Quantum Design : quantum perception

Qu’est-ce qu’un atome ? Comment le voir ? Le manipuler ? Le mesurer ?

Une conférence donnée à Nancyà l’Université de Loraine en 2015.

This animated film was directed by Charlotte Arene during an internship at our lab. She worked with physicists from our team and from the lab to try to describe what a scientific discovery is, and how research publish it. The scientific article was both the topic and the animation material for this movie. This film was shot image by image during three months, with more than 5000 pictures ! It received the award “Le goût des sciences” by the french Ministry of research and higher education in 2015.

This course offers an introduction to communication and popularization of science to undergraduate physics students. Each year, some twenty students have been able to develop their own outreach projects around an aspect of fundamental physics during a semester. These projects are accompanied by various exercises and courses on science communication. All the projects are presented at the end of the workshop by the students themselves during a public session at the University in front of a large audience.

Show donné en décembre 2014 par les étudiants de l’option vulgarisation du magistère de physique d’Orsay (Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay).

One of the 2014 projects, You can’t excape physics, a series of posters (in French and English).

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2014, Physik’N’Roll, une machine à enchaînement avec physique intégrée

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2014, Femmes physiciennes, Cécilia Payne

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2014, Retour vers la physique, une websérie en trois épisodes.

Heloïse Chochois was embedded in the outreach class of this year, and made a comics from her experience…

This exhibit (in french, sorry) displays various projects made in collaboration with the students of the DSA de design d’illustration scientifique of Ecole Estienne. It displays drawings of Solid State Physicists from the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, posters and pop-ups about great quantum discoveries, postcards about basic quantum effects, and even a cartoon about the Schrödinger Equation !

We designed this 10-panel exhibition for anyone to print and use. It stages superconductivity, starting from its most obvious form, levitation, to progressively evolve towards staggered or artistic stagings, to finish on futuristic visions explored with designers. Do not hesitate to use it, just download it!

Janet, physicist and Margaux, illustrator, collaborated to create these quantum postcards. On each postcard, they imagined how the stars of quantum physics would be if they were victims of her own discoveries! The result, funny and offbeat, is at your disposal, in different formats easy to download and print.

Chloe, a science illustrator, spent a few weeks in our lab talking to physicists. She interviewed them and then illustrated their quotes about their daily lives, their motivations, their life as researchers. Here are these drawings, made with felt. She also illustrated, this time in black and white by computer, their scientific subject. Discover Mark-Oliver, a theorist who works on graphene, Lorène, PhD student specializing in soap bubbles, and Fabrice, expert teacher-researcher of quantum magnetism. And do not hesitate to use these productions, available in many formats (images, postcards, booklets …).

This work has been done during the diploma of Chloé Passavant of DSAA de Design d’Illustration Scientifique of école Estienne in collaboration with our team. It has been led at the Solid State Physics Laboratory with Fabrice Bert, Lorène Champougny and Mark-Oliver Goerbig.
We acknowledge them for their participation. Translation : Pierre Szczeciner – We thank ICAM-I2CAM for their financial support and Janet Rafner for useful comments (copyright 2014). Copyright : this project is made available under the Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

Design students have developed a variety of interfaces that employ spatialized sound to facilitate gaining a better understanding of some of the invisible phenomena of physics. The eight speaker setup and interfaces allowed people to explore and listen to representations of the invisible phenomena; spatialized sound means that one can hear different sound’s location and movement, coming from and shifting to different perceived positions. This work was undertaken in the sound studio of ENSCI-Les Ateliers with Roland Cahen in collaboration with J. Bobroff (LPS, Orsay).

Participating students : Annelise Légaré (Sur l’onde); Paul Couderc (Quantum Symphonia); Matéo Garcia (Entendre la forme d’onde); Antoine Goupille (les bruits du courant); Jean-Baptiste Demay (WANTED). Project led in 2014 by Roland Cahen (ENSCI-Les Ateliers) in collaboration with J. Bobroff (LPS, Orsay).

An exhibit about the Quantum Design project to give a new look about quantum physics through a collaboration between our group and the ENSCI-Les ateliers design school. Aimed at Science Museums or highschools, it links surprising pictures and explanations. QR codes are used to relate the contents to online videos and animations using a smartphone.

This exhibit was designed by the studio Millimètre, in collaboration with our team thanks to the support of the labex PALM. This work benefited from the support of the Chair « La Physique Autrement » led by Fondation Paris-Sud and sponsored by Air Liquide.