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Université de Fribourg

Extracting spectral properties from Keldysh Green functions

Dirks, Andreas ; Eckstein, Martin ; Pruschke, Thomas ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review E, 2013, vol. 87, no. 2, p. 023305

We investigate the possibility to assist the numerically ill-posed calculation of spectral properties of interacting quantum systems in thermal equilibrium by extending the imaginary-time simulation to a finite Schwinger-Keldysh contour. The effect of this extension is tested within the standard maximum entropy approach to analytic continuation. We find that the inclusion of real-time data...

Université de Fribourg

Spectral Properties of Correlated Materials: Local Vertex and Nonlocal Two-Particle Correlations from Combined GW and Dynamical Mean Field Theory

Ayral, Thomas ; Werner, Philipp ; Biermann, Silke

In: Physical Review Letters, 2012, vol. 109, no. 22, p. 226401

We present a fully self-consistent combined GW and dynamical mean field (DMFT) study of the extended two-dimensional Hubbard model. The inclusion of the local dynamical vertex stemming from the DMFT self-energy and polarization is shown to cure the known problems of self-consistent GW. We calculate momentum-resolved spectral functions, two-particle polarizations, and electron-loss spectra, as...

Université de Fribourg

Efficient implementation of the continuous-time hybridization expansion quantum impurity solver

Hafermann, Hartmut ; Werner, Philipp ; Gull, Emanuel

In: Computer Physics Communications, 2013, vol. 184, no. 4, p. 1280–1286

Strongly correlated quantum impurity problems appear in a wide variety of contexts ranging from nanoscience and surface physics to material science and the theory of strongly correlated lattice models, where they appear as auxiliary systems within dynamical mean-field theory. Accurate and unbiased solutions must usually be obtained numerically, and continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo algorithms,...

Université de Fribourg

Quantum transport of strongly interacting photons in a one-dimensional nonlinear waveguide

Hafezi, Mohammad ; Chang, Darrick E. ; Gritsev, Vladimir ; Demler, Eugene ; Lukin, Mikhail D.

In: Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular and optical physics, 2012, vol. 85, no. 1, p. 013822

We present a theoretical technique for solving the quantum transport problem of a few photons through a one-dimensional, strongly nonlinear waveguide. We specifically consider the situation where the evolution of the optical field is governed by the quantum nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Although this kind of nonlinearity is quite general, we focus on a realistic implementation involving cold...

Université de Fribourg

Geometric phase contribution to quantum nonequilibrium many-Body dynamics

Tomka, Michael ; Polkovnikov, Anatoli ; Gritsev, Vladimir

In: Physical Review Letters, 2012, vol. 108, no. 8, p. 080404

We study the influence of geometry of quantum systems underlying space of states on its quantum many-body dynamics. We observe an interplay between dynamical and topological ingredients of quantum nonequilibrium dynamics revealed by the geometrical structure of the quantum space of states. As a primary example we use the anisotropic XY ring in a transverse magnetic field with an additional...

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Photonic quantum transport in a nonlinear optical fiber

Hafezi, M. ; Chang, D. E. ; Gritsev, Gritsev ; Demler, Eugene A. ; Lukin, Mikhail D.

In: EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2011, vol. 94, no. 5, p. 54006

We theoretically study the transmission of few-photon quantum fields through a strongly nonlinear optical medium. We develop a general approach to investigate nonequilibrium quantum transport of bosonic fields through a finite-size nonlinear medium and apply it to a recently demonstrated experimental system where cold atoms are loaded in a hollow-core optical fiber. We show that when the...

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Quench dynamics near a quantum critical point

De Grandi, C. ; Gritsev, Vladimir ; Polkovnikov, A.

In: Physical Review B, 2010, vol. 81, no. 1, p. 012303

We study the dynamical response of a system to a sudden change of the tuning parameter λ starting (or ending) at the quantum critical point. In particular, we analyze the scaling of the excitation probability, number of excited quasiparticles, heat and entropy with the quench amplitude, and the system size. We extend the analysis to quenches with arbitrary power law dependence on time of the...

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Density ripples in expanding low-dimensional gases as a probe of correlations

Imambekov, A. ; Mazets, I. E. ; Petrov, D. S. ; Gritsev, Vladimir ; Manz, S. ; Hofferberth, S. ; Schumm, T. ; Demler, Eugene ; Schmiedmayer, J.

In: Physical Review A, 2009, vol. 80, p. 033604

We investigate theoretically the evolution of the two-point density correlation function of a low-dimensional ultracold Bose gas after release from a tight transverse confinement. In the course of expansion thermal and quantum fluctuations present in the trapped systems transform into density fluctuations. For the case of free ballistic expansion relevant to current experiments, we present simple...

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An inter-laboratory comparison of low-level measurements in ground-level aerosol monitoring

Wershofen, H. ; Bieringer, J. ; Frenzel, S. ; Kanisch, G. ; Katzlberger, C. ; Steinkopff, Th. ; Tschiersch, J. ; Völkle, Hansruedi

In: Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2008, vol. 66, no. 6-7, p. 737-741

After the nuclear reactor accident of Chernobyl, the “Integrated Measurement and Information System (IMIS) for Monitoring the Environmental Radioactivity and Detecting Emissions from Nuclear Plants was implemented in Germany. IMIS is a nationwide comprehensive measuring system which permanently monitors the radioactivity in all important environment media in the whole federal territory. At...

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Competition between quantum-liquid and electron-solid phases in intermediate Landau levels

Goerbig, Mark O. ; Lederer, P. ; Morais Smith, Cristiane de

In: Physical Review B, 2004, vol. 69, p. 115327

On the basis of energy calculations we investigate the competition between quantum-liquid and electron-solid phases in the Landau levels n = 1, 2, and 3 as a function of their partial filling factor ̅ν̅. Whereas the quantum-liquid phases are stable only in the vicinity of quantized values of ν̅= 1/(2s + 1), an electron solid in the form of a triangular lattice of clusters with...