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Jun Ye, physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a leader in precision measurement and ultracold atom research, has been named a 2026 Wolf Prize laureate in Physics. The Wolf Prize is one of the most prestigious international awards in science, often seen as a precursor to the Nobel Prize. Congratulations have poured in from the scientific community.
- 2Collisions between dipolar molecules 'switch off' at low energies▼Collisions between dipolar molecules ‘switch off’ at low energies
Physicists report that collisions between dipolar molecules effectively 'switch off' when the molecules are cooled to very low energies, behaving far differently than at higher energies. The finding is drawing attention in the ultracold chemistry community because it challenges expectations about how polar molecules interact and could matter for quantum simulation and controlled chemical reactions.