This is a temporary website until the official site is launched
QuanTech@Paris gathers the complementary expertise of computer scientists, theoretical and experimental physicists and historians to promote the development of quantum technologies within Université Paris Cité in association with Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and Inria. The quantum advantages unlocked by the second quantum revolution and expected in computation, communication, simulation, and metrology are studied using theoretical, experimental and human science approaches. Enabling technologies (e.g. quantum materials and miniaturized quantum devices) are also developed.
The project is built on mature infrastructure (including experimental setups, cleanrooms, and network platforms) and based on the know-how shared by the members of the consortium. The added value of QuanTech@Paris is to provide a flexible local structure that enables synergy and the rapid emergence of new ideas. We also expect to enhance visibility and boost attractiveness in education and research, opening avenues for increased partnerships with industry.
Our consortium brings together about 70 tenured researchers and faculty members with highly complementary expertise: computer science at IRIF and Inria (foundations and use cases for quantum software development including post-quantum cryptography), theoretical physics at MPQ and LPL (quantum information, measurement, many-body problems), experimental physics at MPQ, APC and LPL (quantum materials, quantum photonics, optomechanics, cold atoms and ions, molecular physics), as well as history and philosophy of sciences at SPHERE.
We benefit from high-quality research platforms and infrastructures, including 2 clean rooms at UPCité and USPN, a Raman spectroscopy platform at UPCité, the Metrological Fiber Network with European Vocation REFIMEVE enabling the transfer of an ultra-stable optical frequency already connecting LPL, MPQ and APC, and a total of 15 experimental rooms equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation (LPL, MPQ, APC).
Our research groups are also highly active in teaching and outreach, ensuring their ability to attract young talent and share knowledge with society. Notable activities include QuanTech Graduate School activities for master/PhD students and science festivals (MPQ+IRIF), QuBobs, a vulgarization action on quantum computing (IRIF), a web series on the History of Entanglement with the Nobel Prize A. Aspect (MPQ), the MOOC ‘Physics: live the experience’ (LPL).
A long-standing collaboration exists between IRIF and Inria, since the emergence of quantum computing, while MPQ and LPL have benefited from a fruitful Idex project in 2014-2017. We believe in the benefits of a more global and unified collaborative network in Paris. This is the one of main reasons of the existence of the project QuanTech@Paris. QuanTech@Paris is a unique opportunity to create the necessary interdisciplinary approach to quantum technologies with explicit bridges between quantum computing and physics and the implication of historians and philosophers.