Alain Aspect
Professor
Institut d'Optique Graduate School
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Deep Tech & Quantum Computing
About Me
Alain Aspect is an alumnus of ENSET Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay) and Orsay University. He is currently Professor at the Institut d'Optique-Université Paris-Saclay and Professor at the École Polytechnique. His doctoral thesis (1983), at the Institut d'Optique, focused on experimental tests of the foundations of quantum mechanics (tests of Bell's inequalities, for which he was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics along with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger). After experiments on single photons, with Philippe Grangier (1984-86), he worked on laser cooling of atoms at the Kastler Brossel laboratory of ENS Paris, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean Dalibard and Christophe Salomon. The group he founded at the Institut d'Optique in 1993 focuses on atomic quantum optics and atomic quantum simulators with degenerate gases.
Alain Aspect is a member of the Académie des Sciences, the Académie des Technologies and several foreign academies (Austria, Belgium, Italy, UK, USA).
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Quantum Computing: What Leaders Need To Know
Quantum technology taps into the unusual behavior of atomic and sub-atomic particles to perform far more complex calculations than today’s computers. The hope is that this could lead to breakthroughs in drug discovery and previously unsolvable problems as well as solutions that have the potential to generate higher returns for business. How should business leaders be preparing for this monumental market shift?
Alain Aspect – Book Signing "Si Einstein Avait Su ..."
Alain Aspect shares his fascination with the quantum mechanics debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, he demonstrated the need to abandon Einstein’s vision of the quantum world.