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Breaking The Laser Stability Record Using New Crystalline Mirrors

A Crystalline Coated 6cm Silicon Cavity

Nuclear Clockwork: Experiments Highlight Reproducibility of Nuclear Transition Frequency

Artistic representation of a 29Th nucleus hosted inside a CaF2 crystal

Dr. Kai Li of JILA’s Jun Ye Group Wins 2026 European XFEL Young Scientist Award

Photo of Kai Li

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Narrowing In: Cooling Molecules with Light Like Never Before

Narrowline Laser Cooling and Spectroscopy of Molecules via Stark States

JILA Researchers Overturn 25-Year-Old Explanation of Benzene Formation in Space

Interstellar formation of PAHs terminates at C6H5+

JILA Collaboration Makes Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics into a Team Sport

3 Body Interaction

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

Jun Ye named a Highly Cited Researcher of 2025

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

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.

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