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Two-dimensional Spin Ice and the Sixteen-Vertex Model
In this thesis we present a thorough study of the static and dynamic properties of the 2D sixteen-vertex model or, in other words, a simplified version of the dipolar... -
Rock fracture during compression:<br />the localization process as a critical...
Brittle failure of rocks under compressive shear has features in common with a thermodnamicel phase transition: deformation localizes quickly at grain scale from the... -
Phase transitions in two-dimensional and geophysical turbulence
A most challenging problem in turbulence is to predict the statistics of flows at the large scales. In the case of the 2D Euler equation and analogous models for... -
The von Kármán flow as a paradigm for out-of-equilibrium statistical physics
This dissertation tries a novel approach of statistical mechanics (at and out of equilibrium) to understand the behaviour of a fully turbulent confined flow --- von... -
Classical and quantum two-dimensional ice : Coulomb and ordered phases
Frustration – namely the presence of competing interactions – gives rise to highly complex effects in physics. Ice – be it the well known water ice or its magnetic...
