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¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder has released a groundbreaking quantum workforce roadmap for Colorado and the Mountain West. The inclusive plan, funded by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) and supported by key education, industry and government partners, outlines how we will train and inspire the next-generation quantum workforce.

The three-day regional event, co-sponsored by the American Physical Society, focuses on talks, workshops and community building for undergraduate women and gender minorities in physics, including guidance on navigating graduate school and career paths, and mentorships.

LongPath’s laser-based quantum devices scan oil and gas facilities in real time, searching for small quantities of methane, the main component of natural gas, leaking into the air. The new DOE loan will enable the tech to expand its current coverage area from 1,000 to over 20,000 square miles.

JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye has been named the inaugural holder of the Monroe Endowed Professorship in Physics, the result of a $1 million endowment from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä alumnus Chris Monroe that underscores the university’s growing prominence in quantum information science and applied quantum physics.

With a rich academic background spanning from Texas A&M to postdoctoral positions at MIT and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Akers' current research focuses on quantum gravity and the holographic principle, making him a valuable addition to the university’s renowned quantum physics community.

During the Oct. 14 talk, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Massimo Ruzzene covered topics ranging from the past year’s performance to strategic investment in quantum facilities, partnerships and workforce initiatives that will propel the record-breaking enterprise into an even more impactful future.

By generating quantum entanglement between groups of strontium atoms in their new atomic clock, a team of quantum physicists at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and NIST led by Adam Kaufman have essentially squished four different kinds of clocks into the same time-keeping apparatus, a feat that could lead to new quantum technologies.

A recent study by Ana Maria Rey, James K. Thompson and their teams revealed that when measurement efficiency is greater than 19%, the quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement protocol outperformed unitary dynamical evolution—a finding with big implications for quantum metrology.

Colorado's burgeoning role in the quantum revolution was in the spotlight as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves made an official visit to ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and JILA, a joint institute of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder researchers, along with collaborators at Harvard University, recently observed two-axis twisting dynamics within their experimental system of ultracold potassium-rubidium molecules, which can generate entangled states for enhanced quantum sensing in the future.