Preprints, currently under review

  • Dynamical frustration in spacetime metamaterials enables cascading logic and synchronization, R. Mahore, O. Gamayun, G. Noetinger, R. Fleury, C. Coulais, B. Apffel
    Available on arxiv
  • Renormalization group of topological scattering networks, Z. Zhang, Y. Guan, J. Wang, B. Apffel, A. Bossart, H. Qin, O. Yazyev, R. Fleury
    Available on arxiv

Peer-reviewed publications

  • The spinorial ball (II): a manipulable qubit at human scale, S. Bernard-Bernardet, B. Apffel
    American Journal of Physics, 2026 (publisher and arxiv).
  • Science of a coffee cup: a physicist walks into a bar..., A. Bossart, R. Fleury, B. Apffel
    Physics of Fluids, 2025 (publisher and arxiv)
  • The spinorial ball: a macroscopic object of spin-1/2, S. Bernard-Bernardet, E. Dumas, B. Apffel
    American Journal of Physics, (publisher and arxiv). Selected as cover image, see also the video abstract in the publisher's website.
  • Motion of a floating sphere pulled by a string and induced flows, B. Apffel, R. Fleury
    Physics of Fluids, 2025 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Experimental observation of parabolic wakes in thin plates, J. Rus, A. Bossart, B. Apffel, M. Malléjac, R. Fleury
    Physical Review Research, 2024 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Experimental observation of topological transition in linear and nonlinear parametric oscillators, B. Apffel, R. Fleury
    Physical Review E, 2024 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Comprehensive refractive manipulation of water waves using electrostriction, V. Mouet, B. Apffel, E. Fort
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 (publisher)
  • Frequency conversion cascade by crossing multiple space and time interfaces, B. Apffel, E. Fort
    Physical Review Letters, 2022 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Experimental implementation of wave propagation in disordered time-varying media, B. Apffel, S. Wildeman, A. Eddi, E. Fort
    Physical Review Letters, 2022 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Liquid interface shaping and transport phenomena induced by spatially inhomogeneous vibrations, B. Apffel, C. Wilkinson, E. Fort
    The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Liquid walls and interfaces in arbitrary directions stabilized by vibrations, B. Apffel, S. Hidalgo-Caballer, A. Eddi, E. Fort
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Floating under a levitating liquid, B. Apffel, F. Novkoski, A. Eddi, E. Fort
    Nature, 2020 (publisher and arxiv)
  • Probing dissipative processes in stationary out-of-equilibrium systems through the fluctuations of injected power, B. Apffel, A. Naert, S. Aumaître
    Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2019 (publisher)

Others

  • My PhD manuscript (in french) : available on Hal
  • A popularization article in french about the 'upside-down floating boat' experiments in The Conversation (with E. Fort)