JILA Fellow Margaret Murnane has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal and Prize. This prestigious award honors the legacy of the famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton, by commending those who have made world-leading contributions in the field of physics.
This new quantum focus in the research alliance between Lockheed Martin and CU Boulder represents the latest extension of this longstanding, wide-ranging relationship, which was expanded when the organizations entered into a Master Research Agreement in 2019.
The $10K prize, awarded in odd-numbered years, recognizes influential early-career research in the fields of AMO physics. Kaufman’s groundbreaking work using optical tweezers and other tools to study interactions at the quantum level was cited in the prize letter from the American Physical Society.
TIME has awarded Albert, ColdQuanta’s cloud-based quantum matter machine, as one of 2022's Best Inventions. “I am proud to say that the roots of Albert run deep into the education and research mission of CU," said Anderson, who founded ColdQuanta and served as CEO before becoming Chief Strategy Officer.
The Optics and Photonics Research Group at CU Boulder, led by Professor Juliet Gopinath (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering), has recently demonstrated meaningful advances in fiber-based, quantum-enhanced remote sensing and probing of photosensitive materials.
As described in their paper recently published in Nature, the Thompson group at JILA has combined the spookiness of both entanglement and delocalization to realize a matter-wave interferometer that can sense accelerations with a precision that surpasses the standard quantum limit for the first time.
JILA and NIST Fellows Jun Ye and Ana Maria Rey have engineered a new atomic clock design together with their teams—one which demonstrates a better theoretical understanding and experimental control of atomic interactions, leading to a breakthrough in achievable precision.
Monday, December 5, 2022 @ 4 p.m.
(Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m.)
CASE Auditorium, CU Boulder
Asenjo-Garcia's theory group at Columbia investigates problems at the intersection of quantum optics, atomic physics, open quantum systems and many-body physics. In particular, a significant part of the team's research focuses on emergent phenomena that arises from photon-mediated atomic interactions. Asenjo-Garcia's group is interested not only in understanding fundamental physics associated with strongly-interacting atoms and photons, but also in how to exploit these phenomena to develop novel applications in quantum information science, sensing and metrology.
Monday, December 12, 2022 @ 4 p.m.
(Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m.)
CASE Auditorium, CU Boulder
John Martinis pioneered research on superconducting qubits as a graduate student at UC Berkeley. He has worked at CEA France, NIST Boulder and UC Santa Barbara. In 2014 he joined Google quantum-AI, leading the team to achieving quantum supremacy for the first time using a 53 qubit quantum computer in October 2019. He is a recipient of the 2014 London prize, and the 2021 John Stewart Bell prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications.