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• 26 April
  [Institut Quantique] Rencontre annuelle des usagers et usagères de l’AlgoLab
  26 April

  [Institut Quantique] Rencontre annuelle des usagers et usagères de l’AlgoLab

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• 26 April
  [Institut Quantique] Pasqal
  26 April

  [Institut Quantique] Pasqal

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• 26 April
  [Institut Quantique] Séminaire IQ – Antoine Browaeys (Pasqal)
  26 April

  [Institut Quantique] Séminaire IQ – Antoine Browaeys (Pasqal)

  Location : Description : Lieu/Location : Auditorium de l'IQLangue/Language : EnglishAntoine BrowaeysChief Scientist Officer et cofondateur de PASQALTitre/TitleExploring many-body problems with arrays of individual atomsRésumé/AbstractOver the last twenty years, physicists have learned to manipulate individual quantum objects: atoms, ions, molecules, quantum circuits, electronic spins... It is now possible to build "atom by atom" a synthetic quantum matter. By controlling the interactions between atoms, one can study the properties of these elementary many-body systems: quantum magnetism, transport of excitations, superconductivity... and thus gain a deeper understanding of the N-body problem. More recently, it was realized that these quantum machines may find applications in the industry, such as finding the solution of combinatorial optimization problems.This seminar will present an example of a synthetic quantum system, based on laser-cooled ensembles of individual atoms trapped in microscopic optical tweezer arrays. By exciting the atoms to Rydberg states, we make them interact, even at distances of more than ten micrometers. In this way, we study the magnetic properties of an ensemble of more than a hundred interacting ½ spins, in a regime in which simulations by usual numerical methods are already very challenging. Some aspects of this research led to the creation of the Pasqal company.

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