Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée

Accreditation to supervise research - Thomas Philippe

2026-06-16T06:48:59Z

On June 12, 2026, Thomas Philippe successfully defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), entitled Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transitions: Bulk and Interfacial Phase Separation. This HDR provides a synthesis of his research on nucleation, growth, and phase-separation mechanisms in out-of-equilibrium systems, with a particular focus on anisotropic interfacial effects

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Visit of Tamas Pusztai at PMC

2026-06-01T09:06:35Z

From june 1st through 24th Tamas Pusztai will be at PMC as a visitng scientist, financed by the DER of Ecole polytechnique. Tamas works at the Wigner Research Center for Physics in Budapest (Hungary). He is a well-known specialist for phase-field modeling of materials, and collaborates with PMC since many years, especially with Mathis Plapp, Hervé Henry and Thomas Philippe (several joint publications). During his visit, we plan to work on questions that have remained open in our previous (…)

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PMC takes part in JMC2026

2026-04-29T07:10:34Z

The nucleation and growth mechanisms at play during the synthesis of nanoparticles by physical or chemical processes do not strongly differ. Moreover, the nanoparticle reactivity towards an external stimuli may not depend on the synthesis approach chosen. The aim of the symposium “Nanoparticles and Reactivity” at JMC2026 is thus to bring together physicists, chemists, theoreticians to exchange their views and discuss the latest results related to the synthesis and use of nanoparticles.
To (…)

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Ploumistos Alexandros

2026-03-05T08:21:38Z

Groupe Chimie du Solide
ploumistos.alexandros-AT-polytechnique.edu
Synthesis, elaboration and characterization of (nano)materials.
In situ, ex situ and identical location Transmission Electron Microscopy experiments.
Responsible for the CIMEX electron microscopy platform of the École polytechnique..

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Cucinotta Antonino

2026-03-04T12:08:24Z

Groupe Electrochimie et Couches Minces
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antonino.cucinotta-AT-polytechnique.edu
I specialize in non-covalent and covalent surface functionalization, supramolecular self-assembly on semiconductive substrates at the liquid-solid interface, and surface characterization using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques, including scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) in both air and liquid environments.
During my PhD at KU Leuven (Belgium), I focused (…)

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Nonclassical Nucleation Pathways in Condensation

2026-01-19T08:19:43Z

When vapor nucleates into liquid, the critical droplets break a key assumption of classical nucleation theory (CNT). CNT assumes that critical droplets have the same density as the final liquid—an assumption that leads to prediction on nucleation rate that can be wrong by orders of magnitude. Using state-of-the-art computer simulation strategies designed to capture rare events, we directly observe that the critical droplets are less dense than ordinary liquid. This reveals a nonclassical (…)

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Aamlid Solveig

2026-01-15T16:53:18Z

Groupe Chimie
solveig.aamlid -AT-polytechnique.edu
I am a newly appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Physics Department of Ecole Polytechnique and the Materials for Society (M4S) Interdisciplinary center of Institut Polytechnique de Paris. I completed my PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and her postdoctoral work at the University of British Columbia. My scientific work concerns disordered materials such as high entropy oxides, specifically on the (…)

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New Publication: Classical Electrodynamics (Fundamentals and Applications)

2026-01-15T15:44:14Z

We are pleased to announce the publication of the new book Classical Electrodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications, co-authored by Fabian Cadiz (PMC Laboratory, École polytechnique – CNRS) and Arnaud Couairon (Centre de Physique Théorique, École polytechnique – CNRS), and published by Springer in the Undergraduate Texts in Physics series (2025).
This textbook offers a unified treatment of classical electrodynamics, combining mathematical rigor with clear presentations of symmetry and (…)

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Dreyfus Lucas

2025-12-17T10:44:22Z

Groupe Electrochimie et Couches Minces
lucas.dreyfus-AT-polytechnique.edu
Doctorant dans le groupe Electrochimie et Couche Mince encadré par François Ozanam et Michel Rosso, je travail sur les effets mécaniques de l'insertion du lithium dans une électrode négative de silicium amorphe méthylée et borée pour les batteries Li-ion. Ces matériaux proposent une capacité bien supérieure à ce qu'on peut retrouver dans le commerce mais ont comme principal défaut de subir d'importantes variations (…)

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Nguyen Dinh Tien

2025-12-01T13:40:24Z

Groupe Electrons Photons Surfaces
dinh-tien.nguyen-AT-polytechnique.edu
I am a PhD student in the QCMX group at the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, École Polytechnique.
Under the supervision of Joël Griesmar, I study the implementation of protected qubits using nearly transparent Josephson junctions. Currently, quantum information can be encoded in the number of Cooper pairs that have tunneled through a Josephson junction, a process similar to noisy tunneling events that (…)

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