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A Frequency Reproducible Nuclear Clock

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

JILA Collaboration Makes Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics into a Team Sport

3 Body Interaction

Entangled Time: Pushing Atomic Clocks Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit

Artistic representation of an atomic clock breaking the Standard Quantum Limit

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.

Thirty years of Bose-Einstein Condensates

BEC Science Cover

The Pursuit of Perfect Timekeeping

Tunable Superexchange interactions in a 3D optical clock

Where Motion Meets Spin: A Quantum Leap in Simulating Magnetism

Molecules sparsely occupy a deep 3D optical lattice. Molecules interact with induced dipole moments and transition dipole moments represented by squiggly lines between lattice sites. Lowering the lattice depth in the horizontal direction allows tunneling between sites within layers.

JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder Physics Professor Jun Ye Receives the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis 2025 Award

Jun Ye 2021

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How JILA Contributed to NASA’s Recent SUDA Project

Former Keck Lab director David Alchenberger works on the iridium coating on the target apparatus in the JILA clean room for SUDA and the metal mask used in the instrument.

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