Web series on Quantum Entanglement

Juil 19, 2022 | MPQ, QITE

Hugo Cayla has collaborated with several researchers, including Sara Ducci and Pérola Milman from the MPQ laboratory, to shed light on the fascinating aspects of quantum entanglement through a 4-episode web series. The first episode, which can be found below, is...

QFLM 2022 School at Varenna, Italy

Juil 8, 2022 | MPQ, THEORIE

The International School “Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter (QFLM2022)” in Varenna was a great success with many distinguished lecturers and a great audience of students, postdocs and senior researchers.QFLM 2022 was co-organized by Cristiano Ciuti with...

Aloyse Degiron is awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant

Juin 26, 2022 | DON, MPQ

Aloyse Degiron, CNRS senior researcher at the MPQ laboratory, has just been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant. Aloyse Degiron A Metamaterial-based technology to create Electricity from Light (AMELI) The ERC POC AMELI aims to convert light into electricity using...

Laboratory Days 2022

Juin 2, 2022 | MPQ

On the Normandy coast, at the foot of the dunes of Merville Franceville, the MPQ laboratory days took place from Monday, May 30th to Wednesday, June 1st, 2022. The MPQ days, organized by Sandrine, Adrien, Zakari, and Nathalie, were a wonderful moment of camaraderie...

Hybrid heterostructures for spintronics

Avr 1, 2022 | MPQ, TELEM

Spintronics is a quantum technology that aims to add the quantum spin degree of freedom to conventional CMOS electronics. Since the discovery of giant magnetoresistance in 1988 by Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, considered the birth of this field, spintronics has...

Addressing a molecule with a unique spin transition in a 2D lattice

Mar 16, 2022 | MPQ, STM

Spin-transition molecules exhibiting bistability are particularly interesting for the development of innovative electronic and spintronic devices, as they exhibit two spin states that can be controlled by external stimuli. Figure:a) Diagram of voltage pulse...

Supraconductivity Thematic Days of the GDR Meetic

Nov 29, 2021 | MPQ, SQUAP

Two thematic days on superconductivity, as part of the GDR Meetic, are being organized on December 6th and 7th by Y. Gallais, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto (MPQ), and D. Colson (CEA-Saclay). They will take place in the Buffon amphitheater at the University of Paris (15 Rue...

High-Tc superconductivity highlighted in “Reflets de la physique”

Nov 16, 2021 | MPQ, SQUAP

The SQUAP team has published an article, coordinated by Alain Sacuto, in the Reflets de la Physique journal of the French Physical Society (SFP). Reflets de la physique Levitation of a magnet sandwiched between two YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor pellets cooled to the...

Cristiano Ciuti elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)

Oct 13, 2021 | MPQ, THEORIE

Prof. Cristiano Ciuti, head of the MPQ laboratory, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Cristiano Ciuti He receives this prestigious recognition “for pioneering theoretical work on the quantum electrodynamics of strongly-coupled photons and...

A light-controlled mechanical frequency comb

Août 27, 2021 | DON, MPQ

Through optomechanical experiments in a semiconductor micro-resonator, researchers from the DON team of the MPQ laboratory, in collaboration with the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, have shown that a coupling between different forms of energy can give rise...