Videos

Physique quantique – A l’aube d’une nouvelle révolution
Prof. Nicolas Brunner – Université de Genève

Computers, the internet, smartphones: quantum physics has revolutionized our understanding of the world and laid the foundation for numerous technological innovations. Prof. Nicolas Brunner reviews these advances while exploring fundamental concepts such as quanta, superposition, and quantum entanglement. An opportunity to glimpse what our future may hold.

La quantique dans une boite d’allumette
Prof. Julien Bobroff – Université Paris-Saclay

Physicists love pushing the boundaries of the possible, especially when exploring the quantum world—with dilution cryostats, diamond anvils, particle accelerators, laser flashes… So why not tell this story in an equally extreme way: with the world’s smallest lecture ? This lecture, designed with graphic designer Juliette Nier, fits… inside four matchboxes ! Prepare to be surprised and discover, in an original and playful way, the world’s most extreme laboratories !

Des concepts aux applications : les deux révolutions quantiques
Prof. Alain Aspect – Prix Nobel de physique 2022

The first quantum revolution is based on the concept of wave-particle duality, discovered by Albert Einstein and Louis de Broglie. It enabled scientists to unravel the structure of matter at its most subtle levels and led to the invention of the transistor, the laser, and computer circuits—foundations of the information and communication society. The second quantum revolution is primarily based on the concept of entanglement, highlighted by the quasi-philosophical debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr, which began in 1935. The extraordinary nature of this concept was confirmed by experimental tests of Bell’s inequalities, recognized by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger.

Physique quantique et tour de cartes
Prof. Thierry Giamarchi – Université de Genève
Quantum day at EPFL

The world around us is actually the stage for “magic” tricks that are often far more spectacular than those any magician could perform. By demonstrating both card tricks and results from physics experiments, Thierry Giamarchi presents one of nature’s most beautiful tricks: quantum physics. This physics gives rise to bizarre, counterintuitive, and spectacular effects such as wave function collapse, entanglement and decoherence, or the exclusion principle. Behind this strange vocabulary lie physical phenomena that I will explain—and beyond their intrinsic beauty, these have increasingly shaped our daily lives, often without us even realizing it.

ODK is a TV programme in French about science produced by the Physiscope, in collaboration with the RTS intended to 7-11 years old children.

32 Science episodes are available on DVD !

Each episode is illustrated with a simple experiment to do using every-day’s ingredients.