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 |
Compensating for population sampling in simulations of epidemic spread on temporal contact networks
Nature Communications, 2015, 6, pp.8860
Temporal Gillespie algorithm: Fast simulation of contagion processes on time-varying networks
PLoS Computational Biology, 2015, 11 (10), pp.e1004579. (10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004579)
Large deviations from a stationary measure for a class of dissipative PDE's with random kicks
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2015, 68 (12), pp.2108-2143. (10.1002/cpa.21568)
Face-to-face interactions
B. Gonçalves and N. Perra. Social Phenomena - From data analysis to models, Springer, 2015, 978-3-319-14011-7. (10.1007/978-3-319-14011-7_3)
Full statistics of energy conservation in two times measurement protocols
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [2001-2015], 2015, 92 (3), pp.032115. (10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032115)
Enhancing the evaluation of pathogen transmission risk in a hospital by merging hand-hygiene compliance and contact data: a proof-of-concept study
BMC Research Notes, 2015, 8, pp.426. (10.1186/s13104-015-1409-0)
Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys
PLoS ONE, 2015, 10 (9), pp.e0136497. (10.1371/journal.pone.0136497)
Geometric expansion of the log-partition function of the anisotropic Heisenberg model
Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2015, 56 (9), pp.093302 (10.1063/1.4931478)
Is Web Content a Good Proxy for Real-Life Interaction?
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Aug 2015, Paris, France
Harmonic force spectroscopy measures load-dependent kinetics of individual human b-cardiac myosin molecules
Nature Communications, 2015, 6, pp.7931. (10.1038/ncomms8931)
