The CUbit Update - February 2024

A statewide coalition of higher education and industry partners has outlined a detailed vision for Colorado to translate its legacy as a national leader in Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) into workforce development and educational opportunities for students and workers across the state.

Governor Jared Polis unveiled plans to invest in Colorado’s quantum ecosystem via a new refundable tax credit program that aims to maximize the state’s competitiveness as a tech hub—including CU Boulder, already a global leader in quantum research and innovation.

LongPath harnesses quantum technology to detect methane emissions from oil and gas operations, an innovation that benefits industry and investors—and the planet. Recently, LongPath received landmark financial backing from the DOE to accelerate the scale-up of the company’s monitoring systems.

Compared to the one-dimensional optical lattice used in traditional atomic clocks, the strontium quantum gas clock confines atoms in all directions by placing them in a 3D lattice. This approach has unique benefits, as outlined in a new study published by Jun Ye (Physics, JILA, NIST) and his team in Science.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has committed to matching $100K in external gifts to the Quantum Scholars program at CU Boulder over the next two academic years. This generous contribution will provide scholarships for up to 20 additional Quantum Scholars each year.

In pair of new papers published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A, Ana Maria Rey (JILA, NIST) and her team demonstrate a new method of harnessing superradiant emission using spin-squeezed states—a discovery that could push the frontiers of quantum metrology in a fascinating way.

In this video, Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder Physics, JILA, NIST) discusses how researchers, postdocs and students at Q-SEnSE use optical tweezer systems to manipulate atoms into specific entangled states, improving the rate at which measurements can be performed as well as the accuracy of the atomic clock.