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David Sénéchal

Professeur, Faculté des sciences
FAC. SCIENCES Physique

Présentation

Sujet de recherche

Modélisation et simulation, Solides, Supraconducteurs

Disciplines de recherche

Physique

Mots-clés

Antiferromagnétisme, calcul scientifique, Électrons fortement corrélés, isolants topologiques, méthodes numériques, méthodes variationnelles, Modèle de Hubbard, programmation parallèle, Propriétés électroniques, Supraconductivité

Langues parlées et écrites

Allemand, Anglais, Français

Diplômes

(1990). (Doctorat, PhD). Cornell University.

(1987). (Maîtrise sans mémoire, MSc). Cornell University.

(1985). (Baccalauréat, BSc). McGill University.

Publications

Articles de revue

  • Faye J, Sahebsara P and Sénéchal D. (2015). Chiral triplet superconductivity on the graphene lattice. Physical Review B 92 085121.1 - 085121.10. (Article publié).
  • Faye JPL, Sénéchal D, Hassan SR, Sriluckshmy PV and Baskaran G. (2015). d-wave superconductivity in coupled ladders. Physical Review B 91 195126. (Article publié).
  • Charlebois M, Sénéchal D, Gagnon AM, Tremblay AM. (2014). Impurity-induced magnetic moments on the graphene-lattice Hubbard model: a cluster DMFT study. Physical Review B (Article soumis).
  • Faye J, Sénéchal D and Hassan S. (2014). Topological phases of the Kitaev-Hubbard model at half filling. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 89 (11), (Article publié).
  • Hassan S, Goyal S, Shankar R and Sénéchal D. (2013). Quarter-filled Kitaev-Hubbard model: A quantum Hall state in an optical lattice. Physical Review B 88 (4), 045301.1-045301.7. (Article publié).
  • Hassan SR and Sénéchal D. (2013). Absence of Spin Liquid in Nonfrustrated Correlated Systems. Physical Review Letters 110 (9), 096402.1-096402.5. (Article publié).
  • Sénéchal D, Day A, Bouliane V and Tremblay AM. (2013). Resilience of d-wave superconductivity to nearest-neighbor repulsion. Physical Review B 87 (7), 075123.1-075123.7. (Article publié).
  • Hassan S and Sénéchal D. (2013). Hassan and Sénéchal Reply:. Physical Review Letters 111 (2), (Article publié).
  • Charlebois M, Hassan S, Karan R, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2013). Mott p-n junctions in layered materials. Physical Review B 87 (3), 035137.1-035137.7. (Article publié).
  • Hassan S, Sriluckshmy P, Goyal S, Shankar R and Sénéchal D. (2013). Stable Algebraic Spin Liquid in a Hubbard Model. Physical Review Letters 110 (3), 037201.1-037201.5. (Article publié).
  • Chakraborty S, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2011). d-wave superconductivity on the checkerboard Hubbard model at weak and strong coupling. Physical Review B 84 (5), 054545-1 054545-8. (Article publié).
  • Sénéchal D. (2011). Superconductivity in the subatomic realm. Physics in Canada/La physique au Canada 67 (2), 133-135. (Article publié).
  • Payeur A and Sénéchal D. (2011). Variational cluster approximation study of the one-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model at half filling. Physical Review B 83 (3), 033104.1-033104.3. (Article publié).
  • Okamoto S, Sénéchal D, Civelli M and Tremblay AM. (2010). Dynamical electronic nematicity from Mott physics. Physical Review B 82 (18), 180511.1-180511.4. (Article publié).
  • Sénéchal D. (2010). Bath optimization in the cellular dynamical mean-field theory. Physical Review B 81 (23), 235125.1-235125.8. (Article publié).
  • Kyung B, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2009). Pairing dynamics in strongly correlated superconductivity. Physical Review B 80 (20), 205109.1-205109.8. (Article publié).
  • Balzer M, Kyung B, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AM and Potthoff M. (2009). First-order {Mott} transition at zero temperature in two dimensions: Variational plaquette study. Europhysics Letters 85 (1), 17002. (Article publié).
  • Dienes KR, Lennek M, Sénéchal D and Wasnik V. (2008). Is SUSY natural?. New Journal of Physics 10 (8), 085003.1-085003.10. (Article publié).
  • Kancharla S, Kyung B, Sénéchal D, Civelli M, Capone M, Kotliar G and Tremblay AM. (2008). Anomalous superconductivity and its competition with antiferromagnetism in doped Mott insulators. Physical Review B 77 (18), 184516.1-184516.12. (Article publié).
  • Sahebsara P, Sénéchal D. (2008). Hubbard Model on the Triangular Lattice: Spiral Order and Spin Liquid. Physical Review Letters 100 (13), 136402.1-136402.4. (Article publié).
  • Nevidomskyy A, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AM. (2008). Convexity of the self-energy functional in the variational cluster approximation. Physical Review B 77 (7), 075105.1-075105.12. (Article publié).
  • Nevidomskyy A, Scheiber C, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2008). Magnetism and d-wave superconductivity on the half-filled square lattice with frustration. Physical Review B 77 (6), 064427.1-064427.6. (Article publié).
  • Dienes KR, Lennek M, Sénéchal D and Wasnik V. (2007). Supersymmetry versus gauge symmetry on the heterotic landscape. Physical Review D 75 126005. (Article publié).
  • Sahebsara P and Sénéchal D. (2006). Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in layered organic conductors: Variational cluster approach. Physical Review Letters 97 (25),
  • Tremblay AM, Kyung B and Sénéchal D. (2006). Pseudogap and high-temperature superconductivity from weak to strong coupling. Towards quantitative theory. Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur (Kharkov) 32 (4-5), 561-595.
  • Kyung B, Kancharla SS, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AM, Civelli M and Kotliar G. (2006). Pseudogap induced by short-range spin correlations in a doped Mott insulator. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 73 (16),
  • Hankevych V, Kyung B, Daré AM, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2006). Strong- and weak-coupling mechanisms for pseudogap in electron-doped cuprates. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 67 (1-3), 189-192.
  • Sénéchal D, Lavertu PL, Marois MA and Tremblay AM. (2005). Competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in high-T c cuprates. Physical Review Letters 94 (15),
  • Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2004). Hot spots and pseudogaps for hole- and electron-doped high-temperature superconductors. Physical Review Letters 92 (12), 126401-1.
  • Sénéchal D, Perez D and Plouffe D. (2002). Cluster perturbation theory for Hubbard models. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 66 (7), 751291-7512911.
  • Sénéchal D, Perez D and Pioro-Ladrière M. (2000). Spectral Weight of the Hubbard Model through Cluster Perturbation Theory. Physical Review Letters 84 (3), 522-525.
  • Allen D and Sénéchal D. (2000). Spin-1 ladder: A bosonization study. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 61 (18), 12134-12142.
  • Pairault S, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (2000). Strong-coupling perturbation theory of the Hubbard model. European Physical Journal B 16 (1), 85-105.
  • Chitov GY and Sénéchal D. (1998). Fermi liquid as a renormalization-group fixed point: The role of interference in the Landau channel. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 57 (3), 1444-1456.
  • Shelton, DG and Sénéchal D. (1998). SO(5)-symmetric description of the low-energy sector of a ladder system. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 58 (11), 6818-6830.
  • Pairault S, Sénéchal D and Tremblay AM. (1998). Strong-coupling expansion for the Hubbard model. Physical Review Letters 80 (24), 5389-5392.
  • Lamoureux G, Caillé A and Sénéchal D. (1998). Thermal phase diagrams of columnar liquid crystals. Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 58 (5 SUPPL. A), 5898-5908.
  • Allen D and Sénéchal D. (1997). Non-Abelian bosonization of the frustrated antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 55 (1), 299-308.
  • Chitov GY and Sénéchal D. (1995). Renormalization-group study of interacting electrons. Physical Review B 52 (18), 13487-13496.
  • Sénéchal D. (1995). Semiclassical description of spin ladders. Physical Review B 52 (21), 15319-15326.
  • Allen D and Sénéchal D. (1995). Semiclassical description of the frustrated antiferromagnetic chain. Physical Review B 51 (10), 6394-6401.
  • Trudeau Y, Sénéchal D and Poirier M. (1995). Temperature dependence of the ESR spectrum of CsNiCl3. Physical Review B 51 (1), 334-341.
  • Kirillov AN, Mathieu P, Sénéchal D and Walton MA. (1993). Can fusion coefficients be calculated from the depth rule?. Nuclear Physics, Section B 391 (3), 651-674.
  • Sénéchal D. (1993). Erratum: Mass gap of the nonlinear-σ model through the finite-temperature effective action (Physical Review B (1993) 47 (8353)). Physical Review B 48 (9), 6741.
  • Sénéchal D. (1993). Haldane gap in the quasi-one-dimensional nonlinear model. Physical Review B 48 (21), 15880-15885.
  • Sénéchal D. (1993). Mass gap of the nonlinear-σ model through the finite-temperature effective action. Physical Review B 47 (13), 8353-8356.
  • Sénéchal D. (1992). Chern-Simons superconductivity without parity violation. Physics Letters B 297 (1-2), 138-143.
  • Mathieu P and Sénéchal D. (1991). A well-defined multicritical series in hermitian one-matrix models. Physics Letters B 267 (4), 475-480.
  • Hlousek Z, Sénéchal D and Tye S.-H.H. (1990). Induced Hopf term in the nonlinear sigma model. Physical Review D 41 (12), 3773-3784.
  • Sénéchal, D. (1989). Search for four-dimensional string models. Physical Review D 39 (12), 3717-3730.

Livres

  • DiFrancesco Ph Mathieu P Sénéchal D. (1997). Conformal Field Theory. Springer. (Article publié).

Chapitres de livre

  • Sénéchal D. (2015). Quantum Cluster Methods: CPT and CDMFT. Many-Body Physics: From Kondo to Hubbard (13.1 - 13.31). Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. (Article publié).
  • Sénéchal D. (2012). Cluster Dynamical Mean Field Theory. Strongly Correlated Systems (171, 341-371). Springer. (Article publié).
  • Sénéchal D. (2012). Cluster Perturbation Theory. Strongly Correlated Systems (171, 237-270). Springer. (Article publié).
  • Sénéchal D. (2004). An introduction to bosonization. Theoretical Methods for Strongly Correlated Electrons (139 - 186). Springer. (Article publié).

Manuels

  • Sénéchal D. (2015). Physique subatomique (PHQ636) [subatomic Physics course]. 277 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. (2014). Mécanique Quantique II (PHQ430) [quantum mechanics course]. 190 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. (2014). Méthodes numériques et simulations (PHQ405) [numerical methods course]. 242 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. (2012). Mécanique II (PHQ310) [advanced mechanics course]. 182 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. (2009). Mécanique I (PHQ110) [first course on classical mechanics]. 237 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. (2008). Électromagnétisme avancé (PHQ421) [advanced electromagnetism]. 247 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. (2007). Histoire des sciences (PHQ399) [history of sciences course]. 258 p. (Article accepté).
  • Sénéchal D. Mécanique quantique (PHY731) [advanced quantum mechanics course]. 219 p. (Article accepté).

Articles de conférence

  • Day A*, Sénéchal D, Bouliane V*, Tremblay AM. (2014). Resilience of d-wave superconductivity to nearest-neighbor repulsion. http:// meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR14/Event/216523, (Article publié).
  • Charlebois M*, Hassan S, Karan R, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AM. (2013). Mott p-n junctions in layered materials. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/ MAR13/Event/183879, (Article publié).
  • Verret S*, Yee CH, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AMS. (2013). Superconconductivity and antiferromagnetism for the one-band Hubbard model of the cuprates including inter-plane hopping. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR13/ Event/186283, (Article publié).
  • Charlebois M*, Hassan S, Karan R, Dion M*, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AMS. (2012). Electronic reconstruction of doped Mott insulator heterojunctions. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR12/Event/159537, (Article publié).
  • Kyung B, Sénéchal D, Tremblay AMS. (2009). Retarded vs instantaneous interactions in high-temperature superconductors. What is the glue?. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR09/Session/D33.15, (Article publié).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

  • Introduction au calcul scientifique. PHQ202. (2016-02-08).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Mécanique quantique II. PHQ430. (2014-04-28).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Méthodes numériques et simulations. PHQ405. (2011-05-02).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Mécanique II. PHQ310. (2010-08-30).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Physique contemporaine. PHQ171. (2007-09-03).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Électromagnétisme avancé. PHQ421. (2007-04-30).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Physique subatomique. PHQ636. (2003-01-07).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Histoire des sciences. PHQ399. (1997-08-25).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Ondes électromagnétiques. PHQ525. (1997-01-06).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Mécanique I. PHQ110. (1994-09-22).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Mécanique quantique. PHY731. (1993-05-03).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Théorie électromagnétique. PHY521. (1993-01-04).Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Présentations

  • (2015). Quantum Cluster Methods (CPT/CDMFT). Autumn School on Correlated Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich. Jülich
  • (2015). Chiral d-wave superconductivity in coupled ladders. March meeting of the American Physical Society. San Antonio
  • (2015). Effect of impurities on strongly-correlated superconductivity with inhomogeneous cluster dynamical mean field theory. March meeting of the American Physical Society. San Antonio
  • (2014). What is special about strongly correlated superconductivity?. Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES2014). Grenoble
  • (2014). Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Quantum Cluster Methods (part II). International summer school on Computational Methods for Quantum Materials. Orford, QC
  • (2014). Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Quantum Cluster Methods (part I). International summer school on Computational Methods for Quantum Materials. Orford, QC
  • (2014). Resilience of d-wave superconductivity to nearest-neighbor repulsion. APS March meeting. Denver
  • (2013). Quantum cluster methods, high-temperature superconductivity and spin liquids. University of Waterloo, Condensed Matter Physics seminar. Waterloo
  • (2013). Eppur si muove (partie II). Club d'astronomie de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke
  • (2013). Recent advances on Hubbard models using quantum cluster methods. Canadian Association of Physicists Congress. Montréal
  • (2013). Un siècle de physique nucléaire. Colloque multidisciplinaire du Centre collégial de Mont-Tremblant. Mont-Tremblant
  • (2013). Eppur si muove (partie I). Club d'astronomie de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke
  • (2013). La Supraconductivité: une histoire d’amour-haine entre électrons. Collège (CEGEP) de Sainte-Foy. Québec
  • (2012). High-temperature superconductivity from quantum cluster method. Trent University Colloquium. Peterborough
  • (2012). Qu'est-ce que le boson de Higgs?. Université de Sherbrooke, séminaire spécial du département de physique. Sherbrooke
  • (2012). Quantum Cluster Methods: An introduction. International summer school on New trends in computational approaches for many-body systems. Orford, QC
  • (2011). The variational cluster method. Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) workshop on Quantum Information in Quantum Many-Body Physics. Montréal
  • (2011). How are 1+1-dimensional quantum field theories applicable to condensed matter systems?. McGill University high-energy Physics seminar. Montréal
  • (2011). Qu’est-ce qui cause la supraconductivité à haute température?. Séminaire du RQMP, Université de Montréal. Montréal
  • (2010). Manifestations of Mott Physics in strongly correlated superconductivity. International Conference on Conducting Materials. Sousse
  • (2010). La supraconductivité: une relation d'amour-haine entre électrons. Conférence de l'Association Générale de étudiants en Sciences de l'Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke
  • (2010). Mott Physics in Strongly Correlated Superconductivity. International Conference on Core Research and Engineering Science of Advanced Materials/Global. Osaka
  • (2009). Retarded interaction and strongly correlated superconductivity: the sticky questions. Higher temperature superconductivity workshop at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Santa- Barbara