On July 3, 2024, Julien Laurat was honored with the prestigious Jean Jerphagnon Prize from the French Optical Society. An engineer graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, Professor of Physics at Sorbonne University, and member of the Institut Universitaire de...
Researchers from the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (LKB) have created a system of cold dysprosium atoms whose spatial dynamics are correlated with their internal spin state. By interpreting these discrete internal degrees of freedom as fictitious lattice sites aligned...
Cold-atom elevator Published in Physical Review Letters, researchers from LKB and their colleagues have developed an ‘elevator’ for atoms, to connect quantum simulators to an atomic reservoir, paving the way for creating exotic quantum states and studying their...
A superconducting qubit used as an ultra-sensitive sensor in the radio-frequency domain A LKB team has demonstrated an unprecedentedly low-frequency superconducting “fluxonium” qubit, which could facilitate experiments that probe macroscopic quantum phenomena.The...
Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell level Numerical simulations reveal that long-range interaction between objects in an ionic fluid, via electromagnetic field fluctuations, plays an important role for filamentary objects, with implications for...
Long-lived metrological spin squeezing Atomic clocks and sensors are among the most precise measurement instruments in the world, but they can still be improved. Indeed, all of them so far use uncorrelated atoms, creating statistical noise known as quantum projection...
