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The Kondo effect in quantum dots is a complex many-body effect that emerges at very low temperature and describes the screening of an unpaired electron spin in the dot by the conduction electrons of the reservoirs. The project focuses on the spatial extension of the screening cloud around the dot, w

Large deviation functions (LDFs) have emerged as a central tool to understand models of statistical physics. They constitute a natural framework not only to formulate equilibrium thermodynamics, but also to study the distributions of dynamical observables. Physical examples range from current fluctu

The proposal is four-fold. It covers materials, experiments and theory domains within the same consortium: (i) bringing single crystals synthesis of an ansatz of the emblematic herbertsmithite to reach an unprecedented control level on intrinsic in-built exchange defects or extrinsic substitutio

TOPODRIVE has three main scientific objectives: i) to assess the role of dissipation hazardous for topological properties under external drives, ii) to establish and generalize the theoretical paradigm behind large and quantized topological non-linear effects in Weyl semimetals and and its relat

The stake of the project consists on the one hand, to study the quantum transport in a mesoscopic channel of atoms connected to two reservoirs and, on the other hand, to study the dynamics of a spin mixture in a two-dimensional cloud of atoms with controlled shape. The objectives associated with

Understanding the interaction of low energy beta particles (electrons, ß-, and positrons, ß+), constitutes a key subject of fundamental importance in various fields of science. Still, the short timescale dynamics of the ß particle interaction and the complete subsequent fragmentation mechanisms are

The main objective of this project is to investigate laboratory flows where density difference plays a major role, in the near-geophysical regime. In particular, our cryostat allows quantitative visualization of turbulent thermal plumes and thermals, and internal gravity waves in cryogenic helium. T

Recent progresses in nanotechnology led to a new generation of nano-structures playing the role of electromagnetic cavities, like plasmonic structures,  organic micro-cavities and nano-fluidic Fabry-Pérot cavities. Of particular interest, is the possibility to confine inside such a nano-cavity a sol

The behavior of spindle-shaped cells confined in tracks are globally well described by an active gel theory. However, some observations remain unexplained. The aim of this project, which combines instrumentation, experiments and theory, is to better understand i/ the intrinsic chirality of these pop

The aim is to provide the first experimental demonstrations of topological phases in liquids, to demonstrate their ubiquity in geophysical and astrophysical flows, to explain the emergence of new topological waves in the absence of edges in a physical system, and to find other manifestations of topo

Hydrodynamic turbulence is considered as a prototype of systems far from equilibrium. Its phenomenological description relies on Richardson and Kolmogorov’s idea that energy cascades through scales. In many complex flows, Kolmogorov turbulence appears to be valid within a reduced range of scales. Ou

Heat transport in materials is a key property for a number of applications, and significant efforts are devoted to the design of materials with high (for heat transport applications) or low (e.g., for thermoelectric conversion) heat conductivity, . With the exception of good metallic conductors,

Development of a Bose Einstein condensate of potassium for quantum chaos and many-body localization experiments 1. Experimental realization of an ideal Floquet disordered system, C. Hainaut, A. Rançon, JF Clément, I. Manai1, P. Szriftgiser, D. Delande, JC Garreau and R. Chicireanu, New J. Phys. 21,

The objective of FRAPA project is to better understand the physical and chemical evolution of the atmospheres of planets/moons (e.g. Earth, Titan) and the particle distribution in the interstellar medium . For this it is essential to study the formation, growth and destruction mechanisms occurring i

The ultimate goal of IRONMAN is to advance and exploit the potential of a novel family of Fe-based materials for high-temperature superconductivity. This investigation urges and is highly motivated by our recent discovery of superconductivity in the novel silicide LaFeSiH, which represents a major b

Shear thickening occurs in dense particulate suspensions whose viscosity increase dramatically, sometimes by several orders of magnitude, when the imposed shear rate exceeds a critical value. Considered as an ubiquitous phenomenon in suspended materials, this behavior can be highly problematic for i

The project MONA aims at developing predictive multiscale physical and numerical models for achieving a breakthrough in the knowledge of Complex Non-equilibrium Hydro-Carbon Plasmas. This development will be supported by dedicated experiments in order to supply input data to the models and to valida

This project aims at studying, both experimentally and theoretically, if and how a stochastic system can be driven from an initial state to another one in a time which is several orders of magnitude shorter than the natural relaxation times. The recently developed idea subsumed under the terminology

The CHACRA project aims to study the fundamental aspects of charge transfer (CT) processes induced in small molecular assemblies (MA) adsorbed on a functionalized insulating layer. Our recent experimental work concerning the electronic decoupling of individual molecules on thin insulating layer of C

Many bacteria are capable of active movement in liquid environment, which confers them a great advantage for survival. The Bacterial Flagellar Motor (BFM) is the powerful molecular machine that drives this movement by rotating each flagellum at its base, by switching the direction of rotation in a f

Waves at gas-liquid interfaces are of fundamental interest in many fields of application, from engineering (coating, processing and cooling of solid surfaces, two-phase flows in oil industry...) to environmental sciences (momentum, heat and mass transfers at the air-sea interface, coastal engineerin

It was long believed that Landau symmetry-breaking theory describes all possible orders and all possible (continuous) phase transitions in materials. However, Nature is always full of surprises. In last three decades, it has become more and more clear that Landau symmetry-breaking theory fails to de

In this project we confront one of the grand challenges of materials science and condensed matter physics: the development of predictive and reliable approaches to describe and understand materials and ultimately to predict new ones of strategic technological interest. A unique source of information

Quantum electrodynamics is a major research topic in modern Physics dealing with the coupling of a single emitter to a mode of the electromagnetic field. Today, it is possible to build experimentally a system where the fundamental properties of a single emitter can be tuned by the coupling to its el

The project aims at development of a new high-resolution instrumental setup, which will allow studying different fragmentation pathways occurring during Auger-decay cascades in molecules containing heavy atoms. Implementation of the fast Auger-electron – ion coincidence technique for hard X-ray sour

In plasmonic strong coupling, molecules can be coherently coupled through the plasmon on a scale up to tens of microns, drastically affecting the otherwise independent emitters. PlasHybrid aims to exploit such extended interaction to generate original physical processes and materials with new functi

Coherent resonant nonlinear optical spectroscopy, such as four wave mixing, is a very powerful tool in nanosciences. It allows, to probe the electronic coherence, to manipulate the quantum states, and to explore the interactions between nano-systems and their environment. In addition, the level of

By preventing magnetic phases to order, frustration has opened a window at low temperature for unconventional and collective properties of matter. The past 30 years have seen an ever growing effort from the community of chemists and physicists to characterise these features. The field of magnetic fr