Prof. Serge Haroche

2012 Nobel Laureate for Physics and Chair of Quantum Physics at the College de France in Paris/France

Prof. Haroche’s experimental methods, that enable the measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems, led to the development of laser spectroscopy.

Biography:

Prof. Serge Haroche is the Chair of Quantum Physics at the College de France who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable the measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems” which led to the development of laser spectroscopy. He has made important contributions to Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (Cavity QED), the domain of quantum optics which studies the behavior of atoms interacting strongly with the field confined in a high-Q cavity, a box made of highly reflecting mirrors. His main achievements in cavity QED include the observation of single atom spontaneous emission enhancement in a cavity, the direct monitoring of the decoherence of mesoscopic superpositions of states (so-called Schroedinger cat states) and the quantum-non-demolition counting of photons. By manipulating atoms and photons in high-Q cavities, he has also demonstrated elementary steps of quantum information procedures such as the generation of atom-atom and atom-photon entanglement and the operation of quantum logic gates involving photons and atoms as “quantum bits”.

Topic of keynote speech:

• New developments and applications in laser science and quantum optics, electronics and computing

Schedule:

Friday, January 16, 2026:

14:00 Public keynote speech and dialogue at Academia Sinica in Taipei

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