Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre

Unidirectional flow from continuous broken symmetries

Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles, and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinearities in crystalline media have enabled nonreciprocal transport, a rectification mechanism that ope...

Meltwater transport and mixing-layer growth near the ice–ocean interface

Ice melting into saline water plays a fundamental role in the dynamics near the ice–ocean interface in polar oceans. The physics of meltwater transport involves a non-trivial interplay between the thermodynamics at the interface, hydrodynamic transport in the bulk and the propert...