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Troisième principe de la thermodynamique

Publications associées (27)

Tensor network investigation of frustrated Ising models

In spin systems, geometrical frustration describes the impossibility of minimizing simultaneously all the interactions in a Hamiltonian, often giving rise to macroscopic ground-state degeneracies and emergent low-temperature physics. In this thesis, combin ...

EPFL2022

A Statistical Physics approach to a multi-channel Wigner spiked model

Emanuele Mingione, Diego Alberici

In this letter we present a finite temperature approach to a high-dimensional inference problem, the Wigner spiked model, with group-dependent signal-to-noise ratios. For two classes of convex and non-convex network architectures the error in the reconstru ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2021

Symmetry enhanced spin-Nernst effect in honeycomb antiferromagnetic transition metal trichalcogenide monolayers

Mohammad Hamdi, Seyedeh Fatemeh Haddadi Givi

We investigate systematically the spin-Nernst effect in Neel and zigzag ordered honeycomb antiferromagnets. Monolayers of transition-metal trichalcogenides, MnPSe3, MnPS3, and VPS3 show an antiferromagnetic Neel order while CrSiTe3, NiPS3, and NiPSe3 show ...

2021

Multiple Magnetic Bilayers and Unconventional Criticality without Frustration in BaCuSi2O6

Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand, Christian Rüegg, Gregory Scott Tucker

The dimerized quantum magnet BaCuSi2O6 was proposed as an example of "dimensional reduction" arising near the magnetic-field-induced quantum critical point (QCP) due to perfect geometrical frustration of its interbilayer interactions. We demonstrate by hig ...

2020

Doping effect on the thermoelectric transport properties of HfTe5

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Junfeng Hu

We studied the influence of doping HfTe5 with 5% Ti on electric (resistivity and the Hall effect) and thermoelectric transport properties (the Seebeck coefficient, magneto-thermoelectric power, and Nernst effect). The properties of 5% Ti-doped HfTe5 do not ...

2019

A survey of the thermal and non-thermal properties of cosmic filaments

Claudio Gheller

In this paper, we exploit a large suite of ENZO cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations adopting uniform mesh resolution, to investigate the properties of cosmic filaments under different baryonic physics and magnetogenesis scenarios. We exploit an ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Electromagnetic Nonreciprocity

Karim Achouri, Christophe Caloz

We aim at providing a global perspective on electromagnetic nonreciprocity and clarifying confusions that arose in recent developments of the field. We provide a general definition of nonreciprocity and classify nonreciprocal systems according to their lin ...

American Physical Society (APS)2018

Negentropic linguistic evolution: A comparison of seven languages

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

The relationship between the entropy of language and its complexity has been the subject of much speculation – some seeing the increase of linguistic entropy as a sign of linguistic complexification or interpreting entropy drop as a marker of greater regul ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

Breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law in a unitary Fermi gas

Jean-Philippe Brantut

We report on coupled heat and particle transport measurements through a quantum point contact (QPC) connecting two reservoirs of resonantly interacting, finite temperature Fermi gases. After heating one of them, we observe a particle current flowing from c ...

National Academy of Sciences2018

Ionic correlations and failure of Nernst-Einstein relation in solid-state electrolytes

Nicola Marzari, Aris Marcolongo

A microscopic understanding of fast ionic transport is fundamental to design novel solid-state electrolytes. We address the role of correlations in these systems and study in detail the tracer and charge diffusion coefficients, deriving a novel inequality ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Particle-Based Numerical Manifold Method to Model Dynamic Fracture Process in Rock Blasting

Jian Zhao, Qianbing Zhang, Xing Li

A particle-based numerical manifold method (PNMM) is developed to investigate rock fracturing behavior under dynamic loading. The basic idea of PNMM is to represent the microstructure of rock with a group of particles and to simulate the macroscopic behavi ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017

Anomalous Nernst effect in Ir22Mn78/Co20Fe60B20/MgO layers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Junfeng Hu, Sa Tu

The anomalous Nernst effect in a perpendicularly magnetized Ir22Mn78/Co20Fe60B20/MgO thin film is measured using well-defined in-plane temperature gradients. The anomalous Nernst coefficient reaches 1.8 mu V/K at room temperature, which is almost 50 times ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Enhanced discriminability for nonbiological motion violating the two-thirds power law

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roy Salomon, Laurène Véronique Vuillaume

The two-thirds power law describes the relationship between velocity and curvature in human motor movements. Interestingly, this motor law also affects visual motion perception, in which stimuli moving according to the two-thirds power law are perceived to ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2016

Minimal entropy for uniform lattices in product of hyperbolic planes

Louis Georges Eric Merlin

Let M be a quotient of H-2 x ... x H-2 (product of hyperbolic planes) by a uniform lattice of. PSL2(R))(n). We prove that, among metrics of M of prescribed volume, the sum of hyperbolic metrics has minimal volume entropy. ...

European Mathematical Soc2016

Sc2Ga2CuO7: A possible quantum spin liquid near the percolation threshold

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Paul Gregory Freeman

Sc2Ga2CuO7 (SGCO) crystallizes in a hexagonal structure (space group: P63/mmc), which can be seen as an alternating stacking of single and double triangular layers. Combining neutron, x-ray, and resonant x-ray diffraction, we establish that the single tria ...

2015

Thermodynamic Aspects of Homogeneous Nucleation Enhanced by Icosahedral Short Range Order in Liquid Fcc-Type Alloys

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

We have recently shown that minute solute element additions to liquid metallic alloys can strongly influence the nucleation of the fcc phase and act as a grain refinement method. Electron back-scattered diffraction observations revealed a concomitant incre ...

Springer2015

Magnetic Nernst effect

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Sylvain Bréchet

The thermodynamics of irreversible processes in continuous media predicts the existence of a magnetic Nernst effect that results from a magnetic analog to the Seebeck effect in a ferromagnet and magnetophoresis occurring in a paramagnetic electrode in cont ...

World Scientific Publishing2015

Hydrophobic hydration of poly-N-isopropyl acrylamide: a matter of the mean energetic state of water

Paolo De Los Rios

The enthalpically favoured hydration of hydrophobic entities, termed hydrophobic hydration, impacts the phase behaviour of numerous amphiphiles in water. Here, we show experimental evidence that hydrophobic hydration is strongly determined by the mean ener ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

A counterexample to well-posedness of entropy solutions to the compressible Euler system

Elisabetta Chiodaroli

We consider entropy solutions to the Cauchy problem for the isentropic compressible Euler equations in the spatially periodic case. In more than one space dimension, the methods developed by De Lellis-Szekelyhidi enable us to show here failure of uniquenes ...

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd2014

Thermodynamics and the optimisation of energy systems: Strengths and Limits

Daniel Favrat

The Second Law of thermodynamics is known to be an essential guide for the improvement of energy conversion systems. Throughout the years it has been applied to various engineering methods in particular in methods based on exergy [1] including the 2nd Law, ...

2013