Michel H. Devoret, a professor at Yale University since 2002, graduated from "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications" in Paris in 1975 and started graduate work in molecular quantum physics at the University of Orsay. He then joined Prof. Anatole Abragam’s laboratory in CEA-Saclay to work on NMR investigation of the quadrupolar glass phase of solid hydrogen, and received his PhD from Paris University in 1982. He spent two post-doctoral years working on quantum mechanical electronics in Prof. John Clarke’s laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and, upon his return at Saclay, started his own research group with Daniel Esteve and Cristian Urbina. Among the achievements of this Saclay "quantronics group" are the measurement of the traversal time of tunneling, the invention of the single electron pump (now the basis of a new standard of capacitance), the first observation of the charge of Cooper pairs, and the invention of a highly coherent superconducting qubit, the so-called Quantronium circuit. He is the recipient of the Ampère Prize of the French Academy of Science (together with Daniel Esteve, 1991), the Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Academy of Science of the Netherlands (1996) and the Europhysics Prize (together with Daniel Esteve, Hans Mooij and Yasunobu Nakamura, 2004). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des Sciences). In 2007, Michel Devoret has been appointed to the Chair of Mesoscopic Physics at the College de France in Paris, where he lectures yearly.
At Yale University, Michel Devoret’s group, in collaboration with Rob Schoelkopf’s and Steve Girvin’s groups, developed a new type of quantum-limited amplifier, the so-called bifurcation amplifier. Besides experiments on the fundamental principles of amplification, Michel Devoret’s research focuses on quantum information processing, using mesoscopic superconducting circuits. The lab is also investigating whether superconductivity exists at the single molecule level.Publication list (external link)

Benjamin Huard graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2003 and did his PhD studies in the Quantronics group at CEA Saclay (France) with Hugues Pothier. There, he performed experiments aiming at investigating the behavior of electrons in mesoscopic metallic and superconducting conductors. In 2006, he joined the Goldhaber-Gordon group at Stanford University (USA) as a post-doc fellow, and observed the Klein tunneling of electrons in graphene for the first time. In 2008, he started the activity of the Quantum Electronics group at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) as a CNRS researcher. He received the Saint-Gobain award of the French Physics Society in 2006. Publication list

Francois Mallet graduated from Université d’Orsay in 2003. He did his PhD work in the Quantum Coherence group at Institut Neel (Grenoble, France) with Laurent Saminadayar and Christopher Bauerle where he studied the effect of magnetism on the electronic coherence in mesoscopic metallic conductors. In 2007, he joined the Quantronics group at CEA (Saclay, France) for 2 years as a post-doc fellow to study the quantum measurement of superconducting qubits (efficiency and back-action). He joined Pr. Konrad Lehnert group at JILA (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) as a research assistant to investigate quantum limited amplification and squeezing of microwave light. He became a member of the Quantum Electronics group in September 2011 as an associate professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Publication list

Nicolas did his graduate work in Grenoble with Franck Balestro and Wolfgang Wernsdorfer on molecular electronics. He joined the group in January 2010 as a post-doc. He developed a tunable, phase preserving, and quantum limited amplifier for microwave signals. He is now working on two-mode squeezing of vacuum fluctuations using this amplifier.

Jean-Damien did his graduate work in the Quantronics group at CEA Saclay with Philippe Joyez on Josephson effects in quantum dots made of carbon nanotubes. He joined the group in December 2011 as a post-doc. He is developing a wideband, phase preserving, and quantum limited amplifier in order to readout superconducting qubits.

Philippe started his PhD studies in January 2011. He is working on the real-time control of a superconducting Qbit using a feedback loop.

Emmanuel started his PhD studies in January 2011. He is working on non-linear phenomena using superconducting circuits and developed a tunable, phase preserving, and quantum limited amplifier for microwave signals. He is now working on two-mode squeezing of vacuum fluctuations using this amplifier.

David Darson is an engineer from CNRS at Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain. He provides us precious support in electronics and especially in the programmation of the FPGA board.

Pascal Morfin is an engineer from CNRS at Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain. He provides us precious support in mechanical works and general technical issues.

François worked in the group from November 2008 to October 2009. He is now a post-doc in the Leo Di Carlo Group at TU Delft, Netherlands.

Lola El Sahmarany (2010)

Florent Baboux (2010)

Elisabeth Bonnefoy (2010)