JILA was founded in 1962 as a joint institute of The University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards & Technology. JILA is one of the nation’s leading research institutes in the …

Experimentalist Email: [email protected] Faculty Website Cindy Regal, Baur-SPIE Chair in Optical Physics and Photonics at JILA Topics: Atomic & Molecular Physics, Laser Physics, Quantum …

JILA Research The wide-ranging interests of our scientists have made JILA one of the nation's leading research institutes in the physical sciences.

Now, over fifty years later, JILA studies a broad section of physics including Quantum Information Science & Technology, Atomic & Molecular Physics, Astrophysics, Laser Physics, Biophysics, …

Sep 24, 2025 · JILA is proud to announce that Chuankun Zhang, a former graduate student in CU Boulder Physics professor and JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye’s research group, has been named a …

JILA is a unique research and training partnership between the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards & Technology. At JILA, scientists develop new research and measurement …

JILA SrI optical lattice clock with uncertainty of 2.0 x 10^-18 Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, Eric Oelker, John Robinson, Sarah Bromley, Weston Tew, Jun Ye, Colin Kennedy, Metrologia 56, 065004 (2019).

In a study published in Physical Review X Quantum, a team led by JILA and NIST Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Jun Ye has demonstrated—for the first time—narrow-line …

Since its establishment in 2006, the JILA PFC’s dedication to advancing quantum research and educating the next generation of scientists has helped it to stand out as the heart of JILA’s excellence.

In response to both national needs and the rapid advance of quantum information science and technology (QIST), JILA is helping CU Boulder to design and establish the new CUbit Quantum …