The Mesoscopic Physics Team is interested in fundamental research topics that sometimes lead to startups whose ambition is to bring the team’s inventions to the industrial world. Here are two recent examples.
Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob
Alice&Bob is a start-up that is developing a universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer to sell its exponential computing power. The unique technology of Schrödinger’s cat quantum bits, resulting from the works of Zaki Leghtas, addresses the two main challenges of quantum computing: error correction and universality, and serves as the basis for the start-up co-founded by two former PhD students of the group: Raphaël Lescanne and Théau Peronnin. The project is supported by an early-stage funding from PSL, jointly with Mines ParisTech and CNRS.
C12
C12 aims at producing reliable quantum processors thanks to an elementary material, the carbon nanotube. At C12, we are tackling computing errors at their roots, in the material. The start-up is leveraging the technology of spin qubits coupled to microwave cavities to provide quantum speed-up for early specific applications. C12 is a spin-off of the experimental group of Takis Kontos at Ecole Normale Superieure PSL (Paris) who has developed unique expertise in carbon nanotubes and played a pioneering role in the spin qubit technology.