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What can we learn from the dynamics of the Covid-19 epidemic ?
Michel Peyrard
We investigate the mechanisms behind the quasi-periodic outbursts on the Covid-19 epidemics. Data for France and Germany show that the patterns of outbursts exhibit a qualitative c…
Understanding temperature modulated calorimetry through studies of a model system
Jean-Luc Garden, Michel Peyrard
Temperature Modulated calorimetry is widely used but still raises some fundamental questions. In this paper we study a model system as a test sample to address some of them. The mo…
Memory effects in glasses: insights into the thermodynamics of out of equilibrium systems revealed by a simple model of the Kovacs effect
Michel Peyrard, Jean-Luc Garden
This paper is an extended version of an article accepted for publication in Physical Review E. Besides its fundamental interest, the model that we investigate in this article is si…
How is information transmitted in a nerve?
Michel Peyrard
In the last fifteen years a debate emerged about the validity of the famous Hodgkin-Huxley model for nerve impulse. Mechanical models have been proposed. This note reviews the expe…
Onset of sliding of elastomer multicontacts: failure of a model of independent asperities to match experiments
Julien Scheibert, Riad Sahli, Michel Peyrard
Modelling of rough frictional interfaces is often based on asperity models, in which the individual behaviour of individual microjunctions is assumed. In the absence of local measu…
Kinky DNA in solution: Small angle scattering study of a nucleosome positioning sequence
Torben Schindler, Adrián González, Ramachandran Boopathi +10
DNA is a flexible molecule, but the degree of its flexibility is subject to debate. The commonly-accepted persistence length of Å is inconsistent with recent stu…