Holder of the chair “ Atoms and radiation At the Collège de France, Jean Dalibard explains in this interview how light can cool and slow down the movement of atoms in order to observe them, thanks to innovative tools and technologies that are so many prototypes, anticipating the future quantum computer.
Jean Dalibard is a physicist, specialist in matter-raying interaction and more particularly of the handling of atoms by laser. After studying at the École normale supérieure, he was a researcher at Cnrs Until 2012, the date of his election at the Collège de France, at the atom and radiation chair. He was also a professor at the École Polytechnique from 1989 to 2015.
Jean Dalibard directs the team “ Bose-Einstein condensates Within the Kastler Brossel laboratory. This team brings together around twenty researchers, teacher-researchers, doctoral students and postdoctoral students. She is carrying out a research focused on the study of ultra-forest material on the Marcelin-Berthelot site of the Collège de France.
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