Quantum physics in all its forms

A l'occasion de sa deuxième participation à VivaTech, le rendez-vous européen consacré à l'innovation technologique, le CNRS présente un échantillon de son savoir-faire dans la deeptech à travers différentes start-up issues de ses laboratoires. Plusieurs start-up françaises issues du CNRS sont investies dans la course aux ordinateurs quantiques. Parmi elles, Quandela développe un processeur pour le calcul quantique, où l'information est traitée par des photons grâce à une…

This film derives from the Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies DVD. Physicist Etienne Klein traces the history of quantum physics and shows how it gradually forced scientists to question seemingly established notions in classical physics. In particular, classical physics distinguishes two clearly separated categories of objects: particles and waves, whereas a quantum object may behave alternatively as a wave or as a particle. One of the controversial theoretical consequences of quantum…

Michel Burnier, a sociologist, has interviewed twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 9 of this series is dedicated to Etienne Klein, a physicist, a specialist in materials sciences and in quantum theory, and an epistemology professor at the Ecole Centrale of Paris.

The IFRAF gathers six laboratories specialized in the cold atoms manipulation. Since 1984, this physics domain has considerably developed and its applications have increased. This DVD contains two films which explain, in an entertaining way, what are the cold atoms and present one application: the atomic clock.

As a passionate researcher and teacher, Jean Dalibard has never stopped playing with light and matter, which for him, are "the fundamentals of the physical world". He contributed to the emergence and influence of a new discipline, cold atoms. Throughout his career, including thirty years at the CNRS, this eminent researcher has distinguished himself by the originality of his approach. His theory and experiments are at the heart of atomic physics and radiation research. …

The physicist Alain Aspect, a director at the Laboratory Charles Fabry, within the Institute of Optics located in Orsay, has received the CNRS Gold medal in 2005 for his works on quantum optics and atomic physics. In this film, he recounts his career and describes his researches. He proved the non-validity of the Bell ' s theorem.

Portrait de Omar Fawzi, lauréat de la médaille de bronze 2019 du CNRS. Enseignant-chercheur spécialisé en théorie de l'information quantique au Laboratoire d'Informatique du parallélisme (DR07).

Portrait de Valentina Parigi, lauréate de la Médaille de Bronze 2020 du CNRS, enseignante-chercheuse au sein de l'équipe Optique quantique multimode du Laboratoire Kastler Brossel et à Sorbonne Université, spécialiste des réseaux quantiques complexes.

Portrait d'Anaïs Dréau, médaille de bronze 2022 du CNRS, chargée de recherche CNRS en physique au Laboratoire Charles Coulomb dans l'équipe Technologies quantiques à l'état solide, spécialiste des spectroscopies optiques et de spin de défauts atomiques ponctuels dans les matériaux semi-conducteurs Anaïs Dréau explore et exploite la nature quantique de défauts uniques dans les matériaux semi-conducteurs qui peuvent se révéler utiles dans le domaine des technologies quantiques…