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A team led by a University of Colorado Boulder physicist has won the Quantum Interconnect Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QuIC-TAQS) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the organization has announced.

Jun Ye, fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and professor adjoint of physics at CU Boulder, has been awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his pioneering research on atomic clocks.

“This new NSF FRHTP award will create incredible new opportunities for education, research and workforce development in Quantum Information Science, one of the core subjects that will advance the technologies of tomorrow," says UNM Regents' Professor Ivan Deutsch, who will lead the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) at the University of New Mexico—one of Q-SEnSE's partner organizations.

The Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics recognizes researchers who have made an outstanding and innovative contribution to the field of applied physics.

Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio interviews Jun Ye and Colin Kennedy on the Boulder Atomic Clock Optical Network Collaboration and redefining the second of time.

Charles Tahan, Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), featured Q-SEnSE in the Dec. 3 "Letters from the NQCO Director," highlighting its leadership in quantum sensing and key "quantum questions" the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute aims to address.

Scientists believe we are living in the Second Quantum Revolution, a period of rapid advances in technology based on discoveries in quantum science. Companies from IBM and Google to small startups are eager to create and perfect these new technologies—and that requires training a new kind of workforce.

CU Boulder will receive a $25 million award from NSF to launch a new quantum science and engineering research center. The new center will be led by physicist Jun Ye and is a partnership with 11 other research organizations in the United States and abroad.