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Group “Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter”

Nanophysics The nanophysics team at the CPT studies electronic transport in nanoscale and mesoscopic systems in condensed matter. The small size of these systems, and the conditions under which they are studied (low temperature, dimensionality, …), make it possible to preserve quantum coherence and to obtain novel behaviors arising from the fundamental properties of quantum mechanics.

A first research direction concerns superconducting and hybrid devices. In a superconductor, electrons are paired into Cooper pairs, and the coherent transport of pairs between two superconductors leads to the Josephson current. We have studied the properties of the Josephson current when it flows through a magnetic molecule, a semiconductor with spin–orbit coupling, etc. We also study out-of-equilibrium multi-terminal superconducting and hybrid devices, which make it possible to spatially separate the two electrons of Cooper pairs, thereby generating quantum entanglement.

A second research direction concerns the quantum Hall effect, in which electronic transport occurs in one-dimensional edge states. Electronic interactions lead to the emergence of collective transport modes characterized by an elementary charge different from the electron charge. One-dimensional transport also makes it possible to study electronic quantum optics, in which the concepts of quantum optics are transposed to the case of individual electrons.

A third research direction concerns quantum thermoelectricity, which is of interest both fundamentally and for applications. We have shown that the Seebeck coefficient can be strongly increased in the transient regime and we have highlighted the strong link between thermoelectric efficiency and mixed charge/heat correlations. We continue the study of mixed noise in different types of nanojunctions.

Team's directory

BENCHTABER Nassima

Post Ph.D.

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BHATTACHARYA Rupoma

Ph.D.

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CREPIEUX Adeline

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DEMAZURE Noe

Ph.D.

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DEVILLARD Pierre

Research teacher

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GREMAUD Benoit

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Team leader « Nanophysics »

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JONCKHEERE Thibaut

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MARTIN Thierry

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PATISSIER Sam

Ph.D.

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RATNAKAR Amulya

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RAYMOND Laurent

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Deputy director

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RECH Jerome

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Unit leader « Physique statistique et matière condensée »

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RONETTI Flavio

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VERGA Alberto

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Team's publications

Spectral properties of interacting helical channels driven by Lorentzian pulses

Matteo Acciai, Alessio Calzona, Matteo Carrega, Thierry Martin, Maura Sassetti

New Journal of Physics, 2019, 21 (10), pp.103031. (10.1088/1367-2630/ab494b)

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Two-photon Rabi-Hubbard and Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard models: Photon-pair superradiance, Mott insulator, and normal phases

Shifeng Cui, F. Hebert, Benoît Grémaud, V. G. Rousseau, Wenan Guo, G. G. Batrouni

Physical Review A, 2019, 100 (3), pp.033608. (10.1103/PhysRevA.100.033608)

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Levitons in superconducting point contacts

Matteo Acciai, Flavio Ronetti, Dario Ferraro, Jérôme Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, Maura Sassetti, Thierry Martin

Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2019, 100 (8), pp.085418. (10.1103/PhysRevB.100.085418)

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Symmetry Properties of Mixed and Heat Photo-Assisted Noise in the Quantum Hall Regime

Flavio Ronetti, Matteo Acciai, Dario Ferraro, Jérôme Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, Thierry Martin, Maura Sassetti

Entropy, 2019, 21 (8), pp.730. (10.3390/e21080730)

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Finite frequency noise: an original probe for topological superconductors

Jérôme Rech, Didier Bathellier, Laurent Raymond, Thibaut Jonckheere, Alex Zazunov, Thierry Martin

25th International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF 2019), Jun 2019, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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Hong-Ou-Mandel heat noise in the quantum Hall regime

Flavio Ronetti, Luca Vannucci, Dario Ferraro, Thibaut Jonckheere, Jérôme Rech, Thierry Martin, Maura Sassetti

Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2019, 99 (20), pp.205406. (10.1103/PhysRevB.99.205406)

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Microscopic theory of spin transport at the interface between a superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator

T. Kato, Y. Ohnuma, M. Matsuo, Jérôme Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, T. Martin

Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2019, 99 (14), pp.144411. (10.1103/PhysRevB.99.144411)

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Unified scattering approach to Josephson current and thermal noise in BCS and topological superconducting junctions

Romain Jacquet, Jérôme Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, Alex Zazunov, Thierry Martin

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2019, 92 (3), pp.59. (10.1140/epjb/e2019-90461-y)

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Finite frequency noise in a normal metal–topological superconductor junction

D. Bathellier, L. Raymond, Thibaut Jonckheere, Jérôme Rech, A. Zazunov, T. Martin

Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2019, 99 (10), pp.104502. (10.1103/PhysRevB.99.104502)

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Introduction à la physique de la matière condensée

Adeline Crépieux

Dunod, 2019, 978-2-10-078944-3

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