Publications by 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, Julien Dorier, Fabrizio Benedetti, Andrzej Stasiak

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

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Yannis Burnier, 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

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