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École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon is a French public research university whose physics laboratory (Laboratoire de Physique, CNRS UMR 5672) runs experimental work on cold neutral atoms and quantum optics, including cold-atom quantum simulation and metrology. It is an academic institution rather than a company: it does not sell quantum hardware or cloud access, and its role in the field is training and fundamental research.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 3 October 2026

Headquarters
Lyon, France
Status
Private
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Coverage

The Quantum Insider

Alice & Bob Demonstrates New Approach to Stabilizing Cat With DC Voltage Bias

Alice & Bob, with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, demonstrated a DC-voltage-bias method for stabilising superconducting cat qubits. The technique is reported to be faster than prior approaches and to enable more compact designs that generate less heat. Cat qubits encode information in microwave resonators, and the work is aimed at fault-tolerant superconducting hardware.

OutlookPlausible

This could allow Alice & Bob to pack more cat qubits into a single dilution refrigerator within two years because lower heat dissipation per qubit eases the cooling budget that currently constrains superconducting scaling.

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