Group “Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter”
The activities of the “Statistical Physics and Complex Systems” team cover a wide spectrum
of research topics.
One direction concerns the statistical physics of open quantum systems (out of equilibrium), and the development of models and analytical tools to study non-equilibrium steady states.
The team moreover focuses strongly on the statistical physics of complex systems and complex networks, from the study of their structure to the study of dynamical processes on networks, and is a pioneer in the study of temporal networks and hypergraphs.
Since the network paradigm can be used to describe many systems of different origins and natures, our research is interdisciplinary, including interactions with the social sciences, epidemiology, computer science, and neuroscience.
The team also participates in the Convergence Institute CENTURI and has developed a very dynamic activity towards life sciences. It hosts PIs partially funded by CENTURI, whose research topics concern collective effects and self-organization in living systems, cell mechanics, and neuroscience. They interact with experimental groups in particular at IBDM and INMED.
The methods used by the team members range from rigorous mathematical tools to numerical simulations and the analysis of empirical data, covering the full range of standard approximation tools in statistical physics.
| AGOSTINELLI | Cosimo | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ASCH | Joachim | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.20 | Contact |
| ASCHBACHER | Walter | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.16 | Contact |
| BARRAT | Alain | Researcher Director | +33.4.91.26.95.40 | Contact |
| BREIER | Patrick | Visitor | Contact | |
| ESTAVOYER | Maxime | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| GAMBAUDO | Juliette | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| GANDOLFO | Daniel | Research teacher emeritus | +33.4.91.26.95.10 | Contact |
| GENOIS | Mathieu | Research teacher Team leader « Statistical Physics and Complex Systems » | +33.4.91.26.95.42 | Contact |
| IANNELLO | Ludovico | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| MANCASTROPPA | Marco | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| MAURIAL | Gabriel | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| MERKEL | Matthias | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.12 | Contact |
| PILLET | Claude-Alain | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.32 | Contact |
| ROUAULT | Herve | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.13 | Contact |
| ROULEUX | Michel | Research teacher emeritus | +33.4.91.26.97.97 | Contact |
| RUPPRECHT | Jean-Francois | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.14 | Contact |
| VIEIRA-MENDES | Toni | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| VINZE | Prathmesh | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| WANG | Michael | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ZETT | Lukas | Ph.D. | Contact |
Screening and vaccination against COVID-19 to minimise school closure: a modelling study
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2022, 22 (7), pp.977-989. (10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00138-4)
Implementation of cellular bulk stresses in vertex models of biological tissues
European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics, 2022, 45 (1), pp.4. (10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00154-2)
Deforming polar active matter in a scalar field gradient
New Journal of Physics, 2022, 25 (1), pp.4. (10.1088/1367-2630/acb2e5)
Entanglement dynamics and ergodicity breaking in a quantum cellular automaton
Phys.Rev.B, 2022, 106 (10), pp.104309. (10.1103/PhysRevB.106.104309)
Temporal Networks : from network theory to brain science
Statistical Mechanics [cond-mat.stat-mech]. Aix-Marseille university, 2021. English. (NNT : )
The switching mechanisms of social network densification
Scientific Reports, 2021, 11 (1), pp.3160. (10.1038/s41598-021-82432-9)
Adhesion-mediated heterogeneous actin organization governs apoptotic cell extrusion
Nature Communications, 2021, 12 (1), pp.397. (10.1038/s41467-020-20563-9)
Generalized Pell-Fermat equations and Pascal triangle
2021
Nucleation landscape of biomolecular condensates
Nature, 2021, 599 (7885), pp.503-506. (10.1038/s41586-021-03905-5)
The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems
Nature Physics, 2021, 17 (10), pp.1093-1098. (10.1038/s41567-021-01371-4)
