Jean-Michel Raimond

Jean-Michel Raimond (born December 11, 1955 in Orléans ) is a French physicist who deals with atomic physics and quantum optics .

He is the son of Michel Raimond, a professor of French literature at the Sorbonne . Raimond attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and was admitted to the École normal supérieure (ENS) in 1975 . He received his licentiate degree in 1976 and the DEA degree in Rydberg atoms in 1977 from the University of Paris VI . In 1979 he obtained the first part of his doctorate (Thèse de troisieme cycle) with Serge Haroche in his laboratory at the ENS on laser spectroscopy of cesium and received his agrégation in physics. He then carried out research for the CNRS , from 1980 in the Haroche laboratory at the ENS (Spectroscopie Hertzienne, later the Kastler-Broussel laboratory). In 1983 he received his doctorate from Serge Haroche (second part of the French doctorate, Thèse d'Etat), also on Rydberg atoms in a cavity. In 1988 he became a professor at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie), where he holds the chair of quantum optics. From 1994 to 1999 he was a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and from 2001 to 2011 he was a senior member. From 2004 to 2009 he headed the physics faculty at ENS. He is a member of the Kastler-Brossel laboratory of the ENS and there in the group of cavity quantum electrodynamics (like Serge Haroche and Michel Brune).

He examines the fundamentals of quantum mechanics (decoherence, measurement problem) using highly excited electrons in atoms (Rydberg atoms) in microwave cavities with superconducting walls, on which the interaction of atoms with light can be observed particularly precisely. The field is also the field of work of his teacher Serge Haroche, who received the Nobel Prize for this in 2012. He also deals with applications in the field of quantum computers.

In 2007 he received the Prix ​​Jean Ricard , 1985 the Prix Fernand Holweck of the Academie des Sciences, in 1998 the Prix ​​Ampère (with Michel Brune ), in 2012 the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize and in 2014 the Edison Volta Prize . He is a Knight of the Legion of Honor and the Palmes Academiques. In 2011 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea .

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor 2nd class, from 1993 Professor 1st class and from 2001 Professeur de classe exceptionelle
2. ^ List of members: Jean-Michel Raimond. Academia Europaea, accessed on September 23, 2017 .