Olivier CÉPAS

chargé de recherche au CNRS

My picture KAM coloring hierarchy
Nonlinear physics: destruction of KAM tori at the sliding to pinning Aubry transition in charge-density waves Dynamical emergence of physical properties from local constaints
(here colors must be different around a vertex)
Hierarchical fragmentation of the space of states: a consequence of constraints

Current research interests include:
  • Theory of charge-density waves: nature of the sliding to pinning transition
  • Dynamics and topology: emergent properties from constraints, fragmentation of space, glassy dynamics
  • Phenomenology of magnetism (to what extent the geometry of the lattice at the microscopic scale influences the magnetism at the macroscopic level?)

Decarbonization
With several colleagues, we have estimated the carbon footprint of the Institut Néel (report) and suggested ways to reduce it.

Contact: Equipe Théorie de la matière condensée
Institut Néel, CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes
Département matière condensée et basses températures
25 rue des Martyrs, BP 166
38042 Grenoble cedex 9

My public GnuPG key (here)