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A benchtop quantum sensor and a fielded instrument are different machines. The gap between them is not one problem but a stack of them: vibration, temperature, power, and the fact that nothing on an optical table was ever meant to move.
This is the work described under Sensor fielding — and it is what stands between a promising measurement and an instrument anyone can actually use.