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A Magic Balance in Optical Lattice Clocks

Local interactions in the same lattice pull clock frequency negative while interactions between atoms on neighboring lattice sites pull clock frequency positive. By adjusting the atomic confinement, or tightness, of the lattice, researchers can balance these two counteracting forces to increase clock sensitivity.

JILA Fellow and NIST Physicist Adam Kaufman is awarded the 2023 I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

JILA Fellow Adam Kaufman wins the 2023 I.I. Rabi Prize in AMO Physics

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JILA Fellow and NIST Physicist Judah Levine is Quoted in the "New Yorker"

Photo of JILA Fellow Judah Levine

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Creating A Two-Step Dance for Lasers

The cover of ACS Photonics, featuring a rendering of the experiment

JILA and NIST Researchers Develop Miniature Lens for Trapping Atoms

Graphical illustration of light focusing using a planar glass surface studded with millions of nanopillars (referred to as a metalens) forming an optical tweezer. (A) Device cross section depicts plane waves of light that come to a focus through secondary wavelets generated by nanopillars of varying size. (B) The same metalens is used to trap and image single rubidium atoms.

Jun Ye is awarded the Department of Defense 2022 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

Jun Ye

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Celebrating 60 Years of JILA

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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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