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World-leading Physics Research Institute | Equal parts @CUBoulder and @NIST | not an acronym
Boulder, Colorado
Joined January 2010
"We're training the next generation, not just of academic scientists, but of technological leaders" @APSphysics TV captured JILA's good side for #apsmarch. #MondayMotivation
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JILA & NIST Fellow Jun Ye named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for the 12th consecutive year—placing him among the top 1% of scientists worldwide. His work in precision measurement & quantum science continues to shape the future. https://t.co/mtbKgFn4dD
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A team led by JILA and @NIST Fellow Jun Ye has demonstrated a new way to boost clock precision using quantum entanglement. By making atoms "tick" in tighter unison, they’ve reduced the randomness that typically limits time measurement. Their breakthrough surpasses the Standard
An entanglement-enhanced optical clock achieves unprecedented precision of 10⁻¹⁸ with 2dB quantum noise squeezing https://t.co/pMmXGmZltn
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JILA is proud to continue as a key partner in the Department of Energy’s Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The DOE recently announced a $625 million investment to advance the next phase of the National Quantum Information Science
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A team led by JILA Fellows and @CUBoulder professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn has made a significant advance to make soft X-rays more accessible: they have developed an ultrastable, scalable and repeatable method for generating soft X-ray beams using a custom-built
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Researchers led by JILA and @NIST Fellow Jun Ye have shown how to make atomic clocks even more precise by leveraging entanglement. This allows the atoms to “tick” more in sync, reducing the randomness that usually limits how precisely we can measure time. Their results show that
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JILA and @CUBoulder are proud to announce that Professor J. Mathias Weber has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (@APSphysics), for fundamental contributions to our understanding of molecular interactions and solvation effects in complex systems, obtained via
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How can the U.S. build a workforce for the quantum technology revolution? 🔬 CU Boulder researchers conducted the largest study of its kind to find out. @CUBoulderPhys @JILAscience
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In the largest study of its kind, researchers are exploring how the United States can prepare students to enter into the rapidly growing quantum technology
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On the cover of our latest issue: A high-power 698 nm clock laser with spectrally-tailored noise properties demonstrates record-high single #qubit optical gate fidelity across 3,000 atoms, a crucial achievement for scaling up #quantum technologies. 🔗 https://t.co/ENkVfsqg2C
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10 students from around the country joined our Physics and @JILAscience REU program @CUBoulder this summer. 🔬 Check out photos from their lab tours and learn more: https://t.co/7QGdjuHhjJ
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Scientists at JILA led by Jun Ye have built one of the world’s most stable lasers—so precise it can guide 3000 quantum bits with record-breaking accuracy. This breakthrough could supercharge atomic clocks and quantum computers. https://t.co/kcI7tkm3IP
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Big congratulations to Chuankun Zhang, former graduate student in Jun Ye’s group at JILA, for winning the 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize! His pioneering work on the thorium-229 nuclear clock is redefining precision timekeeping and pushing the boundaries of quantum science.
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In a groundbreaking study researchers at JILA have demonstrated continuous lasing and strong atom-cavity coupling using laser-cooled strontium atoms. This innovative experiment opens new avenues for precision measurement and quantum technologies, promising advancements in quantum
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Clock precision beyond the Standard Quantum Limit! 👏 ⚛️ QSA researchers @JILAscience @CUBoulder have created a super-precise atomic clock using a state-of-the-art strontium optical lattice. Access the preprint: https://t.co/rNrtAXAmeW
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JILA is proud to announce that Dr. Surya Pratap Deopa, Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of JILA Fellow and MCDB Professor Tom Perkins, has been honored with the 2025 @BioFrontiers Outstanding Contribution Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates Dr. Deopa’s impactful research
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JILA and @NIST Fellow and @CUBoulderPhys professor Jun Ye has been awarded a prestigious 2025 AB Nexus seed grant for his pioneering work in quantum sensing technologies. https://t.co/oEwOHuCOoZ
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Dr. Zwickl and researchers from @CUBoulder, @NIST, and @AstrophysicsRIT interviewed quantum industry managers to find out what skills and education levels future workers will need, so educators can better design quantum science courses https://t.co/uIU9ED30a9
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Welcome JILA's newest Fellow, Dr. Taeho Ryu! Prior to joining JILA, he was a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Garching, Germany), a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), and received a PhD degree from Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY).
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Day 2 of the #DBRC2025 embodied this year's theme: "Foundational Science: Where Big Ideas." Dr. Adam Kaufman (@JILAscience) delivered a plenary titled, "Programmable Optical Clocks for Quantum-Enhanced Sensing" highlighting cutting-edge research and theoretical applications.
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In a new theoretical study, physicists at JILA and @CUBoulder @CUBoulderPhys have proposed a way to make the most precise clocks in the world even more robust—by weaving in the strange, protective properties of topological physics. https://t.co/a17jt8Hlsl
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Don’t miss Ana Maria Rey’s insights on the future of quantum tech, the role of molecules in quantum simulations, and the collaborative spirit driving this field forward. This conversation is part of the 3rd Workshop on Molecular Quantum Technologies, a growing initiative led by
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