How to explore the quantum world?

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Jean Dalibard, during the CNRS Gold Medal ceremony.

© Xavier Pierre - CNRS

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How to trap atoms by cooling them with laser light?

Meeting with a pioneer of quantum simulation, Professor Jean Dalibard, winner of the CNRS Gold Medal and a formidable smuggler of the most complex, exotic and quantum sciences...

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Let's explore another world which is also ours, the quantum world in all its strangeness, thanks to a formidable smuggler, explorer, scout of quantum physics: Professor

of the Collège de France and the Kastler Broessel Laboratory, specialist in cold atoms and interactions between matter and light. And since he loves nothing so much as transmitting, Jean Dalibard came to share his incredible research with us: how he managed to create quantum matter, to trap atoms using condensed light (which allows atoms to be cooled down to to totally exotic and therefore perfectly quantum states). Thanks to these experiments, quantum systems are no longer just thought exercises, they can be studied in the laboratory.

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, physicist in Quantum Mechanics,

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A professor at the Collège de France since 2012, he holds the Atoms and Radiation Chair.

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