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Julien Laurat receives the 2024 Jean Jerphagnon Prize
The Jean Jerphagnon Prize 2024 honors Julien Laurat, Co-Founder of the startup Welinq for his outstanding contribution for the development of quantum memories.
Four LKB members appointed to the IUF FOR 2023
The Institut Universitaire de France has named four members of the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in the class of 2023. This prestigious 5-year appointment recognizes the high quality of their research work.
Shining new light on photonic quantum computers
What make a quantum computer different from a normal -often called “classical”- computer?
Two LKB members win ERC 2022 grants
Julien Laurat and Quention Glorieux, two members of the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, have been awarded prestigious ERC grants.
Two LKB members appointed to the IUF
L’Institut Universitaire de France has named two members of the LKB for the class of 2022.
Dark-soliton molecules in a polariton superfluid
Experiments performed the Quantum Optics team show that dark solitons in a quantum fluid of polariton quasiparticles can bind together to form a soliton molecule
Bringing quantum revolutions to the classroom
Did you know that most modern technologies that we use on a daily basis already rely on quantum phenomena?
Once upon a time there were modes and states in quantum optics
Update of a non-trivial topology property of quantum states
Connecting the quantum internet
Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have succeeded in implementing a novel “hybrid” entanglement swapping protocol, bringing within reach the connection of disparate platforms in a future, heterogeneously-structured, quantum internet.
Valentina Parigi awarded by a CNRS Bronze Medal
This award honours the early work of researchers who have become specialists in their field.
Multicoloured quantum light goes non-Gaussian
A frequency comb as a platform for quantum information processing.
Nanofibre and cold atoms: a new quantum platform
By modifying the structure of the waveguide, it is possible to increase the interaction between light and atoms in a single passage, or to achieve interactions of tunable range between the atoms.
Valentina Parigi wins ERC Consolidator Grant
COQCOoN project
Liquid light in atomic vapors
A new experimental platform to study “liquid light”
Claude Fabre, laureate of the “Grand Prix Léon Brillouin”
The SFO rewards Claude Fabre for all his research
Two LKB members appointed to the IUF
Quentin Glorieux and Alberto Bramati honoured
Record-breaking efficiency for secure quantum memory storage
A record efficiency of 70%
Two LKB doctoral students receive awards!
Adrien Facon is the 2016 winner of the Chancellery Thesis Prize and Baptiste Gouraud is the 2016 winner of the DIM Nano-K ‘Cold Atoms’ Thesis Prize.
A tiny mirror – Physicists reflect light with only 2000 atoms
In the September 23th issue of the Physical Review Letters, Prof. Julien Laurat and his team report they have managed to realize an efficient mirror constituted of only 2000 atoms.
Controlled Generation of Vortices in a Superfluid of Light
“One of its most intriguing properties is superfluidity, which manifests as the absence of friction when the fluid flows.”
