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Michel Devoret

Responsibilites: 

Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab

Other Appointments: 

  • Joint appointment in the Physics Dept. at Yale
  • Professor at the College de France, Paris, France

Interests: 

Devoret's research focuses on experimental solid state physics with emphasis on "quantronics," i.e., mesoscopic electronic effects in which collective degrees of freedom like currents and voltages behave quantum mechanically; investigations of quantum coherence in single Cooper pair devices for quantum computation and metrology; superconductivity at the single molecule level; amplification, information and noise in mesoscopic systems.

Awards & Honors: 

  • Elected to the French Academy of Sciences (2007)

  • Europhysics-Agilent Prize, from the European Physical Society, received along with Daniel Esteve, Hans Moij and Yasunobu Nakamura for the realization and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits. The Europhysics Prize is one of the most prestigious physics prizes presented in Europe and is given to internationally important areas of condensed matter physics (2004)

  • Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences  (2003)

  • Descartes-Huygens Prize from the Royal Academy of Science, Netherlands (1996)

  • Ampere Prize from the French Academy of Science (with Daniel Esteve, for the invention of the electron pump, 1991)

Representative Publications: 

  • N. Bergeal, F. Schackert, M. Metcalfe, L. Frunzio, D. Prober, R. J. Schoelkopf, S. M. Girvin and M.H. Devoret, Phase-preserving amplification near the quantum limit with a Josephson ring modulator, Nature 465, 64-70 (2010).

  • N. Bergeal, R. Vijay, V. E. Manucharyan, I. Siddiqi, R. J. Schoelkopf, S. M. Girvin, M. H. Devoret, Analog information processing at the quantum limit with a Josephson ring modulator, Nature Physics 6, 296-302 (2010).

  • V. E. Manucharyan, Jens Koch, L. Glazman, M.H. Devoret, Single Cooper pair circuit free of charge offsets, Science 326, 113-116  (2009).

  • R. Vijay, M.H. Devoret, I. Siddiqi, The Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 111101 (2009).

  • M. Metcalfe, E. Boaknin, V. E. Manucharyan, R. Vijay, I. Siddiqi, C. Rigetti, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, and M. H. Devoret, Measuring the decoherence of a quantronium qubit with the cavity bifurcation amplifier, Phys. Rev. B *76*, 014524 (2007).

  • Resolving Photon Number States in a Superconducting Circuit, David Schuster, Andrew Houck, J.A. Schreier, A. Wallraff, J. Gambetta, A. Blais, Luigi Frunzio, B. Johnson, Michel H Devoret, Steven M Girvin, R. Schoelkopf, 2007, Nature, 445, 515-518.

  • Generating Single Microwave Photons in a Circuit, Andrew Houck, David Schuster, J.M. Gambetta, J.A. Schreier, B.R. Johnson, J.M. Chow, J. Majer, Luigi Frunzio, Michel H Devoret, Steven M Girvin, R. Schoelkopf, 2007, Nature, 449, 328-331.

  • Sideband Transitions and Two-Tone Spectroscopy of a Superconducting Qubit Strongly Coupled to an On-Chip Cavity, A. Wallraff, David Schuster, A. Blais, J. Gambetta, J.A. Schreier, Andrew Houck, Luigi Frunzio, Michel H Devoret, Steven M Girvin, R. Schoelkopf, 2007, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 050501.

  • Coupling Superconducting Qubits via a Cavity Bus, Johannes Majer, J.M. Chow, J.M. Gambetta, Jens Koch, B.R. Johnson, J.A. Schreier, Luigi Frunzio, David Schuster, Andrew Houck, A. Wallraff, A. Blais, Michel H Devoret, Steven M Girvin, Robert J Schoelkopf, 2007, Nature, 449, 443-447.

  • RF-Driven Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier for Quantum Measurement, Irfan Siddiqi, R. Vijay, F. Pierre, C.M. Wilson, M. Metcalfe, C. Rigetti, Luigi Frunzio, Michel H Devoret, 2004, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 207002.

  • Manipulating the quantum state of an electrical circuit, D. Vion, A. Aassime, A. Cottet, P. Joyez, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, D. Esteve, Michel H Devoret, 2002, Science, 296, 286.

  • Electrodynamic dip in the local density of states of a metallic wire, F. Pierre, H. Pothier, P. Joyez, N.O. Birge, E. Esteve, Michel H Devoret, 2001, Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 1590.

  • Amplifying Quantum Signals with the Single-electron Transistor, Michel H Devoret, R. Schoelkopf, 2000, Nature, 406, 1039.