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 |
A manifold of pure Gibbs states of the Ising model on a Cayley tree
Journal of Statistical Physics, 2012, 148 (06), pp.999-1005. (10.1007/s10955-012-0574-y)
On the Dynamics of Human Proximity for Data Diffusion in Ad-Hoc Networks
Ad Hoc Networks, 2012, 10 (8), pp.1532. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.06.003)
Entropic Functionals in Quantum Statistical Mechanics
XVIIth International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Aug 2012, Aalborg, Denmark. pp.336-343, (10.1142/9789814449243_0024)
Disorder induced phase transition in kinetic models of opinion dynamics
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2012, 391 (11), pp.3257-3265. (10.1016/j.physa.2012.01.046)
Complex structures and semantics in free word association
Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2012, 15, pp.1250054
Entropic Fluctuations in Quantum Statistical Mechanics. An Introduction
Jürg Fröhlich, Manfred Salmhofer, Vieri Mastropietro, Wojciech De Roeck, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo. Quantum Theory from Small to Large Scales, Oxford University Press, pp.213--410, 2012, Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 95, 978-0-19-965249-5
Random walks on temporal networks
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [2001-2015], 2012, 85, pp.056115. (10.1103/PhysRevE.85.056115)
Internet change-t-il les relations humaines?
2012, pp.44
Friendship prediction and homophily in social media
ACM Transactions on the Web, 2012, 6 (2), pp.9. (10.1145/2180861.2180866)
Dynamics and statistics of systems with long range interactions: application to 1-dimensional toy-models
Statistical Mechanics [cond-mat.stat-mech]. Aix Marseille Université, 2012. English. (NNT : )
