Laboratory
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton
UMR 9025,
Bâtiment 505
Rue du Belvédère
91400 Orsay, France
Team Leader
Goulven QUÉMÉNER
Permanent members
Nadia BOULOUFA-MAAFA
Fréderic CARLIER
Olivier DULIEU
Romain GUÉROUT
Goulven QUÉMÉNER
Romain VEXIAU
Djamel BENREDJEM (émérite)
Eliane LUC (émérite)
Laurent WIESENFELD (émérite)
Scientific activity
The team is structured around four research areas involving highly specialized studies of the structure, interactions, collisions, and control of quantum systems such as atoms and molecules. The first three research operations, which fall under QuanTiP, are devoted to the study of cold and ultra-cold matter, while the fourth brings together studies conducted on microscopic processes in astrophysics and plasma physics.
One of our areas of expertise is the manipulation and control of neutral or ionized molecules to create an alternative platform for quantum simulation in the broadest sense, whether for applications in physics (protection and control of molecules for degenerate quantum gases, emergent phases, entanglement of molecular pairs) or chemistry (ultracold coherent and controlled chemistry, association of molecules into polymers).
© Nadia Bouloufa, 2022.
Figure: Illustration of the THEOMOL group’s work on the study of the dynamics
and control of cold neutral or ionized atoms and molecules.