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JILA Fellows Ana Maria Rey and James K. Thompson have published paper in Physical Review Letters that discusses a new protocol that could make entangled quantum interferometers easier to produce and use, improving gravitational acceleration measurements.

The new $7.8M cleanroom will be in the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Laboratory (SEEL) building and is the 21st century machine shop that will enable a wide spectrum of research projects, in areas spanning from electronics, photonics and quantum science to environment, bio-medical and nanomedicine.

Created by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), the film interviews CUbit Director Jun Ye, Associate Research Professor Ana Maria Rey, Dan Caruso of university startup ColdQuanta, and other members of CU Boulder's quantum community about the importance of quantum research and Colorado's prominence in the field.

Created in 2021, the Quantum Engineering Initiative (QEI) is a significant and strategic investment into translational quantum engineering research at CU Boulder—including educational components, faculty hiring efforts, and dedicated lab space for collaboration with partners both on and off campus.

Assistant Professor András Gyenis is building artificial atoms with the goal of enabling quantum computing processes to operate longer and with less errors. Scientists hope the technology made possible by this work will eventually outrun the abilities of even our best supercomputers.

Professor Scott Diddams will serve in a leadership role in the newly formed Quantum Engineering Initiative—a significant investment into translational quantum engineering research that includes educational components, faculty hiring efforts, and dedicated lab space for collaboration.

In a paper published in Nature Physics, JILA researchers illustrated new quantum mechanical tricks in making a three-dimensional molecular gas unreactive, thus enjoying a long life (for a gas), while at the same time letting the molecules in the gas interact and socialize (thermalize) with each other.

JILA Fellow Shuo Sun has been awarded an NSF Quantum Interconnect Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QuIC-TAQS) grant to explore innovative and unique ideas for applying and developing quantum science in the specific area of quantum interconnection.

During the Sept. 9 session, Makotyn spoke on the Colorado Front Range quantum ecosystem, including CU's role in quantum research; quantum sensing and computing; what quantum computing is (and isn't) and its applications across a variety of industries and problems.

Jun Ye, fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and professor adjoint of physics at CU Boulder, has been awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his pioneering research on atomic clocks. Ye has been a physicist at JILA for more than 20 years.