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...
Fei Xia wins Optica Foundation Challenge to develop smart microscope Fei Xia, a postdoctoral researcher in the Complex Media Optics team led by Sylvain Gigan, has won a $100,000 grant from the Optica Foundation to explore new approaches for disease screening and...
The adjustment of fundamental constants: a tool for new physics searches The values of fundamental constants such as the fine-structure constant, the mass of the electron or proton, the Rydberg constant, are determined by a variety of high-precision experiments:...
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...
