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Sébastien BALIBARMember of the Academie des Sciences (France) Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS 24, rue Lhomond 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France e-mail: balibar "at" lps.ens.fr |
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Sébastien
Balibar
Dessins de Jean Kerleroux Je casse de l'eau et autres rêveries scientifiques (Le Pommier ed., Paris oct.2008) First page Critics: Le Canard Enchaine La Recherche Decouverte Interviews: Radio Suisse Romande bulles , flocons arbres , ciel France Culture (2/2/09) translated in Arabic
(Kalima, Abu Dhabi, 2010)
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Sébastien Balibar La pomme et l'atome Douze histoires de physique contemporaine (Odile Jacob ed., Paris 2005) The Atom and the Apple (Princeton University Press 2008) L'atomo e la Mela (Bollati & Boringhieri, 2009) Atom ve Elma (ODTU Yayincilik, Ankara, 2009) and in the Arabic countries (Kalima, Abu Dhabi) to appear in Korea (Arte Books) présentation Reviews : Pierre Gilles de Gennes (La Recherche, March 2006) Le Monde (February 2006) Union des professeurs de Physique Laurent Broomhead (France Info) Times Higher Education (Dec. 2008) The American Journal of Physics (2009) more reviews on "The Atom..." Interviews : France Musique (MPEG4) France Info France Culture France Inter Radio France International Bibliothèque Medicis (debate on Public Senat) |
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Demain, la
physique
by Alain Aspect, Roger Balian, Sébastien Balibar, Gérald Bastard, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Edouard Brézin, Bernard Cabane, Françoise Combes, Thérèse Encrenaz, Stephan Fauve, Albert Fert, Mathias Fink, Antoine Georges, Jean François Joanny, Daniel Kaplan, Denis Le Bihan, Pierre Léna, Hervé Le Treut, Jean-Paul Poirier, Jacques Prost, Jean-Loup Puget has appeared in 2004, new edition in 2009 (Odile Jacob ed. Paris) |
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A few videos |
A few photographs |
S.Balibar
Looking back at superfluid helium
Comptes
rendus de la conférence "Bose-Einstein condensation", Institut
Henri Poincaré, Paris, 29 mars 2003,
ed. by J. Dalibard, B. Duplantier and
V. Rivasseau, p.17 (Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2004).
A
special issue on Nucleation in the Comptes-Rendus Physique (ed.
by S. Balibar and J. Villain)
The tensile strength of pure water:
E. Herbert, S.
Balibar, and F. Caupin,
Cavitation in water
Phys. Rev. E
74, 041603 (2006)
Acoustic crystallization:
R. Ishiguro, F. Caupin and S. Balibar,
Homogeneous nucleation of crystals by
acoustic waves
Europhysics Letters 75, 91 (2006)
Non-linear focusing of acoustic waves:
C. Appert, C. Tenaud, X. Chavanne, S. Balibar, F. Caupin and D.
d'Humières
Non-linear effects and shock formation in
the focusing of a spherical acoustic wave
Eur. Phys. Journal B 35, 531 (2003)
Capillarity, wetting,
surfaces :
F. Caupin, E. Herbert, S. Balibar, and M.W.
Cole,
Comment on ‘Nanoscale water capillary
bridges under deeply negative
pressure’
Chemical Physics Letters 463,
283 (2008).
S. Balibar,
The force of fluctuations
Nature 451, 136 (2008).
F. Caupin, M.W. Cole, S. Balibar, and J. Treiner,
Absolute limit for the capillary rise
of a fluid
Europhysics Letters 82, 56004
(2008).
Dripping instability:
R. Ishiguro, F. Graner, E. Rolley, S. Balibar,
and J.
Eggers
The dripping of a crystal
Phys. Rev. E 75, 041606 (2007).
S. Balibar and R. Ishiguro,
New measurements of wetting by helium
mixtures
J. Low Temp. Phys. 140, 29 (2005).
S. Balibar and R. Ishiguro,
Critical Casimir forces and
anomalous wetting
Pramana - Journal of physics 64, 743
(2005)
Roughening
and related properties of crystal surfaces:
S. Balibar, H. Alles and A. Ya. Parshin,
The surface of helium crystals
Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 317 (2005)
Climate - energy
Which energies for tomorrow ?
S. Balibar, S. David et I. Solomon
Energies.pdf
Images de la Physique (CNRS ed. 2005)
France and the energy of stars:
S. Balibar, Y. Pomeau, et J. Treiner
ITER.pdf
"Point de vue", Le Monde, 24
octobre 2004
S. Balibar, J. Buechner, B. Castaing, C. Laroche, A.
Libchaber.
"Experiments on superfluid 4He evaporation".
Phys. Rev. B18, 3096 (1978).
| 2- Our first article on the
surface of
helium crystals:
S. Balibar, D.O. Edwards, C. Laroche. 3- On the roughening transition: F.
Gallet, S. Balibar and E. Rolley, and a review on the same subject: S.Balibar
and P.Nozières, 4- A letter on stepped crystal surfaces: E.Rolley, E.Chevalier, C.Guthmann and S.Balibar,
and our final article on the same subject: E.Rolley, C.Guthmann, E.Chevalier and S.Balibar,
5- Our experimental article on the mechanical instability of the surface of stressed crystals: R.H. Torii and S. Balibar,
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6- an article on musical acoustics:
S. Balibar
"L'acoustique de la flûte"
La
Recherche 118, 36 (1981)
7- Two articles on quantum cavitation:
H.Lambaré, P.Roche, S.Balibar, H.J. Maris,
O.A.Andreeva, C.Guthmann,
K.O.Keshishev and E.Rolley
"Cavitation in superfluid helium in the low temperature limit ",
Eur. Phys. Journal B 2, 381 (1998)download pdf file
F.Caupin, P.Roche, S.Marchand and S.Balibar
"Cavitation in normal liquid helium 3",
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 113, 473 (1998)
and a review on the same subject:
S.Balibar, F.Caupin, H.Lambaré, P.Roche and H.J.Maris,
"Quantum cavitation: a comparison between superfluid helium 4 and
normal liquid helium 3",
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 113, 459 (1998)
8- Heterogeneous nucleation:
S.Balibar, T.Mizusakiand Y.Sasaki,
"Comments on heterogeneous nucleation in
helium"
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 120, 293 (2000). comments.pdf
X.Chavanne, S.Balibar and F.Caupin
"Heterogeneous cavitation in liquid helium 4 near a glass plate"
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 126, 615 (2002) heterocav.pdf
9- on superfluidity (for
non-specialists) :
S.Balibar
"La Superfluidité"
in
Qu'est-ce que l'Univers?(Université de tous les savoirs),
p.707, Y.Michaud ed. , Odile Jacob, Paris,
2001.
pdf version: superfluidité.pdf
audio recording of the public lecture (in french): balibarUTLS
and an article on the history of its discovery:
S.Balibar
"Qui a découvert la
superfluidité ?"
Bulletin de la Société
Française de Physique, 128, 14 (2001) SFP.pdf
10- Acoustic crystallization:
X.
Chavanne, S.Balibar and F. Caupin
"Acoustic crystallization andheterogeneous
nucleation"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5506 (2001)chavanne.pdf
X.Chavanne, S.Balibar and F.Caupin
"Acoustic nucleation of solid helium 4 on a clean glass plate"
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 125, 155 (2001) acoustic.pdf
11- Cavitation:
F.
Caupin and S.Balibar
"Cavitation pressure in helium"
Phys. Rev. B64, 064507 (2001) pressurePRB.pdf
F. Caupin, H.J. Maris and S.Balibar
"Anomaly in the stability limit of liquid
helium 3"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 145302 ( 2001) spinodalPRL.pdf
F. Caupin, S.Balibar and H.J. Maris
"The thermal expansion coefficient of
liquid helium 3 and
the shape of its stability limit"
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 126, 73 (2002)spinodalQFS2001.pdf
F. Caupin, S.Balibar and H.J. Maris
"Nucleation in a Fermi liquid at negative
pressure"
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 126, 91 (2002)zerosoundQFS2001.pdf
12- an article on the facetting of soft
crystals:
P.Nozières, F.Pistolesi and S.Balibar
"Steps and facets at the surface of soft
crystals"
Eur. Phys. J. B 24, 387(2001) soft.pdf
13- how far can one pressurize a liquid
before it crystallizes?
F. Werner, G. Beaume, A. Hobeika, S. Nascimbene, C.
Herrmann, F. Caupin and S. Balibar,
"Liquid helium up to 160
bar"
J.
Low Temp. Phys. 136, 93 (2004): pdf
file
14- coalescence of two drops in the
absence of viscosity:
R. Ishiguro, F. Graner, E. Rolley, and S. Balibar
"Coalescence or crystalline drops"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 235301 (2004):
pdf file
15- The surface
of helium
crystals
S.
Balibar, H. Alles and A. Ya. Parshin,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 317 (2005)
the invited speakers and organizers in
front of the old entrance of the Ecole Normale Superieure
JPG format
the whole group on the stairs of the
nearby Pantheon
JPG format
Professor Laszlo Tisza giving a colloquium at the Physics Department (ENS, 14 june 2001)
