Redefining Standards: NIST’s New Approach to Measuring Near-Zero Pressures
Chip manufacturing, gravitational wave detectors, and quantum computers could all benefit from better ways to measure a vacuum. A vacuum chamber is never perfectly empty….
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Entanglement-Enhanced Matter-Wave Interferometer: Now With Double the Spookiness!
A team of researchers at JILA has for the first time successfully combined two of the “spookiest” features of quantum mechanics to make a better…
New Atomic Clocks Measure Time Dilation of Einstein’s General Relativity at Millimeter Scale
JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that…
Redefining a Second: Three of the World’s Leading Atomic Clocks Compared With Record Accuracy
In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a research team led by the National Institute of…
Advanced Atomic Clock Narrows the Search for Elusive Dark Matter
JILA researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continual improvements in clocks have…
New Photonic pH Sensor Tracks Lab-Grown Tissue – Helps Advance Toward Growing Limbs and Organs
Tracking lab-grown tissue with light: New proof-of-concept photonic pH sensor could advance studies of tissue regeneration. Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other…
High-Performance Camera to Help Detect Extraterrestrial Life, Dark Matter Can Count Single Photons
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons,…
Next-Generation Atomic Clock Design Features Laser ‘Tweezer’ Control
JILA physicists have demonstrated a novel atomic clock design that combines near-continuous operation with strong signals and high stability, features not previously found together in…
Newly Discovered Superconductor Material Empowers Quantum Computers
Possible “topological superconductor” could overcome industry’s problem of quantum decoherence. A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute…
Physicists Develop New Technique to ‘See’ the Quantum World
JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near-instant…
NIST Researchers Develop Nanoscale Devices That Respond to the Angle of Incident Light
Imagine a miniature device that suffuses each room in your house with a different hue of the rainbow—purple for the living room, perhaps, blue for…
Experimental Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records
The JILA strontium atomic clock has set new world records for both precision and stability, improving precision by 50 percent from the previous record holder…
Engineered Nanostructures Reduce Casimir Effect
By replacing a flat surface with a surface that contained engineered nanoscale structures, researchers found that the Casimir attraction between two surfaces decreased much more…
Atomic Clock Simulates Quantum Magnetism
For the first time, a team of scientists at JILA have used an atomic clock as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a different,…
Spray-on Mixture Combines Carbon Nanotubes With Ceramic
Scientists have developed “super-nanotubes” by using a spray-on mixture that combines the optical, thermal, and electrical properties of nanotubes with the robustness of the high-temperature…
Physicists Use Cloud of Rubidium Atoms as Optical Memory Device
In a newly published study, researchers detail how they used a cloud of rubidium atoms as an optical memory device, showing that portions of an…
Examining the Fundamentals of Desirable Nanotubes
A newly published study provides scientists with a valuable resource for detailed information about metallic carbon nanotubes. The first fruits of a cooperative venture between…
Ion Crystal Set to Power Quantum Simulator
Quantum computers are getting closer to reality as scientists created the ion crystal that will allow this quantum simulator to perform calculations that eclipse the…
