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03/09/2026

News > Job > Offre d'emploi permanent
AMO Engineer

Laboratory : Lace Lithography
Place : Bergen (Norvège)

Lace Lithography is seeking a highly experienced AMO Experimental Physicist / Engineer to join our AMO team. In this high-impact role, you will be a key contributor to the development and optimization of our Beam Conditioning systems. Working alongside physicists, chemists and developers, you will play a critical role in transitioning high-level R&D concepts into robust product architectures. This role requires a combination of deep theoretical understanding and hands-on experimental skill in laser cooling and atomic physics.

Acitivites

This list is not exhaustive; additional duties may be assigned as we grow.

  • Experimental Development: Design, build, and optimize experimental setups involving laser cooling, atomic beams, and metastable atom sources.
  • System Optimization: Work on the iterative improvement of beam conditioning modules, focusing on flux enhancement, beam control, and long-term stability.
  • Diagnostics: Develop and implement advanced diagnostic systems, including spectroscopy, beam profilers, etc.
  • Hardware Integration: Collaborate with Optomechanical and CAD engineers to improve the atomic physics systems.
  • Operational Support: Support the deployment of Lace systems and provide technical training to new AMO Squad members.
  • Documentation: Contribute to technical background documents and design reviews, providing supporting evidence through detailed calculations and references.

Profil

  • Education: PhD in Physics, Applied Physics, or a related engineering field with a focus on AMO physics or a Masters in Physics with 5 years of experience in AMO.
  • Technical Expertise: Proven experience with laser cooling, and atom optics.
  • Hands-on Skills: Proficiency in working with and aligning complex optical systems related to atomic physics experiments. Knowledge of and experience with vacuum systems.
  • Analytical Skills: Strong ability to perform feasibility studies, modeling, and quick calculations to guide system development.
  • Software: Experience with data acquisition and analysis tools (e.g., Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW).
Offer

25/08/2026

News > Event
Paris-Munich Quantum Workshop

22
oct.
2026
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23
oct.
2026
09:00:00 - 18:00:00

Place : Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Lichtenbergstraße 2 a, 85748 Garching

Website

The Paris–Munich Quantum Workshop will take place in Garching near Munich (Germany), on 22-23 October 2026, bringing together researchers from two of Europe’s vibrant quantum hubs: the Paris region and Munich.

The workshop offers an opportunity to exchange ideas, discover the latest advances in quantum science and technology, strengthen existing collaborations, and spark new ones. A particular focus is placed on fostering connections between early-career researchers and encouraging the mobility of PhD students and postdocs between the two communities.

The program will feature scientific talks, poster sessions, and laboratory visits, with plenty of opportunities for informal discussions, networking, and new scientific connections.

24/08/2026

News > Publication
Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal

Following the funding of the QUANTUM2DTMD project in 2023, the teams involved from MPQ, LSI, and CdF recently published an article in Nature.

  • Tingwen GUO
  • Jules SUEIRO
  • Gian Marcello ANDOLINA
  • Artem LEVCHUK
  • Stefano PONZONI
  • Romain GRASSET
  • Donald MONTHE
  • Ian AUPIAIS
  • Dmitri DAINEKA
  • Javier BRIATICO
  • Thales VAG DE OLIVEIRA
  • Alexey PONOMARYOV
  • Atiqa ARSHAD
  • Arjun KARIMBANA-KANDY
  • Gulloo LAL PRAJAPATI
  • Igor ILYAKOV
  • Jean-Christoph DEINERT
  • Sebastian F. MAEHRLEIN
  • Luca PERFETTI
  • Marco SCHIRO
  • Yannis LAPLACE

Spatial photonic crystals (SPCs) are unique structures for light–matter interactions because they achieve a large and spatially periodic dielectric contrast on wavelength scales. Their temporal analogues, photonic time crystals (PTCs), promise similar advances by periodically modulating optical properties in time, but require strong, ultrafast modulation, which is challenging to obtain experimentally. Driven metamaterials have been considered as a route to realize PTCs, yet all-optical implementations have remained unknown because of the challenge of achieving modulation on such short timescales. Here we demonstrate the all-optical realization of a photonic time crystal, achieved with a surface plasmon cavity metamaterial operating at terahertz frequencies. We demonstrate strong (near-unity) and coherent (sub-optical cycle) periodic driving of the plasmonic metamaterial enabled by field-induced dynamical modulation of the kinetic energy of the carriers and effective mass reaching up to 80% of their rest mass. Our spectroscopic measurements show a transition into the PTC regime mediated by an exceptional point, at which two Floquet-driven optical eigenmodes coalesce. In the PTC regime, emergent gain is shown to reduce plasmonic losses by more than 50%, and we predict plasmonic lasing to be within experimental reach. These results establish a robust platform for time-domain photonics in plasmonic systems.

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24/08/2026

News > Publication
Non-Gaussian statistics of the order parameter across a phase transition

The Helium on networks team at LCF recently published an article in Nature.

  • Maxime ALLEMAND
  • Géraud DUPUY
  • Paul PAQUIEZ
  • Nicolas DUPUIS
  • Adam RANCON
  • Tommaso ROSCILDE
  • Thomas CHALOPIN
  • David CLEMENT

Second-order phase transitions are characterized by critical scaling and universality. The singular behaviour of thermodynamic quantities at the transition, in particular, is determined by critical exponents of the universality class of the transition. However, critical properties are also characterized by the probability distribution of the ordercparameter across the transition, in which non-Gaussian statistics are expected, but remain largely unexplored.

Here, making use of single-atom-resolved detection in momentum space, we measure the full probability distribution of the order-parameter amplitude across a continuous phase transition in an interacting lattice Bose gas. We find that fluctuations are captured by an effective potential — reconstructed from the measured probability distribution by analogy with Landau theory — displaying a non-trivial minimum in the superfluid (ordered) phase, which vanishes at the transition point. Moreover, we observe non-Gaussian statistics of the order parameter near the transition, distinguished by non-zero high-order cumulants undergoing abrupt sign changes. We show numerically that these sign changes of the cumulants obey critical scaling in homogeneous systems, and that their experimental behaviour is not reproduced by classical models, whereas it is captured by a low-temperature quantum model. Our results underscore the crucial role of order parameter statistics in probing critical phenomena and universality.

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08/07/2026

News > Headline
Call for Collaborative Projects – Disruptive Innovation and Industrial Resilience (IRRI)

The Île-de-France Region supports disruptive innovation by fostering collaborations between SMEs, startups, mid-sized companies, large corporations, and research laboratories, with the aim of strengthening the region’s industrial and technological resilience.

Find all the details on eligibility for this call for projects at: Appel à projets collaboratifs – Innovation de Rupture et Résilience Industrielle (IRRI) | Région Île-de-France

06/07/2026

News > Event
Annual Meeting of the GDR Ultrafast Phenomena

9
oct.
2026
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10
oct.
2026

Place : Refectoire des cordeliers, Paris 5

Website

More information to come.

06/07/2026

News > Event
1st Annual Conference of the GDR SYMPHONIQUE

6
oct.
2026
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7
oct.
2026

Place : Bâtiment 503, Institut d'Optique, Orsay

Website

This first edition of the GdR SYMPHONIQUE Annual Meeting will bring together members of the ultra-sensitive mechanics community to address the development and exploitation of ultra-sensitive mechanical measurement. Building on the legacy of the GdR MecaQ, whose primary focus was the study of fundamental processes in interferometric motion measurement, SYMPHONIQUE expands its scope to encompass all concepts of ultra-sensitive mechanical measurement and engage with disciplinary fields capable of addressing the new scientific challenges that have emerged in the field over the past decade.

06/07/2026

News > Event
Topological quantum matter : a conference in memory of Mark Oliver Goerbig

24
sept.
2026
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25
sept.
2026

Place : LPS Orsay

Website

This conference is intended to honor the memory of Mark Goerbig (1974–2025). It will bring together Mark’s colleagues, friends, family, and students to discuss the scientific themes of his career: quantum Hall effects, graphene, topological insulators, Dirac matter, and more.

It will take place on Thursday, September 24, and Friday, September 25, 2026, at the Laboratory of Solid State Physics (LPS) in Orsay, in the Blandin Auditorium.

Registration is required in order to estimate attendance, but there is no registration fee.

06/07/2026

News > Event
Fluctuations and Randomness in Many-body Evolution (FRAME 2026)

16
sept.
2026
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18
sept.
2026

Place : Institut Pascal, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay

Website

FRAME2026 is a workshop devoted to recent developments in many-body dynamics, randomness, and fluctuations. The meeting will bring together researchers working on classical and quantum many-body systems, with a particular emphasis on non-equilibrium dynamics and the emergence of universal behavior from microscopic randomness.

The workshop will cover topics at the interface of statistical physics, quantum many-body theory, stochastic dynamics, hydrodynamics, transport, integrability, chaos, and disordered systems.

06/07/2026

News > Headline
ERC Proof of Concept 2026: Innovation Is Quantum!

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of Proof of Concept 2026, a program that supports the early stages of commercialization projects, and the results are positive for laboratories in the network!

Congratulations to Hugo Defienne (INSP), Ivan Favero (MPQ), Julie Grollier (LAF), and Mathieu Mivelle (INSP)!

More about the winners: ERC Proof of Concept 2026 : lauréats du CNRS pour la première vague | CNRS

More about the projects: ERC Proof of Concept 2026 : 6 projets lauréats à CNRS Physique | CNRS Physique