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Jun Ye Receives 2026 Wolf Prize in Physics
Jun Ye shares the award with Immanuel F. Bloch of the Max Planck Society. Ye and Bloch were recognized for “transformative, widely applicable advances in the control of ultracold atomic systems."
The Wolf Prize celebrates and promotes exceptional achievements in the sciences and the arts worldwide.
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The clocks developed by Ye and his colleagues are so precise that they would neither gain nor lose one second in 15 billion years, roughly the age of the universe. Atomic clocks are crucial to GPS and advanced communications, but Ye’s clocks can extend the applications to make precision measurements of gravity, motion, magnetic fields and many other quantities based on tiny changes in the atoms’ “ticking” rate between two energy levels.
His group has set multiple records for accuracy and precision in atomic clocks and has made numerous advancements in optical frequency combs and ultrafast laser-based tools.
Learn more: https://wolffund.org.il/jun-ye/
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