publications

Christophe Brun 1 Serguei Brazovskii 2 Zhao-Zhong Wang 3 Pierre Monceau 4 Physica B: Condensed Matter, Elsevier, 2015, 460 (SI), pp.88-92. <10.1016/j.physb.2014.11.046> We have performed scanning tunneling microscopy experiments in the quasi-one dimensional charge density wave (CDW) system NbSe3, where we could image and study in detail individual solitons corresponding to the self-trapping of a […]

Chérif Chetouhi 1 Johan Panek 2 Ludovic Bonhomme 3 Hicham ElalaouiCatherine Texier 4 Thierry Langin 1 Charissa De BekkerSerge Urbach 5, 6, 7 Edith Demettre 6 Dorothée Missé 8 Philippe Holzmuller 9 David P. HughesAndreas Zanzoni 10 Christine Brun 11, 10 David G. Biron 12 Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2015, 33, pp.84 – 94. <10.1016/j.meegid.2015.04.015>

Jie Lin 1 Thomas Gueudré 2 Alberto Rosso 3 Matthieu Wyart 4 Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2015, 115, pp.168001 Failure of amorphous solids is fundamental to various phenomena, including landslides and earthquakes. Recent experiments indicate that highly plastic regions form elongated structures that are especially apparent near the maximal shear stress $\Sigma_{\max}$ where

Jerome Dubail 1 Raoul Santachiara 2 Thorsten Emig 3, 2 EPL, European Physical Society/EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/IOP Publishing, 2015, 112, pp.66004 To study the critical Casimir force between chemically structured boundaries immersed in a binary mixture at its demixing transition, we consider a strip of Ising spins subject to alternating fixed spin boundary conditions.

K. Bulycheva 1, 2 A. Gorsky 2, 3 S. Nechaev 4, 5 Physical Review D, American Physical Society, 2015, 92, pp.105006 We consider the relation between three physical problems: 2D directed lattice random walks, ensembles of $T_{n,n+1}$ torus knots, and instanton ensembles in 5D SQED with one compact dimension in $\Omega$ background and with 5D

Gunnar Claussen 1 Alexander K. Hartmann 1 Satya N. Majumdar 2 Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, American Physical Society, 2015, 91, pp.052104 We study the convex hull of the set of points visited by a two-dimensional random walker of T discrete time steps. Two natural observables that characterize the convex

M. Chupeau 1 O. Bénichou 1 S. N. Majumdar 2 Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, American Physical Society, 2015, 91, pp.050104 We study the effect of confinement on the mean perimeter of the convex hull of a planar Brownian motion, defined as the minimum convex polygon enclosing the trajectory. We

Pierre Ronceray 1 Martin Lenz 1 Soft Matter, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015, 11, pp.1597 In contrast with ordinary materials, living matter drives its own motion by generating active, out-of-equilibrium internal stresses. These stresses typically originate from localized active elements embedded in an elastic medium, such as molecular motors inside the cell or contractile cells

Xiangyu Cao 1 Alberto Rosso 1 Raoul Santachiara 1 EPL, European Physical Society, 2015, 111, pp.16001 We study scaling properties of the honeycomb fully packed loop ensemble associated with a lozenge tiling model of rough surface, when the latter is driven out of equilibrium by Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) type dynamics. We show numerically that conformal invariance

Shamik Gupta 1, 2, 3 Mustansir Barma 4 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, IOP Science, 2015, pp.P07018 We study the effect of quenched disorder on the zero-range process (ZRP), a system of interacting particles undergoing biased hopping on a one-dimensional periodic lattice, with the disorder entering through random capacities of sites. In the