Showing papers in "Comptes Rendus Physique in 2013"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the unusual transport properties of Weyl semimetals discussed in the literature so far, focusing on signatures whose roots lie in the chiral anomaly is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect.

TL;DR: In this article, a basic kinetic model for a suspension of self-propelled rod-like particles and its stability and nonlinear dynamics are discussed. And extensions of this model to analyze the effective rheology of active suspensions in external flows, the effect of steric interactions in concentrated systems, and the dynamics of chemotactically responsive suspensions in chemical fields.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review recent progress in the theoretical predictions of gravitational waves (GWs) of core-collapse supernovae and summarize multiple physical elements that determine the GW signatures which have been considered to be important in extracting the information of the long-veiled explosion mechanism from the observation of the GWs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the notion of topological order in insulators as an obstruction to define the Bloch wave functions over the whole Brillouin Zone using a single phase convention.

TL;DR: In this article, the challenges of increasing crystal dimensions both laterally and vertically, decreasing and controlling point and extended defects as well as modulating crystal conductivity by an efficient doping are detailed.

TL;DR: Experimental observations of blood's apparent viscosity in vitro and in vivo are reviewed, and progress towards a quantitative theoretical understanding of the mechanisms involved are progress towards.

TL;DR: In this article, a short pedagogical introduction to the physics of Dirac materials, restricted to graphene and two-dimensional topological insulators, is presented, with a brief reminder of the Dirac and Weyl equations in the particle physics context.

TL;DR: This work reviews historical and recent results on the participation of red blood cells in clot formation, and theoretical analyses of the depletion model and of the influence of the cell shape on the adhesion strength.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on piezoresponse force microscopy measurements of individual ferroelectric domain walls, allowing their static configuration and dynamic response to be accessed with nanoscale resolution over multiple orders of length scale and velocity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent theoretical and experimental efforts aimed at the investigation of the physics of interacting disordered bosons (so-called dirty bosons ) in the context of quantum magnetism.

TL;DR: A review of recent progress in numerical relativity simulations of black-hole spacetimes is given in this paper, where the authors summarize the key results in two major areas of BH physics: (i) BHs as sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and (ii) astrophysical systems involving BH systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent developments in the field of self-assembly and collective behavior of out-of-equilibrium colloids, with the focus on the fundamental physical mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional model of edge retraction for highly anisotropic, fully-faceted thin films was presented, which shows generally good agreement with experimental results for edge retractions of single-crystal Ni films on MgO.

TL;DR: In this article, the properties of field-induced magnetic transitions in heavy-fermion materials close to a quantum antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic instability are presented.

TL;DR: Ferrero et al. as mentioned in this paper presented the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CICTE), which is the National Council of Energia Atomica.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Andreev bound states in topological superconductors are investigated and the lifetime of the bound state is compared to the experimentally probed time scale.

TL;DR: The continuum approach in modeling cell deformability and blood rheology is focused on in modeling red blood cells and their mimics, vesicles and capsules, in flow.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how field-driven magnetic domain wall motion can be controlled not only by temperature and pinning, but also via interactions with magnetic entities located inside or outside the magnetic layer.

TL;DR: The goal of this review is to describe the current understanding of the relationships between arterial blood flow and atherosclerosis, to present the wide array of flow-induced biological responses in ECs, and to discuss the mechanisms by which ECs sense, transmit, and transduce flow-derived mechanical forces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the method and application of real-space renormalization group to strongly disordered quantum systems and present several applications of the strong disorder renormalisation group to the physics of disordered-boson systems and the superfluid insulator transition in one dimension.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and explain the most surprising Wood's anomaly: the total absorption of a plane wave by a shallow metallic grating and develop a quantitative phenomenological theory.

TL;DR: This review aims to summarise current knowledge on interactions between millimetre waves and living matter, and possible mechanisms of interactions with the human body are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an update made of numerous elements from an article by Vignolle et al. published in the issue of C. R. Physique dedicated to superconductivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the rough or faceted morphology of the solid-liquid interface during solidification of multi-crystalline silicon is discussed in terms of classical crystallographic, energetic and kinetic considerations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the twinning phenomenon has been identified and observed in situ and in real time during the solidification using X-ray synchrotron imaging techniques: radiography and topography.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the physics of the Bose-Hubbard model with disorder in the chemical potential focusing on recently published analytical arguments in combination with quantum Monte Carlo simulations.

TL;DR: The LNCMI (Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Intenses) as mentioned in this paper is the result of the merger of the LM Intenses in Grenoble specialising in the generation of DC magnetic fields and the LM Pulses in Toulouse specialised in pulsed magnet fields.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare theoretical predictions of 1D and 2D continuous models of the evolution of a dewetting film, based on surface diffusion mechanisms, with experimental results obtained by combining in situ LEEM and ex situ AFM measurements.

TL;DR: The first generation of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors, LIGO, GEO, and Virgo, have operated and taken data at their design sensitivities over the last few years as discussed by the authors.