Quantum Information Science & Technology
Regal is the first recipient for JILA's new endowed chair in optics and photonics.
JILA has a new associate fellow. Meet Shuo Sun.
Quantum science has the potential to further revolution technology in several fields, from computing to communication. As a world-renowned leader in the field, JILA Fellow Jun Ye will advise U.S. leaders on ways to bring these advances out of the lab and into real-world applications.
JILA Fellow Cindy Regal has been selected as the 2020 recipient of Research Corporation for Science Advancement鈥檚 Cottrell Frontiers in Research Excellence and Discovery (FRED) Award. The $250,000 FRED Award recognizes and rewards innovative research that could transform an area of science.
JILA Fellow Jun Ye will head new science and engineering institute to bring quantum discoveries out of the lab and into real-world applications.
The Office of Naval Research聽program rewards early career scientists 鈥渨ho show exceptional promise for doing creative research鈥濃攁nd JILA's Adam Kaufman's work with optical tweezers has earned that recognition.
Our mobile communication networks are known as multiple access channels or MACS. Through this system, multiple users send data to a single tower, which then relays information to the correct receivers. These MACs have a fundamental limit on how much data they can handle. Through mathematical logic games, the Graeme Smith聽Group found that quantum entanglement could boost that fundamental limit.
Computer chips can鈥檛 get much smaller, but they can get faster. That means moving electrons around more quickly. To speed up computers and possibly enable other technologies, scientists want to use light to drive electric currents. The Nesbitt Lab studied gold nanostars and found a way to optically control currents at the nanoscale.
By using optical tweezers, the Kaufman and Ye groups are exploring a new kind of optical atomic clock鈥攐ne that can run measurements for more than half a minute, an unprecedented coherence time. Not only does this finding open new possibilities for precision measurement, it鈥檚 a starting point to engineer interactions between many coherent and carefully-controlled atoms.
Mechanical oscillators are crucial to developing quantum computers and quantum networks, but they have to fight against noise. Measuring the quantum movement of the oscillator not only reduces its noise, it perfectly displays the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.