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B. Gremaud

Publications and source records attributed to B. Gremaud.

8 recordsLinked to original sources

arXiv2010

Finite temperature QMC study of the one-dimensional polarized Fermi gas

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques are used to provide an approximation-free investigation of the phases of the one-dimensional attractive Hubbard Hamiltonian in the presence of population imbalance. The temperature at which the "Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov" (FFLO) phase is destroyed by thermal fluctuations is determined as a function of the polarization. It is shown that the presence of a confining potential does not dramatically alter the FFLO regime, and that recent experiments on trapped atomic gases likely lie just within the stable temperature range.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2009

Attractive Hubbard Model on a Honeycomb Lattice

We study the attractive fermionic Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice using determinantal quantum Monte Carlo simulations. By increasing the interaction strength U (relative to the hopping parameter t) at half-filling and zero temperature, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition at 5.0 < U_c/t < 5.1 from a semi-metal to a phase displaying simultaneously superfluid behavior and density order. Doping away from half-filling, and increasing the interaction strength at finite but low temperature T, the system always appears to be a superfluid exhibiting a crossover between a BCS and a molecular regime. These different regimes are analyzed by studying the spectral function. The formation of pairs and the emergence of phase coherence throughout the sample are studied as U is increased and T is lowered.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2007

Comment on ``Intensity correlations and mesoscopic fluctuations of diffusing photons in cold atoms''

In a recent Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{98}, 083601 (2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0610804), O. Assaf and E. Akkermans claim that the angular correlations of the light intensity scattered by a cloud of cold atoms with internal degeneracy (Zeeman sublevels) of the ground state overcome the usual Rayleigh law. More precisely, they found that they become exponentially large with the size of the sample. In what follows, we will explain why their results are wrong and, in contrary, why the internal degeneracy leads to lower intensity correlations.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2004

Coherent Backscattering with Nonlinear Atomic Scatterers

We study coherent backscattering of a quasi-monochromatic laser by a dilute gas of cold two-level atoms. We consider the perturbative regime of weak intensities, where nonlinear effects arise from {\em inelastic} two-photon scattering processes. Here, coherent backscattering can be formed by interference between {\em three} different scattering amplitudes. Consequently, if elastically scattered photons are filtered out from the photodetection signal by means of suitable frequency-selective detection, we find the nonlinear backscattering enhancement factor to exceed the linear barrier two.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2004

Coherent backscattering of light by atoms in the saturated regime

We present the first calculation of coherent backscattering with inelastic scattering by saturated atoms. We consider the scattering of a quasi-monochromatic laser pulse by two distant atoms in free space. By restricting ourselves to scattering of two photons, we employ a perturbative approach, valid up to second order in the incident laser intensity. The backscattering enhancement factor is found to be smaller than two (after excluding single scattering), indicating a loss of coherence between the doubly scattered light emitted by both atoms. Since the undetected photon carries information about the path of the detected photon, the coherence loss can be explained by a which-path argument, in analogy with a double-slit experiment.

quant-ph↗

arXiv1998

Spectral properties of non-hydrogenic atoms in weak external fields

We study how the ionic core in a non-hydrogenic atom modifies the dynamics of a Rydberg electron in the presence of a weak static external field. We show that such a system is neither regular nor chaotic: its energy levels display unusual statistical properties, intermediate between the standard Poisson and Random Matrix ones. The ionic core acts as a scatterer whose size is comparable to the de Broglie wavelength of the electron, inducing specific quantum effects.

chao-dyn↗

arXiv1998

Spacing distributions for rhombus billiards

We show that the spacing distributions of rational rhombus billiards fall in a family of universality classes distinctly different from the Wigner-Dyson family of random matrix theory and the Poisson distribution. Some of the distributions find explanation in a recent work of Bogomolny, Gerland and Schmit. For the irrational billiards, despite ergodicity, we get the same distributions for the examples considered - once again, distinct from the Wigner-Dyson distributions. All results are obtained numerically by a method that allows us to reach very high energies.

chao-dyn↗

arXiv1998

Scaled Spectroscopy of 1Se and 1Po Highly Excited States of Helium

In this paper, we examine the properties of the 1Se and 1Po states of helium, combining perimetric coordinates and complex rotation methods. We compute Fourier transforms of quantities of physical interest, among them the average of the operator cos(theta_12), which measures the correlation between the two electrons. Graphs obtained for both 1Se and 1Po states show peaks at action of classical periodic orbits, either "frozen planet" orbit or asymmetric stretch orbits. This observation legitimates the semiclassical quantization of helium with those orbits only, not just for S states but also for P states, which is a new result. To emphasize the similarity between the S and P states we show wavefunctions of 1Po states, presenting the same structure as 1Se states, namely the "frozen planet" and asymmetric stretch configurations.

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