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A collaboration between LPTMS and the biochemistry department of the University of Geneva sheds new light on endocytosis, a biological process localized at the cell membrane that results in the formation of transport compartments required for exchanges with the outside world. This study is published in the journal Nature Communications. A cage constituted of the […]

Physicists from our lab have recently proposed a mechanism explaining the emergence of the Tracy-Widom distribution in a wide variety of problems in physics and mathematics. They showed that this distribution is associated to the critical behavior of a system of interacting particles, in the vicinity of a third order phase transition. The universality of

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Ref. : R. Dubertrand, I. García-Mata, B. Georgeot, O. Giraud, G. Lemarié, and J. Martin, Two scenarios for quantum multifractality breakdown, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234101 (2014). The concept of fractal geometry was introduced by Mandelbrot in the seventies, to describe a range of phenomena characterized by the fact that a certain quantity has a

Contact: S. Brazovskii, brazov@lptms.u-psud.fr http://lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/brazov/ Femto-second optical techniques addressing pump-induced phase transitions (PIPT) put an ambitious goal to reach “hidden” states of matter – those which are not accessible and not known under equilibrium conditions or more conventional treatments. While there was a case of success in magnetic materials, there has been no success yet

D. Guéry-Odelin, J. G. Muga, M.J. Ruiz- Montero and E. Trizac, Exact non-equilibrium solutions of the Boltzmann equation under a time-dependent external force, Physical Review Letters 112, 180602 (2014) In 1872, Boltzmann established a key bridge between microscopic dynamics and macroscopic irreversibility, through the H theorem: a dilute gas thereby evolves towards equilibrium, where it

E. Gouillart, F. Krzakala, M. Mezard, L. Zdeborova, Belief propagation reconstruction for discrete tomography, Inverse Problems 29, 3, 035003 (2013) X-ray tomography is a widely used imaging technique that allows one to produce internal images in materials science or medical applications. An X-ray beam is transmitted through the sample and the projection is recorded on

Georgy Shlyapnikov, Directeur de recherche CNRS at LPTMS, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant 2013 for his project on « New collective phases in quantum gases: from few-body to N-body physics ». The ERC Advanced Research Grants are awarded to « exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions ». Their aim is to

Céline Nadal was awarded one of the three 2013 Best Paper Prizes by the IOP Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, for her paper « Purity distribution for generalized random Bures mixed states », in collaboration with Gaëtan Borot (University of Geneva). The aim of the prize is « to celebrate and applaud well written papers that

In the paper “Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome” (Science 326, 289 (2009)), a team of US authors has reported the existence of a new structural organization of a DNA chain in the human genome in the form of a « fractal globule ». This first direct experimental observation of the