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A team of theoretical physicists from Colorado have designed a new type of “game” that uses a quantum computer—a device that performs calculations by manipulating small objects like atoms—to precisely shuffle ions around a very small grid, like the world's tiniest game of checkers.
Dignitaries from CU Boulder joined the Colorado General Assembly at the State Capitol on Monday, April 14, to celebrate World Quantum Day, a global event celebrating how quantum physics has transformed the lives of humans around the globe.
Infleqtion’s star continues to rise as Colorado’s quantum hub grows. The company of firsts, spun out of CU Boulder as ColdQuanta, seems to be everywhere these days, including outer space, while commercializing pioneering research to address needs across several critical markets.
The Research & Innovation Seed Grant program will fund 15 new projects for up to $60K each. Including the 2025 investments, the program has provided more than $18.7M to fund more than 400 innovative projects across campus since 2008.
Ben Chapman (PhDPhys’17), a Principal Quantum Hardware Manager at Microsoft, says what he loves most about physics is “the sense of awe that comes from connecting with length, time and energy scales that are far from the meters, seconds and joules of the human experience.”
Ruzzene, who serves as Senior Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation at CU Boulder, discusses how the university is building on Colorado's historical success in quantum to accelerate the translation of new discoveries into real-world applications that benefit society.
Nuclear clocks could revolutionize timekeeping by using a uniquely low-energy transition within the nucleus of a thorium-229 atom. This transition is less sensitive to environmental disturbances than modern atomic clocks.
A team of CU Boulder scientists published in Science Advances the results of significant innovations in ultrafast nanoimaging, visualizing matter at its elementary atomic and molecular level.
Mesa Quantum, a CU Boulder spinout and leader in quantum sensing, recently announced $3.7 million in seed funding and a $1.9 million grant from SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force.
In collaboration with Leibnitz University, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Innsbruck, Professors Jun Ye and Ana Maria Rey are exploring the effects of relativity on quantum entanglement and interactions in an optical atomic clock.