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20152026

10 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Near-surface colloidal dynamics in jammed and slipping microgel suspensions

Masoodah Gunny, Frédérick Caetano, Matilde Bureau +4

Jammed suspensions of soft microgel particles may exhibit slippage along smooth boundaries. Owing to their expected sub-micrometric dimensions, direct observations of dynamics with…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Influence of electrical properties on thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interface

Quentin Pompidou, Juan Carlos Acosta Abanto, M. Brouillard +10

Recent experimental investigations have demonstrated that doping a semiconductor is a route to increase the thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interfaces. In this…

cond-mat.soft2026

Colloidal Suspensions can have Non-Zero Angles of Repose below the Minimal Value for Athermal Frictionless Particles

Jesús Fernández, Loïc Vanel, Antoine Bérut

We investigate the angle of repose of dense suspensions of colloidal silica particles ( to ) in water-filled microfluidic rotating drum experiments, to pr…

physics.soc-ph2025

Model-Based Assessment of__the__Cruising Traffic and Environmental Impact of__Parking Restrictions

Alexandre Nicolas, Nilankur Dutta, Léo Bulckaen

In many large metropolitan areas, cars cruising for parking significantly contribute to congestion and pollution. At the same time, parking restrictions are contemplated to encoura…

cond-mat.soft2024

Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Thermo-Osmosis: Enhanced Effects on Polarized Graphene Surfaces

Mehdi Ouadfel, Samy Merabia, Yasutaka Yamaguchi +1

Thermo-osmotic flows, generated by applying a thermal gradient along a liquid-solid interface, could be harnessed to convert waste heat into electricity. While this phenomenon has…

physics.soc-ph2023

Parking search in urban street networks: Taming down the complexity of the search-time problem via a coarse-graining approach

Léo Bulckaen, Nilankur Dutta, Alexandre Nicolas

The parking issue is central in transport policies and drivers' concerns, but the determinants of the parking search time remain relatively poorly understood. The question is often…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Parking search in the physical world: Calculating the search time by leveraging physical and graph theoretical methods

Nilankur Dutta, Thibault Charlottin, Alexandre Nicolas

Parking plays a central role in transport policies and has wide-ranging consequences: While the average time spent searching for parking exceeds dozens of hours per driver every ye…

cond-mat.soft2020

Dense pedestrian crowds versus granular packings: An analogy of sorts

Alexandre Nicolas

Analogies between the dynamics of pedestrian crowds and granular media have long been hinted at.They seem all the more promising as the crowd is (very) dense, in which case the mec…

cond-mat.soft2019

Simple ions control the elasticity of calcite gels via interparticle forces

Teresa Liberto, Catherine Barentin, Jean Colombani +4

Suspensions of calcite in water are employed in many industrial fields such as paper filling, pharmaceutics, heritage conservation or building construction, where the rheological p…

physics.optics2015

Adaptive perfectly matched layer for Wood's anomalies in diffraction gratings

Benjamin Vial, Frédric Zolla, André Nicolet +2

We propose an Adaptive Perfectly Matched Layer (APML) to be used in diffraction grating modeling. With a properly tailored co-ordinate stretching depending both on the incident fie…