Jérôme Beugnon

Full Professor at Sorbonne Université

Short CV

Since 2023: Full Professor at Sorbonne Université
2018: Habilitation thesis
Since 2008: Associate Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
2007-2008: Postdoc at Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Orsay : Landau-Zener transitions in frozen pairs of Rydberg atoms
2004-2007: PhD at Institut d’Optique. Palaiseau. Two-photon interference between single photons emitted by singles atoms and coherent manipulation of single atoms.

Research

Main topic: ultracold quantum gases

Ongoing projects (runned on two separate rubidium cold atom platforms):
– Two-dimensional Bose gases
– Rydberg Bose gases

Coordinator of the NAQUAS QuantERA project (2018-2021)
Coordinator of the BOQUATRA ANR Grant (2019-2022)
Coordinator of the ERC Consolidator TORYD Grant (2020-2025)

Teaching

Cours de physique statistique quantique (M1 Phytem): Cours Phytem 2018

Cours de thermodynamique (L3): Cours Thermo 2017

Cours de physique quantique (M1): Cours Quantique 2024

Cours d’électromagnétisme (L2): Cours Electromagnétisme 2023

Publications

A. Ghermaoui, M. B. Aguilera, R. Bouganne, R. Vatré, I. Fritsche, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Many-Body Dephasing by Hole Motion in a Spin-Orbit-Coupled Mott Insulator, arXiv:2409.05828.
J. Beugnon, Across dimensions, Nat. Phys. 20, 887 (2024).
R. Vatré, R. Lopes, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Resonant light scattering by a slab of ultracold atoms, ArXiv:2409.04148.
G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari, Superfluid Fraction in an Interacting Spatially Modulated Bose-Einstein Condensate, Arxiv:2302.01776, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023).
C. Maury, B. Bakkali-Hassani, G. Chauveau, F. Rabec, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Precision measurement of atom-dimer interaction in a uniform planar Bose gas, ArXiv:2211.05049, Phys. Rev. Research 5, L012020 (2023).
B. Bakkali-Hassani, C. Maury, S. Stringari, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, The cross-over from Townes solitons to droplets in a 2D Bose mixture, ArXiv:2207.06939, New J. Phys. 25, 013007 (2023).
M. Bosch Aguilera, A. Ghermaoui, R. Vatré, R. Bouganne, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Adiabatic quantum Zeno dynamics of bosonic atom pairs with large inelastic losses, ArXiv:2207.02080, Phys. Rev. A 106, 053304 (2022).
B. Bakkali-Hassani and J. Dalibard, Townes soliton and beyond: Non-miscible Bose mixtures in 2D, ArXiv:2210.14045 (2022).
B. Bakkali-Hassani, C. Maury, Y.-Q. Zou, É. Le Cerf, R. Saint-Jalm, P. C. M. Castilho, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Realization of a Townes Soliton in a Two-Component Planar Bose Gas, ArXiv:2103.01605, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023603 (2021).
D. Rossini, A. Ghermaoui, M. B. Aguilera, R. Vatré, R. Bouganne, J. Beugnon, F. Gerbier, and L. Mazza, Strong correlations in lossy one-dimensional quantum gases: From the quantum Zeno effect to the generalized Gibbs ensemble, Phys. Rev. A 103, L060201 (2021).
Y.-Q. Zou, É. Le Cerf, B. Bakkali-Hassani, C. Maury, G. Chauveau, P. C. M. Castilho, R. Saint-Jalm, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Optical control of the density and spin spatial profiles of a planar Bose gas, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 54, 08LT01 (2021).
Y.-Q. Zou, B. Bakkali-Hassani, C. Maury, É. Le Cerf, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Tan's two-body contact across the superfluid transition of a planar Bose gas, Nat Commun 12, 760 (2021).
Y.-Q. Zou, B. Bakkali-Hassani, C. Maury, É. Le Cerf, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Magnetic Dipolar Interaction between Hyperfine Clock States in a Planar Alkali Bose Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 233604 (2020).
R. Bouganne, M. Bosch Aguilera, A. Ghermaoui, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Anomalous decay of coherence in a dissipative many-body system, Nat. Phys. 16, 21 (2020).
R. Saint-Jalm, P. C. M. Castilho, É. Le Cerf, B. Bakkali-Hassani, J.-L. Ville, S. Nascimbene, J. Beugnon, and J. Dalibard, Dynamical Symmetry and Breathers in a Two-Dimensional Bose Gas, Phys. Rev. X 9, 021035 (2019).
J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, É. Le Cerf, M. Aidelsburger, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Sound Propagation in a Uniform Superfluid Two-Dimensional Bose Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145301 (2018).
M. Bosch Aguilera, R. Bouganne, A. Dareau, M. Scholl, Q. Beaufils, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Non-linear relaxation of interacting bosons coherently driven on a narrow optical transition, EPL 123, 40004 (2018).
R. Saint-Jalm, M. Aidelsburger, J. L. Ville, L. Corman, Z. Hadzibabic, D. Delande, S. Nascimbene, N. Cherroret, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Resonant-light diffusion in a disordered atomic layer, Phys. Rev. A 97, 061801 (2018).
L. Corman, J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, M. Aidelsburger, T. Bienaimé, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Transmission of near-resonant light through a dense slab of cold atoms, Phys. Rev. A 96, 053629 (2017).
A. Dareau, E. Levy, M. B. Aguilera, R. Bouganne, E. Akkermans, F. Gerbier, and J. Beugnon, Revealing the Topology of Quasicrystals with a Diffraction Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215304 (2017).
R. Bouganne, M. B. Aguilera, A. Dareau, E. Soave, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Clock spectroscopy of interacting bosons in deep optical lattices, New J. Phys. 19, 113006 (2017).
M. Aidelsburger, J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Relaxation Dynamics in the Merging of N Independent Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190403 (2017).
J. Beugnon and N. Navon, Exploring the Kibble–Zurek mechanism with homogeneous Bose gases, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 022002 (2017).
J. L. Ville, T. Bienaimé, R. Saint-Jalm, L. Corman, M. Aidelsburger, L. Chomaz, K. Kleinlein, D. Perconte, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Loading and compression of a single two-dimensional Bose gas in an optical accordion, Phys. Rev. A 95, 013632 (2017).
A. Dareau, M. Scholl, Q. Beaufils, D. Döring, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Doppler spectroscopy of an ytterbium Bose-Einstein condensate on the clock transition, Phys. Rev. A 91, 023626 (2015).
L. Chomaz, L. Corman, T. Bienaimé, R. Desbuquois, C. Weitenberg, S. Nascimbène, J. Beugnon, and J. Dalibard, Emergence of coherence via transverse condensation in a uniform quasi-two-dimensional Bose gas, Nat Commun 6, 6162 (2015).
L. Corman, L. Chomaz, T. Bienaimé, R. Desbuquois, C. Weitenberg, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon, Quench-Induced Supercurrents in an Annular Bose Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135302 (2014).
R. Desbuquois, T. Yefsah, L. Chomaz, C. Weitenberg, L. Corman, S. Nascimbène, and J. Dalibard, Determination of Scale-Invariant Equations of State without Fitting Parameters: Application to the Two-Dimensional Bose Gas Across the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 020404 (2014).
N. Goldman, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Identifying topological edge states in 2D optical lattices using light scattering, Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 217, 135 (2013).
N. Goldman, J. Beugnon, and F. Gerbier, Detecting Chiral Edge States in the Hofstadter Optical Lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 255303 (2012).
L. Chomaz, L. Corman, T. Yefsah, R. Desbuquois, and J. Dalibard, Absorption imaging of a quasi-two-dimensional gas: a multiple scattering analysis, New J. Phys. 14, 055001 (2012).
R. Desbuquois, L. Chomaz, T. Yefsah, J. Léonard, J. Beugnon, C. Weitenberg, and J. Dalibard, Superfluid behaviour of a two-dimensional Bose gas, Nature Phys 8, 645 (2012).
T. Yefsah, R. Desbuquois, L. Chomaz, K. J. Günter, and J. Dalibard, Exploring the Thermodynamics of a Two-Dimensional Bose Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 130401 (2011).
S. P. Rath, T. Yefsah, K. J. Günter, M. Cheneau, R. Desbuquois, M. Holzmann, W. Krauth, and J. Dalibard, Equilibrium state of a trapped two-dimensional Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 82, 013609 (2010).
N. Saquet, A. Cournol, J. Beugnon, J. Robert, P. Pillet, and N. Vanhaecke, Landau-Zener Transitions in Frozen Pairs of Rydberg Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133003 (2010).
M. P. A. Jones, J. Beugnon, A. Gaëtan, J. Zhang, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier, Fast quantum state control of a single trapped neutral atom, Phys. Rev. A 75, 040301 (2007).
J. Beugnon, C. Tuchendler, H. Marion, A. Gaëtan, Y. Miroshnychenko, Y. R. P. Sortais, A. M. Lance, M. P. A. Jones, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier, Two-dimensional transport and transfer of a single atomic qubit in optical tweezers, Nature Phys 3, 696 (2007).
J. Beugnon, M. P. A. Jones, J. Dingjan, B. Darquié, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier, Quantum interference between two single photons emitted by independently trapped atoms, Nature 440, 779 (2006).
J. Dingjan, B. Darquié, J. Beugnon, M. P. A. Jones, S. Bergamini, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier, A frequency-doubled laser system producing ns pulses for rubidium manipulation, Appl. Phys. B 82, 47 (2006).
B. Darquié, M. P. A. Jones, J. Dingjan, J. Beugnon, S. Bergamini, Y. Sortais, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier, Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom, Science 309, 454 (2005).