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JILA Fellow Jun Ye has been elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. His election recognizes his extraordinary contributions to physics and quantum science, including pioneering advances in optical atomic clocks, precision measurement, and quantum many-body physics.

JILA Fellow Jun Ye has been elected a corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, OeAW), recognizing his internationally influential contributions to physics and quantum science. Election to the OeAW honors scholars whose work has had a profound impact well beyond Austria and reflects exceptional standing within the global research community.

JILA joins the global scientific community on April 14 to celebrate World Quantum Day 2026, recognizing the fundamental discoveries and technologies made possible by quantum science. The day highlights JILA’s long-standing leadership in quantum research and its role in shaping the future of precision measurement, sensing, and emerging quantum technologies.

Researchers at JILA propose a new superradiant laser design for next-generation “active” atomic clocks that eliminates atom-heating and vibration sensitivity, two major obstacles that have limited precision and practicality. By carefully guiding atoms through a controlled loop of quantum states, the approach could enable compact, robust atomic—and potentially nuclear—clocks that maintain extreme accuracy even under physical disturbances.

Google Quantum AI has named JILA Fellow Adam Kaufman to lead a new neutral atom quantum computing hardware team, marking a major expansion of its quantum research program. Kaufman will continue his research at JILA and ���Ҵ�ý�ƽ������, strengthening JILA’s leadership and impact in national and international quantum science.

Our paper on preparing entangled states in Yb171 has been accepted in Nature physics! Congratulations to the team! We show high-fidelity gates in the metastable qubit, high-fidelity three-outcome measurements, and coherent mapping of entangled states between the Rydberg, nuclear, and optical qubits. This work suggests several new directions, including in quantum error correction, hybrid digital-analog quantum simulations, and quantum metrology.

In quantum metrology, it has been considered for some time whether quantum error correction can be used to enhance precision measurements. Here, the primary challenge is devising codes ad protocols that correct noise while not correcting the unknown signal being sensed. In this collaboration with the Pichler, we identify some promising conditions for leveraging quantum error correction for enhanced sensing, even when signal and noise couple identically to sensor qubits.

Since it was first proposed in 2004 by David Weiss and Maxim Olshanii, it has been a goal to see whether atomic rearrangement and high-fidelity ground-state laser cooling could employed to prepare superfluids and low-entropy many-body states of itinerant matter. In this work, we demonstrate such a protocol, opening a new path to assembling ground-state many-body state of bosonic and fermionic quantum systems.

JILA is proud to recognize a major milestone for quantum science and technology as Infleqtion, the quantum technology company founded by JILA Fellow and ���Ҵ�ý�ƽ������ Professor Dana Anderson, has officially gone public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

JILA researchers, working with collaborators in Germany, demonstrated that new crystalline mirror coatings dramatically reduce atomic-level noise in optical cavities, enabling lasers with record‑breaking frequency stability. By outperforming traditional coatings by a factor of four, these mirrors open the door to more precise experiments and future advances in technologies such as atomic clocks and gravitational‑wave detection.