News & Highlights

Research Highlights

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...