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Connecting Microwave and Optical Frequencies through the Ground State of a Micromechanical Object

The transducer developed by the Lehnert and Regal research groups uses side-banded cooling to convert microwave photons to optical photons

New Research Reveals A More Robust Qubit System, even with a Stronger Laser Light

An illustration of the efficient and continuously operating electro-optomechanical transducer whose mechanical mode has been optically sideband-cooled to its quantum ground state. This is the tool that will be used to convert microwave photons into optical photons to eventually send quantum signals over long distances.

The University of Colorado's President Saliman Visits JILA

JILA Fellow Eric Cornell (left) shows CU President Todd Saliman (right) around his laboratory

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Life After JILA: Rabin Paudel

Rabin Paudel, who works at Intel, speaks on his time at JILA

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Humans of JILA-Connor Thomas

Connor Thomas, an undergraduate researcher in JILA and NIST Fellow Ralph Jimenez's lab, discusses his time in JILA

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Tweezing a New Kind of Qubit

A rendering of a ytterbium qubit held within a set of optical tweezers

An Atomic Game of Duck, Duck, Goose

Selected atoms (green) within doubly occupied sites of a 2D "Fermi Sea" are excited by a polarized laser pulse. Pauli blocking prevents decay of the excited atoms (red) as they can only decay into unoccupied sites (black).

JILA W. M. Keck Lab receives CU Green Labs Program Award for shared research resources

Photo of JILA W.M. Keck Lab clean room, courtesy of David Alchenberger

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Running in a Quantum Corn Maze and Getting Stuck in the Dark

Comparison of 2-level and 6-level atom decay paths. For 6-level systems, each state can potentially decay into several states and some of them might be dark due to destructive interference.

Electrifying Molecular Interactions

A depiction showing the interaction between ultra cold compressed 2D gas layers of KRb molecules

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