Special lecture by Michel Devoret, 2025 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, at the CEA Paris-Saclay Center.
This event is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the world’s leading experts in quantum circuits, who worked for 24 years at SPEC at CEA-Saclay.
NB: The lecture will be recorded and posted on the CEA’s YouTube channel.
Michel Devoret was a scientist at SPEC- Service de Physique de la Matière Condensée for 24 years, from 1978 to 2002. Upon returning from his postdoctoral fellowship at Berkeley in 1984, he created the SPEC Quantronics research group with Daniel Estève and Christian Urbina. In 1984, John Martinis joined them at CEA-DSM/SPSRM for a postdoctoral fellowship, as did John Clarke on sabbatical.
He continued his work within the quantronics group until 2002, when he joined Yale University, while continuing to collaborate closely with the quantronics group.
His research has focused primarily on “mesoscopic physics,” studying quantum electronic effects in electronic circuits. With the development of microwave technologies, he contributed to the creation of quantronium at SPEC, the first superconducting qubit that is well decoupled from the external circuit while remaining connected and therefore measurable at all times. This was a major step forward in the development of current quantum technologies towards quantum computing.