and secure networks.
Why early commercial: DARPA contracted IonQ in August 2026 to manufacture and deliver 125 optical atomic clocks for US government use. Aug 6, 2026This week: IonQ filed an 8-K report after entering into a material agreement and selling unregistered shares.
Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.
Events
All 25 eventsIonQ filed an 8-K: entered a material agreement; sold unregistered shares
SEC Form 8-K, items 1.01, 3.02.
SEC EDGAR
NIST-Developed Quantum Sensors Improve Nuclear Monitoring
New X-ray measurements will allow scientists to more accurately monitor nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities.
NIST news
Infleqtion and Cisco partner on networked quantum technology
The deal pairs Infleqtion's neutral atom computers and sensors with Cisco's networking stack.
infleqtion.com
SandboxAQ flies AQNav on Northrop Grumman's Lumberjack drone
The test was the first reported magnetic navigation flight on an attritable drone.
sandboxaq.com
Funding
SBQuantum
Led by Quantonation, Quantacet
$4MSource ↗
memQ
Led by Quantonation, Ocean Azul Partners
$10MSource ↗
Nu Quantum
Led by National Grid Partners
$60MSource ↗
Atomionics
Led by Paspalis
$13MSource ↗
SandboxAQ
$450MSource ↗
Companies
All 21 companies
IonQ
Sells QKD networks, quantum networking and optical atomic clocks alongside its quantum computers.
ionq.com
Boeing
Building Q4S, a self-funded satellite to test quantum entanglement swapping in space.
boeing.com
Cisco
Runs a quantum networking research program working on entanglement distribution hardware and software.
cisco.com
Infleqtion
Makes neutral atom quantum sensors, including the Tiqker optical atomic clock.
infleqtion.com
SandboxAQ
Offers AQNav, a magnetic anomaly navigation system using quantum sensors.
sandboxaq.com
Q-CTRL
Builds Ironstone Opal, a quantum navigation system that works without GPS.
q-ctrl.com
Researchers and labs
All 56 researchers and labsGuang‐Can Guo
Publishes on Quantum sensing at University of Science and Technology of China: 66 papers in 2 years.
Shougang Zhang
Publishes on Quantum sensing at University of Science and Technology of China: 48 papers in 2 years.
Jingbiao Chen
Publishes on Quantum sensing at Peking University: 46 papers in 2 years.
Shao-Ming Fei
Publishes on Quantum sensing at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences: 45 papers in 2 years.
Chicago Quantum Exchange
Regional hub running quantum networking research and testbeds with partner labs.
Cold Atom Laboratory
Ultracold atom facility on the International Space Station testing quantum sensing in orbit.
Most cited papers
All 60 papersBlueprint for a scalable photonic fault-tolerant quantum computer
J. Eli Bourassa, Rafael N. Alexander, Ben Q. Baragiola et al. · Figshare
Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link
D. Main, P. Drmota, D. P. Nadlinger et al. · Nature
Frequency ratio of the 229mTh nuclear isomeric transition and the 87Sr atomic clock
Chuankun Zhang, Tian Ooi, Jacob S. Higgins et al. · Nature
Microsatellite-based real-time quantum key distribution
Yang Li, Wenqi Cai, Ji-Gang Ren et al. · Nature
Quantum Computing With Rotation-Symmetric Bosonic Codes
Arne L. Grimsmo, Joshua Combes, Ben Q. Baragiola · Figshare
About quantum sensing here
- Sub-areas
- Atomic clocksQuantum navigation and inertial sensingQuantum magnetometryDiamond NV sensorsQuantum key distributionQuantum networks and memoriesQuantum gravimetry
- Stage evidence
- Early commercial, Aug 6, 2026: DARPA contracted IonQ in August 2026 to manufacture and deliver 125 optical atomic clocks for US government use. investors.ionq.com
- Momentum
- 36 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (50), funding in 12 months (6) and events in 90 days (53). Method
- Papers
- 5,592 in the 12 months ending two months ago, +22% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
- Tracked here since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Weekly snapshots
- 5 weeks stored; latest Nov 2, 2026. JSON
Changes to this field
Quantum sensing
Renamed from Quantum sensing and networking.
Quantum sensing
Tracked from here on: Devices that use quantum states of atoms or light to measure time, motion or fields precisely, or to link and secure networks.