Charles Pfister

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Biographie

Originaire de Zürich, Charles-Edouard Pfister est né à Genève en 1948. Il obtient une maturité scientifique à Neuchâtel (1967). Il étudie à l'EPFZ en section de mathématiques et physique et obtient un diplôme d'Etudes supérieures de Science Physique (1972). Il poursuit sa formation à l'EPFZ en tant qu'assistant et soutient sa thèse en 1974 dans le domaine de la mécanique statistique. De 1975 à 1976 il travaille à l'Université de Bielefeld (D) comme collaborateur scientifique du Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung. En 1977 il est chercheur associé du CNRS au Laboratoire de physique théorique de Marseille (F). Il rejoint ensuite le département de mathématiques de Rutgers University (N.J. USA) à partir de 1978. Il entre à l'EPFL en octobre 1979. Il est nommé adjoint scientifique aux départements de mathématiques et de physique en 1989 et reçoit le titre de professeur en 1996. Il enseigne les méthodes mathématiques de la physique et la théorie des probabilités. Son domaine de recherche est la physique mathématique (mécanique statistique et mécanique quantique), la théorie des processus stochastiques sur réseau et les systèmes dynamiques.

Publications

Publications Infoscience

2022

Equilibrium measures of the natural extension of beta-shifts

Pfister; W. G. Sullivan

Ergodic Theory And Dynamical Systems. 2022. DOI : 10.1017/etds.2021.38.

Charles Pfister

Biographie

Publications

Publications Infoscience

2022

Equilibrium measures of the natural extension of beta-shifts

2020

Asymptotic decoupling and weak Gibbs measures for finite alphabet shift spaces

2017

Time-based failure analysis of compressed riverbank riprap

2012

Théorie des probabilités. Cours d'introduction avec application à la statistique mathématique

2010

Interface free energy

2009

Interface free energy or surface tension: definition and basic properties.

A Point is Normal for Almost All Maps beta x+ alpha mod 1 or Generalised beta-Transformations

2008

Computation of Topological Entropy via phi-expansion, an Inverse Problem for the Dynamical Systems beta x+ alpha mod 1

Contribution to the ergodic theory of piecewise monotone continuous maps

2007

On the topological entropy of saturated sets

2005

On the Nature of Isotherms at First Order Phase Transitions for Classical Lattice Models

Large deviations estimates for dynamical systems without the specification property. Application to the $\beta$-shifts

2004

Non-analyticity and the van der Waals limit

Rigorous Analysis of Singularities and Absence of Analytic Continuation at First Order Phase Transition Points in Lattice Spin Models

On the singularity of the free energy at a first order phase transition

Rényi entropy, guesswork moments, and large deviations

2003

On the non-analytic behaviour of thermodynamic potentials at first order phase transitions

Billingsley dimension on shift spaces

2002

Thermodynamical aspects of classical lattice systems

2000

Generic points via large deviation theory

Complex WKB method for 3-level scattering systems

1999

Generic points for stationary measures via large deviation theory

Macroscopic description of phase separation in the 2D Ising model

Interface, surface tension and reentrant pinning transition in the 2D Ising model

Exponential estimates in adiabatic quantum evolution

1998

How to Encode a Stationary Source

1997

Large deviations and continuum limit in the 2D Ising model

Phase separation as a large deviations problem : a microscopic derivation of surface thermodynamics for some 2D spin systems

Global specifications and nonquasilocality of projections of Gibbs measures

Random-cluster representation of the Ashkin-Teller model

Reconstruction sequences and equipartition measures: an examination of the asymptotic equipartition property

1996

Mathematical theory of the wetting phenomenon in the $2$D Ising model

1995

Thermodynamic probability theory: Some aspects of large deviations

The variational principle for Gibbs states fails on trees

Semiclassical asymptotics beyond all orders for simple scattering systems

Almost sure quasilocality in the random cluster model

Entropy, concentration of probability and conditional limit theorems

1994

Equilibrium shapes of crystals attached to walls

The equivalence of ensembles for lattice systems: Some examples and a counterexample

Quantum adiabatic evolution

Large deviations and the thermodynamic formalism: A new proof of the equivalence of ensembles

1993

Superadiabatic evolution and adiabatic transition probability between two nondegenerate levels isolated in the spectrum

Nonabelian geometric effect in quantum adiabatic transitions

Adiabatic evolution in quantum mechanics

1992

Wulff theorem and best constant in Sobolev inequality

Geometrical and mathematical aspects of the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics

Absence of geometrical correction to the Landau-Zener formula

1991

Full asymptotic expansion of transition probabilities in the adiabatic limit

Large deviations and phase separation in the two-dimensional Ising model

Interferences in adiabatic transition probabilities mediated by Stockes lines

Exponential decay and geometric aspect of transition probabilities in the adiabatic limit

Exponentially small adiabatic invariant for the Schrödinger equation

1990

An introduction to a mathematical description of the wetting phenomena in the Ising model