Quantum Information Science & Technology

  • Photo of Quantum Knot model showing entanglement
    When looking within a quantum internet, the Sun Lab is looking at specifically photons. By entangling these photons, scientists tie little quantum knots between them, so they jointly represent the information to be delivered. The photons aren鈥檛 just paired off within these quantum knots. They鈥檙e connected to hundreds of other photons in a tree-shaped pattern. The robust redundancy of these photons means that scientists can still read the information, even if a few photons are lost.
  • Heather Lewandowski photo
    JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski has been awarded the 2021 Boulder Faculty Excellence Award. This award was given specifically for Lewandowski's excellence in teaching and pedagogy.
  • An Image of the HAYSTAC system
    For nearly a century, scientists have worked to unravel the mystery of dark matter鈥攁n elusive substance that spreads through the universe and likely makes up much of its mass, but has so far proven impossible to detect in experiments. Now, a team of researchers have used an innovative technique called 鈥渜uantum squeezing鈥 to dramatically speed up the search for one candidate for dark matter in the lab.
  • False-color image of a gas of potassium-rubidium polar molecules (left) becoming denser and colder in reaching a state called quantum degeneracy (right), in which the individual molecules鈥 matter waves overlap to create an interdependent system.
    For the first time,聽researchers can turn on an electric field to manipulate molecular interactions, get them to cool down further, and start to explore collective physics where all molecules are coupled to each other.
  • Photo of Jun Ye
    The Micius Quantum Prize recognizes significant scientific advances ranging from the early conceptual contributions to the recent experimental breakthroughs. The Micius Quantum Prize 2020 focuses on the broadly defined field of quantum metrology, recognizing scientific advances ranging from early conceptual contributions to experimental breakthroughs. The laureates this year are Carlton Caves, Hidetoshi Katori, and Jun Ye.
  • Photo of Dana Anderson
    Enabling more people to get hands-on experience with quantum atomics through access to Albert will accelerate the learning curve of a new generation of quantum pioneers.
  • Shadows of atoms trapped in layers of a web of laser light, or an optical lattice, before they are paired into ultracold potassium-rubidium molecules. JILA researchers then used an electric field to precisely control molecular collisions and suppress chemical reactions that would otherwise occur within the layers.
    Building on their newfound ability to induce molecules in ultracold gases to interact with each other over long distances, JILA researchers have used an electric 鈥渒nob鈥 to influence molecular collisions and dramatically raise or lower chemical reaction rates.
  • Advanced atomic clock.
    Older atomic clocks operating at microwave frequencies have hunted for dark matter before, but this is the first time a newer clock, operating at higher optical frequencies, and an ultra-stable oscillator to ensure steady light waves have been harnessed to set more precise bounds on the search.
  • JILA and NIST Fellow Konrad Lehnert
    Konrad Lehnert becomes the 6th JILA Fellow elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow by the Council of the AAAS.
  • Pohot of Jun Ye 2021
    JILA fellow Jun Ye has been named Highly Cited Researcher for 2020 by Clarivate Analytics. Ye has been awarded the Highly Cited Researcher in the field of physics every year since 2014.
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