Group “Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter”
The activities of the “Statistical Physics and Complex Systems” team cover a wide spectrum. The first research direction concerns rigorous statistical mechanics, in particular the study of phase transitions in exactly solvable cases and/or from a geometric perspective. The second 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 third direction focuses 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 pioneering in the study of temporal networks. 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. Since 2019 it has hosted three 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 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 | +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 |
| NATH | Sujit-Kumar | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| PEREZ | Pablo | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| PILLET | Claude-Alain | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.32 | Contact |
| PLOTZE | Yan | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| QAZI | Saaheelur-Rahaman | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ROUAULT | Herve | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.13 | Contact |
| ROULEUX | Michel | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.97.97 | Contact |
| RUPPRECHT | Jean-Francois | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.14 | Contact |
| SABY | Florian | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| SHLOSMAN | Senya | Researcher emeritus | +33.4.91.26.95.31 | 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 |
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Cité des convergences, Sep 2016, Toulon, France
On a quantum phase transition in a steady state out of equilibrium
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2016, 49 (41), pp.415201. (10.1088/1751-8113/49/41/415201)
Optimizing experimental parameters for tracking of diffusing particles
Physical Review E , 2016, 94 (2), pp.022401. (10.1103/PhysRevE.94.022401)
Contact diaries versus wearable proximity sensors in measuring contact patterns at a conference: method comparison and participants’ attitudes
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016, 16, pp.341. (10.1186/s12879-016-1676-y)
Impact of spatially constrained sampling of temporal contact networks on the evaluation of the epidemic risk
European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2016, 27 (6), pp.941-957. (10.1017/S0956792516000309)
How to Estimate Epidemic Risk from Incomplete Contact Diaries Data?
PLoS Computational Biology, 2016, 12 (6), pp.e1005002. (10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005002)
Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors
EPJ Data Science, 2016, 5, pp.21. (10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0084-2)
Entropic fluctuations in Gaussian dynamical systems
Reports on Mathematical Physics, 2016, 77 (3), pp.335-376. (10.1016/S0034-4877(16)30034-9)
Évaluer le risque épidémique à partir de données lacunaires
Médecine/Sciences, 2016, 32 (5), pp.506. (10.1051/medsci/20163205019)
Queuing Networks with Varying Topology -- A Mean-Field Approach
2016
