2014

Vincent Démery 1 Laurent Ponson 1 Alberto Rosso 2 Europhysics Letters, EDP Science, 2014, 105, pp.34003 The relevant parameters at the microstructure scale that govern the macroscopic toughness of disordered brittle materials are investigated theoretically. We focus on planar crack propagation and describe the front evolution as the propagation of a long-range elastic line within […]

Nils Haug 1 Sergei Nechaev 2, 3, 4 Mikhail Tamm 4, 5 Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2014, pp.P10013 Using the generalized normally ordered form of words in a locally-free group of $n$ generators, we show that in the limit $n\to\infty$, the partition function of weighted directed lattice animals on a semi-infinite strip coincides with the

Patrick Charbonneau 1, 2 Jorge Kurchan 3 Giorgio Parisi 4, 5 Pierfrancesco Urbani 6, 7 Francesco Zamponi 2 Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2014, 5, pp.3725. 〈10.1038/ncomms4725〉 Glasses are amorphous solids whose constituent particles are caged by their neighbors and thus cannot flow. This sluggishness is often ascribed to the free energy landscape containing multiple

Kabir Ramola 1 Christophe Texier 1 Journal of Statistical Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014, 157, pp.497-514 We study the fluctuations of certain random matrix products $\Pi_N=M_N\cdots M_2M_1$ of $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$, describing localisation properties of the one-dimensional Dirac equation with random mass. In the continuum limit, i.e. when matrices $M_n$’s are close to the identity matrix, we

L. Cerino 1 G. Gradenigo 2, 3 A. Sarracino 2, 4, 5 D. Villamaina 2 A. Vulpiani 6, 7 Physical Review E, American Physical Society, 2014, 89, pp.042105 We study the behavior of a moving wall in contact with a particle gas and subjected to an external force. We compare the fluctuations of the system

Shamik Gupta 1 Satya N. Majumdar 1 Gregory Schehr 1 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2014, 112, pp.220601 We study one-dimensional fluctuating interfaces of length $L$ where the interface stochastically resets to a fixed initial profile at a constant rate $r$. For finite $r$ in the limit $L \to \infty$, the system settles into

Lukasz Kusmierz 1, 2 Satya N. Majumdar 3 Sanjib Sabhapandit 4 Gregory Schehr 3 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2014, 113, pp.220602 We study analytically an intermittent search process in one dimension. There is an immobile target at the origin and a searcher undergoes a discrete time jump process starting at $x_0\geq0$, where successive

A. A. Banishev 1 J. Wagner 1 T. Emig 2 R. Zandi 1 U. Mohideen 1 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), American Physical Society, 2014, 89, pp.235436 In the current work we present the complete results for the measurement of normal Casimir force between shallow and smooth sinusoidally corrugated gold coated sphere and a plate

Serguei Brazovskii 1 Natasha Kirova 2 Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014, 27, pp.1009 – 1013. <10.1007/s10948-013-2432-9> Transformations of cooperative electronic states by impacts of optical pumping or/and electrostatic doping is a new mainstream in physics of correlated systems. Here we present a semi-phenomenological modelling of spacio-temporal effects in a system

David Guéry-Odelin 1 J. G. Muga 2, 3 M. J. Ruiz-Montero 4 E. Trizac 5 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2014, 112, pp.180602 We construct a novel class of exact solutions to the Boltzmann equation, in both its classical and quantum formulation, for arbitrary collision laws. When the system is subjected to a specific