Participants in the QGates Network

Ecole Normale Superieure

Team leader

Prof. S. Haroche

Note: This participant is part of a UMR including two other bodies, the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (ENS) and the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.

Expertise and experience of the participating organisation

Our group has a long standing expertise in experiments on fundamental quantum mechanics and quantum information processing with Rydberg atoms and superconducting millimetre-wave cavities. We have a good experience of cryogenic systems, down to the sub-Kelvin region, including the design of cryostats and cryogenerators. We master millimetre-wave technology and Rydberg state spectroscopy. Our superconducting cavities have prepared us to using superconducting devices. We have a close collaboration with the "Quantronics" group led by M. Devoret and D. Estève in CEA/Saclay (France) for the realization of the superconducting chips. One of us (G. Nogues) spent a more than one year post doctoral stay with M. Kasevich, in Yale, working on Bose Einstein condensation. We can also benefit from a direct interaction with the cold atom groups led by C. Cohen-Tannoudji. Finally, one of our students spent a part of his thesis work in the group of Ted Hänsch, in Munich, to get acquainted with the room temperature atom-chips technology. We have been involved in a former IST project (QUBITS) and in four European networks. Our administrative agents have a good knowledge of the EC accounting rules.

Relevant recent publications