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 |
Activity clocks: spreading dynamics on temporal networks of human contact
Scientific Reports, 2013, 3, pp.3099. (10.1038/srep03099)
Epidemic processes on temporal networks
Statistical Mechanics [cond-mat.stat-mech]. Aix Marseille Université, 2013. English. (NNT : )
New Phase transitions of the Ising model on Cayley trees
Journal of Statistical Physics, 2013, 153 (1), pp.400-411. (10.1007/s10955-013-0836-3)
Empirical temporal networks of face-to-face human interactions
European Journal of Physics Special Topics, 2013, 222, pp.1295. (10.1140/epjst/e2013-01927-7)
Gender homophily from spatial behavior in a primary school: a sociometric study
Social Networks, 2013, 35 (4), pp.604-613. (10.1016/j.socnet.2013.08.003)
Entropic fluctuations of quantum dynamical semigroups
Journal of Statistical Physics, 2013, 154, pp.153-187. (10.1007/s10955-013-0826-5)
The Role of Information Diffusion in the Evolution of Social Networks
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, Aug 2013, Chicago, IL, United States. pp.356
Critical behaviour of the XY -rotors model on regular and small world networks
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [2001-2015], 2013, 88 (1), pp.012131. (10.1103/PhysRevE.88.012131)
New Insights and Methods for Predicting Face-To-Face Contacts
7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-13), Jul 2013, Boston, United States
From the microscopic to the van Hove regime in the XY chain out of equilibrium
Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 2013, 25 (5), pp.1330008. (10.1142/S0129055X13300082)
