Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• First demonstration of Quantum Zeno Dynamics of light: this important experimental result offers a new scheme to control quantum systems based on light modes and was published in Science in 2015 [13] .

• In a collaboration with the team of Michel H. Devoret at Yale university, we engineered a new form of quantum friction. By engineering a particular non-linear interaction between a quantum harmonic oscillator (a superconducting cavity mode) and a driven bath, we were able to stabilize a manifold of quantum states. This result which was published in Science in 2015 [18] should lead to a new direction of research in quantum information processing with driven dissipative systems.

• In a collaboration with the team of Robert J. Schoelkopf at Yale university, we were able to realize a version of Schrd̎oinger's cat thought experiment. We were able to entangle an artificial atom to a cat state of a quantum harmonic oscillator. We were able to characterize this entanglement using the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt formulation of a Bell test. This result was published in Nature Communications [25] .