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Computational field-resolved coherent chemical imaging

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 8

Congratulations to physicist Christophe Salomon who has just won a 2025 #BalzanPrize!

This award is related to his work on atoms and ultra-precise measurement of time.

He will receive c.€800K, half of which must then be invested in research.

@lkblab.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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Complex Media Optics Team @comedialkb.bsky.social · Aug 25

#NewPaper on the blend of computational microscopy with chemical imaging: enabling high-speed quantitative CARS imaging via a new compressive Raman framework.
Kudos @spzhao0724.bsky.social
A collaboration between @lkblab.bsky.social and @ukmlv.bsky.social from Washington Uni St.Louis rdcu.be/eCjLz

Nature Communications - A vibrational spectral phase retrieval approach to broadband CARS spectroscopy is presented, therefore enabling supervised compressive CARS microspectroscopy for...

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jul 22

"100 Years of Quantum Physics. In the honor of Serge Haroche"

Quantip is supporting an international colloquium in Vietnam (October 6-9). The organizers will be pleased to welcome Quantip researchers and invite them to present a communication (or a poster).

➡️ vietnam.in2p3.fr/2025/Haroche...

Rencontres du Vietnam: 100 Years of Quantum Physics

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jul 22

🇫🇷 This year, France is hosting the 55th International Physics Olympiad!

The LKB had the pleasure of welcoming participants for a tour of our lab.

Many thanks to Serge Haroche and @jmcourty.bsky.social for their appearance on @franceinter.fr, and to Élisabeth Giacobino, for her opening speech.

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jul 18

✨At @sfp-physique.bsky.social 2025, quantum physics concepts came alive through dance and dialogue.

With:
• M. Cagnon Trouche ( @lpens-phys.bsky.social )
• A. Chapuis ( @insp-lab.bsky.social )
• @leo-rc.bsky.social (LKB)

📽️ Watch here :

www.youtube.com

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jul 10

🎉 Clôture de la journée du laboratoire à la Fondation des Etats-Unis ! 🎉

Ce mardi 8 juillet 2025 à la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, notre laboratoire a organisé une journée dédiée à la physique quantique, avec des séminaires techniques et de vulgarisation.

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Quantum Networks Team at LKB Paris @quantumnet-lkb.bsky.social · Jul 2

👏 Our two papers on the benchmarking of non-Gaussian states are out ! Congrats to the team and to our collaborators in Olomouc!

▶️ PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

▶️ Companion in PRA: journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

@lkblab.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jul 1

📅 Don't forget, tomorrow is the next #LKBseminar, with Almut Beige (@universityofleeds.bsky.social)
💬 "Increasing wave-particle duality"

📍 See you on 2 July at 11 am - room 2 - @collegedefrance.bsky.social – 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005
More info:

Almut Beige - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

Michael Tarbutt - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚀 Don't miss the upcoming #LKBseminar with Almut Beige (@universityofleeds.bsky.social)
Join us for a discussion on «Increasing wave-particle duality».

🗓️ 2 July 2025 - @collegedefrance.bsky.social – 75005

🔗More info: https://www.lkb.fr/en/evenement/almut-beige/

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Quantum Networks Team at LKB Paris @quantumnet-lkb.bsky.social · Jun 22

🇨🇦 Julien Laurat was at the SPIE Photonics for Quantum 2025 workshop in Waterloo, Canada!

📣 He delivered a Keynote on optical interconnects to scale quantum information architectures.

👏 Many thanks to the organizing team and the conference chairs, Michael Reimer and Nir Rotenberg !

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 17

📅 Don't forget, tomorrow is the next #LKBseminar, with Michael Tarbutt ( @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social )
💬 "Searching for new physics with ultracold molecules"

📍 See you on 18 June, at 11 am - @collegedefrance.bsky.social – 75005
More info:

Collaboration between the Exotic Ions team and the LKB mechanical service - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 16

Collaboration between the Exotic Ions team and the LKB mechanical service !

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L’hégémonie de l’anglais comme langue scientifique est-elle inéluctable ?

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Interview in Mediapart with Yvan Castin

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Depuis les années 1980, le monde scientifique s’est mis à ne parler qu’anglais, sans vouloir reconnaître les dégâts que cela implique. Des mathématiciens proposent de renouer avec le français comme l…

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Mikael Rechtsman - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚀 Don't miss the upcoming #LKBseminar with Michael Tarbutt (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)
Join us for a discussion on «Searching for new physics with ultracold molecules».

🗓️ 18 June 2025 - @collegedefrance.bsky.social – 75005

🔗More info: https://www.lkb.fr/en/evenement/michael-tarbutt/

Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 10

📅 Don't forget, tomorrow is the next #LKBseminar, with Mikael Rechtsman (Penn State University & Institut Néel @cnrsalpes.bsky.social)
💬 "Quantized nonlinear Thouless pumping"

📍 See you on 11 June, at 11 am - @collegedefrance.bsky.social
More info:

Qui se ressemble quantiquement, s’assemble étrangement

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 10

🔍 « Qui se ressemble quantiquement s’assemble… étrangement »

Grâce au contrôle optique, des physiciens du LKB explorent le comportement quantique des gaz.

👉Une avancée à lire dans @lemonde.fr : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

@cnrs.fr @normalesup.bsky.social

#PhysiqueQuantique #Sciences

CARTE BLANCHE. Alors que l’industrie publicitaire n’hésitera bientôt plus à vanter les inexistantes propriétés quantiques d’un camembert pour mieux le vendre, les deux scientifiques saluent, dans leur...

www.lemonde.fr

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 6

👉New article out now

A study published in Nature reports the first observation of emergent anyonic behavior in a 1D ultracold bosonic gas.

🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@collegedefrance.bsky.social

Observing anyonization of bosons in a quantum gas - Nature

Emergent anyonic correlations via spin–charge separation are observed in a one-dimensional strongly interacting quantum gas, enabling the exploration of non-equilibrium anyonic phenomena in a highly c...

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Probing the quantum motion of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator with a radio-frequency superconducting qubit

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Thibaut Jacqmin @thibaut-jacqmin.bsky.social · May 28

Check our new results!

Emmanuel Flurin @manuflurin.bsky.social · May 28

New paper out! We resonantly couple a superconducting heavy-fluxonium qubit ⚛️ to a macroscopic membrane 🥁 oscillating at a few MHz. ~300 repeated interactions let us track its quantum motion, observe back-action & probe non-commuting operators. Diósi–Penrose next? (1/8)
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21481

Long-lived mechanical resonators like drums oscillating at MHz frequencies and operating in the quantum regime offer a powerful platform for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. Yet,...

arxiv.org

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚀 Don't miss the upcoming #LKBseminar with Mikael Rechtsman (Penn State University & Institut Néel @cnrsalpes.bsky.social )
Join us for a discussion on «Quantized nonlinear Thouless pumping».

🗓️ 11 June 2025 - @collegedefrance.bsky.social
🔗More info: https://www.lkb.fr/en/evenement/mikael-rechtsman/

Ignacio Cirac - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

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Mattia Walschaers @walschaers.eu · May 19

🌟 Post-Doc Opportunity in Quantum Computing! 🌟

Join us at @lkblab.bsky.social in Paris to explore photonic quantum computing. Apply by June 15th, 2025.

🔗 Job Announcement: www.lkb.fr/multimodequa...

#QuantumComputing #PostDoc #JobOpportunity

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · May 20

📚 New release!
Book: "Bose-Einstein Condensates – The Theory, from Foundations to Applications" by Yvan Castin, with a foreword by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

@cnrs.fr @normalesup.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @collegedefrance.bsky.social

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Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · May 20

📅 Don't forget, tomorrow is the next #LKBseminar, with Ignacio Cirac ( @maxplanck.de)
💬 "Quantum Computing and Simulation in the presence of errors"

📍 See you on 21 May, at 2 p.m. - @collegedefrance.bsky.social – 75005
More info:

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Assistant-e ingénieur-e en réalisation mécanique H/F

Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · May 14

📢 Le laboratoire recrute un assistant ingénieur en réalisation mécanique

Il prendra en charge, à partir des dossiers de plans, la fabrication, l’ajustage et l’assemblage, le contrôle et les tests de pièces et d’ensembles mécaniques.

Pour consulter l'offre : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/MOBIN...

@cnrs.fr

L'assistant(e) ingénieur(e) en réalisation mécanique prendra en charge, à partir des dossiers de plans, la fabrication, l'ajustage et l'assemblage, le contrôle et les tests de pièces et d'ensembles mécaniques. L'agent sera également amené à réaliser de petites études en construction mécanique.

emploi.cnrs.fr

Lab. Kastler Brossel @lkblab.bsky.social · May 14

🚀 Don't miss the upcoming #LKBseminar with Ignacio Cirac ( @maxplanck.de)
Join us for a discussion on « Quantum Computing and Simulation in the presence of errors».

🗓️ 21 May 2025 - @collegedefrance.bsky.social – 75005

🔗More info: https://www.lkb.fr/en/evenement/ignacio-cirac/