JILA-PFC | JILA - Exploring the Frontiers of Physics

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The Sisyphean Task of Cooling Molecules

Gray molasses cooling in YO molecules

Phases on the Move: A Quantum Game of Catch

Phase transitions in a dynamic system

Breathing Stars and the Most Beautiful Scalpel

Using ultrafast laser pulses, the Kapteyn-Murnane Group can study electron-phonon couplings

Playing Games with Quantum Entanglement

Our cell phone towers receives signals from multiple devices every day. Quantum entanglement could help them handle more information.

Guiding Electrons With Gold Nanostars

Gold nanostars in the Nesbitt Laboratory

Sorting the Glow from the Flow

The Jimenez Lab has built a flow cytometry system that quickly sorts fluorescing cells from non-fluorescing ones.

Tweezing a New Kind of Atomic Clock

optical tweezers holding atoms, connected by a clock

Drumming to the Heisenberg Beat

Work in the Lehnert Lab has been able to measure the movement of a quantum drum so precisely that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is on full display.

The Power of the Dark Side

Using the Pauli blockade to create a dark state

How universal is universality?

Van der Waals universality between atoms

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