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Jacques Friedel and the physics of metals and alloys
Jacques Villain, Mireille Lavagna, Patrick Bruno
This is an introduction to the theoretical physics of metals for students and physicists from other specialities. Certain simple consequences of the Fermi statistics in pure metals…
In a nanoscience lab
Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud, Emmanuel Hadji, Peter Reiss +1
The production, observation and manipulation of very small objects is a tour de force, but these objects, which could infiltrate anywhere without being seen, may arouse suspicion.…
Square root relaxation: two possible mechanisms
Jacques Villain
Magnetic relaxation in large spin molecular paramagnets is often found to behave as the square root of time at short times t. This behaviour was explained by Prokofiev & Stamp as a…
Slow dynamics of stepped surfaces
Anna Chame, Sylvie Rousset, Hans P. Bonzel +1
Two kinds of configurations involving steps on surfaces are reviewed. The first one results from an initially planar vicinal surface, i.e. slightly deviating from a high-symmetry (…
Instabilities in crystal growth by atomic or molecular beams
Paolo Politi, Genevieve Grenet, Alain Marty +2
The planar front of a growing a crystal is often destroyed by instabilities. In the case of growth from a condensed phase, the most frequent ones are diffusion instabilities, which…
Dipolar interaction and incoherent quantum tunneling: a Monte Carlo study of magnetic relaxation
A. Cuccoli, A. Fort, A. Rettori +2
We study the magnetic relaxation of a system of localized spins interacting through weak dipole interactions, at a temperature large with respect to the ordering temperature but lo…