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No Cavity, No Party: Free-Space Atoms Give Superradiant Transition a Pass

A pencil-shaped ultracold gas of frozen two-level atoms interacting via photon-mediated interactions, with elastic and inelastic components. A continuous laser drive excites the atoms on-resonance. Atoms also spontaneously emit photons into free-space.

Press Clipping: JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Ana Maria Rey Highlighted in New "Physics World" Article

JILA and NIST Fellow Ana Maria Rey, a physics professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, was prominently featured in a recent Physics World article titled "Return to Helgoland: Celebrating 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics." The piece delves into the significant advancements in quantum science since its inception, with Rey's work highlighted as a pivotal contribution to the field.

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Press Clipping: JILA Fellows Jun Ye, Ana Maria Rey, and Adam Kaufman highlighted in "Financial Times" Article

JILA and NIST Fellows Ana Maria Rey, Jun Ye, and Adam Kaufman have been highlighted in a recent Financial Times article, "The Mind-Bending New Science of Measuring Time," by Oliver Roeder. The piece delves into the forefront of precision timekeeping and its implications for understanding fundamental physics.

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JILA Launches Innovative Research Professional Development Program

postdoctoral researchers and senior graduate students listen to Dr. Ellen Keister as part of JILA's new Professional Development Research Program

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To Measure or Not to Measure, but Dynamically Evolve—That is the Question

A scale with two different cavities on it

A 3D Ion Magnet, the New Experimental Frontier for Quantum Information Processing

Bilayer crystals of trapped ions can be realized in devices called Penning traps, and lasers (shown in red and blue) can be used to manipulate the ions and engineer interactions between them. Such crystals may open new avenues for quantum technology applications.

Twisting and Binding Matter Waves with Photons in a Cavity

Atoms inside of an optical cavity exchange their momentum states by "playing catch" with photons. As the atoms absorb photons from an applied laser, the whole cloud of atoms recoil rather than the individual atoms.

JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder Lead Pioneering Quantum Gravity Research with Heising-Simons Foundation Grant

Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $3 Million for Informing Gravity Theory

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Squeezing in the Dark of a Superradiant Roller Coaster

Multilevel atoms on a superradiance potential "rollercoaster" inside an optical cavity. The system can be tuned to generate squeezing in a dark state where it will be immune to superradiance.

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I graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a B.A in Theoretical Physics in 2020, writing my thesis on solving spin systems using bethe ansatz methods. I obtained my M.Sc in Theoretical Physics from Ludwig-Maximilians University and the Technical University of Munich in Germany.