Alain Aspect

Laboratory : Charles Fabry (LCF)
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Email : alain.aspect@institutoptique.fr
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BIOGRAPHY 

Born in 1947, Alain Aspect is an alumni of ENS Cachan and Université d'Orsay. He has held positions at Institut d'Optique, ENS Yaoundé (Cameroon), ENS Cachan, ENS/Collège de France, CNRS. He is currently Professor at Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Augustin Fresnel chair), in University Paris-Saclay, and at Ecole Polytechnique (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and Emeritus CNRS senior scientist.
He is a member of several science academies in France, Italy, USA, Austria, Belgium, UK. Among many awards, he has received the CNRS Gold medal (2005), the Wolf Prize in Physics (2010), the Balzan prize on quantum information (2013), the Niels Bohr Gold medal (2013), the Albert Einstein medal (2013), the Ives medal of the Optical society of America (2013).
Alain Aspect research has borne on tests of Bell's inequalities with entangled photon (PhD, 1974-1983), wave-particle duality for single photons (1984-86, with Philippe Grangier); laser cooling of atoms with lasers below the one photon recoil (1985-1992, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji); ultra-cold atoms, quantum gases, and quantum simulators (1992- , in the Atom Optics group he has established at Institut d'Optique).

  • Research topics quantum mechanic, Bose-Einstein condensation
  • Research areas Quantum gaz
  • Key words dualité onde particule pour un photon unique, refroidissement d'atomes par laser, condensation de Bose-Einstein , localisation d'Anderson d'atomes ultra-froids dans un potentiel optique désordonné

 

Important publications

  • A. Aspect, "PROPOSED EXPERIMENT TO TEST NONSEPARABILITY OF QUANTUM-MECHANICS," Physical Review D 14 (8), 1944-1951 (1976). 1976 PRD proposed exper 1944_1
  • A. Aspect, P. Grangier, and G. Roger, "EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATION OF EINSTEIN-PODOLSKY-ROSEN-BOHM GEDANKENEXPERIMENT - A NEW VIOLATION OF BELL INEQUALITIES," Physical Review Letters 49 (2), 91-94 (1982). 1982 PRL Bell 2 voies
  • A. Aspect, J. Dalibard, and G. Roger, "EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF BELL INEQUALITIES USING TIME-VARYING ANALYZERS," Physical Review Letters 49 (25), 1804-1807 (1982). 1982 PRL Bell ADR
  • P. Grangier, G. Roger, and A. Aspect, "EXPERIMENTAL-EVIDENCE FOR A PHOTON ANTICORRELATION EFFECT ON A BEAM SPLITTER - A NEW LIGHT ON SINGLE-PHOTON INTERFERENCES," Europhysics Letters 1 (4), 173-179 (1986). 1986 Europhys lett duality
  • A. Robert, O. Sirjean, A. Browaeys, J. Poupard, S. Nowak, D. Boiron, C. I. Westbrook, and A. Aspect, "A Bose-Einstein condensate of metastable atoms," Science 292 (5516), 461-464 (2001). 2001 Science He BEC
  • A. Aspect, E. Arimondo, R. Kaiser, N. Vansteenkiste, and C. Cohentannoudji, "LASER COOLING BELOW THE ONE-PHOTON RECOIL ENERGY BY VELOCITY-SELECTIVE COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING," Physical Review Letters 61 (7), 826-829 (1988). 1988 PRL VSCPT
  • V. Jacques, E. Wu, F. Grosshans, F. Treussart, P. Grangier, A. Aspect, and J. F. Roch, "Experimental realization of Wheeler's delayed-choice gedanken experiment," Science 315 (5814), 966-968 (2007). 2007 Science delayed choice
  • T. Jeltes, J. M. McNamara, W. Hogervorst, W. Vassen, V. Krachmalnicoff, M. Schellekens, A. Perrin, H. Chang, D. Boiron, A. Aspect, and C. I. Westbrook, "Comparison of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for bosons and fermions," Nature 445 (7126), 402-405 (2007). 2007 nature05513 bosons fermions
  • J. Billy, V. Josse, Z. C. Zuo, A. Bernard, B. Hambrecht, P. Lugan, D. Clement, L. Sanchez-Palencia, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect, "Direct observation of Anderson localization of matter waves in a controlled disorder," Nature 453 (7197), 891-894 (2008).  2008 Nature Anderson
  • R. Lopes, A. Imanaliev, A. Aspect, M. Cheneau, D. Boiron, and C. I. Westbrook, "Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment," Nature 520 (7545), 66-U134 (2015). 2015 Nature-HOM