Initiatives in the Quantum Technologies Pillar of the CNRS-USP International Research Center

Abstract Quantum Science and Technology is an strategic area in the development plan of countries all around the world summing an investment up to U$ 55 billion [1]. France and Brazil have a long history of collaboration in the field of Quantum Science, including important physicists of the two countries as the Brazilian Luiz Davidovich and the Moroccan-French Serge Haroche, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics. In 2024, the French public agency of research, the CNRS, has inaugurated an International Research Center (IRC) at the University of São Paulo (USP), in Brazil, focused in seven main pillars with one of them being Quantum Technologies. By taking advantage in already established France-Brazil collaborations, the CNRS-USP IRC aims to promote the creation of joint research laboratories that will contribute to state-of-the-art research on quantum science and technology. Here, we describe the first initiatives related to the Quantum Technologies pillar of the CNRS-USP IRC “Transitions” .