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During the Oct. 14 talk, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Massimo Ruzzene covered topics ranging from the past year’s performance to strategic investment in quantum facilities, partnerships and workforce initiatives that will propel the record-breaking enterprise into an even more impactful future.
With a rich academic background spanning from Texas A&M to postdoctoral positions at MIT and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Akers' current research focuses on quantum gravity and the holographic principle, making him a valuable addition to the university’s renowned quantum physics community.
By generating quantum entanglement between groups of strontium atoms in their new atomic clock, a team of quantum physicists at CU Boulder and NIST led by Adam Kaufman have essentially squished four different kinds of clocks into the same time-keeping apparatus, a feat that could lead to new quantum technologies.
A recent study by Ana Maria Rey, James K. Thompson and their teams revealed that when measurement efficiency is greater than 19%, the quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement protocol outperformed unitary dynamical evolution—a finding with big implications for quantum metrology.
Colorado's burgeoning role in the quantum revolution was in the spotlight as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves made an official visit to CU Boulder and JILA, a joint institute of CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
CU Boulder researchers, along with collaborators at Harvard University, recently observed two-axis twisting dynamics within their experimental system of ultracold potassium-rubidium molecules, which can generate entangled states for enhanced quantum sensing in the future.
"Quantum computers have the ability to break the cryptography we currently use on the internet," explains Assistant Professor Huck Bennett (Computer Science). Bennett has been funded by the NSF to investigate the feasibility of lattice-based cryptography to protect against this threat.
An international team of researchers, led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye (Physics) and his team, has made significant strides in developing a groundbreaking timekeeping device known as a nuclear clock. Their results were recently published in the cover article of Nature.
In the episode, Chancellor Justin Schwartz and Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Massimo Ruzzene share their vision for CUbit's role in positioning Colorado as an international quantum science and technology hub, and Executive Director Scott Sternberg offers insights into CUbit's strategic direction.
Physicists from India, Austria and the USA—including JILA Fellow Ana Maria Rey, along with NIST scientists Allison Carter and John Bollinger—have proposed a method of tweaking the electric fields that trap ions to create stable, multilayered structures, opening up exciting new possibilities for future quantum technologies.