Getting memory directly involved in optimization computation: a new approach explored for solving complex problems

This is the major result of collaborative work carried out between CEA-Leti, SPINTEC, and C2N, which has just been published in Nature Communications. Instead of separating memory and processing as in conventional computers, the researchers combined two complementary nanotechnologies on a single component to create a new optimization processor (an Ising machine). What these results show: The voltage used to read the memory helps regulate …

The CNRS has just announced the awarding of its 2026 Gold Medal to Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS research director at C2N.

Jacqueline Bloch is an internationally recognized specialist in light-matter interaction. With her team, she explores the physics of polaritons, quantum fluids of light manipulated in semiconductor microcavities, to probe phenomena as varied as superfluidity, topology, and non-equilibrium phase transitions. Having joined the CNRS in 1994, she received the Jean Ricard Prize from the French Physical Society (2015), the CNRS Silver Medal (2017), and the Ampère Prize from the Académie des …