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Press Clipping: JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye's Research Highlighted in the "Washington Post"

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A photo of the nuclear clock set up

JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder Physics professor Jun Ye and his research team were recently featured in The Washington Post for a groundbreaking achievement in nuclear clock technology. This advancement brings humanity closer to a new era in timekeeping, with implications that extend from redefining time standards to unlocking new scientific discoveries. 

Press Clipping: JILA and NIST Fellow and CU Boulder Professor Jun Ye and Team highlighted in "Quanta Magazine"

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Using an extremely high-powered laser, scientists can excite the thorium-229 nucleus, which is the core of a future nuclear clock.

Jun Ye, a JILA and NIST Fellow and CU Boulder Professor of Physics, and his team have made headlines in Quanta Magazine for their groundbreaking work on nuclear timekeeping. Graduate student Chuankun Zhang led the team in observing a thorium-229 nuclear transition—an elusive process that could redefine how we measure time.

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