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Soft matter encompasses a wide ensemble of physical systems - fluids, foams, sand, polymers, fabric, cells, biological tissues… - with very diverse properties and phenomenologies. Yet, they share a few key aspects that make them approachable by similar physical strategies: they often have a complex microscopic structure, dominated by entropic and electrostatic forces, resulting in deformability or solidity depending on context, and more generally they display emergent and universal behavior distinct from that of ‘hard’ condensed matter like crystals. In addition, many soft systems, like foams, emulsions or sand, are actually “mostly made of surfaces”; their macroscopic properties then derive from particular physical interactions at the interface between fluids, colloidal particles, macromolecules, membranes, etc.
The goal of this course is to introduce fundamental concepts of soft matter through concrete examples and important theoretical frameworks.
This course provides an introduction to probability theory and its applications adapted for physicists.
The supervised research project offers the possibility to pursue an experimental research project within a team of the ENS Physics department or neighbor institutes.
The course will introduce a number of concepts and techniques in current quantum physics experiments : entanglement, teleportation, Wigner function, non-gaussian quantum states, decoherence, squeezing...
Ce cours propose un panorama des développements modernes de l’optique, de ses fondements théoriques en lien avec l’électromagnétisme et la physique quantique, jusqu’à ses applications en physique fondamentale (interférométrie en astrophysique, spectroscopie, applications en biophysique...) ou en optoélectronique (sources laser, communications par fibre optique...).
Le cours abordera les grands domaines de l’astrophysique contemporaine.
La physique expérimentale est une composante essentielle des études de physique à l’ENS.
Les étudiants qui le souhaitent peuvent remplacer les projets expérimentaux par la préparation du French Physicists’ Tournament (FPT).
The administrative staff at the department is responsible for the organization of the education program (undergraduate-third year- and graduate level), the administrative follow-up of the Research federation, general logistics, and for the interaction with main ENS and CNRS administration and services. The administrative service actively participates in organizing public events, conferences and workshops.
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