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The workshop, organized by Professor Gang Cao (Physics) and supported by NSF, brought together over 100 physicists, materials scientists, chemists, and theorists in the quantum materials community, including 32 invited speakers.
"It is a great honor to receive the Vannevar Bush Fellowship," Rey stated. "It is very exciting since it will help push my research on long-lived multilevel atoms in optical cavities. These are extremely complex systems but with tremendous potential to push the frontier of quantum metrology and simulation."
Research Professor Svenja Knappe, who is a physicist by training but calls the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering home, is an ideal person to be at the center of a growing cluster of quantum researchers who are ushering in the second quantum revolution on campus and abroad.
Using a complex setup of lasers and a novel ion trap, Jun Ye and Eric Cornell's teams at JILA and NIST set new records on the precision measurement of the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM). Their results, published in Science as the cover story, improved the measurement by a factor of 2.4.
At Q-SEnSE, an NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute led by CU Boulder, multidisciplinary teams investigate promising solutions to formidable quantum challenges. In this recently released video, watch Q-SEnSE leaders, faculty and students discuss just a few of their recent projects.
To better understand heat transport at the nanoscale, JILA Fellows Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn and their research groups created the first general analytical theory of nanoscale-confined heat transport, which can be used to engineer heat transport in 3D nanosystems for next-generation energy-efficient devices.
Leaders from across CU Boulder and NIST gathered last week to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space within the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The newly dedicated area will connect quantum researchers across campus with NIST researchers and local industry.
JILA and NIST Fellows Ana Maria Rey and James K. Thompson and their collaborators have discovered how to generate a new flavor of entanglement: two-mode squeezing—a type of entanglement that can potentially be used to improve the best atomic clocks and sense how gravity changes the flow of time.
The DOD's competitive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program has awarded three projects at CU Boulder, a number matched only by MIT. Konrad Lehnert (Physics, JILA) will lead one of the projects, which explores using quantum phononics to advance quantum information processing.
Earlier this month, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced that it has elected Ana Maria Rey (JILA, NIST) to join its ranks in 2023. A theoretical physicist and quantum research leader, Rey has helped to develop, among other things, the most accurate atomic clock ever created.