JILA News
Physicists at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that could one day allow scientists to observe phenomena currently out of reach for the most powerful microscopes.
The new laser could allow researchers to follow fuel molecules in real time as they undergo combustion, spot incredibly small defects in nanoelectronics, track time with unprecedented precision and more.
The JILA team will present its preliminary findings on March 17 and March 19 at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Denver.
JILA is proud to recognize a major milestone for quantum science and technology as Infleqtion, the quantum technology company founded by JILA Fellow and ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Professor Dana Anderson, has officially gone public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
JILA is proud to announce that Professor Dana Z. Anderson, JILA Fellow and Professor of Physics and Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Dr. Kai Li, a researcher in the Jun Ye Group, has been named the recipient of the 2026 European XFEL Young Scientist Award. This prestigious honor is awarded annually to an early-career scientist who has made exceptional contributions through experiments conducted at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL).
UNESCO named physicist Jun Ye to its Quantum 100 list—a catalogue of some of the top leaders around the world in the rapidly growing field of quantum science.
JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye has once again been recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientists. For the 12th year in a row, Ye has earned a place on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list, an honor reserved for researchers whose work ranks among the top 1% of citations globally across their fields.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $625 million investment to advance the next phase of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, a cornerstone of the National Quantum Initiative. This funding will support five centers dedicated to accelerating quantum technologies that promise transformative impacts on science, industry, and national security. JILA is proud to remain a key partner in QSA through the Q-SEnSE Center, which focuses on quantum sensing and precision measurement.
JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder are proud to announce that Professor J. Mathias Weber has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), for fundamental contributions to our understanding of molecular interactions and solvation effects in complex systems, obtained via elegant vibrational/electronic laser photodissociation spectroscopy of molecular and cluster ions in the gas phase.
On October 2nd, Oxford Ionics joined nearly 100 graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty from JILA, CU, and NIST to highlight some of their recent advancements in quantum computing in the third installment of the JILA Association of Graduate Students (JAGS) Industry Spotlight seminars. This seminar, given by Dr. David Allcock, highlighted the pivotal role that Boulder has played in forging the path towards large, fast, and robust quantum computing systems.
JILA is proud to announce that Chuankun Zhang, a former graduate student in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Physics professor and JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye’s research group, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize. This national honor recognizes early-career researchers whose work is propelling quantum science and engineering in bold new directions.