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20202026
most citedIntroduction to Theoretical and Experimental aspects of Quantum Optimal Control

56 citations · 221 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Phase-Noise-Induced Heating in Optical Lattices

Jean Paul Nohra, Cyprien Daix, Joris Verstraten +5

We experimentally and theoretically study the origin of heating in optical lattices by disentangling the respective roles of intensity and phase noise depending on the lattice para…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Floquet engineering of tight-binding Hamiltonians in momentum space lattices

D. Ronco, F. Arrouas, N. Ombredane +4

Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms provides a versatile platform to emulate condensed-matter models. In particular, momentum-space lattices enable the realization of programma…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Many-body dynamical localization in Fock space

Nathan Dupont, Bruno Peaudecerf, David Guéry-Odelin +4

We investigate the emergence of many-body dynamical localization (MBDL) in the Fock space of an interacting two-mode bosonic system subject to periodic driving. Using a mapping to…

cond-mat.dis-nn2026

Symmetry-Induced Logarithmic Relaxation in the Quantum Kicked Rotor

Julien Hébraud, Floriane Arrouas, Bruno Peaudecerf +6

We study the effect of discrete symmetries on coherent multiple scattering in the quantum kicked rotor. When the initial momentum is set to zero -- as in recent Bose-Einstein conde…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Time-optimal force sensing with ultracold atoms

Nicolas Ombredane, Eloi Flament, Charles Babin +3

We develop a time-optimal approach to force sensing using a Bose-Einstein condensate in a shaken optical lattice. Optimal control protocols are derived from a Fisher information fr…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Probing the Fermi Sea Topology in a Quantum Gas

Cyprien Daix, Pok Man Tam, Maxime Dixmerias +5

Pauli's exclusion principle forces fermions to occupy distinct quantum states, creating a filled region of momentum space at low temperature, the Fermi sea, whose topology governs…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Universal Random Matrix Behavior of a Fermionic Quantum Gas

Maxime Dixmerias, Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio, Cyprien Daix +6

The pursuit of universal governing principles is a foundational endeavor in physics, driving breakthroughs from thermodynamics to general relativity and quantum mechanics. In 1951,…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 3 cited

Observing Spatial Charge and Spin Correlations in a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas

Cyprien Daix, Maxime Dixmerias, Yuan-Yao He +5

In this work, we explore two-dimensional attractive Fermi gases at the microscopic level by probing spatial charge and spin correlations in situ. Using atom-resolved continuum quan…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Unitary Transformations using Robust Optimal Control on a Cold Atom Qudit

E. Flament, N. Ombredane, F. Arrouas +4

In this paper, we design and experimentally implement various robust quantum unitary transformations (gates) acting on -dimensional vectors (qudits) by tuning a single control p…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Probing non-ergodicity and symmetry via coherent forward scattering in a shaken rotor

F. Arrouas, J. Hébraud, N. Ombredane +9

The Coherent Backscattering (CBS) peak is a well-known interferential signature of weak localization in disordered or chaotic systems. More recently, a second interference feature…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Fluctuation thermometry of an atom-resolved quantum gas: Beyond the fluctuation-dissipation theorem

Maxime Dixmerias, Joris Verstraten, Cyprien Daix +3

Thermometry is essential for studying many-body physics with ultracold atoms. Accurately measuring low temperatures in these systems, however, remains a significant challenge due t…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Optimal control of a Bose-Eintein Condensate in an optical lattice: The non-linear and two-dimensional cases

E. Dionis, B. Peaudecerf, S. Guérin +2

We numerically study the optimal control of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. We present two generalizations of the gradient-based algorithm, GRAPE, in the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 25 cited

Quantum Gas Microscopy of Fermions in the Continuum

Tim de Jongh, Joris Verstraten, Maxime Dixmerias +3

Microscopically probing quantum many-body systems by resolving their constituent particles is essential for understanding quantum matter. In most physical systems, distinguishing i…

quant-ph2024★ 25 cited

In-situ Imaging of a Single-Atom Wave Packet in Continuous Space

Joris Verstraten, Kunlun Dai, Maxime Dixmerias +3

The wave nature of matter remains one of the most striking aspects of quantum mechanics. Since its inception, a wealth of experiments has demonstrated the interference, diffraction…

quant-ph2024★ 56 cited

Introduction to Theoretical and Experimental aspects of Quantum Optimal Control

Q. Ansel, E. Dionis, F. Arrouas +4

Quantum optimal control is a set of methods for designing time-varying electromagnetic fields to perform operations in quantum technologies. This tutorial paper introduces the basi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023

Floquet operator engineering for quantum state stroboscopic stabilization

Floriane Arrouas, Lucas Gabardos, Nicolas Ombredane +6

Optimal control is a valuable tool for quantum simulation, allowing for the optimized preparation, manipulation, and measurement of quantum states. Through the optimization of a ti…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 6 cited

A Multi-Purpose Platform for Analog Quantum Simulation

Shuwei Jin, Kunlun Dai, Joris Verstraten +6

Atom-based quantum simulators have had tremendous success in tackling challenging quantum many-body problems, owing to the precise and dynamical control that they provide over the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 15 cited

A regular Hamiltonian halting ratchet for matter wave transport

N. Dupont, L. Gabardos, F. Arrouas +4

We report on the design of a Hamiltonian ratchet exploiting periodically at rest integrable trajectories in the phase space of a modulated periodic potential, leading to the linear…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 8 cited

Emergence of a tunable crystalline order in a Floquet-Bloch system from a parametric instability

Nathan Dupont, Lucas Gabardos, Floriane Arrouas +6

Parametric instabilities in interacting systems can lead to the appearance of new structures or patterns. In quantum gases, two-body interactions are responsible for a variety of i…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 15 cited

Phase-space distributions of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice: Optimal shaping and reconstruction

N. Dupont, F. Arrouas, L. Gabardos +5

We apply quantum optimal control to shape the phase-space distribution of Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional optical lattice. By a time-dependent modulation of the latt…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 50 cited

Quantum state control of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

N. Dupont, G. Chatelain, L. Gabardos +5

We report on the efficient design of quantum optimal control protocols to manipulate the motional states of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one-dimensional optical la…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 9 cited

Observation and control of quantized scattering halos

G. Chatelain, N. Dupont, M. Arnal +5

We investigate the production of s-wave scattering halos from collisions between the momentum components of a Bose-Einstein condensate released from an optical lattice. The lattice…