The CUbit Update - May 2024

Top Quantum Stories

Gov. Jared Polis signs quantum industry bill on campus

At a ceremony Tuesday, May 28, on the CU Boulder campus, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ushered in a new bill to support and strengthen Colorado’s rapidly growing quantum industry. The historic legislation includes an investment of up to $74 million, positioning the state to compete for historic federal funds that will create a quantum boom in Colorado.

CU Boulder Today: Gov. Jared Polis signs quantum industry bill on campus
JILA: Governor Jared Polis visits JILA to sign Quantum Tax Credit Bill
Colorado.gov: Strengthening Colorado’s Quantum Industry, Building on Colorado’s National Quantum Leadership, Governor Polis Signs Bipartisan Quantum Bill Into Law

Quantum Scholars cohort tours JILA spinout KMLabs

“This is the first time the program brought the scholars into a working quantum company," said Professor Michael Ritzwoller (Physics). “The ability to witness quantum research in an industrial setting is a mind-expanding experience for the quantum scholars, which will help guide their future professional development.”

Graphic showing atoms in an optical lattice performing a "quantum walk"

The interference of many atoms, and a new approach to boson sampling

Adam Kaufman (JILA, NIST, Physics) and his team have demonstrated a novel method of boson sampling using ultracold bosonic atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice and sophisticated laser cooling techniques that reduce noise and decoherence—common challenges in quantum experiments.

JILA participates in the inaugural NSF Quantum Showcase on Capitol Hill

Heather Lewandowski (JILA, Physics) and graduate student Qizhong Liang represented CU Boulder at the event, which highlighted the pivotal role of federal funding in advancing quantum research and the potential of government-funded quantum initiatives nationwide.

Graphic demonstrating how atoms inside of an optical cavity exchange their momentum states by "playing catch" with photons

Twisting and binding matter waves with photons in a cavity

JILA Fellows Ana Maria Rey, James Thompson, Murray Holland and their teams have demonstrated a new type of atomic interaction with big implications for quantum sensing. Momentum-exchange interaction could help overcome the problem of "atomic recoil" that occurs when an atom interacts with a photon.

Quantum Funding Opportunities

Due 6/10 (Concept Outline): Dear Colleague Letter: NSF-NIH Pathfinder Supplements on Quantum Sensors for Biomedical Science

Due 6/18 (LOI): DOE QuantISED 2.0 (Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery)

Quantum Events

DARPA Proposer's Day: Enhancing Quantum Sensor Technologies with Rydberg Atoms (EQSTRA)

Monday, June 3 @ 11 a.m. MT
Virtual via webcast
Advance registration required

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a Proposers Day to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Enhancing Quantum Sensor Technologies with Rydberg Atoms (EQSTRA) program.

The goals of the EQSTRA Proposers Day are to:

Introduce the research community (e.g. industry, academia and government) to the EQSTRA program vision and goals;
Explain the mechanics of a DARPA program and the milestones of this particular effort; and
Encourage and promote teaming arrangements among potential organizations with the relevant expertise, facilities and capabilities for executing a research and development program responsive to the EQSTRA program goals

〈Q|School Single Photonics Short Course: Sources, Detectors and Measurements

August 6–9, 2024
University of Colorado Boulder

In cooperation with researchers and metrologists from around the world, CU Boulder is hosting a short course consisting of lectures and hands-on lab interaction. Demonstrations and labs will be provided by industrial partners active in the field, covering topics such as detectors, sources, engineering, and measurements and use cases.

Who should attend?

Technologists looking for an introduction to a new field and networking
Experienced engineers or technicians in a related field looking for an introduction
Researchers seeking a better understanding of and expressing measurement results

Learn More & Register

Quantum in the News

Opinion: Colorado, Rocky Mountain West are critical to developing U.S. quantum technology and federal funding must come this way

NSF pitches Congress on the potential of quantum technology

Top quantum industry collaborations during April

Concepts in quantum materials and computing: From dreams toward use

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