As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Alastair Abbot, from the university of Geneva who is interested in the coherent control of quantum systems.

Le prochain exposé d’animation scientifique à l’interface physique-mathématiques sera dispensé par Pierre Delplace de l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon sur la topologie et la théorie de Floquet.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Renaud Vilmart, from the lRI who is interested in the ZX calculus and quantum computing.

For the next QuEnG Seminar - Foundations, we are pleased to welcome James Ladyman from the University of Bristol (Department of Philosophy), who will give 2 talks.

Contextuality is certainly one of the most fundamental aspects of quantum weirdness. In fact, it is usually said that “in quantum mechanics, the result of a measurement depends on the experimental context”. This statement - often vaguely attributed to Bohr- finds a concrete foundation in a theorem established by Ernst Specker and Simon Kochen (1960-1967) and John Bell (1964-1966). This presentation aims at introducing their result and highlights why it is a key feature to understanding the core of what makes quantum mechanics “weird”.

For the next QuEnG Seminar - Foundations, the Chair of Excellence in Philosophy of Quantum Physics will host Aurélien Drezet from Institut Néel,CNRS (Grenoble).

As part of the next QuEnG Seminar - Innovation, we are pleased to welcome Si-Hui Tan, Chief Science Officer at Horizon Quantum Computing and Visiting Professor of the Niels Bohr International Academy (Copenhagen), on Friday Nov. 22 at 11:00 in room Remy Lemaire K223 of the Institut Néel.

This week, the Chair of Excellence in Philosophy of Quantum Physics will host Daniele Oriti (LMU Munich) on Thursday and Friday 7-8 November 2019. He will give the next Quantum Engineering Grenoble Seminar || Quantum Foundations on Thursday morning, 10:30am, Institut Néel, room E-424.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Dr Alex Bredariol Grilo from CWI and QuSoft who is interested in Quantum computing, Interactive proof systems and PCPs, Complexity theory, Cryptography.

Following the series started in 2006, the next rare-earth workshop for QI will take place in Grenoble next October.Place save the dates !

As part of the next QuEnG Seminar - Foundations, we are pleased to welcome John Bush from MIT (Boston, USA).

As part of the next QuEnG Seminar - Innovation, which will be the first of a series of seminars focusing on the Academy/Industry synergy, we are pleased to welcome Valérian Giesz, Cofounder and CEO of Quandela in Palaiseau.

ESONN is a three-week course aimed at providing training for graduate students, postdoctoral and junior scientists from universities and laboratories, all around the world, in the field of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Ashutosh Goswami, a PhD student from the GreQuE Junior Board, on quantum polar codes.

Le prochain exposé d’animation scientifique à l’interface physique-mathématiques sera dispensé par Yves Colin de Verdière et portera sur les ondes internes ou inertielles en présence de forçage périodique.

Quantum Engineering Grenoble has the ambition to foster an ecosystem for quantum technologies that will connect various areas of knowledge and human activity, from quantum physics to computer sciences and humanities, from blue sky research to innovation and industry. Our goal is to build on the most counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics to create existence and develop new technologies. Our third Quantum Engineering Day will provide an overview on our targeted goals and recent achievements at the quantum physics/philosophy, quantum physics/computer science and academy/industry interface.

The members of the QuEnG and GreQue junior boards will meet to report their progress in the roles they have taken up in the boards.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Stefano Gogioso , from the University of Oxford who is interested in categorical quantum mechanics with an interest in description of quantum dynamics and also categorifying quantum field theory.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Carlos Mari Scandalo, from the University of Calgary who is researching operational thermodynamics in the framework of general probabilistic theories.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Gilles Zémor, from the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux who is researching information theory, notably error-correcting codes, both classical and quantum, along with the applications of coding to cryptography.

As part of the next QuEnG Seminar - Foundations, we are pleased to welcome José Luis Jaramillo from the Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté.

Le prochain exposé d’animation scientifique à l’interface physique-mathématiques sera dispensé par Marco Merkli du Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Not sure if you should to do a PhD in physics? To help you answer that question, join the members of the Junior Boards as they talk about their personal experiences and provide tips to make a successful transition to a PhD, to L3 and M1 students.

For the next Quantum Engineering Grenoble Seminar || Mathematics we are pleased to welcome Denis Basko from the Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC), who will talk on Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg physics with a singular continuum of density of states.

The members of the QuEnG and GreQue junior boards will meet to discuss and define the future activities of the junior boards, and how each implicated member would contribute to them.

For the next Quantum Engineering Grenoble Seminar || Quantum Foundations we are pleased to welcome Jean Bricmont from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), who will give 2 talks next week.

The First Grenoble Workshop on ZX will take place on Monday the 25th and Tuesday the 26th February 2019 at Université Grenoble Alpes, France. This is the week after the European Quantum Technology Conference (EQTC19) in Grenoble.

EQTC 2019 is the first international conference of the European Quantum Flagship. It will provide a full coverage of European and International most prominent and recent advances in quantum technologies.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Benoît Valiron, who is assistant-professor at Centrale Supélec and doing research in the design and semantics of programming languages at the lab LRI. He is one of the main developper of the quantum programming language Quipper.

As part of the QuEnG Seminar, we are pleased to welcome Hervé Courtois, who is professor at Université Grenoble Alpes. He does research in Thermal transport in quantum devices, Charge transport in quantum dots, Out-of-equilibrium superconductivity..

As part of the QuEnG Seminar - Computer Science, we are pleased to welcome Alessandro Luongo who is doing a thesis at Paris Diderot on quantum machine learning.

A 1st of its kind, this workshop aims to explore the use-cases from quantum technologies for sensing and metrology applications.

The members of the QuEnG and GreQue junior boards will meet to discuss and define the future activities of the junior boards, and how each implicated member would contribute to them.

On Tuesday the 16th of October, at 2pm, the Junior and Senior Board members of the Quantum Engineering Grenoble project will meet at Institut Néel to define and launch the missions of the board.

The lectures on Quantum Engineering presented by Dr. Dominic Horsman begin on the 4th of October 2018 from 2:30pm at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) in Room 406.

The lectures on Quantum communication and information processing presented by Alexia Auffèves, Nicolas Roch, and Jean-Philippe Poizat begin on the 11th September 2018 from 8am at the GreEnER building (21 Av. des Martyrs), in Room 2D-006.

On July 6th 2018, the second edition of Grenoble quantum engineering day will gather worldwide-renowned quantum physicists, industrials, local researchers and students and will showcase the dynamism and broad activities of Grenoble in quantum technologies.

For the next Quantum Algorithmic seminar we are pleased to welcome Steeve Zozor from the Gipsa lab, who will speak about the lossless quantum data coding problem.

Seminar by Alioscia Hamma of University of Massachusetts, Boston

We are pleased to welcome Ruy Soarez Barbosa from Oxford, during the week of June 25. He will give a seminar on Tuesday (June 26).

Over the past few years, several experimental platforms from Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) physics have begun to be used as quantum simulators.

We are pleased to welcome Simon Perdrix from Loria (CNRS) to give a seminar, as part of the Quantum Info seminar (WP2) of the QuEnG project.

We ask the question whether entropy accumulates, in the sense that the operationally relevant total uncertainty about an n-partite system A = (A1,..., An) corresponds to the sum of the entropies of its parts Ai. The Asymptotic Equipartition Property implies that this is indeed the case to first order in n - under the assumption that the parts Ai are identical and independent of each other.

The Junior boards have the pleasure to welcome Francesco Tacchino and Pr. D. Gerace from Pavia University to make a presentation about "Universal quantum simulators in hybrid superconducting platforms".

Hippolyte Dourdent, currently in a Mater 2 internship at Institut Néel, will introduce the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen (EPR) paper. The EPR article is one of the most famous paper in the history of physics.

The lectures on open quantum systems and quantum information thermodynamics presented by Alexia Auffèves and Alain Joye begin tommorow the 12th April 2018.

During this third Junior Board seminar, the PhD members of the QuEnG and GreQue Junior Boards will briefly present their PhD projects, followed by a more in depth presentation by Cameron SPENCE.

Dans le cadre du projet QuEnG, nous venons de recruter Dominic Horsman pour un poste de chaire d'excellence sur 3 ans.Au cours de l'après midi quantique il fera un séminaire accessible sur l'ordinateur quantique.Ensuite on discutera des besoins en recrutement en informatique quantique puis des futurs séminaires et invités à accueillir dans le cadre du projet QuEnG.

The Junior Scientist and Industry annual meeting (JSIam) is a one-day event dedicated to junior scientists (PhD students and post doc) and industry members. It is an excellent opportunity for both to get to know each other.

Join us for a 2-day event to share quantum application know-how among the Zurich Instruments community and become a ZI power user.

During this second Junior Board seminar, the PhD members of the QuEnG and GreQue Junior Boards will briefly present their PhD projects.

Benoît Douçot (CNRS, LPTHE Paris), vous propose de particper à un exposé mêlant mathématique et physique sur la classification des phases topologiques de fermions libres. Ce séminaire aura lieu à l'Institut Fourier

Thomas Boyer-Kassem vous invite à assister à son cours de second semestre sur la philosophie de la mécanique quantique qui commence jeudi 25 janvier.

In this joint Nanoélectronique Quantique and QUEST seminar, Nicolas Didier from Rigetti Computing (Berkeley, California) will explain the physics behind two-qubit gates, and how they enable the implementation of two distinct classes of entangling operations, describe many features that make this architecture attractive from a scalability perspective, and present how this gate architecture was used to demonstrate a hybrid algorithm for an unsupervised machine learning task known as clustering on a 19-qubit processor.

Sebastien Leger, currently doing his PhD at Institut Néel (CNRS, Grenoble) will give a brief introduction to Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics. He will start from the fundamentals and then present tools that will help understand how to make quantum bits.

Prof. Andrew S. Dzurak from University of New South Wales, Sydney will present an overview of the development of silicon-based quantum computing, from the basic science through to its prospects for industrial-scale commercialization based on CMOS manufacturing

Vincent Ardourel de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie à l'Université catholique de Louvain vous invite à examiner le contre-exemple à la conception de la causalité pouvant se réduire à la transmission d’une quantité physique entre deux évènements : l'effet Aharonov-Bohm.

NICOLAS GISIN de l'université de Genève et spécialiste mondialement reconnu de l'intrication quantique vous invite à découvrir les notions de téléportation et de cryptographie quantique, sans mathématique, mais aussi sans prétendre que cela est facile.

Aurélien Barrau (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie) présentera les idées récentes qui font intervenir la possible existence d’Univers multiples dans le cadre de la cosmologie physique. Nous interrogerons la « scientificité » de ces propositions profiterons de cette occasion pour aborder quelques aspects d’épistémologie contemporaine. Entre dérives obscurantistes et tentations scientistes, comment se positionner ?

In this talk Dr Dominic Horsman introduce recent work on high-level languages for quantum error correction processes.

In this seminar Dr Dominic Horsman will present recent work bridging the divide between high-level logical structures and practical quantum computing devices.

Quantum computing is on the verge of taking over the world. But what about its semantics? What about formal methods for quantum computers? Do we really need to carry around all the machinery of Hilbert spaces, unitary transforms, etc etc in order to work on quantum computing?

Real implementations of quantum algorithms on real quantum devices are not going to resemble the nice circuit drawings we find in Nielsen and Chuang. To actually run a quantum program we are going to need to translate from some simple high-level description, like a circuit diagram, to a complicated low-level description taking into account all the error correction, the quirks of the qubits, the architectural constraints of the machine etc etc etc. How can we have confidence that the final program is equivalent to the original one?

There are currently several empirically equivalent interpretations of quantum mechanics (orthodox, Everett, Bohm, ...), which provide different images of how the world could be like. On which criteria should one choose between them? Is an absence of consensus a sign of irrationationality? And finally, is choosing an interpretation a philosophical or a scientific job?

Meet the very unique ecosystem and strategies of the team Quantum Engineering Grenoble through a discovering day: labs and facilities, multidisciplinary approaches, new research forefronts, keynotes and presentations.

The lectures will respectively take place on Monday 19th and Wednesday 21st at 10am, in room D420 (third floor of building D) of Néel Institute, and will last approximately 90 minutes.

The first lecture will take place on Monday 29 May from 10 am to 12 in the amphitheater of “maison des magisteres”, and will focus on how one can get an exponential speed up to factorize big numbers with a quantum computer and what an exponential speed up implies in term of the characteristics of the qubits.

Le 28 avril prochain à 14h dans la salle amphi du batiment A (2ème étage) aura lieu notre prochain séminaire transdisciplinaire sur la science et la mécanique quantique (QUantum Interdisciplinary Science Seminar= QISS) . Pour cette occasion nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir Azzedine Boudrioua, professeur au LPL qui viendra nous faire un séminaire d'histoire des sciences sur l'optique:

You can now apply to our doctoral programmes for Quantum Engineering in Grenoble. With our programmes, we aim to foster a pluridisciplinary ecosystem for quantum technologies, highly connected to the industrial world. Please check the QuEnG programme and the GreQue programme.

Our Chair of Excellence in Philosophy of quantum physics invites applications from talented and motivated students for a 3-year PhD position to foster the physics/philosophy interface.

From 27th to 31st August, Grenoble hosts the biennial conference, the “Journées de la Matière Condensée” (JMC), or Condensed Matter Days, organized by the Société Française de Physique.

Find out about upcoming conferences and workshops on quantum technologies

The QuTE project, coordinated by David Ferrand, has been selected in the IDEX call nammed "Pedagogic transformation" and "learning by doing" platforms.