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Assistant Professor András Gyenis is building artificial atoms with the goal of enabling quantum computing processes to operate longer and with less errors. Scientists hope the technology made possible by this work will eventually outrun the abilities of even our best supercomputers.

Professor Scott Diddams will serve in a leadership role in the newly formed Quantum Engineering Initiative—a significant investment into translational quantum engineering research that includes educational components, faculty hiring efforts, and dedicated lab space for collaboration.

In a paper published in Nature Physics, JILA researchers illustrated new quantum mechanical tricks in making a three-dimensional molecular gas unreactive, thus enjoying a long life (for a gas), while at the same time letting the molecules in the gas interact and socialize (thermalize) with each other.

JILA Fellow Shuo Sun has been awarded an NSF Quantum Interconnect Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QuIC-TAQS) grant to explore innovative and unique ideas for applying and developing quantum science in the specific area of quantum interconnection.

During the Sept. 9 session, Makotyn spoke on the Colorado Front Range quantum ecosystem, including CU's role in quantum research; quantum sensing and computing; what quantum computing is (and isn't) and its applications across a variety of industries and problems.

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. Ye has been a physicist at JILA for more than 20 years.

Using an ultrafast optics tool called a “time lens,” Professor Baowen Li and his colleagues have demonstrated that they can measure the arrival of photons with a precision that’s more than 100 times better than existing tools. The team’s invention could lead to big improvements in a range of imaging technologies.

UNM Regents' Professor Ivan Deutsch, a collaborator with the CU Boulder-led Q-SEnSE, will lead the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC). The center will not only lead to advances in QIS, but new educational opportunities for the next generation of scientists as well.

Physicists at NIST, including JILA Fellow Ana Maria Rey, have entangled the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity that may enhance our understanding of the universe.

Two physicists at the CU Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines have received a $1M grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop a first-of-its-kind quantum simulator that could lead to the development of a high-performance quantum computer.