Research

Quantum Phenomena, Simulators and Computing

• I am a theorist aiming to answer fundamental questions in physics-related interdisciplinary research areas engaging condensed-matter, many-body systems, quantum information theory, quantum field theory, statistical physics, cold atomic systems, and nanoelectronics.


• Keywords
• Many-Body Theory
• Quantum Computation
• Novel Quantum Phenomena: Fractionalization, Superconductivity
• Quantum Simulators: Cold atomic gases, Nanosystems, Photons
• Non-equilibrium Transport

• Complete list of publications


• Publications on ArXiv

Entanglement

Quantum Simulators

Graphene

Superconductivity

Topological Superconductors/Insulators

Surveys and Books

• Superconductivity close to the Mott state: From condensed-matter systems to superfluidity in optical lattices
  • Karyn Le Hur, T. Maurice Rice Annals of Physics 324, 1452 July 2009 Special issue or arXiv:0812.1581
  • A note by F. Wilczek.
• Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin-Boson Systems: Dissipation and Light phenomena
• Karyn Le Hur, one chapter in the book on Quantum Phase Transitions, to be published soon

Most recent Contributions

• Electric Field Tuned Dimensional Crossover in Ar-Irradiated SrTiO3
  • J.H. Ngai, Y. Segal, F.J. Walker, S. Ismail-Beigi, K. Le Hur, C.H. Ahn arXiv:0909.2834
• Theory of non-equilibrium transport in the SU(N) Kondo regime
  • Christophe Mora, Pavel Vitushinsky, Xavier Leyronas, Aashish A. Clerk, Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. B 80, 155322 (2009) or arXiv:0906.2791
• Superfluid-Mott transition of Light in the Jaynes-Cummings Lattice
• Jens Koch, Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. A 80, 023811 (2009) or arXiv:0905.4005
• Supersolidity in Cold Atomic Bose-Fermi mixtures in optical lattices
• Peter P. Orth, Doron L. Bergman, Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. A 80, 023624 (2009) or arXiv:0905.1125
• Non-Equilibrium Transport at a dissipative quantum phase transition
• Chung-Hou Chung, Karyn Le Hur, Matthias Vojta, Peter Woelfle Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216803 (2009)
• Near Zero modes in fermionic condensate phases on the honeycomb lattice
  • Doron L. Bergman and Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. B 79, 184520 (2009) or arXiv:0806.0379

Selected other Contributions

• Charge Fractionalization in Low-Dimensional Conductors
• Karyn Le Hur, Bertrand I. Halperin, Amir Yacoby, Annals of Physics 323, 3037-3058 (2008) or arXiv:0803.0744
• H. Steinberg, G. Barak, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, B. I. Halperin, K. Le Hur, Nature Physics 4 , 116 (2008)
• Discontinuous Current-Phase Relations in Small One-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays
  • Jens Koch and Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097007 (2008)
• Entanglement and Decoherence of Two-level Systems: A unified approach for solid-state devices, cold atomic gases, and photons
• Karyn Le Hur, Annals of Physics 323, 2208-2240 (2008) or arXiv:0711.2301
• Karyn Le Hur, Philippe Doucet-Beaupre, and Walter Hofstetter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126801 (2007)
• Angela Kopp and Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 220401 (2007)
• Dissipative quantum Ising model in a cold-atom spin-boson mixture
  • Peter P. Orth, Ivan Stanic, and Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. A 77, 051601 (2008)
• Effects of Fermi Liquid Interactions on the Shot Noise of an SU(N) Kondo Quantum Dot
  • P. Vitushinsky, A. A. Clerk, and Karyn Le Hur, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 036603 (2008)
  • See also News and Views by R. Egger Nature Physics 5, 175 (2009).

Recent Conferences

• Organization of ICAM Cargese Workshop 2009
  • Cargese, Corsica Program
• New Directions in Low-Dimensional Eletron Systems
  • KITP Santa-Barbara, Feb 2009, Conference
• The 39th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics
  • PQE, Jan 2009, Snowbird, Utah, Program, Proceeding final version Proceeding
• Low-Dimensional Conductors, Unconventional Superconductivity, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
  • 3 Lectures given at the Boulder summer school 2008
• Workshop on unconventional phases and Phase Transitions
  • MPIPKS Dresden, June 2008, Workshop
• Organization of a Workshop at ICTP Trieste on Quantum Information and Phenomena
  • with I. Cirac, D. Loss, and P. Zoller, May 2008, Workshop