publications

Satya N. Majumdar 1, Olivier C. Martin 1 Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 74 (2006) 061112 We consider random energy landscapes constructed from d-dimensional lattices or trees. The distribution of the number of local minima in such landscapes follows a large deviation principle and we derive the associated law exactly for dimension 1. Also of […]

M. H. Ernst, E. Trizac 1, A. Barrat 2 Europhysics Letters (EPL) 76 (2006) 56 Within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, we present a new analytic method, without the intrinsic limitations of existing methods, for obtaining asymptotic solutions. This method permits extension of existing results for Maxwell molecules and hard spheres to large classes of particle interactions,

Lenka Zdeborová 1, Marc Mézard 1 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 1 (2006) P05003 We study matchings on sparse random graphs by means of the cavity method. We first show how the method reproduces several known results about maximum and perfect matchings in regular and Erdos-Renyi random graphs. Our main new result is the computation of the

Chevin, L.M., Hospital, F. Genetics (2006) Apr 19

Stefano Ciliberti 1, Paolo De Los Rios 2, Francesco Piazza 2 Physical Review Letters 96 (2006) 198103 Vibrational spectra of proteins and topologically disordered solids display a common anomaly at low frequencies, known as Boson peak. We show that such feature in globular proteins can be deciphered in terms of an energy landscape picture, as it is for glassy systems. Exploiting

M. H. Ernst, E. Trizac 1, A. Barrat 2 Journal of Statistical Physics 124 (2006) 549 We study a generic class of inelastic soft sphere models with a binary collision rate $g^\nu$ that depends on the relative velocity $g$. This includes previously studied inelastic hard spheres ($\nu=1$) and inelastic Maxwell molecules ($\nu=0$). We develop a new asymptotic method for analyzing

Jacobsen, J., Saleur, H. Nuclear Physics B 743 (2006) 207-248

J. Dobnikar 1, 2, R. Castañeda-Priego 3, H. H. von Grünberg 2, E. Trizac 4, 5 New Journal of Physics 8 (2006) 277 Combining cell and Jellium model mean-field approaches, Monte Carlo together with integral equation techniques, and finally more demanding many-colloid mean-field computations, we investigate the thermodynamic behavior, pressure and compressibility of highly charged colloidal dispersions, and at a more microscopic level, the force

Jovanka Lukic 1, Enzo Marinari 2, Olivier C. Martin 3, Silvia Sabatini 4 Journal of Statistical Mechanics (2006) L10001 We study temperature chaos in a two-dimensional Ising spin glass with random quenched bimodal couplings, by an exact computation of the partition functions on large systems. We study two temperature correlators from the total free energy and from the domain wall free energy: in

Di Francesco, P., Zinn-Justin, P., Zuber, J.-B. Journal of Statistical Mechanics (2006) P08011