Jean Dalibard receives the 2021 CNRS gold medal

Jean Dalibard receives the 2021 CNRS gold medal

Jean Dalibard receives the 2021 CNRS gold medal Jean Dalibard (Bose-Einstein Condensates team of the laboratory) has received the 2021 CNRS gold medal, one of the most prestigious French scientific awards, for his pioneering work in ultra-cold quantum matter physics....
Dark-soliton molecules in a polariton superfluid

Dark-soliton molecules in a polariton superfluid

Dark-soliton molecules in a polariton superfluid Experiments performed  the Quantum Optics team[1] show that dark solitons in a quantum fluid of polariton quasiparticles can bind together to form a soliton “molecule,” contrary to experiments on other quantum...
Quantum fluctuations of light make Virgo mirrors jitter

Quantum fluctuations of light make Virgo mirrors jitter

Quantum fluctuations of light make Virgo mirrors jitter  A quantum mechanical effect measured for the first time in the Advanced Virgo and LIGO gravitational-wave detectors Quantum mechanics does not only describe the universe at the scale of atoms and elementary...
Bringing quantum revolutions to the classroom

Bringing quantum revolutions to the classroom

Bringing quantum revolutions to the classroom Media and even politics regularly talk about quantum technologies as one of the big upcoming innovations. It is even said that we are going through a quantum revolution. But did you know that most modern technologies that...
Once upon a time there were modes and states in quantum optics

Once upon a time there were modes and states in quantum optics

Once upon a time there were modes and states in quantum optics Quantum Optics, as the child of Optics and Quantum Mechanics, has inherited a double linearity: that of Maxwell’s equations, which use optical modes as a basis of solutions, and that of the...