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Tailoring Record-Breaking Laser Stability for Coordinating Precise Atomic Dances

3D optical lattice clock platform for highfidelity quantum state engineering.

JILA Graduate Student Chuankun Zhang Wins 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize

Submitted by sburrows on Wed, 09/24/2025 - 10:13 am
Chuankun Zhang
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A Symphony of Light and Atoms

Experimental setup: continuous lasing of Strontium-88 atoms.

Jun Ye Awarded 2025 AB Nexus Grant for Quantum-Focused Research Collaborations

Submitted by sburrows on Thu, 08/28/2025 - 10:24 am
Using quantum sensing to detect pneumonia and asthma in children.
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Smoother Ticking Through Topology

Artistic rendering of topological protection of a optical lattice clock

JILA Alum Selected for Sandia Distinguished Fellowship

Submitted by sburrows on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 11:18 am
Olivia Krohn
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New quantum navigation device uses atoms to measure acceleration in 3D

Kendall Mehling, left, and Catie LeDesma, right, with a new kind of atom "interferometer" on the CU Boulder campus.

Humans of JILA: Lane Terry

Submitted by sburrows on Mon, 06/02/2025 - 9:57 am
Lane Terry (front left) poses during a dance performance.

Though many within JILA’s community approach our understanding of the universe through a physics lens, graduate student Lane Terry applies a chemist’s perspective. In the laboratory of JILA fellow Mathias Weber, Terry uses cryogenic ion vibrational spectroscopy to isolate and probe molecular ions, revealing unique characteristics.

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The Pursuit of Perfect Timekeeping

Tunable Superexchange interactions in a 3D optical clock

Where Motion Meets Spin: A Quantum Leap in Simulating Magnetism

Molecules sparsely occupy a deep 3D optical lattice. Molecules interact with induced dipole moments and transition dipole moments represented by squiggly lines between lattice sites. Lowering the lattice depth in the horizontal direction allows tunneling between sites within layers.

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NSF logo.The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public. Read more about this program at the NSF website.

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