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20152026
most citedMotile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls

103 citations · 386 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

An on-lattice model for two-dimensional melting

Antonin Rogé, Peter Holdsworth, Alexis Poncet

We introduce an on-lattice minimal model of two-dimensional melting, a clock model with vacancies with control parameters temperature, chemical potential and external field. We stu…

cond-mat.soft2026

Phase coherence and disorder-induced wave propagation in micromotor arrays

Romane Braun, Alexis Poncet, Alexandre Morin +1

Machines are designed, assembled, and programmed to convert power into predetermined dynamics and functions. In contrast, living systems such as interacting cells and animal groups…

cond-mat.soft2025

Learning general pair interactions between self-propelled particles

Jérôme Hem, Alexis Poncet, Pierre Ronceray +2

Synthetic active matter systems, such as active colloids, often have complex interactions, which can be of hydrodynamic, chemical or electrostatic origin and cannot be computed fro…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Full stochastic dynamics of a tracer in a dense single-file system

Alexis Poncet, Aurélien Grabsch, Olivier Bénichou

Tracer diffusion in single-file systems, where particles are restricted to move on a line without passing each other, has been a fertile ground to investigate anomalous diffusion a…

cond-mat.soft2025

Melting of non reciprocal solids: how dislocations propel and fission in flowing crystals

Stéphane Guillet, Alexis Poncet, Marine Le Blay +3

When soft matter is driven out of equilibrium its constituents interact via effective interactions that escape Newton's action-reaction principle. Prominent examples include the hy…

cond-mat.soft2024

Interpreting neural operators: how nonlinear waves propagate in non-reciprocal solids

Jonathan Colen, Alexis Poncet, Denis Bartolo +1

We present a data-driven pipeline for model building that combines interpretable machine learning, hydrodynamic theories, and microscopic models. The goal is to uncover the underly…

cond-mat.soft2023

Active hydraulics laws from frustration principles

Camille Jorge, Amélie Chardac, Alexis Poncet +1

Viscous flows are laminar and deterministic. Robust linear laws accurately predict their streamlines in structures as complex as blood vessels, porous media and pipe networks. Howe…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 34 cited

Exact spatial correlations in single-file diffusion

Aurélien Grabsch, Pierre Rizkallah, Alexis Poncet +2

Single-file diffusion refers to the motion of diffusive particles in narrow channels, so that they cannot bypass each other. This constraint leads to the subdiffusion of a tagged p…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 3 cited

Exact time dependence of the cumulants of a tracer position in a dense lattice gas

Alexis Poncet, Aurélien Grabsch, Olivier Bénichou +1

We develop a general method to calculate the exact time dependence of the cumulants of the position of a tracer particle in a dense lattice gas of hardcore particles. More precisel…

cond-mat.soft2021

When soft crystals defy Newton's third law: Non-reciprocal mechanics and dislocation motility

Alexis Poncet, Denis Bartolo

The effective interactions between the constituents of driven soft matter generically defy Newton's third law. Combining theory and numerical simulations, we establish that six cla…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 1 cited

Exact closure and solution for spatial correlations in single-file diffusion

Aurélien Grabsch, Alexis Poncet, Pierre Rizkallah +2

Single-file transport, where particles diffuse in narrow channels while not overtaking each other, is a fundamental model for the tracer subdiffusion observed in confined systems,…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 30 cited

Generalised density profiles in single-file systems

Alexis Poncet, Aurélien Grabsch, Pierre Illien +1

Single-file diffusion refers to the motion in narrow channels of particles which cannot bypass each other. These strong correlations between particles lead to tracer subdiffusion,…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 103 cited

Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls

Ephraim S. Bililign, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Yehuda A. Ganan +6

The competition between thermal fluctuations and potential forces is the foundation of our understanding of phase transitions and matter in equilibrium. Driving matter out of equil…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 10 cited

Cumulant generating functions of a tracer in quenched dense symmetric exclusion processes

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Pierre Illien

The Symmetric Exclusion Process (SEP), where particles hop on a 1D lattice with the restriction that there can only be one particle per site, is a paradigmatic model of interacting…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 24 cited

Pair correlation of dilute Active Brownian Particles: from low activity dipolar correction to high activity algebraic depletion wings

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery +1

We study the pair correlation of Active Brownian Particles at low density using numerical simulations and analytical calculations. We observe a winged pair correlation: while parti…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 12 cited

Bath-Mediated Interactions between Driven Tracers in Dense Single-Files

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery +1

Single-file transport, where particles cannot bypass each other, has been observed in various experimental setups. In such systems, the behaviour of a tracer particle (TP) is subdi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 10 cited

-tag Probability Law of the Symmetric Exclusion Process

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery +1

The Symmetric Exclusion Process (SEP), in which particles hop symmetrically on a discrete line with hard-core constraints, is a paradigmatic model of subdiffusion in confined syste…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 6 cited

Unbinding transition of probes in single-file systems

Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery, Alexis Poncet

Single-file transport, arising in quasi one-dimensional geometries where particles cannot pass each other, is characterized by the anomalous dynamics of a probe, notably its respon…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 56 cited

Universal Long Ranged Correlations in Driven Binary Mixtures

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery +1

When two populations of "particles" move in opposite directions, like oppositely charged colloids under an electric field or intersecting flows of pedestrians, they can move collec…

cond-mat.dis-nn2015★ 97 cited

Universal non-Debye scaling in the density of states of amorphous solids

Patrick Charbonneau, Eric I. Corwin, Giorgio Parisi +2

At the jamming transition, amorphous packings are known to display anomalous vibrational modes with a density of states (DOS) that remains constant at low frequency. The scaling of…