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Overview

Alain Comtet is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several specialized subfields. Their research encompasses Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
  • Random lasers and scattering media
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics

Alain Comtet has published recent papers in well-known scientific journals. Their works include:

  • "Comment on "Effective Confining Potential of Quantum States in Disordered Media"", 2020, published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Generalized Lyapunov exponent for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with Cauchy disorder: Some exact results", 2022, published in Physical review. E

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alain Comtet include:

  • Christophe Texier
  • Yves Tourigny

Publications by Alain Comtet have appeared mainly in the following venues:

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical review. E

Best Publications

  • Classical diffusion of a particle in a one-dimensional random force field

    J.P Bouchaud;A Comtet;A Georges;A Georges;P Le Doussal;P Le Doussal

  • Airy Distribution Function: From the Area Under a Brownian Excursion to the Maximal Height of Fluctuating Interfaces

    Satya N. Majumdar;Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet

  • Topological aspects of low dimensional systems

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  • Exact maximal height distribution of fluctuating interfaces

    Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet

  • Bogomol'nyi bounds for cosmic strings

    A. Comtet;G.W. Gibbons;G.W. Gibbons

  • Local and occupation time of a particle diffusing in a random medium.

    Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet

  • Convex Hull of N Planar Brownian Motions: Exact Results and an Application to Ecology

    Julien Randon-Furling;Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet

  • Exact distribution of the maximal height of p vicious walkers

    Grégory Schehr;Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Julien Randon-Furling

  • Exponential Functionals of Brownian Motion and Disordered Systems

    Alain Comtet;Cécile Monthus;Marc Yor

  • Precise asymptotics for a random walker's maximum

    Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet;Satya N Majumdar

  • Spectral Determinant on Quantum Graphs

    Eric Akkermans;Eric Akkermans;Alain Comtet;Jean Desbois;Gilles Montambaux

  • Random Convex Hulls and Extreme Value Statistics

    Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Julien Randon-Furling

  • UNIVERSALITY OF THE WIGNER TIME DELAY DISTRIBUTION FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM POTENTIALS

    Christophe Texier;Alain Comtet

  • Functionals of Brownian motion, localization and metric graphs

    Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet;Jean Desbois;Christophe Texier

  • Anomalous diffusion in random media of any dimensionality

    J.P. Bouchaud;A. Comtet;A. Georges;P. Le Doussal

  • On the flux distribution in a one dimensional disordered system

    Cécile Monthus;Alain Comtet

  • Functionals of the Brownian motion, localization and metric graphs

    Alain Comtet;Jean Desbois;Christophe Texier

  • On a dynamical model of glasses

    Jean-Philippe Bouchaud;Alain Comtet;Cécile Monthus

  • Unified Solution of the Expected Maximum of a Discrete Time Random Walk and the Discrete Flux to a Spherical Trap

    Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet;Robert M. Ziff

  • Reunion Probability of N Vicious Walkers: Typical and Large Fluctuations for Large N

    Grégory Schehr;Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet;Peter J. Forrester

  • The relaxation-time spectrum of diffusion in a one-dimensional random medium: an exactly solvable case

    J. P. Bouchaud;A. Comtet;A. Georges;P. Le Doussal

  • DIFFUSION IN ONE DIMENSIONAL RANDOM MEDIUM AND HYPERBOLIC BROWNIAN MOTION

    Alain Comtet;Cecile Monthus

  • Exact results on Sinai's diffusion

    Alain Comtet;David S Dean

  • Statistical properties of functionals of the paths of a particle diffusing in a one-dimensional random potential.

    Sanjib Sabhapandit;Sanjib Sabhapandit;Satya N. Majumdar;Alain Comtet;Alain Comtet

  • Diffusion in a one-dimensional random medium and hyperbolic Brownian motion

    Alain Comtet;Cécile Monthus

  • Lyapunov exponents, one-dimensional Anderson localisation and products of random matrices

    Alain Comtet;Christophe Texier;Yves Tourigny

  • Topological Aspects of Low-dimensional Systems: Proceedings, Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics, Session 69

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Frequent Co-Authors

Satya N. Majumdar
Satya N. Majumdar University of Paris-Saclay
Cécile Monthus
Cécile Monthus University of Paris-Saclay
Grégory Schehr
Grégory Schehr Sorbonne University
Marc Yor
Marc Yor Sorbonne University
Peter J. Forrester
Peter J. Forrester University of Melbourne
Jean-Marc Luck
Jean-Marc Luck University of Paris-Saclay

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