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Konrad Lehnert becomes the 6th JILA Fellow elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow by the Council of the AAAS.
JILA fellow Jun Ye has been named Highly Cited Researcher for 2020 by Clarivate Analytics. Ye has been awarded the Highly Cited Researcher in the field of physics every year since 2014.
Regal is the first recipient for JILA's new endowed chair in optics and photonics.
Follow that electron! JILA researchers have proposed a means of capturing an electron's flight path during ionization, and in doing so, determining the state of the atom at that moment.
When it comes to chemical reactions, shape matters. The Lewandowski Group have studied acetylene and its reactions with propyne and allene to find out how an isomer changes the chemical reaction pathway.
We're in the Second Quantum Revolution, and companies are eager to build and market new technology based on rapid advances in quantum physics. JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski and her group decided to find out what qualifications these companies were looking for in the new quantum workforce.
The Weber Group has found what causes rubrene to generate upconversion photoluminescence. By exploring new routes to triplet formation and triplet-triplet annihilation, they learn how organic materials can take lower-energy photons and generate higher energy output, which could have implications for photovoltaics and new electronics.
SU(N) fermion systems are multi-component, spin-symmetrical collections of atoms—which are unique among degenerate gases. The Ye Group found that SU(N) fermion systems display special properties that allow them to be quickly cooled and prepared for use in quantum-matter based atomic clocks.
Quantum science has the potential to further revolution technology in several fields, from computing to communication. As a world-renowned leader in the field, JILA Fellow Jun Ye will advise U.S. leaders on ways to bring these advances out of the lab and into real-world applications.
A protein's function within a cell relies on how it folds, unfolds, and refolds. Using atomic force microscopy tools, the Perkins Group can precisely measure the free energy it takes to unfold and refold a few amino acids in the protein, which opens the door to making more precise measurements and alterations to a cell's membrane proteins.