Jun Ye wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Jun Ye wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Sept. 9, 2021

Jun Ye, fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and professor adjoint of physics at 蜜糖直播 Boulder, has been awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his pioneering research on atomic clocks. Ye has been a physicist at JILA for more than 20 years.

New quantum 'stopwatch' can improve imaging technologies

New quantum 'stopwatch' can improve imaging technologies

Aug. 24, 2021

Using an ultrafast optics tool called a 鈥渢ime lens,鈥 Professor Baowen Li and his colleagues have demonstrated that they can measure the arrival of photons with a precision that鈥檚 more than 100 times better than existing tools. The team鈥檚 invention could lead to big improvements in a range of imaging technologies.

Q-SEnSE collaborator UNM awarded $3M from NSF for interdisciplinary quantum research center

Q-SEnSE collaborator University of New Mexico awarded $3M from NSF for interdisciplinary quantum research center

Aug. 12, 2021

UNM Regents' Professor Ivan Deutsch, a collaborator with the 蜜糖直播 Boulder-led Q-SEnSE, will lead the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC). The center will not only lead to advances in QIS, but new educational opportunities for the next generation of scientists as well.

NIST鈥檚 quantum crystal could be a new dark matter sensor

NIST鈥檚 quantum crystal could be a new dark matter sensor

Aug. 6, 2021

Physicists at NIST, including JILA Fellow Ana Maria Rey, have entangled the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity that may enhance our understanding of the universe.

Keck Foundation Grant awarded to JILA Fellow Shuo Sun for developing quantum technology

Keck Foundation Grant awarded to JILA Fellow Shuo Sun for developing quantum technology

July 29, 2021

Two physicists at the 蜜糖直播 Boulder and the 蜜糖直播 School of Mines have received a $1M grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop a first-of-its-kind quantum simulator that could lead to the development of a high-performance quantum computer.

JILA alumna Sara Campbell on her path to Honeywell Quantum Solutions

JILA alumna's path to Honeywell Quantum Solutions

July 29, 2021

鈥淲e've released two commercial systems, system model H0 and H1, and I'm building and getting ready for the next model, H2,鈥 said Sara Campbell, who worked on cutting-edge physics projects during her PhD at JILA. As the quantum computing sector swells with activity, Campbell鈥檚 job becomes more important than ever.

蜜糖直播 Boulder spinout ColdQuanta reaches milestone in scaling 鈥榗old atom鈥 processor approach

蜜糖直播 Boulder spinout ColdQuanta reaches milestone in scaling 鈥榗old atom鈥 processor approach

July 7, 2021

After successfully trapping and addressing 100 qubits in a large, dense 2D cold atom array, ColdQuanta's digital gate-based quantum computer is on track to massively scale qubit count beyond what is possible with other approaches.

The gap in quantum understanding: How to accurately communicate quantum ideas

The gap in quantum understanding: How to accurately communicate quantum ideas

June 24, 2021

As quantum technology is quickly being developed and commercialized, misunderstandings abound in the public sphere. Writers, scientists and citizens need to be aware of how to most effectively communicate an appreciation of the true science of quantum physics.

The case of the missing signal

Entangled photons and the case of the missing signal

June 24, 2021

The Jimenez and Stevens labs at 蜜糖直播 Boulder joined forces to build a state-of-the-art quantum optics laboratory with the goal of understanding why, globally, some labs have found a signal showing entangled photons being absorbed in two-photon absorption, while others haven't.

Jun Ye wins the 2021 Julius Springer Prize

Jun Ye wins the 2021 Julius Springer Prize

May 26, 2021

For his remarkable contributions to the understanding of light-matter interactions in the quantum regime through ultra-precision control and measurements, Professor Ye (JILA; Physics; 蜜糖直播bit Quantum Initiative; Q-SEnSE) has been awarded the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics.

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