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Published: 04/06/2015 - 1:15pm
In everyday life, conductors are materials that conduct electricity. These materials are used to make metallic wires that carry electricity into our homes. In contrast, insulators, which don’t...
Published: 12/08/2014 - 2:15pm
In 2013, the Cornell and Jin groups created and studied an extremely strongly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of...
Published: 10/15/2014 - 1:15pm
Dynamical phase transitions in the quantum world are wildly noisy and chaotic. They don’t look anything like the phase transitions we observe in our everyday world. In Colorado, we see phase...
Published: 09/26/2014 - 11:45am
New theory describing the spin behavior of ultracold polar molecules is opening the door to explorations of exciting, new physics. According to the Gurarie and Rey theory groups, ultracold dipolar...
Published: 08/18/2014 - 3:00pm
Symmetries described by SU(N) group theory made it possible for physicists in the 1950s to explain how quarks combine to make protons and neutrons and JILA theorists in 2013 to model the behavior...
Published: 03/05/2014 - 2:15pm
There’s exciting news from JILA’s ultracold molecule collaboration. The Jin, Ye, Holland, and Rey groups have come up with new theory (verified by experiment) that explains the suppression of...
Published: 07/01/2013 - 2:00pm
The quantum world is not quite as mysterious as we thought it was. It turns out that there are highways into understanding this strange universe. And, graduate students Minghui Xu and David Tieri...
Published: 05/24/2012 - 2:45pm
News Flash! The Rey group has discovered another good reason for using alkaline-earth atoms, such as strontium (Sr) or Ytterbium (Yb), in experimental quantum simulators. Quantum simulators are...