In October, JILA Fellow Dana Anderson, who is also co-founder and chief technology officer at ColdQuanta, a company dedicated to commercializing quantum atomics, introduced “Albert”—nickname for ColdQuanta’s quantum-matter system on the cloud, co-developed with CU Boulder’s CUbit Quantum Initiative.
Albert allows users to remotely—and literally—cool atoms to near absolute zero to create a state of matter in which “quantum-mechanical behavior comes into play on a large scale.” Users can control, study and even photograph “the wavefunction of a quantum cloud of atoms,” allowing them to observe quantum phenomena.
That means students can now access and study quantum from wherever they are.
The full article can be found on Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
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