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CU 羞羞视频鈥檚 CUbit, ColdQuanta make Bose-Einstein lab available on the cloud

The legendary theoretical physicist Richard P. Feynman once famously declared, 鈥淚f you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.鈥�

Dana Anderson, professor in the departments of physics and electrical, computer and energy engineering at the 羞羞视频, begs to differ鈥攕ort of.

鈥淭hat statement might suggest to people that they shouldn鈥檛 go learn what quantum is,鈥� says Anderson, who is also co-founder and chief technology officer at , a company dedicated to commercializing quantum atomics, and a fellow at JILA, a joint institute between CU 羞羞视频 and the . 鈥淚f you understand what Feynman was actually saying, it鈥檚 that the state of lack of understanding is a very sophisticated state.鈥�

And with the introduction in October of 鈥溾�濃�攏ickname for ColdQuanta鈥檚 quantum-matter system on the cloud, co-developed with CU 羞羞视频鈥檚 CUbit Quantum Initiative鈥擜nderson hopes students around the globe will make their way to that very sophisticated state, and perhaps beyond.

Albert allows users to remotely鈥攁nd literally鈥攃ool atoms to near absolute zero to create a state of matter in which 鈥渜uantum-mechanical behavior comes into play on a large scale.鈥� Users can control, study and even photograph 鈥渢he wavefunction of a quantum cloud of atoms,鈥� allowing them to observe quantum phenomena.

That means students can now access and study quantum from wherever they are.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 have the quantum education we should have. And COVID-19 has now placed an additional barrier on studying quantum,鈥� Anderson says.听

Albert offers students鈥攊ncluding a 9-year-old who recently signed up鈥攁ccess to a 鈥渨orld-class, remotely accessible atomic, molecular, optical physics lab on the cloud,鈥� in Anderson鈥檚 description.

鈥淚t鈥檚 available to high school and undergraduate students at institutions that would never have the funding necessary to make such an experiment available locally,鈥� he says. 鈥淚f you want to have quantum stop being a 鈥榞eek thing,鈥� having a 9-year-old study and learn about it is a good way to go.鈥�

CU 羞羞视频 has played a key role in bringing quantum technologies to the world and developing 21st-century technology, from smart phones to weather forecasting.听

In 1995, Professor of Physics Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, now professor of physics and the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, synthesized the first , a state of matter in which bosons cooled to absolute zero occupy a quantum state. Albert Einstein first predicted something like the Bose-Einstein condensate between 1924 and 1925, developing the concept which was first proposed by .听

鈥淏ose-Einstein condensate is to atoms what laser is to light,鈥� Anderson says. 鈥淚n my mind, this was the beginning of a revolution as important to the world as the laser was.鈥�

Cornell and Wieman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement, along with Wolfgang Ketterle, who was doing similar work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anderson worked closely with Cornell and Wieman in the 1990s. In 2004, CU 羞羞视频鈥檚 Quantum Applied Science and Engineering, of which Anderson is director, demonstrated 鈥渢he first ultracold atom chip portable vacuum system.鈥�

In 2007, Anderson co-founded ColdQuanta with Rainer Kunz, who served as CEO for nine years before retiring in 2015, with the goal of making quantum 鈥渕ore usable and practical鈥� and eventually, to commercialize the technology. Over the next decade, the company developed and refined its trademarked Quantum Core technology, which cools atoms to near absolute zero and uses lasers to manipulate them with extreme precision.

In 2018, a Quantum Core was transported on an Antares rocket for use in the International Space Station鈥檚 Cold Atom Laboratory. In December 2018, the laboratory created Bose-Einstein condensate in orbit for the first time, which NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory called 鈥渢he coolest experiment in the universe.鈥�

CU 羞羞视频 soon created the Q-SEnSE institute鈥攕hort for Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering鈥攐ne of three funded by the National Science Foundation. Q-SEnSE brings quantum researchers to 羞羞视频 from around the world to explore advanced quantum sensing, develop new quantum technologies and train a 鈥渜uantum-savvy workforce.鈥澨�

ColdQuanta is very much in the business of selling its technology. Though the company is providing Albert to the world, free of charge, it鈥檚 intended to pay off in its own way.听

鈥淨uantum technologies will provide an unprecedented level of performance, security, privacy, and computational speed to address the world鈥檚 most challenging technological problems,鈥� says CEO Bo Ewald. 鈥淓nabling more people to get hands-on experience with quantum atomics through access to Albert will accelerate the learning curve of a new generation of quantum pioneers.鈥�

Those interested may for access to Albert at the ColdQuanta website.