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JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye Named Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for 12th Consecutive Year

Jun Ye named a Highly Cited Researcher of 2025

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Resonant Frequencies: Playing the Edge of Light with a 3-micron Baton

An ultrastable, scalable and repeatable method for generating soft X-ray beams using a custom-built 3-micron ultrafast laser that is focused into an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber.

Entangled Time: Pushing Atomic Clocks Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit

Artistic representation of an atomic clock breaking the Standard Quantum Limit

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

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

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

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.

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