Position and functions

Research director, former head of Quantronics

Research fields

• Mesoscopic physics, mesoscopic superconductivity
• Quantum transport, dynamical Coulomb blockade, Coulomb blockade in tunnel junction circuits, single electron devices, single Cooper pair electronics, Josephson junctions and Josephson effects, atomic-size contacts, Andreev bound states.
• Quantum electrical circuits, quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
• superconducting quantum bits, superconducting quantum processors,
• Hybrid circuits for quantum information processing, quantum physics with electrical circuits
• Quantum microwaves
• quantum optics with microwave photons in Josephson junction circuits

CV

• Born on February 2^nd , 1954 in Montpellier (France).
• Married, two children, two grand-children

• Formet Head of Quantronics Group
• Other functions:
  • Member of the scientific council of the European Research Council (2006-2013), elected vice-chair / vice-president 2006-2011
  • Member of the board of Labex Palm theme 1 (elementary and correlated quantum systems)
  • Member of the academic senate of the UPSay university
  • Member of the Académie des Sciences, and of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the scientific council of the Laboratoire National d’Essais (LNE)

Carrier:

Supervision and collaborations:

I have co-supervised the research of 20 PhD students, and about the same number of post-doctoral visitors.

I have established collaborations with Prof. John Clarke (Berkeley U.), Prof. H. Grabert (Freiburg U.), Prof. J. Ankerhold (Ulm U.), Prof. H. Mooij (T.U. Delft), Prof. J. van Ruitenbeek (Leyden U.), Prof. N.O. Birge (Michigan U.), Dr. Gennady Mikhailov (Chernogolovka), and Prof. Levy-Yeyati (Madrid U.).

Awards

• Germain prize, Collège de France.
• Ampère prize of Académie des Sciences 1991, with M. Devoret.
• Agilent Europhysics prize 2004, with J.E. Mooij, Y. Nakamura and M. Devoret.

Publications

Author or co-author of 250 scientific publications (ISI) including 10 book chapters.

7800 citations (ISI) , h index : 48.

10 selected publications (2010-2013)

• Strong Coupling of a Spin Ensemble to a Superconducting Resonator Y. Kubo, F. R. Ong, P. Bertet, D. Vion, V. Jacques, D. Zheng, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, A. Auffeves, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, M.F. Barthe, P. Bergonzo, D. Esteve, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140502 (2010) (see also Viewpoint in Physics: Towards superconductor-spin ensemble hybrid quantum systems
• Experimental violation of a Bell’s inequality in time with weak measurement A. Palacios-Laloy, F. Mallet, F. Nguyen, P. Bertet, D. Vion, D. Esteve and A. Korotkov, Nature Phys. 6, 442 (2010)
• The bright side of Coulomb blockade M. Hofheinz, F. Portier, Q. Baudouin, P. Joyez, D. Vion, P. Bertet, P. Roche, D. Esteve, arXiv:1102.0131, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 217005 (2011).
• Hybrid Quantum Circuit with a Superconducting Qubit Coupled to a Spin Ensemble Y. Kubo, C. Grezes, A. Dewes, T. Umeda, J. Isoya, H. Sumiya, N. Morishita, H. Abe, S. Onoda, T. Ohshima, V. Jacques, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, I. Diniz, A. Auffeves, D. Vion, D. Esteve, and P. Bertet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 220501 (2011)
• Circuit QED with a Nonlinear Resonator: ac-Stark Shift and Dephasing F. R. Ong, M. Boissonneault, F. Mallet, A. Palacios-Laloy, A. Dewes, A. C. Doherty, A. Blais, P. Bertet, D. Vion, and D. Esteve, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 167002 (2011).
• Quantum speeding-up of computation demonstrated in a superconducting two-qubit processor A. Dewes, R. Lauro, F. R. Ong, V. Schmitt, P. Milman, P. Bertet, D. Vion and D. Esteve. Phys. Rev. B 85, 140503(R) (2012) arxiv:1110.5170
• Characterization of a two-transmon processor with individual single-shot qubit readout A. Dewes, F. R. Ong, V. Schmitt, R. Lauro, N. Boulant, P. Bertet, D. Vion and D. Esteve. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 057002 (2012) arXiv:1109.6735
• Electron spin resonance detected by a superconducting qubit Y. Kubo, I. Diniz, C. Grezes, T. Umeda, J. Isoya, H. Sumiya, T. Yamamoto, H. Abe, S. Onoda, T. Ohshima, V. Jacques, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, A. Auffeves, D. Vion, D. Esteve, and P. Bertet, Phys. Rev. B 86, 064514 (2012) arXiv:1207.1139
• Quantum Heating of a Nonlinear Resonator Probed by a Superconducting Qubit, F. R. Ong, M. Boissonneault, F. Mallet, A. C. Doherty, A. Blais, D. Vion, D. Esteve, and P. Bertet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 047001 (2013)
• Exciting Andreev pairs in a superconducting atomic contact, L. Bretheau, Ç. Girit, H. Pothier, D. Esteve, C. Urbina, Nature 499, 312 (2013). Supplementary material HERE.

Teaching

• Mesoscopic physics, Coulomb blockade, single electron devices, quantum computing
• 2013: mesoscopic superconductivity (Cargese 13 school)
• Mesoscopic physics, Nanosciences M2 master, PSud University

Miscellaneous

• Past editor of Images de la Physique, past divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters.
• Co-organisor of workshops and schools (co-director of the 2003 Les Houches summer school « Quantum entanglement and information processing »)