JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, is a

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research institute in the United States. JILA is located on the

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campus. JILA was founded in 1962 as a joint institute of The University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards & Technology.

Research

JILA is one of the nation’s leading research institutes in the physical sciences. The world's first

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was created at JILA by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995. The first frequency comb demonstration was led by John L. Hall at JILA. The first demonstrations of a

Fermionic condensate A fermionic condensate (or Fermi–Dirac condensate) is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures. It is closely related to the Bose–Einstein condensate, a superfluid phase formed by bosonic atoms under similar con ...

and BEC-BCS crossover physics were done by Deborah S. Jin. JILA’s faculty members hold appointments in a wide range of disciplines, including the Departments of Physics, Astrophysical and Planetary Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, as well as Engineering. Many faculty also hold joint appointments with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). JILA’s Quantum Physics Division of NIST members hold joint faculty appointments at CU in the same departments. Research at JILA addresses fundamental scientific questions about the limits of quantum measurements and technologies, the design of precision optical and X-ray lasers, the fundamental principles underlying the interaction of light and matter, the role of quantum physics in chemistry and biology, and the processes that have governed the evolution of the Universe for nearly 14 billion years.

Staff

JILA's current faculty includes two Nobel laureates— Eric Cornell and John L. Hall—and two John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellows— Margaret Murnane and

Ana Maria Rey Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist and professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado Boulder. She is also a JILA fellow, a fellow at National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a fellow of the Amer ...

. David J. Wineland and Carl Wieman, both previous affiliated with NIST and JILA respectively, were also awarded the

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, while Deborah Jin was previously awarded a

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

. Each year, JILA scientists publish more than 200 original research papers in national and international scientific journals and conference proceedings.

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