Chuankun Zhang

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Chuankun Zhang is an IQIM postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science at Caltech, working on quantum-network nodes in Andrei Faraon’s group. He obtained his PhD in 2025 from Jun Ye’s group at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder, developing a thorium-229 nuclear clock using a vacuum-ultraviolet frequency comb.


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A Laser Built for Nuclear Timekeeping

Researchers have designed and demonstrated an ultraviolet laser that removes a major bottleneck in the development of a nuclear clock. Read More »