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CURRICULUM VITAE


Academic History

  • Associate Professor (University at Buffalo SUNY, Buffalo NY, August 2022 - )

  • Assistant Professor (University at Albany SUNY, Albany NY, September 2016 - August 2022)
  • Postdoctoral Associate (US DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames IA, August 2014 - August 2016)

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (Georgetown University, Washington DC, August 2011 - July 2014)

  • Ph. D.(Louisiana State University)

  • M. Sc (University of Yaounde I)

  • B. Sc. (University of Yaounde I)

Research Interests : Computational Condensed Matter Physics

  • Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing
  • High Temperature Superconductivity
  • 2-Particle Level Perturbation Theory
  • Ultracold Atomic Gases in Optical Lattices
  • Thermalization of Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems

  • Dynamics of Quantum Systems Away From Equilibrium

  • Computational Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems

Publications

-Testing a discrete model for quantum spin with two sequential Stern-Gerlach detectors and photon Fock states, Sam Powers, Guangpeng Xu, Herbert F. Fotso, Tim Thomay, Dejan Stojkovic, ArXiv:2304.13535 (2023).


-Quantum Classical Algorithm for the Study of Phase Transitions in the Hubbard Model via Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, Anshumitra Baul, Herbert F. Fotso, Hanna Terletska, Juana Moreno, Ka-Ming Tam, ArXiv:2303.01392 (2023).


-Overcoming inhomogeneous broadening from ensembles of quantum emitters in noisy environments with external control fields, Herbert F. Fotso, Proc. SPIE 12673, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XVII, 126730I (2023).


-Thermalization of a Disordered interacting System under an Interaction Quench, Eric Dohner, Hanna Terletska, Herbert F. Fotso, Phys. Rev. B 108 144202 (2023).


-Tuning Spectral Properties of Individual and Multiple Quantum Emitters in Noisy Environments, Herbert F. Fotso, Phys. Rev. A 107, 023719 (2023).


-Nonequilibrium DMFT+CPA for Correlated Disordered Systems, Eric Dohner, Hanna Terletska, Ka-Ming Tam, Juana Moreno and Herbert F. Fotso, Phys. Rev. B 106, 195156 (2022).


-Herbert F. Fotso, David Hucul, Kathy-Anne Soderberg, Spectral Control of Quantum Emitters in Quantum Information Processing, Proc. SPIE 12205, Spintronics XV, 1220508 (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2634113.


-Beyond Quantum Cluster Theories: Multiscale Approaches for Strongly Correlated Systems, Herbert F. Fotso, Ka-Ming Tam, and Juana Moreno, Quantum Science and Technology, 7, 033001 (2022).


-Bridging the Gap Between the Transient and the Steady State of a Nonequilibrium Quantum System, Herbert F. Fotso, E. Dohner, A. Kemper, J. Freericks, ArXiv:2101.00795 (2021).


-H F. Fotso, Making Better Qubits out of Spectrally Noisy Solid State Quantum Emitters, in Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science, B. Lee, C. Mazzali, K. Corwin, and R. Jason Jones, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper JM6A.30.


-Characterizing the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Field-Driven Correlated Quantum Systems, Herbert F. Fotso and James K. Freericks, Frontiers in Phys. 8, 324 (2020).


-Pulse-Enhanced Two-Photon Interference with Solid State Quantum Emitters,  Herbert F. Fotso,  Phys. Rev. B 100, 094309 (2019).


-Controlling the emission and absorption spectrum of a quantum emitter in a dynamic environment,  Herbert F. Fotso,  J. Phys B 52, 2 (2018).

- Absorption Spectrum of a Two-Level System Subjected to a Periodic Pulse Sequence,  Herbert F. Fotso and V. V. Dobrovitski, Phys. Rev. B 95, 214301 (2017).

-Suppressing Spectral Diffusion of the Emitted Photons with Optical Pulses, Herbert F. Fotso,  A. E. Feiguin, D. D. Awschalom, and V. V. Dobrovitski,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033603 (2016).

-Thermalization of field driven quantum systems, Herbert F. Fotso, K. Mikelsons and J. K. Freericks, Scientific Reports 4, 4699 (2014).

- Frustrated Phase Separation in the Momentum Distribution of Field-Driven Light-Heavy Fermi-Fermi Mixtures of Ultracold Atoms, Herbert F. Fotso, J Vicente and J. K. Freericks, Phys. Rev. A 90, 053630 (2014). Chosen for Phys. Rev. A Kaleidoscope.

- Solving the Parquet Equations for the Hubbard model beyond weak coupling, K.-M. Tam, Herbert  Fotso, S.-X. Yang, Tae-Woo Lee, J. Moreno, J. Ramanujam, and M. Jarrell, Phys. Rev. E 87, 013311 (2013).

- Herbert Fotso, S. Yang, K. Chen, S. Pathak, J. Moreno, M. Jarrell, K. Mikelsons, E. Khatami, and D. Galanakis, Dynamical Cluster Approximation. In A. Avella and F. Mancini (eds.), Theoretical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems (271-302), Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 171 (2011).

-Dual fermion dynamical cluster approach for strongly correlated systems, S.-X. Yang, Herbert Fotso, H. Hafermann, K.-M. Tam, J. Moreno, T. Pruschke, and M. Jarrell, Phys. Rev. B 84, 155106 (2011).

-Proximity of the Superconducting Dome and the Quantum Critical Point in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model, S.-X. Yang, Herbert F Fotso, S.-Q. Su, D. Galanakis, E. Khatami, J.-H. She, J. Moreno, J. Zaanen, and M Jarrell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047004 (2011).


-Parquet approximation for the 4x4 Hubbard cluster
, S. X. Yang, 
Herbert Fotso
, J. Liu, T. A. Maier, K. Tomko, E. F. D'Azevedo, R. T. Scalettar, T. Pruschke, and M. Jarrell, Phys. Rev. E 80, 046706 (2009).


Thesis: Two-Particle Level Diagrammatic Approaches for Strongly Correlated Systems, H. F. Fotso, URN: etd-07062011-140052,  (2011).

Research Experience

-Quantum Information Processing

-Quantum Optics

-Dynamics of nonequilibrium  quantum systems

-Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices

-Dual Fermions approach to nonlocal correlations in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

-Investigation of the relationship between the Quantum Critical Point and High Temperature Superconductivity using the Dynamical Cluster Approximation

-Quantum Monte Carlo and Dynamical Cluster Approximation for Strongly Correlated Systems

-PETSc as a tool for the numerical solutions of the parquet equations

-Self-consistent solution of the Hubbard model with the Parquet Formalism

-Developpement of petascale optimized codes for Strongly Correlated Systems

-Numerical Simulation of Percolation Theory





Last updated 07/09/2022