publications

Caterina De Bacco 1 Satya N. Majumdar 1 Peter Sollich 2 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Institute of Physics: Hybrid Open Access, 2015, 48, pp.205004 We study the linear large $n$ behavior of the average number of distinct sites $S(n)$ visited by a random walker after $n$ steps on a large random graph. […]

O. Giraud 1 D. Braun 2 D. Baguette 3 T. Bastin 3 J. Martin 3 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2015, 114, pp.080401 We propose a generalization of the Bloch sphere representation for arbitrary spin states. It provides a compact and elegant representation of spin density matrices in terms of tensors that share the

Marie Chupeau 1 Olivier Bénichou 1 Satya N. Majumdar 2 Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, American Physical Society, 2015, 91, pp.032106 We study the survival probability and the first-passage time distribution for a Brownian motion in a planar wedge with infinite absorbing edges. We generalize existing results obtained for wedge

Fengcheng Wu 1 Inti Sodemann 1 Allan H. Macdonald 1 Thierry Jolicoeur 2 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2015, 115, pp.166805 We report on an exact diagonalization study of fractional quantum Hall states at filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in a system with a four-fold degenerate $n$=0 Landau level and SU(4) symmetric Coulomb interactions. Our investigation

Stefan Mashkevich 1, 2 Stéphane Ouvry 3 Alexios Polychronakos 4 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, IOP Publishing, 2015, 48, pp.405001 We focus on the algebraic area probability distribution of planar random walks on a square lattice with $m_1$, $m_2$, $l_1$ and $l_2$ steps right, left, up and down. We aim, in particular, at

Claude Godreche 1 Satya N. Majumdar 2 Gregory Schehr 2 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, IOP Science, 2015, pp.P03014 We consider renewal processes where events, which can for instance be the zero crossings of a stochastic process, occur at random epochs of time. The intervals of time between events, $\tau_{1},\tau_{2},…$, are independent and

Areejit Samal 1, 2, 3 Olivier C. Martin 4 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2015, 114, pp.238101 Analytic and computational methods developed within statistical physics have found applications in numerous disciplines. In this letter, we use such methods to solve a long-standing problem in statistical genetics. The problem, posed by Haldane and Waddington [J.B.S.

Stephane Ouvry 1 Markov Processes and Related Fields, Polymath, 2015, 21, pp.779 I describe the occurence of Eulerian numbers and Stirling numbers of the second kind in the combinatorics of the Statistical Curse of the Second Half Rank problem. 1. LPTMS – Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques

Zhen-Kai Lu 1 Yun Li 2 D. S. Petrov 3 G. V. Shlyapnikov 4, 5, 3, 6 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2015, 115, pp.075303 We consider two-dimensional bosonic dipoles oriented perpendicularly to the plane. On top of the usual two-body contact and long-range dipolar interactions we add a contact three-body repulsion as expected,

Michael Karpov 1 Thibault Congy 2 Yonatan Sivan 3 Victor Fleurov 1 Nicolas Pavloff 2 Shimshon Bar-Ad 1 Journal of Optical Networking, Optical Society of America, 2015, 2 (12), pp.1053. <10.1364/OPTICA.2.001053> 1. Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy 2. LPTMS – Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques 3. Ben Gurion University