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40
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16904
World Ranking
1978
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121

Overview

Eric Cancès is affiliated with the École des Ponts ParisTech in France. Their research spans a variety of topics within physics and materials science, with a particular focus on condensed matter physics and quantum many-body systems.

Their work covers multiple subfields including atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, surfaces, coatings and films, and mechanical engineering.

They have contributed to several main research topics, which include:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced chemical physics studies
  • Carbon nanotubes in composites
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Quantum many-body systems
  • Machine learning in materials science
  • Electron and X-Ray spectroscopy techniques

Eric Cancès has published research in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • JuliaCon Proceedings
  • Physical Review B
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Simple derivation of moiré-scale continuous models for twisted bilayer graphene," 2023, Physical Review B
  • "Some mathematical insights on Density Matrix Embedding Theory," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Analysis of density matrix embedding theory around the non-interacting limit," 2025, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
  • "DFTK: A Julian approach for simulating electrons in solids," 2021, JuliaCon Proceedings (authored by Michael F. Herbst)
  • "Insights into the π - π interaction driven non-covalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes of various diameters by conjugated fluorene and carbazole copolymers," 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics (authored by Robert Benda)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eric Cancès include:

  • Fabian M. Faulstich
  • Louis Garrigue
  • David Gontier
  • Alfred Kirsch
  • Eloïse Letournel

Best Publications

  • A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics

    E. Cancès;B. Mennucci;J. Tomasi

  • The IEF version of the PCM solvation method: an overview of a new method addressed to study molecular solutes at the QM ab initio level

    J. Tomasi;B. Mennucci;E. Cancès

  • New applications of integral equations methods for solvation continuum models: ionic solutions and liquid crystals

    Eric Cancès;Benedetta Mennucci

  • Recent Advances in the Description of Solvent Effects with the Polarizable Continuum Model

    Claudio Amovilli;Vincenzo Barone;Roberto Cammi;Eric Cancès

  • A black-box self-consistent field convergence algorithm: One step closer

    Konstantin N. Kudin;Gustavo E. Scuseria;Eric Cancès

  • Computational quantum chemistry: A primer

    Eric Cancès;Mireille Defranceschi;Werner Kutzelnigg;Claude Le Bris

  • A variational formulation of the polarizable continuum model

    Filippo Lipparini;Giovanni Scalmani;Benedetta Mennucci;Eric Cancès

  • ADAPTIVE SIMULATION OF HYBRID STOCHASTIC AND DETERMINISTIC MODELS FOR BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS

    Aurélien Alfonsi;Eric Cancès;Gabriel Turinici;Barbara Di Ventura

  • Analytical derivatives for geometry optimization in solvation continuum models. I. Theory

    E. Cancès;B. Mennucci

  • On the convergence of SCF algorithms for the Hartree-Fock equations

    Eric Cancès;Claude Le Bris

  • THEORETICAL AND NUMERICAL COMPARISON OF SOME SAMPLING METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

    Eric Cancès;Eric Cancès;Frédéric Legoll;Frédéric Legoll;Gabriel Stoltz

  • Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems

    Eric Cancès;Rachida Chakir;Yvon Maday

  • Some improvements of the activation-relaxation technique method for finding transition pathways on potential energy surfaces

    E. Cancès;Frédéric Legoll;M. C. Marinica;K. Minoukadeh

  • Fast Domain Decomposition Algorithm for Continuum Solvation Models: Energy and First Derivatives

    Filippo Lipparini;Benjamin Stamm;Eric Cancès;Yvon Maday;Yvon Maday;Yvon Maday

  • Analytical derivatives for geometry optimization in solvation continuum models. II. Numerical applications

    E. Cancès;B. Mennucci;J. Tomasi

  • The Electronic Ground State Energy Problem: a New Reduced Density Matrix Approach

    Eric Cancès;Gabriel Stoltz;Mathieu Lewin

  • Domain decomposition for implicit solvation models.

    Eric Cancès;Yvon Maday;Benjamin Stamm

  • A New Approach to the Modeling of Local Defects in Crystals: The Reduced Hartree-Fock Case

    Éric Cancès;Amélie Deleurence;Mathieu Lewin

  • Self-consistent field algorithms for Kohn–Sham models with fractional occupation numbers

    Eric Cancès

  • How electrons guard the space: shape optimization with probability distribution criteria

    Eric Cancès;Renaud Keriven;François Lodier;Andreas Savin

  • Some improvements of the ART method for finding transition pathways on potential energy surfaces

    E. Cancès;F. Legoll;M.-C. Marinica;K. Minoukadeh

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvon Maday
Yvon Maday Sorbonne University
Benedetta Mennucci
Benedetta Mennucci University of Pisa
Tony Lelièvre
Tony Lelièvre École des Ponts ParisTech
Jean-Philip Piquemal
Jean-Philip Piquemal Sorbonne University
Martin Vohralík
Martin Vohralík French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Gabriel Turinici
Gabriel Turinici Paris Dauphine University
Jacopo Tomasi
Jacopo Tomasi University of Pisa
Giovanni Scalmani
Giovanni Scalmani Gaussian Inc.
William W. Hager
William W. Hager University of Florida
Gustavo E. Scuseria
Gustavo E. Scuseria Rice University

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