Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 8 (2007)

Issue no. 1 Table of Contents

Observation of black holes and extreme gravitational events

Guest editor: Daniel Rouan

Editorial Board

p. IFC

Dossier

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Daniel Rouan

p. 1-6

Microquasars

I. Félix Mirabel

p. 7-15

Supermassive black holes in local galaxies

Ralf Bender; Roberto P. Saglia

p. 16-25

The Galactic Centre at infrared wavelengths: towards the highest spatial resolution

Yann Clénet; Daniel Rouan; Pierre Léna; Eric Gendron; François Lacombe

p. 26-34

High energy activity of the super-massive black hole at the Galactic Center

Andrea Goldwurm

p. 35-44

Physics of accretion flows around compact objects

Jean-Pierre Lasota

p. 45-56

General relativistic dynamics of compact binary systems

Luc Blanchet

p. 57-68

Optical detection of gravitational waves

Jean-Yves Vinet

p. 69-84

Statistical mechanics of non-extensive systems/Mécanique statistique des systèmes non-extensifs

Comment on the thematic issue “Statistical mechanics of non-extensive systems” [C. R. Physique 7 (3–4) (2006)]

Françoise Combes; Raoul Robert

p. 85

Nucleation/Nucléation

Erratum to the article “Dewetting through nucleation” [C. R. Physique 7 (9–10) (2006) 1073–1081]

Stephan Herminghaus; Françoise Brochard

p. 86

Physics/Mathematical physics, theoretical physics

Scaling laws of turbulent dynamos

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Stéphan Fauve; François Pétrélis

p. 87-92

Physics/Mathematical physics, theoretical physics

On the definitions of entropy and temperature in the extended thermodynamics of irreversible processes

Presented by: Bernard Derrida

Sergey I. Serdyukov

p. 93-100

Physique/Solides, fluides : structure

Élaboration et caractérisation d'un biomatériau à base de phosphates de calcium
[Elaboration and characterisation of calcium phosphate biomaterial]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Foued Ben Ayed; Jamel Bouaziz

p. 101-108

Physique/Surfaces, interfaces, films

Forme de la distribution des masses molaires pour supprimer le défaut de peau de requin
[Shape of the MWD to remove the sharkskin]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Ahmed Allal; Bruno Vergnes; Gérard Marin

p. 109-114

Physique/Physique appliquée

Cinétique d'agrégation en chaînes dans une suspension colloïdale soumise à un champ électrique alternatif
[Kinetic aggregation into chains from a colloidal suspension in an AC field]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Zineb Mimouni

p. 115-120

Editorial Board

p. IBC

Issue no. 2 Table of Contents

Recent advances in crystal optics

Guest editor: Benoît Boulanger

Editorial Board

p. IFC

Dossier

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Benoît Boulanger

p. 121-122

Optical waveguides in laser crystals

Markus Pollnau; Yaroslav E. Romanyuk

p. 123-137

Ceramic YAG lasers

Takunori Taira

p. 138-152

New laser crystals for the generation of ultrashort pulses

Frédéric Druon; François Balembois; Patrick Georges

p. 153-164

Nonlinear polarimetry of molecular crystals down to the nanoscale

Sophie Brasselet; Joseph Zyss

p. 165-179

Quasi-phasematching

David S. Hum; Martin M. Fejer

p. 180-198

Spatial quantum optical properties of c.w. Optical Parametric Amplification

Laurent Lopez; Sylvain Gigan; Agnès Maître; Nicolas Treps; Claude Fabre

p. 199-205

Triple photons: a challenge in nonlinear and quantum optics

Kamel Bencheikh; Fabien Gravier; Julien Douady; Ariel Levenson; Benoît Boulanger

p. 206-220

Quadratic spatial solitons

George I. Stegeman

p. 221-233

Review of photorefractive materials: an application to laser beam cleanup

Laurent Lombard; Arnaud Brignon; Jean-Pierre Huignard; Éric Lallier; Patrick Georges; Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin; Gilles Pauliat; Gérald Roosen

p. 234-242

Semiconductor heterostructures for spintronics and quantum information

Jan A. Gaj; Joël Cibert; Andrzej Golnik; Mateusz Goryca; Elżbieta Janik; Tomasz Kazimierczuk; Łukasz Kłopotowski; Piotr Kossacki; Jacek Kossut; Katarzyna Kowalik; Olivier Krebs; Aristide Lemaître; Sebastian Maćkowski; Wiktor Maślana; Michał Nawrocki; Paulina Płochocka; Bernard Piechal; Pascale Senellart; Jan Suffczyński; Serge Tatarenko; Artur Trajnerowicz; Paul Voisin

p. 243-252

Photonic crystals: basic concepts and devices

Pierre Viktorovitch; Emmanuel Drouard; Michel Garrigues; Jean Louis Leclercq; Xavier Letartre; Pedro Rojo Romeo; Christian Seassal

p. 253-266

Physics/Mathematical physics, theoretical physics

Radiative transfer limit of two-frequency Wigner distribution for random parabolic waves: An exact solution

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Albert C. Fannjiang

p. 267-271

Editorial Board

p. IBC

Issue no. 3-4 Table of Contents

Optical techniques for direct imaging of exoplanets

Guest editor: Claude Aime

Editorial Board

p. IFC

Dossier

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Claude Aime

p. 273-276

An introduction to stellar coronagraphy

André Ferrari; Rémi Soummer; Claude Aime

p. 277-287

Band-limited masks for TPF coronagraph

Kunjithapatham Balasubramanian; Erkin Sidick; Daniel W. Wilson; Daniel J. Hoppe; Stuart B. Shaklan; John T. Trauger

p. 288-297

The Four Quadrant Phase Mask Coronagraph and its avatars

Daniel Rouan; Jacques Baudrand; Anthony Boccaletti; Pierre Baudoz; Dimitri Mawet; Pierre Riaud

p. 298-311

Shaped pupil coronagraphy

N. Jeremy Kasdin; Robert J. Vanderbei; Ruslan Belikov

p. 312-322

A theoretical look at coronagraph design and performance for direct imaging of exoplanets

Olivier Guyon

p. 323-332

Expected performance of a self-coherent camera

Raphaël Galicher; Pierre Baudoz

p. 333-339

Calibration of residual speckle in a nulling coronagraph

Michael Shao

p. 340-348

Speckle noise reduction techniques for high-dynamic range imaging

Pascal Bordé; Wesley Traub

p. 349-354

The Lyot Project: status and results

Anand Sivaramakrishnan; Ben R. Oppenheimer; Sasha Hinkley; Douglas Brenner; Rémi Soummer; Jacob L. Mey; James P. Lloyd; Marshall D. Perrin; James R. Graham; Russell B. Makidon; Lewis C. Roberts; Jeffrey R. Kuhn

p. 355-364

Adaptive optics for direct detection of extrasolar planets: the Gemini Planet Imager

Bruce Macintosh; James Graham; David Palmer; Rene Doyon; Don Gavel; James Larkin; Ben Oppenheimer; Leslie Saddlemyer; J. Kent Wallace; Brian Bauman; Darren Erikson; Lisa Poyneer; Anand Sivaramakrishnan; Rémi Soummer; Jean-Pierre Veran

p. 365-373

Detecting extra-solar planets with the Japanese 3.5 m SPICA space telescope

Lyu Abe; Keigo Enya; Shinichiro Tanaka; Takao Nakagawa; Hirokazu Kataza; Motohide Tamura; Olivier Guyon

p. 374-384

The Achromatic Interfero Coronagraph

Yves Rabbia; Jean Gay; Jean-Pierre Rivet

p. 385-395

The Fourier–Kelvin Stellar Interferometer (FKSI)—A practical infrared space interferometer on the path to the discovery and characterization of Earth-like planets around nearby stars

William C. Danchi; Bruno Lopez

p. 396-407

Towards the spectroscopic analysis of Earthlike planets: the DARWIN/TPF project

Marc Ollivier

p. 408-414

Ultra deep nulling interferometry using fractal interferometers

Daniel Rouan

p. 415-425

Comparison of ELTs, interferometers and hypertelescopes for deep field imaging and coronagraphy

Antoine Labeyrie

p. 426-437

Optical performance of the New Worlds Occulter

Jonathan W. Arenberg; Amy S. Lo; Tiffany M. Glassman; Webster Cash

p. 438-447

Physics/Mathematical physics, theoretical physics

Herzfeld instability versus Mott transition in metal–ammonia solutions

Presented by: Jacques Vilain

Gennady N. Chuev; Pascal Quémerais

p. 449-455

Physique/Physique appliquée

Développement d'un nouveau capteur de gaz basé sur la détection à large bande micro-onde
[Development of a novel gas sensor based on microwave broadband detection]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Julien Jouhannaud; Jérôme Rossignol; Didier Stuerga

p. 456-461

Physique/Physique appliquée

Efficacité des coupures de combustible dans la prévention des feux de forêts
[Fuelbreak efficiency for wildland fire prevention]

Presented by: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Ahmed Kaiss; Lotfi Zekri; Nouredine Zekri; Bernard Porterie; Jean-Pierre Clerc; Claude Picard

p. 462-468

Astrophysique/Système solaire

Formes d'astéroïdes et formation de satellites : rôle de la réaccumulation gravitationnelle
[Asteroid shapes and satellite formation: role of gravitational re-accumulation]

Presented by: Françoise Combes

Jean-François Consigli; Paolo Tanga; Carlo Comito; Daniel Hestroffer; Derek C. Richardson

p. 469-480

Editorial Board

p. IBC

Issue no. 5-6 Table of Contents

Work, dissipation, and fluctuations in nonequilibrium physics

Guest editor: Bernard Derrida; Pierre Gaspard; Christian Van den Broeck

Editorial Board

p. IFC

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)

Guy Laval; Jacques Villain

p. 481-482

Dossier Sommaire

p. EX1-EX2

Foreword

Bernard Derrida; Pierre Gaspard; Christian Van den Broeck

p. 483-485

Fluctuation relation, fluctuation theorem, thermostats and entropy creation in nonequilibrium statistical physics

Giovanni Gallavotti

p. 486-494

Comparison of far-from-equilibrium work relations

Christopher Jarzynski

p. 495-506

Stationary state fluctuation theorems for driven Langevin systems

E.G.D. Cohen; Ramses van Zon

p. 507-517

Experimental study of work fluctuations in a harmonic oscillator

Sylvain Joubaud; Nicolas B. Garnier; Frédéric Douarche; Artyom Petrosyan; Sergio Ciliberto

p. 518-527

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems

Felix Ritort

p. 528-539

Cumulants and large deviations of the current through non-equilibrium steady states

Thierry Bodineau; Bernard Derrida

p. 540-555

Work and heat probability distributions in out-of-equilibrium systems

Alberto Imparato; Luca Peliti

p. 556-566

Fluctuation and dissipation

Bart Cleuren; Christian Van den Broeck; Ryoichi Kawai

p. 567-578

Network and thermodynamic conditions for a single macroscopic current fluctuation theorem

David Andrieux; Pierre Gaspard

p. 579-590

Static and dynamical nonequilibrium fluctuations

Christian Maes; Karel Netočný

p. 591-597

Temporal ordering of nonequilibrium fluctuations as a corollary of the second law of thermodynamics

Pierre Gaspard

p. 598-608

Thermodynamic formalism and large deviation functions in continuous time Markov dynamics

Vivien Lecomte; Cécile Appert-Rolland; Frédéric van Wijland

p. 609-619

Negative entropy production in oscillatory processes

Stephen R. Williams; Denis J. Evans; Emil Mittag

p. 620-624

Lyapunov modes for a nonequilibrium system with a heat flux

Tooru Taniguchi; Gary P. Morriss

p. 625-632

Short-time fluctuations of displacements and work

Ramses van Zon; S.S. Ashwin; E.G.D. Cohen

p. 633-640

Power injected in a granular gas

Paolo Visco; Andrea Puglisi; Alain Barrat; Emmanuel Trizac; Frédéric van Wijland

p. 641-649

Bidirectional control—a unifying view of the structure and function of proteins

Ken Sekimoto

p. 650-660

Nonequilibrium decay of the thermal diffusion in a tilted periodic potential

Takaaki Monnai; Ayumu Sugita; Katsuhiro Nakamura

p. 661-673

Quantum fluctuation theorem: can we go from micro to meso?

Wojciech De Roeck

p. 674-683

Dynamics of fluctuations in non-Markovian systems

Daniel Alonso; Inés de Vega; Ethel Hernández-Concepción

p. 684-695

Relativistic fluctuation theorems

Axel Fingerle

p. 696-713

Editorial Board

p. IBC

Issue no. 7-8 Table of Contents

Neutron scattering: a comprehensive tool for condensed matter research

Guest editor: Charles-Henri de Novion; Martine Hennion; Hannu Mutka

Editorial Board

p. IFC

Dossier Sommaire

p. iii-iv