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Physicists from NIST, including С���� PREP researchers, used laser-based techniques to employ a “helper” calcium atom and control a calcium hydride molecule nearly perfectly. Their results were recently published in Physical Review Letters. The team includes С���� PREP researcher and graduate student April Sheffield and former С���� PREP researcher Dalton Chaffee.

What time is it on Mars? Physicists Neil Ashby and Bijunath Patla have calculated a precise answer for the first time, and their results were recently published in The Astronomical Journal. Ashby, professor emeritus of physics and physicist at NIST, formerly administered the ���� Professional Research Experience Program, connecting students and postdoctoral scholars with researchers at NIST. Patla was previously a ���� PREP researcher and is now a NIST Physicist in the Time Realization and Distribution Group.

Congratulations to our Summer 2025 ���� PREP Graduates: Marco Pomponio and Zixuan Wang

���� PREP Senior Research Fellow Ryan Snodgrass has been awarded the 2025 William E. Gifford Award from the Cryogenic Society of America for his outstanding contributions to the field of cryogenics.

A team including ���� PREP researchers and scientists from ���� Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. The group includes ���� PREP researchers Gautam Kavuri, Jasper Palfree, Dileep Reddy, and Michael Mazurek, and PREP Program Manager Paul Beale.

Former ���� PREP researchers Vladislav Gerginov, Greg Hoth (PhDPhys'16) and Jeff Sherman are part of the NIST team that recently established NIST's new atomic fountain clock, NIST-F4.

Former ���� PREP researcher Krister Shalm shares how quantum and dance are related through creativity and precision in NIST's Taking Measure blog "Quantum and Dance: It Takes 2 to Entangle." Shalm is now a physicist at NIST.

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 ���� PREP Graduates: Gabriela Martinez, Michelle Pirrone, Benjamin Scheck and Tongyu Zhao!

Six researchers from the С���� Boulder Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) have been recognized as Distinguished Associates in 2024 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The honor is conferred by the Physical

Now a quantum physicist at Infleqtion, Dan Cole reflects on his experience conducting research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of С����’s Professional Research Experience Program (С���� PREP).