The Materials and Quantum Phenomena Laboratory (MPQ) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 7162) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Université Paris Cité.

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An optomechanical disk in its fundamental state of motion

An optomechanical disk in its fundamental state of motion

The motion of a mesoscopic mechanical resonator can exhibit quantum behavior when cooled to very low temperatures. In particular, it can reach its ground state and cease to vibrate. Using light as a probe, the LIME team at the MPQ laboratory demonstrated that...

Watching gold switch between order and disorder

Watching gold switch between order and disorder

Researchers from Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques laboratory have directly observed, for the first time, a reversible phase transition between amorphous and crystalline states in ultra-small gold nanoparticles. Their findings reveal that the atomic structure of gold...

Nonlinear Optical Devices (DON)

Quantum Information and Technologies (QITE)

Theory group (THEORIE)

Light and Mechanics (LIME)

Advanced Electron Microscopy and Nano-Structures (MEANS)

Self-Assembly of Nanostructures and STM (STM)

 

Spectroscopy of quasi-particles (SQUAP)

Molecular Scale Electronic Transport (TELEM)

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