Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
Toulouse - UMR 5152

Assistant professor

Contact

e-mail : sylvain.prolhac@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr

Address : Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC,
Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne,
31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France

Office : 324 Building 3R1B4

Phone : +33 (0)5 61 55 65 82

Fax : +33 (0)5 61 55 60 65

Research interests

 Statistical physics of non-equilibrium systems

• Driven diffusive systems
• Interface growth models

 Exactly solvable models

• Asymmetric simple exclusion process
• Bose gas with delta interaction

 Extrapolation methods

Proposals for a research internship and a PhD thesis

 Internship M1/M2
 PhD October 2018 (pdf version)

Publications

Selected papers (full list on arXiv) :

KPZ universality

 Current fluctuations in the asymmetric exclusion process :

• S. Prolhac and K. Mallick, Cumulants of the current in a weakly asymmetric exclusion process, J. Phys. A : Math. Theor. 42, 175001 (2009) (arXiv:0902.0570)

• S. Prolhac, Tree structures for the current fluctuations in the exclusion process, J. Phys. A : Math. Theor. 43, 105002 (2010) (arXiv:0911.3618)

• S. Prolhac, Finite-time fluctuations for the totally asymmetric exclusion process, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 090601 (arXiv:1511.04064)

 Replica method and the Airy process :

• S. Prolhac and H. Spohn, The one-dimensional KPZ equation and the Airy process, J. Stat. Mech. P03020 (2011) (arXiv:1101.4622)

Extrapolation for exactly solvable models

• S. Prolhac, Extrapolation methods and Bethe ansatz for the asymmetric exclusion process, J. Phys. A : Math. Theor. 49, 454002 (2016) (arXiv:1604.08843)

• S. Prolhac, Ground state energy of the δ-Bose and Fermi gas at weak coupling from double extrapolation, J. Phys. A : Math. Theor. 50, 144001 (2017) (arXiv:1610.08912)

Exclusion processes with several types of particles

• S. Prolhac, M. R. Evans and K. Mallick, The matrix product solution of the multispecies partially asymmetric exclusion process, J. Phys. A : Math. Theor. 42, 165004 (2009) (arXiv:0812.3293)

• C. Arita, A. Ayyer, K. Mallick and S. Prolhac, Generalized matrix Ansatz in the multispecies exclusion process - the partially asymmetric case, J. Phys. A : Math. Theor. 45, 195001 (2012) (arXiv:1201.0388)
  
  

Recent talks

• Munich, October 2016
• Toulouse, December 2016
• Cargèse, July-August 2017 : lecture 1, lecture 2
  
  
  

Last updated 10 November 2017