Vivien Lecomte

Chargé de recherche CNRS
LPMA UMR 7599 Université Paris Diderot & Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Équipe Modélisation Stochastique

E-mail: vivien.lecomte AT gmail.com (do not use the address AT univ-paris-diderot.fr)

Postal address and Office :
Bureau 516
Université Paris VII Denis Diderot – Campus Paris Rive Gauche
Bâtiment Sophie Germain, croisement Avenue de France / Rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet
75013 Paris, France

Phone: +33 (0) 1 57 27 93 23

• Research interests
• Teaching
• Curriculum vitae
• Publications

Research interests

• Domain wall motion in magnetic materials
• Fluctuations in transport models: mapping nonequilibrium onto equilibrium
• Fluctuation of current in equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems
• Numerical approach to large deviations in continuous time
• Statistics over histories in stochastic systems and glassy phenomena
• Collective motion of animals

Teaching & Schools

• Master 2 'Concepts Fondamentaux de la Physique'. Lecture: Computational Physics, by Werner Krauth. Class exercices with Alberto Rosso.
  • TD - Class exercices, 2010-2011, first semester
  • TD - Class exercices, 2011-2012, first semester
  • TD - Class exercices, 2012-2013, first semester
• Erasmus Mundus Master in Complex Systems Science:
  • 2011-2012: Optional Master 2 Lecture, 'Stochastic processes and large deviation functions'
  • 2012-2013: Master 2 Lecture, 'Theoretical analysis of complex systems'
• Schools:
  • April 2013: Complexity Summer School at Warwick University

Curriculum Vitae

[pdf]

Publications

• Static fluctuations of a thick 1D interface in the 1+1 Directed Polymer formulation: numerical study
  Elisabeth Agoritsas, Vivien Lecomte and Thierry Giamarchi, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E (2013) [19 pages]
  [arXiv:1305.2364]
• Static fluctuations of a thick one-dimensional interface in the 1+1 directed polymer formulation
  Elisabeth Agoritsas, Vivien Lecomte and Thierry Giamarchi, Phys. Rev. E 87 042406 (2013) [29 pages]
  [arXiv:1209.0567], link, paper
• Finite-temperature and finite-time scaling of the directed polymer free-energy with respect to its geometrical fluctuations
  Elisabeth Agoritsas, Sebastian Bustingorry, Vivien Lecomte, Grégory Schehr and Thierry Giamarchi, Phys. Rev. E 86 031144 (2012) [18 pages]
  [arXiv:1206.6592], link, paper
• Finite size scaling of the dynamical free-energy in a kinetically constrained model
  Thierry Bodineau, Vivien Lecomte and Cristina Toninelli, J. Stat. Phys. 147 1-17 (2012)
  [arXiv:1111.6394], link, paper
• Inactive dynamical phase of a symmetric exclusion process on a ring
  Vivien Lecomte, Juan P. Garrahan, Frédéric van Wijland, J. Phys. A 45 175001 (2012) [12 pages]
  [arXiv:1203.1600], link, paper
• Noise and Topology in Driven Systems - an Application to Interface Dynamics
  Stewart E. Barnes, Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Thierry Giamarchi, Vivien Lecomte, Nonlinearity 25 1427-1441 (2012)
  [arXiv:1105.2219], link, paper
• Disordered Elastic Systems and One-Dimensional Interfaces
  Elisabeth Agoritsas, Vivien Lecomte and Thierry Giamarchi, Physica B 407 1725-1733 (2012)
  [arXiv:1111.4899], link, paper
• Joint probability distributions and fluctuation theorems
  Reinaldo García-García, Vivien Lecomte, Alejandro B. Kolton and Daniel Domínguez, J. Stat. Mech. P02009 (2012) [37 pages]
  [arXiv:1111.5369], link, paper
• Simulating rare events in dynamical processes
  Cristian Giardinà, Jorge Kurchan, Vivien Lecomte and Julien Tailleur, J. Stat. Phys. 145 787-811 (2011)
  [arXiv:1106.4929], link, paper
• Dynamic transition in an atomic glass former: a molecular dynamics evidence
  Estelle Pitard, Vivien Lecomte and Frédéric Van Wijland, Europhysics Letters 96 56002 (2011) [5 pages]
  [arXiv:1105.2460], link, paper
• Temperature-induced crossovers in the static roughness of a one-dimensional interface
  Elisabeth Agoritsas, Vivien Lecomte and Thierry Giamarchi, Phys. Rev. B 82 184207 (2010) [23 pages]
  [arXiv:1008.3570], link, paper
• Unifying approach for fluctuation theorems from joint probability distributions
  Reinaldo García-García, Daniel Domínguez, Vivien Lecomte and Alejandro B. Kolton, Phys. Rev. E 82 030104 (2010) [4 pages]
  [arXiv:1007.1435], link, paper
• Current Fluctuations in Systems with Diffusive Dynamics, in and out of Equilibrium
  Vivien Lecomte, Alberto Imparato and Frédéric van Wijland, Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement 184 276-289 (2010)
  [arXiv:0911.0564], link, paper
• Depinning of domain walls with an internal degree of freedom
  Vivien Lecomte, Stewart E. Barnes, Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Thierry Giamarchi, Phys. Rev. B 80 054413 (2009) [5 pages]
  [arXiv:0903.0175], link, paper
• Equilibriumlike fluctuations in some boundary-driven open diffusive systems
  Alberto Imparato, Vivien Lecomte and Frédéric van Wijland, Phys. Rev. E 80 011131 (2009) [9 pages]
  [arXiv:0904.1478], link, paper
• First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories
  Juan P. Garrahan, Robert L. Jack, Vivien Lecomte, Estelle Pitard, Kristina van Duijvendijk and Frédéric van Wijland, J. Phys. A 42 075007 (2009) [34 pages]
  [arXiv:0810.5298], link, paper
• Long range correlations and phase transition in non-equilibrium diffusive systems
  Thierry Bodineau, Bernard Derrida, Vivien Lecomte and Frédéric van Wijland, J. Stat. Phys. 133 1013-1031 (2008)
  [arXiv:0807.2394], link, paper
• Mapping out-of-equilibrium into equilibrium in one-dimensional transport models
  Julien Tailleur, Jorge Kurchan and Vivien Lecomte, J. Phys. A 41 505001 (2008) [41 pages]
  [arXiv:0809.0709], link, paper
• Universal cumulants of the current in diffusive systems on a ring
  Cécile Appert-Rolland, Bernard Derrida, Vivien Lecomte and Frédéric van Wijland, Phys. Rev. E 78 021122 (2008) [16 pages]
  [arXiv:0804.2590], link, paper
• Interaction ruling animal collective behaviour depends on topological rather than metric distance: evidence from a field study
  Michele Ballerini, Nicola Cabibbo, Raphaël Candelier, Andrea Cavagna, Evaristo Cisbani, Irene Giardina, Vivien Lecomte, Andrea Orlandi, Giorgio Parisi, Andrea Procaccini, Massimiliano Viale and Vladimir Zdravkovic, PNAS 105 1232-1237 (2008)
  [arXiv:0709.1916], link, paper
• Mapping Nonequilibrium onto Equilibrium: The Macroscopic Fluctuations of Simple Transport Models
  Julien Tailleur, Jorge Kurchan and Vivien Lecomte, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 150602 (2007) [4 pages]
  [arXiv:0705.4033], link, paper
• Dynamical first-order transition in kinetically constrained models of glasses
  Juan P. Garrahan, Robert L. Jack, Vivien Lecomte, Estelle Pitard, Kristina van Duijvendijk and Frédéric van Wijland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 195702 (2007) [4 pages]
  [cond-mat/0701757], link, paper
• A numerical approach to large deviations in continuous-time
  Vivien Lecomte and Julien Tailleur, J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P03004 [12 pages]
  [cond-mat/0612561], link, paper
• Current distribution in systems with anomalous diffusion: renormalisation group approach
  Vivien Lecomte, Uwe C. Täuber and Frédéric van Wijland, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 1447-1465 (2007)
  [cond-mat/0611265], link, paper
• Thermodynamic Formalism for Systems with Markov Dynamics
  Vivien Lecomte, Cécile Appert-Rolland and Frédéric van Wijland, J. Stat. Phys. 127 51-106 (2007)
  [cond-mat/0606211], link, paper
• Chaotic properties of systems with Markov dynamics
  Vivien Lecomte, Cécile Appert-Rolland and Frédéric van Wijland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 010601 (2005) [4 pages]
  [cond-mat/0505483], link, paper
• Energy flux distribution in a two-temperature Ising model
  Vivien Lecomte, Zoltán Rácz and Frédéric van Wijland, J. Stat. Mech. P02008 (2005) [16 pages]
  [cond-mat/0412547], link, paper
• Quasiequilibrium during aging of the two-dimensional Edwards-Anderson model
  Silvio Franz, Vivien Lecomte and Roberto Mulet, Phys. Rev. E 68 066128 (2003) [7 pages]
  [cond-mat/030919], link, paper

Submitted papers

• Transport-induced correlations in weakly interacting systems
  Guy Bunin, Yariv Kafri, Vivien Lecomte, Daniel Podolsky and Anatoli Polkovnikov
  [arXiv:1306.1551]

Proceedings, Lecture Notes

• Hand-written notes of the Lectures of the school Vicious walkers and random matrices in Les Houches (organised by Catherine Donati-Martin, Sandrine Péché and Grégory Schehr, 2011)
  • Determinantal processes, random growth and random tilings by Kurt Johansson
  • Symmetries and Structures of Matrix-Valued Stochastic Processes and Noncolliding Diffusion Processes by Makoto Katori
  • The combinatorics of non-intersecting lattice paths by Christian Krattenthaler
  • Extreme Value Statistics in Brownian Motions and Random Matrices by Satya Majumdar
  • An introduction to Random Matrices by Jean-Bernard Zuber
  (The quality is better when printed.) Web site of the school, directory
• Unfying approach for fluctuation theorems from joint probability distributions
  Reinaldo García-García, Daniel Domínguez, Vivien Lecomte, and Alejandro B. Kolton, Proceedings of the 11th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics, (Granada, 2010), AIP Conf. Proc. 1332 277-277 (2011)
  link
• Simulation of large deviation functions using population dynamics
  Julien Tailleur and Vivien Lecomte, Proceedings of the 10th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics, (Granada, 2008), AIP Conf. Proc. 1091 212-219 (2009)
  [arXiv:0811.1041], link
• Hand-written notes of the Lecture by Pierre Le Doussal, Pinning of elastic objects in random media, Beg Rohu 2008 summer school, Manifolds in random media, random matrices and extreme value statistics
  Web site of the school
• Thermodynamic formalism and large deviation functions in continuous time Markov dynamics
  Vivien Lecomte, Cécile Appert-Rolland and Frédéric van Wijland, Proceedings of the conference Work, Dissipation and Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Physics, (Bruxelles, 2006), C. R. Physique (Paris) 8 609-619 (2007)
  [cond-mat/0703435], link, paper
• Systèmes hors d'équilibre
  Bernard Derrida, lecture notes written by Vivien Lecomte, doctoral lectures at Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (2004)
  [pdf] (in french)
• On pre-asymptotic aging in finite dimensional spin glasses
  Silvio Franz, Vivien Lecomte and Roberto Mulet, Proceeding of the Capri conference Unifying concepts in granular media and glasses, June 25 - 28, 2003, A. Coniglio, A. Fierro, H.J. Herrmann and M. Nicodemi eds, Elsevier (2004), p.119-128
  link, paper

PhD: Thermodynamics of histories and nonequilibrium fluctuations

Advisor: Frédéric van Wijland at LPT (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Orsay) and MSC (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes).

Defended on March 30th 2007 [pdf] (in french)

Presentation [pdf] (in french)

Talks

• Baltimore (US), March 2013, Baltimore March Meeting
  Interfaces in Correlated Disorder: what we learn from the Directed Polymer. [pdf]
• Saclay (France), February 2013, IPhT, Groupe de travail processus stochastiques, systèmes hors d'équilibre
  Statique et dynamique d'interfaces dans un milieu corrélé : ce que l'on apprend du polymère dirigé. [pdf]
• Leuven (Belgique), November 2012, (Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  Finite size scaling of the dynamical free-energy in the interfacial regime of a kinetically constrained model [pdf]
• Paris (France), April 2012, LPS (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique)
  Finite size scaling of the dynamical free-energy of a kinetically constrained model [pdf]
• Paris (France), April 2012, Rencontres math, bio et médecine au PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Jacques Monod
  Mouvement collectif des oiseaux : quelques perspectives [pdf]
• Boston (US), February 2012, Boston March Meeting
  Finite size scaling of the dynamical free-energy in the interfacial regime of a kinetically constrained model [pdf]
• Saclay (France), February 2012, IPhT, Groupe de travail processus stochastiques, systèmes hors d'équilibre
  Théorèmes de fluctuations et distributions de probabilité jointes
• Stockholm (Sweden), October 2011, Foundations and Applications of Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
  Large deviations in 1D systems: mapping non-equilibrium to equilibrium [pdf]
• Paris (France), August 2011, Satellite meeting of the 4th European Meeting of Python in Science (Euroscipy 2011)
  Teaching computational physics without scrambling physics? [pdf]
• Paris (France), August 2011, Groupe de Travail, LPT, ENS
  Noise and Topology in Driven Systems - an Application to Interface Dynamics
• Courmayeur (Italy), January 2011, Workshop on Fluctuations in Materials Properties
  Dynamics of domain walls with an internal degree of freedom [pdf]
• Paris (France), October 2010, GDR PHENIX
  Current fluctuations: mapping non-equilibrium to equilibrium [pdf]
• Paris (France), October 2010, LPMA, séminaire de probabilités
  Large deviations functions and dynamical phase transitions [pdf]
• Orsay (France), September 2010, LPT-LPTMS seminar
  Large deviations in (non-)equilibrium 1d transport models [pdf]
• La Herradura (Spain), September 2010, 11th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics
  Large deviations in and out of equilibrium [pdf]
• Bordeaux (France), September 2010, Journées MAS 2010
  Large deviations in 1d exclusion processes: Mapping non-equilibrium onto equilibrium [pdf]
• Edinburgh (UK), June 2010, CMG (Condensed Matter Group)
  Large deviations in and out of equilibrium
• Saclay (France), June 2010, IPhT, Groupe de travail processus stochastiques, systèmes hors d'équilibre
  Transitions de phase dynamiques et modèles à contrainte cinétique
• Rouen (France), May 2010, Rencontres de Probabilités 2010
  Dynamical phase transitions and kinetically constrained models [pdf]
• Paris (France), April 2010, LPMA, séminaire BQR
  Transitions de phase dynamique dans les modèles cinétiquement contraints
• Saclay (France), March 2010, Institut de Physique Théorique
  Large deviations in non-equilibrium 1d systems [pdf]
• Pont-à-Mousson (France), March 2010, 35th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics
  Dynamics of interfaces with an internal degree of freedom [pdf]
• Courmayeur (Italy), January 2010, Workshop on Fluctuations in Materials Properties
  Depinning transition for domain walls with an internal degree of freedom [pdf]
• Bariloche (Argentina), May 2009, Grupo de Teoría de Sólidos
  Depinning transition for domain walls with an internal degree of freedom [pdf]
• Trieste (Italy), May 2009, CMSP (Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics)
  Large deviations in non-equilibrium 1d systems [pdf]
• Nancy (France), May 2009, LPM (Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux)
  Depinning transition for domain walls with an internal degree of freedom (Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems conference) [pdf]
• Genève (Suisse), January 2009, DPT (Département de Physique Théorique)
  Depinning transition for domain walls with an internal degree of freedom [pdf]
• Paris (France), January 2009, LPS (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique)
  Inertia-like effects in simple depinning models [pdf]
• Marseille (France), January 2009, CPT (Centre de Physique Théorique)
  Effects of inertia in simple depinning models [pdf]
• Edinburgh (UK), August 2008, CMG (Condensed Matter Group)
  Dynamical Phase Transition In Glassy Systems [pdf of notes]
• Genève (Suisse), Octobre 2007, DPMC (Département de Physique de le Matière Condensée)
  Statistics of histories: application to systems with glassy dynamics [pdf]
• Rome (Italy), May 2007, ISC (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, La Sapienza)
  Thermodynamics of histories: application to systems with glassy dynamics [pdf]
• Orsay (France), March 2007, LPT-LPTMS (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Orsay)
  Thermodynamics of histories: application to systems with glassy dynamics [pdf]
• Paris (France), December 2006, PCT (Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, ESPCI)
  Thermodynamics of histories: application to systems with glassy dynamics [pdf]
• Saclay (France), November 2006, SPhT (Service de Physique Théorique)
  Thermodynamics of histories: application to systems with glassy dynamics [pdf]
• Barcelona (Spain), October 2006, Departament de Física Fonamental
  Thermodynamics of histories: application to systems with glassy dynamics (Workshop on complex systems) [pdf]
• Nancy (France), May 2006, LPM (Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux)
  Thermodynamics of histories: some examples (Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems conference) [pdf]
• Montpellier (France), April 2006 LCVN (Laboratoire Colloïdes, Verres et Nanomatériaux)
  Dynamical phases in stochastic systems [pdf]

Posters

• Les Houches (France), February 2013, Statics and Dynamics of Interfaces in Correlated Disorder: what we learn from the Directed Polymer [pdf]
• Les Diablerets (Switzerland), August 2009, Depinning transition for domain walls with an internal degree of freedom [pdf]
• Dresden (Germany), July 2007, Fluctuation and dissipation phenomena in driven systems far from equilibrium [pdf]
• Genova (Italy), July 2007, International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS XXIII) [pdf]
• Cambridge (UK), June 2006, First-Passage and Extreme Value Problems in Random Processes Workshop
• Bruxelles (Belgium), March 2006, Work, dissipation and fluctuations in nonequilibrium physics Conference [pdf]
• Leuven (Belgium), September 2005, Fundamental problems in statistical physics XI Summer School [pdf]

Collaborations

Present:

• Elisabeth Agoritsas (DPMC, Genève)
• Thierry Bodineau (DMA, ENS)
• Sebastian Bustingorry (Teoría de Sólidos, Bariloche)
• Jean-Pierre Eckmann (Université de Genève)
• Reinaldo García García (Teoría de Sólidos, Bariloche)
• Juan P. Garrahan (School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham)
• Thierry Giamarchi (DPMC, Genève)
• Alejandro Kolton (Teoría de Sólidos, Bariloche)
• Estelle Pitard (L2C, Montpellier)
• Grégory Schehr (LPT, Orsay)
• Julien Tailleur (MSC, Paris)
• Cristina Toninelli (LPMA, Paris)
• Frédéric van Wijland (MSC, Paris VII)

Past:

• Cécile Appert-Rolland (LPT, Orsay)
• Bernard Derrida (LPS, ENS Paris)
• Kristina van Duijvendijk (MSC, Paris VII)
• Silvio Franz (LPTMS, Orsay)
• Alberto Imparato (University of Aarhus)
• Robert Jack (Univ. of Bath)
• Jorge Kurchan (PMMH, ESPCI Paris)
• Zoltán Rácz (ITP, Eötvös University)
• Uwe C. Täuber (Virginia Tech)

Organization of seminars

• (Since October 2010) Co-organisation of the 'Groupe de travail Modélisation' at LPMA, with Mathieu Merle.
• (Jan 2005 - Jan 2006) Co-organisation of the common LPT-LPTMS seminar, with Alberto Rosso.
• (2005-2006) Co-organisation of the Orsay PhD students seminar.