Department of Physics Papers
Papers from 2009
Probing Neutral Majorana Fermion Edge Modes with Charge Transport, Liang Fu and Charles L. Kane
Quasi-Two-Dimensional Diffusion of Single Ellipsoids: Aspect Ratio and Confinement Effects, Yilong Han, Ahmed Alsayed, Maurizio Nobili, and Arjun G. Yodh
Distribution Functions in Percolation Problems, Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Renormalized Field Theory of Collapsing Directed Randomly Branched Polymers, Hans-Karl Janssen, Frank Wevelsiep, and Olaf Stenull
Galaxy-CMB and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing on Large Scales: Sensitivity to Primordial Non-Gaussianity, Donghui Jeong, Eiichiro Komatsu, and Bhuvnesh Jain
Extrinsic Curvature, Geometric Optics, and Lamellar Order on Curved Substrates, Randall D. Kamien, David R. Nelson, Christian D. Santangelo, and Vincenzo Vitelli
Mach's Holographic Principle, Justin Khoury and Maulik Parikh
N-body simulations of DGP and degravitation theories, Justin Khoury and Mark Wyman
Fluctuating Hydrodynamics and Microrheology of a Dilute Suspension of Swimming Bacteria, A W.C. Lau and Thomas C. Lubensky
Comparison of Low-Amplitude Oscillatory Shear in Experimental and Computational Studies of Model Foams, Micah Lundberg, Kapilanjan Krishan, Ning Xu, Corey S. O'Hern, and Michael Dennin
Photoluminescence and Band Gap Modulation in Graphene Oxide, Zhengtang Luo, Patrick Vora, Eugene J. Mele, A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr., and James M. Kikkawa
Soft Random Solids and Their Heterogeneous Elasticity, Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing, and Annette Zippelius
Spherical Collapse and Cluster Counts in Modified Gravity Models, Matthew C. Martino, Hans F. Stabenau, and Ravi K. Sheth
Helical Nanofilaments and the High Chiralty Limit of Smectics A, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Gareth P. Alexander, and Randal D. Kamien
Elastic-Instability Triggered Pattern Formation, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto and Randall D. Kamien
Flat 3-brane with Tension in Cascading Gravity, Claudia de Rham, Justin Khoury, and Andrew Tolley
Nonlinear Evolution of ƒ(R) Cosmologies. III. Halo Statistics, Fabian Schmidt, Marcos Lima, Hiroaki Oyaizu, and Wayne Hu
Large Scale Structure and Galaxies, Ravi K. Sheth
Stripes, Zigzags, and Slow Dynamics in Buckled Hard Spheres, Yair Shokef and Thomas C. Lubensky
Normal modes in model jammed systems in three dimensions, Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Non-Gaussian Signatures from the Postinflationary Early Universe, Alessandra Silvestri and Mark Trodden
Elasticity and Response in Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices, Anton Souslov, Andrea J. Liu, and Tom C. Lubensky
Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit, Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Energy Transport in Jammed Sphere Packings, Ning Xu, Vincenzo Vitelli, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Irreversible Rearrangements, Correlated Domains, and Local Structure in Aging Glasses, Peter Yunker, Zexin Zhang, Kevin B. Aptowicz, and Arjun G. Yodh
Casimir Interactions Between Scatterers in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes, Dina Zhabinskaya and Eugene J. Mele
Papers from 2008
Effective Temperatures and Activated Dynamics for a Two-Dimensional Air-Driven Granular System on Two Approaches to Jamming, Adam Ross Abate and Douglas J. Durian
Smectic-A Elastomers with Weak Director Anchoring, J. M. Adams, Mark Warner, Olaf Stenull, and Thomas C. Lubensky
Nonperturbative Yukawa Couplings from String Instantons, Ralph Blumenhagen, Mirjam Cvetič, Dieter Lüst, Robert Richter, and Timo Weigand
Non-Gaussianities in New Ekpyrotic Cosmology, Evgeny I. Buchbinder, Justin Khoury, and Burt A. Ovrut
Frequency-Dependent Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in Granular Gases, Guy Bunin, Yair Shokef, and Dov Levine
Multiple Species of Noninteracting Molecules Adsorbed on a Bethe Lattice, Michael Cohen and A. Brooks Harris
D-Instanton Generated Dirac Neutrino Masses, Mirjam Cvetič and Paul Langacker
Gravity Trapping on a Finite Thickness Domain Wall: An Analytic Study, Mirjam Cvetič and Marko Robnik
Warped Resolved La,b,c Cones, Mirjam Cvetič and J. F. Vázquez-Poritz
Hierarchies from D-brane Instantons in Globally Defined Calabi-Yau Orientifolds, Mirjam Cvetič and Timo Weigand
Electron Beam Nanosculpting of Suspended Graphene Sheets, Michael D. Fischbein and Marija Drndić
Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator, Liang Fu and Charles L. Kane
Statistics of Bubble Rearrangement Dynamics in a Coarsening Foam, Alex Gittings and Douglas J. Durian
Teaching About Fluids, Jerry P. Gollub
Order Parameters and Phase Diagram of Multiferroic RMn2O5, A. Brooks Harris, Amnon Aharony, and Ora Entin-Wohlman
Effect of Inversion Symmetry on the Incommensurate Order in Multiferoic RMn2O5 (R = Rare Earth), A. Brooks Harris, M. Kenzelmann, Amnon Aharony, and Ora Entin-Wohlman
Observational Tests of Modified Gravity, Bhuvnesh Jain and Pengjie Zhang
Field Theory of Directed Percolation with Long-Range Spreading, Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Comment on "Ferroelectricity in Spiral Magnets", M. Kenzelmann and A. Brooks Harris
Nonradiative Recombination of Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes Mediated by Free Charge Carriers, Jesse M. Kinder and Eugene J. Mele
Reversible Plastic Events in Amorphous Materials, Micah Lundberg, Kapilanjan Krisham, Ning Xu, Corey S. O'Hern, and Michael Dennin
Carbon Nanotubes in Helically Modulated Potentials, P. J. Michalski and Eugene J. Mele
Geometrical Frustration in Two Dimensions: Idealizations and Realizations of a Hard-Disk Fluid in Negative Curvature, Carl D. Modes and Randall Kamien
Projectile Interactions in Granular Impact Cratering, E. L. Nelson, Hiroaki Katsuragi, Patrick Mayor, and Douglas J. Durian
Dynamic Topology in Spatiotemporal Chaos, Nicholas T. Ouellette and Jerry P. Gollub
Detecting Topological Features of Chaotic Fluid Flow, Nicholas T. Ouellette and Jerry P. Gollub
Transport of Finite-Sized Particles in Chaotic Flow, Nicholas T. Ouellette, P.J. J. O'Malley, and Jerry P. Gollub
Motion of the Acoustic Peak in the Correlation Function, Robert E. Smith, Román Scoccimarro, and Ravi K. Sheth
Analytic Model for the Bispectrum of Galaxies in Redshift Space, Robert E. Smith, Ravi K. Sheth, and Román Scoccimarro
Anomalous Elasticity in Nematic and Smectic Elastomer Tubule Phases, Olaf Stenull
Smectic-C Tilt Under Shear in Smectic-A Elastomers, Olaf Stenull, Thomas C. Lubensky, J. M. Adams, and Mark Warner
Energy of K-Momentum Dark Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes by Optical Spectroscopy, Omar N. Torrens, Ming Zheng, and James M. Kikkawa
Casimir Effect for Massless Fermions in One Dimension: A Force-Operator Approach, Dina Zhabinskaya, Jesse M. Kinder, and Eugene J. Mele
Papers from 2007
Topological Persistence and Dynamical Heterogeneities Near Jamming, Adam Ross Abate and Douglas Durian
Avalanche Statistics and Time-Resolved Grain Dynamics for a Driven Heap, Adam Ross Abate, Hiroaki Katsuragi, and Douglas J. Durian
Evaluating Dark Energy Probes Using Multidimensional Dark Energy Parameters, Andreas Albrecht and Gary Bernstein
Comparing Flow Thresholds and Dynamics for Oscillating and Inclined Granular Layers, Sebastien Aumaitre, Conor Puls, Jim N. McElwaine, and Jerry P. Gollub
Standardized Platform for Coregistration of Noncurrent Diffuse Optical and Magnetic Resonance Breast Images Obtained in Different Geometries, Fred S Azar, Kijoon Lee, Ali Khamene, Regine Choe, Alper Corlu, Soren D Konecky, Frank Sauer, and Arjun G. Yodh
Elementary Simulation of Tethered Brownian Motion, John F. Beausang, Chiara Zurla, Laura Finzi, Luke Sullivan, and Philip C. Nelson
DNA Looping Kinetics Analyzed Using Diffusive Hidden Markov Model, John F. Beausang, Chiara Zurla, Carlo Manzo, David Dunlap, Laura Finzi, and Philip Nelson
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Dividing Cell Populations, Naama Brenner and Yair Shokef
New Ekpyrotic Cosmology, Evgeny I. Buchbinder, Justin Khoury, and Burt A. Ovrut
Fluctuations and Rheology in Active Bacterial Suspensions, Daniel T.N. Chen, Andy C.W. Lau, Lawrence A. Hough, Mohammad F. Islam, Mark Goulian, Thomas C. Lubensky, and Arjun G. Yodh
Computation of D-brane instanton induced superpotential couplings: Majorana masses from string theory, Mirjam Cvetič, Robert Richter, and Timo Weigand
Electric-Magnetic Duality and Deformations of Three-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories, Sebastian de Haro and Peng Gao
Shape and Erosion of Pebbles, Douglas Durian, H. Bideaud, P. Duringer, A. P. Schröder, and C. M. Marques
Novel Defect Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystal Shells, Alberto Fernández-Nieves, Vincenzo Vitelli, Andrew S. Utada, Darren R. Link, Manuel Márquez, David R. Nelson, and David A. Weitz
Comment on ‘‘Predicting Narrow States in the Spectrum of a Nucleus beyond the Proton Drip Line’’, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr
Two-Proton Decay Energy and Width of 19Mg(g.s.), H. Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr
Topological Insulators with Inversion Symmetry, Liang Fu and Charles L. Kane
Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions, Liang Fu, Charles L. Kane, and Eugene J. Mele
Branching, Capping, and Severing in Dynamic Actin Structures, Anjay Gopinathan, Kun-Chun Lee, Jennifer Schwarz, and Andrea J. Liu
Perturbative Antibrane Potentials in Heterotic M Theory, James Gray, Andre Lukas, and Burt A. Ovrut
Flux, Gaugino Condensation, and Antibranes in Heteroic M Theory, James Gray, André Lukas, and Burt A. Ovrut
Landau Analysis of the Symmetry of the Magnetic Structure and Magnetoelectric Interaction in Multiferroics, A. Brooks Harris
Monte Carlo Study of Crystalline Order and Defects on Weakly Curved Surfaces, Alexander Hexemer, Vincenzo Vitelli, Edward J. Kramer, and Glen H. Fredrickson
Why is Random Close Packing Reproducible?, Randal D. Kamien and Andrea J. Liu
Formation of Subgap States in Carbon Nanotubes Due to a Local Transverse Electric Field, Jesse M. Kinder and Eugene J. Mele
Equation of State of Looped DNA, Igor M. Kulić, Hervé Mohrbach, Rochish Thaokar, and Helmut Schiessel
State-Dependent Diffusion: Thermodynamic Consistency and its Path Integral Formulation, Andy W.C. Lau and Tom C. Lubensky
Mesons and Flavor on the Conifold, Thomas S. Levi and Peter Ouyang
Giant Dielectric Permittivity and Magnetocapacitance in La0.875Sr0.125MnO3 Single Crystals, R. F. Mamin, Takeshi Egami, Zsolt Marton, and S. A. Migachev
Continuum Theory for Piezoelectric Response of Chiral Nanotubes Under Uniaxial and Torsional Stresses, Paul Joseph Michalski and Eugene J. Mele
Continuum Theory for Piezoelectric Response of Chiral Nanotubes Under Uniaxial and Torsional Stresses, Paul Joseph Michalski and Eugene J. Mele
Hard Disks on the Hyperbolic Plane, Carl D. Modes and Randall D. Kamien
Bond-Order Potential for Simulations of Extended Defects in Tungsten, Matous Mrovec, Roman Gröger, Aimee Gotway Bailey, Duc Nguyen-Manh, Christian Elsässer, and Vaclav Vitek
Curvature Fields, Topology, and the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Chaos, Nicholas T. Ouellette and Jerry P. Gollub
Triply Periodic Smectic Liquid Crystals, Christian D. Santangelo and Randal D. Kamien
Geometric Theory of Columnar Phases on Curved Substrates, Christian D. Santangelo, Vincenzo Vitelli, Randal D. Kamien, and David R. Nelson
Scale Dependence of Halo and Galaxy Bias: Effects in Real Space, Robert E. Smith, Román Scoccimarro, and Ravi K. Sheth
Helical Tubes in Crowded Environments, Yehuda Snir and Randal D. Kamien
Dynamics of Smectic Elastomers, Olaf Stenull and Tom C. Lubensky
Unconventional Elasticity in Smectic-A Elastomers, Olaf Stenull and Tom C. Lubensky
Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopy and First-Principles Calculations of the Ternary Hydrides Li4Si2H(D) and Li4Ge2H(D): Electronic Structure and Lattice Dynamics, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush, Tanner Yildirim, Michael R. Hartman, Robert C. Bowman Jr., and John J. Vajo