February 2026

Congrats to BYU Physics majors: Cayman Quinn, Jonas Goodrich, Kai Sandberg and Will Ott, who--along with Nishant Chaudhari (a previous REU student at BYU)--won the 2026 MIT quantum hackathon!

December 2025

Optical tables installed! (and overhead shelving)

After sliding the part of the roof out of the way, two nearly one tonne tables were lowered by crane into the underground lab! These tables will be the foundation for our main experiments. Laser systems and vacuum chambers, which hosts the ion trap, coming online next!