Publications de Yannis Burnier

Complex heavy-quark potential and Debye mass in a gluonic medium from lattice QCD

We improve and extend our study of the complex in-medium heavy-quark potential and its Debye mass m(D) in a gluonic medium with a finer scan around the deconfinement transition and newly generated ensembles closer to the thermodynamic limit. On the lattice ...

American Physical Society2017

Transcription-induced supercoiling explains formation of self-interacting chromatin domains in S-pombe

Yannis Burnier, Andrzej Stasiak, Julien Dorier, Fabrizio Benedetti

The question of how self-interacting chromatin domains in interphase chromosomes are structured and generated dominates current discussions on eukaryotic chromosomes. Numerical simulations using standard polymer models have been helpful in testing the vali ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2017

In-medium P-wave quarkonium from the complex lattice QCD potential

Yannis Burnier

We extend our lattice QCD potential based study [1] of the in-medium properties of heavy quark bound states to P-wave bottomonium and charmonium. Similar to the behavior found in the S-wave channel their spectra show a characteristic broadening, as well as ...

Springer Nature2016

A gauge invariant Debye mass and the complex heavy-quark potential

Yannis Burnier

Following the original idea of Debye, we define and extract a gauge-invariant screening mass from the complex static in-medium heavy-quark potential V-Q (Q) over bar, recently obtained from lattice QCD. To this end we derive a formula using concepts from b ...

Elsevier2016

Contribution of next-to-leading order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to thermal dilepton emission in heavy-ion collisions

Yannis Burnier, Chiara Gastaldi

Recently lots of effort has been made to obtain the next-to-leading-order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to the thermal dilepton emission rate in perturbative QCD. Here we apply these results to the plasma created in heavy-ion collisions and see ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Model for superconductivity at any temperature

Yannis Burnier, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Eray Sabancilar

We construct a 2 + 1 dimensional model that sustains superconductivity at all temperatures. This is achieved by introducing a Chern-Simons mixing term between two Abelian gauge fields A and Z. The superfluid is described by a complex scalar charged under Z ...

American Physical Society2016

The Bayesian reconstruction of the in-medium heavy quark potential from lattice QCD and its stability

Yannis Burnier

We report recent results of a non-perturbative determination of the static heavy-quark potential in quenched and dynamical lattice QCD at finite temperature. The real and imaginary part of this complex quantity are extracted from the spectral function of W ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from anisotropic lattice QCD

Yannis Burnier

The FASTSUM collaboration has been carrying out simulations of N-f = 2 + 1 QCD at nonzero temperature in the fixed-scale approach using anisotropic lattices. Here we present the status of these studies, including recent results for electrical conductivity ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Effects of physiological self-crowding of DNA on shape and biological properties of DNA molecules with various levels of supercoiling

Yannis Burnier, Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Stasiak, Julien Dorier, Fabrizio Benedetti, Aleksandre Japaridze, Robert Sebastian Kwapich

DNA in bacterial chromosomes and bacterial plasmids is supercoiled. DNA supercoiling is essential for DNA replication and gene regulation. However, the density of supercoiling in vivo is circa twice smaller than in deproteinized DNA molecules isolated from ...

Oxford University Press2015

Quarkonium spectral function in medium at next-to-leading order for any quark mass

Yannis Burnier

The vector channel spectral function at zero spatial momentum is calculated at next-to-leading order in thermal QCD for any quark mass. It corresponds to the imaginary part of the massive quark contribution to the photon polarisation tensor. The spectrum s ...

Springer Verlag2015

Diamagnetic vortices in Chern-Simons theory

Yannis Burnier, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Eray Sabancilar

We find a new type of topological vortex solution in the U(1)(Z) xU(1)(A) Chern-Simons gauge theory in the presence of a U(1)(A) magnetic field background. In this theory U(1)(Z) is broken spontaneously by the U(1)(A) magnetic field. These vortices exhibit ...

American Physical Society2015

Confined vortices in topologically massive U(1) x U(1) theory

Yannis Burnier, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Eray Sabancilar

We report on a new topological vortex solution in U(1) x U(1) Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory. The existence of the vortex is envisaged by analytical means, and a numerical solution is obtained by integrating the equations of motion. These vortices have a long ...

American Physical Society2015

Static Quark-Antiquark Potential in the Quark-Gluon Plasma from Lattice QCD

Yannis Burnier

We present a state-of-the-art determination of the complex valued static quark-antiquark potential at phenomenologically relevant temperatures around the deconfinement phase transition. Its values are obtained from nonperturbative lattice QCD simulations u ...

American Physical Society2015

Lattice calculation of the heavy quark potential at non-zero temperature

Yannis Burnier

We calculated the real and imaginary parts of the static quark-antiquark potential at T > 0 in 2 + 1 flavor QCD using correlators of Wilson lines in Coulomb gauge and lattices with temporal extent N-tau = 12. We find that the real part of the potential is ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Models that include supercoiling of topological domains reproduce several known features of interphase chromosomes

Yannis Burnier, Andrzej Stasiak, Julien Dorier, Fabrizio Benedetti

Understanding the structure of interphase chromosomes is essential to elucidate regulatory mechanisms of gene expression. During recent years, high-throughput DNA sequencing expanded the power of chromosome conformation capture (3C) methods that provide in ...

Oxford University Press2014

Charm mass effects in bulk channel correlations

Yannis Burnier

The bulk viscosity of thermalized QCD matter at temperatures above a few hundred MeV could be significantly influenced by charm quarks because their contribution arises four perturbative orders before purely gluonic effects. In an attempt to clarify the ch ...

Springer Nature2013

Non-perturbative processes with Fermion number non-conservation in different models of particle physics

Yannis Burnier

When a classical conservation law is broken by quantum corrections, the associated symmetry is said to be anomalous. This type of symmetry breaking can lead to interesting physics. For instance in strong interactions, the anomaly in the chiral current is i ...

EPFL2006

Baryon and lepton number violation rates across the electroweak crossover

Yannis Burnier, Mikhail Chapochnikov

2006

Can an odd number of fermions be created due to chiral anomaly?

Yannis Burnier, Mikhail Chapochnikov

We describe a possible creation of an odd number of fractionally charged fermions in the 1+1 dimensional Abelian Higgs model. We point out that for 1+1 dimensions this process does not violate any symmetries of the theory, nor makes it mathematically incon ...

American Physical Society2006

One-loop fermionic corrections to the instanton transition in two dimensional chiral Higgs model

Yannis Burnier, Mikhail Chapochnikov

The one-loop fermionic contribution to the probability of an instanton transition with fermion number violation is calculated in the chiral Abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions, where the fermions have a Yukawa coupling to the scalar field. The dependence ...

American Physical Society2005