QUANTUM series - Exploring the 2nd Quantum Revolution

Professor ASPECT is known for his experiments illuminating the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics. 

He was one of the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. He shared his prize with American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum information science.

He is being interviewed by Anne Gaelle Chasles, President of IBM France Financement, Pierre-Frederic Jaffre & Mathilde Bacholle Board members of La French Tech London. Believe us, he makes everything sounds quite simple and straightforward!

He is an alumni of ENS Cachan and Université d'Orsay. He has held positions at Institut d'Optique, ENS Cachan & Collège de France, CNRS. He is currently a professor at Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Augustin Fresnel chair), and at Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau. 

His research has borne on tests of Bell's inequalities with entangled photon (PhD, 1974-1983), wave-particle duality for single photons (1984-86, with Philippe Grangier); laser cooling of atoms with lasers below the one photon recoil (1985-1992, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji); ultra-cold atoms, quantum gases, and quantum simulators (1992- , in the Atom Optics group he has established at Institut d'Optique).

Access the 2 MOOCs referred to during the episode | not quite the Quantum for Dummies kind as per Professor Aspect's own words!

Quantum Optics 1 : Single Photons and Quantum Optics 2 - Two photons and more

Our QUANTUM series also include

- An interview with Jean-Paul Herteman, ex-CEO and Chairman of SAFRAN who co-authored the report “Quantum, the opportunity that France won’t miss” in January 2020 (+ Paula Forteza and Iordanis Kerenidis)

- A WEBINAR session aired on Tuesday June 30th which will be split into several episodes - to be announced

Those episodes are brought to you thanks to the help of the Volunteers of the DEEPTECH group of la French Tech London.