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Thirty years of Bose-Einstein Condensates

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The Pursuit of Perfect Timekeeping

Tunable Superexchange interactions in a 3D optical clock

Cindy Regal Named 2025 Brown Investigator for Pioneering Quantum Research

Cindy Regal in her lab

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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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Quantum Teleportation Gets an Ionic 2D Upgrade

Teleporting quantum information stored in collective spin states of ions within a two-dimensional crystal

JILA and University of Colorado Boulder Physics Alum Dr. Olivia Krohn is Awarded the 2025 APS Global Summit Thesis Prize

JILA and CU Boulder Physics alum Dr. Olivia Krohn has been awarded the Thesis Prize at the 2025 APS Global Summit

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Dialing in the Temperature Needed for Precise Nuclear Timekeeping

A thorium-doped calcium fluoride crystal's temperature is continually monitored while a VUV frequency comb is used to directly resolve individual quantum states of the nuclear transition.

Using Frequency Combs to Detect Molecules in Your Breath

An artist's depiction of the frequency comb's molecular detection in vapor

Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein’s Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground

An optical lattice clock)embedded in the curved spacetime formed by the earth’s gravity. Dynamical interplay between photon-mediated interactions and gravitational redshift can lead to entanglement generation and frequency synchronization dynamics.

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