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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · 7d

Scientists at JILA led by Jun Ye have built one of the world’s most stable lasers—so precise it can guide 3000 quantum bits with record-breaking accuracy. This breakthrough could supercharge atomic clocks and quantum computers.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · 13d

Big congratulations to Chuankun Zhang, former graduate student in Jun Ye’s group at JILA, for winning the 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize!
His pioneering work on the thorium-229 nuclear clock is redefining precision timekeeping.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · 16d

In a groundbreaking study researchers at JILA have demonstrated continuous lasing and strong atom-cavity coupling using laser-cooled strontium atoms. This innovative experiment opens new avenues for precision measurement and quantum technologies.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Aug 30

JILA is proud to announce that Dr. Surya Pratap Deopa, Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of JILA Fellow and MCDB Professor Tom Perkins, has been honored with the 2025 BioFrontiers Outstanding Contribution Award.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Aug 28

JILA and NIST Fellow and CU Boulder Physics professor Jun Ye has been awarded a prestigious 2025 AB Nexus seed grant for his pioneering work in quantum sensing technologies.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Jun 11

In a new study, physicists at JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a feat that many scientists didn’t think was possible.

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New quantum navigation device uses atoms to measure acceleration in 3D

A new quantum device could one day help spacecraft travel beyond Earth's orbit or aid submarines as they navigate deep under the ocean with more precision than

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · May 19

In a recent study published in Science, by JILA and NIST Fellows and CU Boulder physics professors Jun Ye and Ana Maria Rey, interactions between atoms are explored in depth, focusing on superexchange processes that occur in a three-dimensional optical lattice.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · May 19

Cindy Regal, University of Colorado Boulder Physics Professor and Baur-SPIE Chair at JILA, has been named a 2025 Brown Investigator by the Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Apr 24

In a study published in Science, researchers from JILA used ultracold molecules to realize behavioral models of high-temperature superconductors—materials that conduct electricity without resistance above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen—with an unprecedented level of control.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Apr 14

Researchers at JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an innovative platform that combines machine learning with atom interferometry to create a universal quantum sensor.

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Simulation using the gradiometer protocol

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Apr 11

In a recent study published in Physical Review Research, researchers at JILA have developed a new protocol for teleporting quantum information stored in collective spin states of ions within a two-dimensional crystal.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Apr 9

How do ions bind to molecules? JILA Fellow and @colorado.edu chemistry professor J. Mathias Weber and JILA graduate student Lane M. Terry examined three variables in this chemical process: size, shape, and symmetry.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 31

The spring issue of JILA's quarterly journal "Light and Matter" is here! Read all about the latest research happening at JILA, from #quantumentanglement to #lightassistedcollisions to #ultrafastlasers!

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 31

Did you know that JILA's W.M. Keck Metrology lab contributed to the recent NASA Europa Clipper Mission? Read all about JILA's support below: jila.colorado.edu/news-events/...

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 24

Congrats to former JILA graduate student Olivia Krohn (who worked with JILA Fellow and @colorado.edu physics professor Heather Lewandowski) for being a finalist for the prestigious Justin Jankunas dissertation award given by @apsphysics.bsky.social!

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 19

Congratulations to the many #Colorado #quantum investigators, including JILA Associate Fellow and @colorado.edu Physics associate professor Shuo Sun, for being awarded a second round of quantum seed grants by the Colorado Economic Development Commission!
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 17

In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and NIST Fellow and @colorado.edu physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 16

The latest Grad Student Seminar, hosted by the JILA Association of Graduate Students (JAGS) and the Graduate Association of Students in Physics (GASP), featured @colorado.edu grad student Hope Whitelock and JILA grad student Steven Pampel!
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 14

This is a reminder that on #Piday, get yourself a piece of pie!

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 11

Congrats to JILA Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder Physics professor Markus Raschke and his team for their recent work, published in "Science Advances," using ultrafast microscopes!
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An ultrafast microscope makes movies one femtosecond at a time

New CU Boulder research harnesses the power of an ultrafast microscope to study molecular movement in space and timeThe interactions in photovoltaic materials

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 6

In a new "Physical Review Letters" study, researchers from JILA & NIST Fellows & CU Boulder Physics profs Ana Maria Rey's and Jun Ye's groups explored the interplay between gravitational effects and quantum interactions in optical atomic clocks.

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Optics & Photonics News @optica-opn.org · Feb 26

A modified version of cavity ringdown #spectroscopy is allowing researchers from @jila.colorado.edu to detect molecules in the mid-infrared region at a sensitivity better than 1-part-per-trillion.

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#photonics #physics 💡

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Feb 19

Researchers in JILA and NIST Fellow and CU Boulder Physics prof Jun Ye's lab have developed a laser-based device to identify molecules in a gas sample. Read about their latest work, published in Nature, in this "CU Boulder Today" article by Dan Strain.
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New sensor can take any gas and tell you what’s in it

Expert sommeliers can take a whiff of a glass of wine and tell you a lot about what’s in your pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon.A team of physicists at CU

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Feb 18

In a new paper published in "The Astrophysical Journal," JILA Fellows and CU Boulder Physics professors of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Jason Dexter and Mitch Begelman, along with JILA postdoc Prasun Dhang, look at the complex physics around black holes.

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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Feb 18

In a new PRL study, JILA Fellow and CU Boulder physics prof Cindy Regal, along with former JILA Associate Fellow Jose D’Incao and their teams, developed new techniques studying the rates of light-assisted collisions in atoms' energy splittings.

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