Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé - DRF/IRAMIS (SPEC)

Laboratory presentation

The Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory (SPEC) is a CEA-CNRS mixed unit (UMR 3680) which is part of the DRF/IRAMIS of CEA Saclay and INP at CNRS.
The physic of condensed matter is one of the biggest research themes conducted at SPEC, from its fundamental aspects to its various applications. The research includes a variety of subjects on complex systems and statistical physics, nanophotonic, nanoelectronic, nanomagnetism and oxydes, quantronics and quantum technologies. Theoretical and experimental approaches at SPEC are diverse and allows a wide range of scientific research at the nano-scale to macroscopic objects. Many activities of this laboratory benefit from many platforms: cryogenic, UBM (for ultra-bas bruit magnétique or very low magnetic noise), mecanical and nanofabrication workshop...
Having multiple scientific publications, SPEC is also a meeting point for technological and patent transfer. The laboratory is part of many collaborations at the national level (CNRS, CEA, Paris-Saclay university...) as well as at the international level.

The 20 latest publications

Title Authors Publication date Source
Classical Nucleation Theory for Active Fluid Phase Separation C. Nardini 03/03/23 Physical Review Letters
Chameleon attractors in turbulent flows Francois Daviaud 03/01/23 Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Control of the Organization of 4,4′-bis(carbazole)-1,1′-biphenyl (CBP) Molecular Materials through Siloxane Functionalization Jean Charles Ribierre, Yannick J. Dappe 03/01/23 Molecules
Scale dependence of fractal dimension in deterministic and stochastic Lorenz-63 systems Francois Daviaud 02/01/23 Chaos
Metastability of Constant-Density Flocks Hugues Chaté 12/23/22 Physical Review Letters
Magnetotransport signatures of antiferromagnetism coexisting with charge order in the trilayer cuprate HgBa<inf>2</inf>Ca<inf>2</inf>Cu<inf>3</inf>O<inf>8+δ</inf> Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson 12/01/22 Nature Communications
Star Formation History and Transition Epoch of Cluster Galaxies Based on the Horizon-AGN Simulation Christophe Pichon 12/01/22 Astrophysical Journal
Ion dynamics in a highly compressed solution of tetra-ethylammonium – tetra-fluoroborate salt in propylene carbonate: A study in the equilibrium and glassy states Marco Bonetti 11/01/22 Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Fluctuating kinetic theory and fluctuating hydrodynamics of aligning active particles: the dilute limit C. Nardini 11/01/22 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Nematic-Fluctuation-Mediated Superconductivity Revealed by Anisotropic Strain in Ba (Fe1-xCox)2As2 Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson 10/28/22 Physical Review Letters
Dewetting acceleration by evaporation Xiaolong Zhang, Vadim Nikolayev 10/10/22 Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Effective Drag in Rotating, Poorly Conducting Plasma Turbulence Basile Gallet 10/01/22 Astrophysical Journal
Nature of the Ba 4d Splitting in BaTiO<inf>3</inf>Unraveled by a Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study Héléne Magnan, Antoine Barbier 09/22/22 Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Formation and Morphology of the First Galaxies in the Cosmic Morning Christophe Pichon 09/01/22 Astrophysical Journal
Patterning Gold Nanorod Assemblies by Deep-UV Lithography Céline Jégat, Keitaro Nakatani, Guillaume Laurent 08/18/22 Journal of Physical Chemistry C
From molecules in solution to molecules on surfaces - using supramolecular dyads to form functional self-assembled networks on graphene William Djampa-Tapi, Céline Fiorini-Debuisschert, Fabrice Charra 08/16/22 Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Orbital alignment and mass segregation in galactic nuclei via vector resonant relaxation Christophe Pichon 08/01/22 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
LyMAS reloaded: improving the predictions of the large-scale Lyman-α forest statistics from dark matter density and velocity fields Christophe Pichon 08/01/22 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Non-resonant relaxation of anisotropic globular clusters Christophe Pichon 07/01/22 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Forecasts for WEAVE-QSO: 3D clustering and connectivity of critical points with Lyman-α tomography Christophe Pichon 07/01/22 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Number of publications of the laboratory by scientific field (2016-2021)

Every paper can be classified in one or more scientific fields. The figure below shows the lab's number of publications in each scientific field, according to the ASJC classification (Elsevier)