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World Quantum Day Is April 14
To kick off our celebration this year, please enjoy this sampling of the people and projects involved in quantum science research at NIST.
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Demystifying Quantum: It’s Here, There and Everywhere
It’s time to celebrate World Quantum Day! But what is quantum, anyway? A NIST physicist answers your questions.
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Why Does Matter Exist? Roundness of Electrons May Hold Clues
JILA physicists make a record-breaking measurement of a key electron property.
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Scientists Observe Long-Predicted Superconductor Property Using a Quantum Simulator
New insights can help scientists make superconducting materials more robust and useful.
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 Spotlight: NIST/JILA Fellow Ana Maria Rey’s Entrance Into Theoretical Physics
Ever since her early childhood in Bogotá, Colombia (at an age as young as 4), Ana Maria took a special interest in science.
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NIST Demonstrates a New ‘Primary Standard’ for Measuring Ultralow Pressures
Chip manufacturing, gravitational wave detectors and quantum computers could all benefit from better ways to measure a vacuum.
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Reaching for the Stars: My Summer Internship Learning About Spectroscopy in Space and on Earth
As a summer high school intern at NIST, Isabelle Rivera got to take a deep dive into one of the ways scientists study space — the absorption and emission of light by matter, known as spectroscopy.
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Twisted Science: NIST Researchers Find a New Quantum Ruler to Explore Exotic Matter
A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon known as graphene has remarkable properties on its own, but things can get even more interesting when you stack up multiple sheets.
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From Pokémon to Physics: My Journey of Perseverance Into Research
A childhood love of video games led Samuel Márquez Gonzalez to a career in science and a NIST internship program for early career researchers.
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New Spin-Squeezing Techniques Let Atoms Work Together for Better Quantum Measurements
Opening new possibilities for quantum sensors, atomic clocks and tests of fundamental physics, JILA researchers have developed new ways of entangling large numbers of particles.
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 JILA’s Frequency Comb Breathalyzer Detects COVID-19 With Excellent Accuracy
JILA researchers have upgraded a breathalyzer based on Nobel Prize-winning frequency-comb technology and combined it with machine learning to detect SARS-CoV-2.
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Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion
NIST scientists and their colleagues have discovered new properties of very small tornado-like atomic magnetic arrangements called skyrmions.
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From Escaping a War to Becoming a Mom of 3 at Once, Science Has Always Been There for Me
Katerina Cicak learned as a young adult not to get attached to material things — but no one could take her love of science. She came to NIST in 2004, during the early days of quantum computing.
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