September 30th of 2024 marks the end of the project DAALI, an amazing 4 years of delving into the world of atoms and light and trying to understand the interaction between them, and at some point, learn to control and manipulate these systems. Throughout the execution of the project we have learnt many things. We […]
Prof. Julien Laurat from Sorbonne University and a DAALI partner recently received the Jean Jerphagnon Prize from the French Optical Society.. This award crowns Laurat’s pioneering work, who developed the world’s most efficient quantum memory at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel – LKB (Sorbonne Université/CNRS/PSL Research University). This quantum memory leverages laser-cooled neutral atoms technology. It […]
ICFO researchers have obtained a world record degree of indistinguishability between two photons coming from two dissimilar quantum nodes when no detections are discarded. These results pave the way towards future heterogeneous quantum networks. The development of a quantum internet is a remarkable endeavor running parallel to the pursuit of practical quantum computers. This quantum […]
Today Felix Hoffet, ICFO partner of DAALI, presented the group’s research at the plenary session of the Quantum Matter conference! He discussed the realization of quantum networking experiments with cold-atomic quantum nodes, highlighting our achievement in coupling two cold-atomic ensembles with good performance. The work is now available as a pre-print online, check it out […]
Researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, partners of the DAALI project, have demonstrated a surprising effect present in the fluorescent light of a single atom Researchers headed by Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel from the Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, partners of the DAALI project, have gained new insights into […]
The European Research Council (ERC) awarded 218 Advanced Grants to outstanding research leaders across Europe, under the Horizon Europe programme. The grants, totaling €544 million, support cutting-edge research across various fields, from medicine and physics to social sciences and humanities.
Last Thursday, September 29th, DAALI partner Antonio Rubio, post-doc researcher from ICFO, participated in the European Researchers Night, by giving a talk to the public at large about ultra cold atom gases. Entitled “Recepta per preparar el punt més fred de l’univers” (in English “A recipe for preparing the coolest spot in the Universe”), Antonio […]
Researchers from ICFO, partners of the DAALI project, IFN-CNR and Heriot-Watt University report in Science Advances the demonstration of entanglement between a fibre-integrated quantum memory and a telecommunications-wavelength photon.
The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) champions the advancement of high-level research within universities and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among its members. A decree of August 26, 1991, established the IUF as a service of the ministry responsible for higher education. The IUF appoints teacher-researchers who demonstrate excellence in their scientific activities and international influence. Julien […]
In a recent paper published in PRL, researchers from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology and the Humboldt University of Berlin, and partners of DAALI, have demonstrated the trapping of a single rubidium atom at nanoscale distances from the surface of a whispering-gallery-mode microresonator.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 899275 under the funding call FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020 – FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking.