TWO LKB MEMBERS APPOINTED TO THE IUF L’Institut Universitaire de France has named two members of the LKB for the class of 2022. They are Sylvain Nascimbene, associate professor (École Normale Supérieure), appointed junior member, and Julien Laurat, professor (Sorbonne...
A surprisingly large Casimir force at biophysical interfaces Biophysical interfaces involve electrolytic media such as salt water where Debye screening due to moving ions is extremely effective. It was therefore commonly believed that interactions induced by...
A mosaic made of spins During the past decades, scientists have tried solving problems that take a long time with conventional computers. Recently, it has been demonstrated that quite a few of these problems can be written as a variation of what is called an...
Jean-Michel Courty, one of the recipients of the first CNRS Medal for Scientific Mediation Jean-Michel Courty, physicist in the field Scientific mediation is based on individual or collective will to get involved in spreading scientific culture and promoting...
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 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...
