Michel Devoret
Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab
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; basic understanding of quantum non-equilibrium physics of superconducting circuits for information processing, such as quantum computation and quantum sensing.
Comstock Prize in Physics, National Academy of Sciences, with Robert Schoelkopf (2024)
Micius Quantum Prize (2022)
Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize (2016)
Fritz London Memorial Prize (with Robert Schoelkopf and John Martinis, 2014)
John Bell Prize (with Robert Schoelkopf, 2013)
Elected to the French Academy of Sciences (2007)
Professor at College de France (2007-2012)
Europhysics-Agilent Prize, from the European Physical Society (with Daniel Esteve, Hans Moij and Yasunobu Nakamura, 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)
Campagne-Ibarcq, P.;Eickbusch, A.; Touzard, S.; et al. ”Quantum error correction of a qubit encoded in grid states of an oscillator”. Nature, 584, 368–372. (2020). arXiv:1907.12487. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2603-3.
Grimm, A.; Frattini, N. E.; Puri, S.; Mundhada, S. O.; Touzard, S.; Mirrahimi, M.; Girvin, S. M.; Shankar, S.; Devoret, M. H. “Stabilization and operation of a Kerr-cat qubit”. Nature. 584, 205–209. (2020). arXiv:1907.12131. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2587-z
Minev, Z. K.; Mundhada, S. O.; Shankar, S.; Reinhold, P.; Gutiérrez-Jáuregui, R.; Schoelkopf, R. J.; Mirrahimi, M.; Carmichael, H. J.; Devoret, M. H. , ”To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight”. Nature, 570 (7760): 200–204. (2019). arXiv:1803.00545. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1287-z.
A. Narla, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, Z. Leghtas, K. M. Sliwa, E. Zalys-Geller, S. O. Mundhada, W. Pfaff, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, M. H. Devoret, Robust Concurrent Remote Entanglement Between Two Superconducting Qubits, Phys. Rev. X 6, 031036. (2016)
Z. Leghtas, S. Touzard, I. M. Pop, A. Kou, B. Vlastakis, A. Petrenko, K. Sliwa, A. Narla, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, M. Reagor, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, M. Mirrahimi, M. H. Devoret, Confining the state of light to a quantum manifold by engineered two-photon loss, Science 347, 853-857. (2015)
B. Abdo, K. Sliwa, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, L. Frunzio, R.J. Schoelkopf, M.H. Devoret, Josephson directional amplifier for quantum measurement of superconducting circuits, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 167701. (2014)
I.M. Pop, K. Geerlings, G. Catelani, R.J. Schoelkopf, L.I. Glazman, M.H. Devoret, Coherent suppression of electromagnetic dissipation due to superconducting quasiparticles, Nature 508, 369–372. (2014)
Mirrahimi, Mazyar; Leghtas, Zaki; Albert, Victor V; Touzard, Steven; Schoelkopf, Robert J; Jiang, Liang; Devoret, Michel H., “Dynamically protected cat-qubits: a new paradigm for universal quantum computation”. New Journal of Physics, 16 (4): 045014. (2014). arXiv:1312.2017. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/16/4/045014
S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, Z. Leghtas, K. M. Sliwa, A. Narla, U. Vool, S. M. Girvin, L. Frunzio, M. Mirrahimi, M. H. Devoret, Autonomously stabilized entanglement between two superconducting quantum bits, Nature, 504, 419–422. (2013)
B. Abdo, K. Sliwa, F. Schackert, N. Bergeal, M. Hatridge, L. Frunzio, A.D. Stone, M.H. Devoret, Full Coherent Frequency Conversion Between Two Propagating Microwave Modes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 173902. (2013)
K. Geerlings, Z. Leghtas, I.M. Pop, S. Shankar, L. Frunzio, R.J. Schoelkopf, M. Mirrahimi, M.H. Devoret, Demonstrating a Driven Reset Protocol for a Superconducting Qubit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120501. (2013)
M. Hatridge, S. Shankar, M. Mirrahimi, F. Schackert, K. Geerlings, T. Brecht, K.M. Sliwa, B. Abdo, L. Frunzio, S.M. Girvin, R.J. Schoelkopf, M.H. Devoret, Quantum Back-Action of an Individual Variable-Strength Measurement, Science 339, 178-181. (2013)
Devoret, M. H.; Schoelkopf, R. J. , ”Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information: An Outlook”. Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 339 (6124): 1169–1174. (2013). doi:10.1126/science.1231930
N. Bergeal, F. Schackert, M. Metcalfe, R. Vijay, V. E. Manucharyan, L. Frunzio, D. E. 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)
V. E. Manucharyan, Jens Koch, L. Glazman, M.H. Devoret, Fluxonium: Single Cooper pair circuit free of charge offsets, Science 326, 113-116. (2009)