Michel Devoret

Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macroscopic quantum tunneling, and the single-electron pump as well as in groundbreaking contributions to initiating the fields of circuit quantum electrodynamics and quantronics.

Michel Devoret
Devoret in 2017
Alma materUniversity of Paris-Sud
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
Known forQuantronics, single-electron pump, Circuit quantum electrodynamics
AwardsMicius Quantum Prize 2021, John Bell Prize (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental Solid-state physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum error correction
InstitutionsYale University
University of Paris-Sud
University of California Berkeley
Doctoral studentsVincent Bouchiat
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