Daniel Esteve

Laboratory : Service de physique de l'État condensé (SPEC)
CEA

Phone : 33 1 69 08 55 29
Email : daniel.esteve@cea.fr

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BIOGRAPHY

Daniel Esteve performed his PhD research on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in the laboratory of Prof. A. Abragam. He is a co-founder of the Quantronics group of SPEC devoted to the investigation of quantum electrical circuits and more broadly of mesoscopic physics. Quantronics noticeably investigated macroscopic quantum tunnelling, explained and probed dynamical Coulomb blockade, made single electron pumps transferring electrons one by one, measured electron-electron interactions in nanostructures, operated a superconducting quantum bit circuit able to perform the foundational experiments of quantum physics, demonstrated a proof-of-principle of quantum speed-up for a quantum search algorithm, and Electron Spin Resonance. Quantronics now develops hybrid structures based on superconducting quantum circuits and spins, mesoscopic superconductivity including Andreev physics and quantum phase slips, and quantum optics in the microwave domain.

  • Research topics  Mesoscopic physics, superconductivity, quantum information processing, magnetic resonance
  • Research areas Circuits électriques quantiques
  • Key words Superconductivity, quantum transport, single electron tunneling, single Cooper pair electronics, Coulomb blockade, mesoscopic su

 

Important publications

  • Antibunched Photons Emitted by a dc-Biased Josephson Junction, Rolland C. et al, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 122, 186804, 2019; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.186804
  • Inductive-detection electron-spin resonance spectroscopy with 65 spins/root Hz sensitivity, Probst, S et al., APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 111, 202604, 2017; DOI: 10.1063/1.5002540
  • Controlling spin relaxation with a cavity, Bienfait, A. et al., NATURE 531, 74, 2016 ; DOI: 10.1038/nature16944
  • Coherent manipulation of Andreev states in superconducting atomic contacts, Janvier, C. et al., SCIENCE 349, 1199, 2015; DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2179
  • Quantum speeding-up of computation demonstrated in a superconducting two-qubit processor, Dewes, A. et al., PHYSICAL REVIEW B 85, 140503, 2012; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.140503
  • Hybrid Quantum Circuit with a Superconducting Qubit Coupled to a Spin Ensemble, Kubo, Y. et al., PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 107, 220501, 2011; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.220501
  • Manipulating the quantum state of an electrical circuit, Vion D. et al., SCIENCE 296, 886-889, 2002 ; DOI: 10.1126/science.1069372
  • Observation of the ac Josephson effect inside copper-oxide based superconductors, ESTEVE, D. et al., EUROPHYSICS LETTERS 3, 1237, 1987 ; DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/3/11/014
  • Effect of an arbitrary dissipative circuit on the quantum energy-levels and tunneling of a Josephson junction, ESTEVE, D. et al., PHYSICAL REVIEW B 34, 158, 1986; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.34.158