Department of Physics Papers
Papers from 2011
Toward a Cosmological Dual to Inflation, Justin Khoury and Godfrey E.J. Miller
Generating Scale-Invariant Perturbations from Rapidly-Evolving Equation of State, Justin Khoury and Paul J. Steinhardt
Low-Energy Coherent Transport in Metallic Carbon Nanotube Junctions, Ahmed A. Maarouf and Eugene J. Mele
Vibrational Modes Identify Soft Spots in a Sheared Disordered Packing, M. Lisa Manning and Andrea J. Liu
Band Symmetries and Singularities in Twisted Multilayer Graphene, Eugene J. Mele
Dynamical Heterogeneity in Soft-Particle Suspensions Under Shear, Kerstin N. Nordstrom, Jerry P. Gollub, and Douglas J. Durian
Melting of Multilayer Colloidal Crystals Confined Between Two Walls, Yi Peng, Ziren Wang, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Arjun G. Yodh, and Yilong Han
Two Features at the Two-Dimensional Freezing Transitions, Ziren Wang, Weikai Qi, Yi Peng, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Yong Chen, Penger Tong, and Yiklong Han
Direct Determination of the Size of Basins of Attraction of Jammed Solids, Ning Xu, Daan Frenkel, and Andrea J. Liu
Theoretical Investigation of the Evolution of the Topological Phase of Bi2Se3 under Mechanical Strain, Steve M. Young, Sugata Chowdhury, Eric J. Walter, Eugene J. Mele, Charles L. Kane, and Andrew M. Rappe
Phonon Spectra, Nearest Neighbors, and Mechanical Stability of Disordered Colloidal Clusters with Attractive Interactions, Peter Yunker, Ke Chen, Zexin Zhang, and Arjun G. Yodh
Papers from 2010
Cascading Cosmology, Nishant Agarwal, Rachel Bean, Justin Khoury, and Mark Trodden
Distinguishing k-defects from their Canonical Twins, Melinda Andrews, Matt Lewandowski, Mark Trodden, and Daniel Wesley
Relativistic Images in Randall-Sundrum II Braneworld Lensing, Amitai Y. Bin-Nun
NMR Measurements of Power-law Behavior in the Spin-wave and Critical Regions of Ferromagnetic EuO, N. Bykovetz, B. Birang, J. Klein, and C. L. Lin
Minimal Resonances in Annular Non-Euclidean Strips, Bryan Gin-ge Chen and Christian D. Santangelo
Low-Frequency Vibrations of Soft Colloidal Glasses, Ke Chen, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Zexin Zhang, Daniel T.N. Chen, Peter J. Yunker, Silke Henkes, Carolina Brito, Oliver Dauchot, Wim Van Saarloos, Andrea J. Liu, and Arjun G. Yodh
Non-Abelian Black Holes in D = 5 maximal gauged supergravity, Mirjam Cvetič, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope
Modeling Scale-Dependent Bias on the Baryonic Acoustic Scale with the Statistics of Peaks of Gaussian Random Fields, Vincent Desjacques, Martin Crocce, Roman Scoccimarro, and Ravi K. Sheth
Making a Frothy Shampoo or Beer, Douglas Durian and Srinivasa R. Raghavan
Characterization of Memory and Measurement History in Photoconductivity of Nanocyrstal Arrays, Jessamyn A. Fairfield, Tali Dadosh, and Marija Drndic
Update on alpha-particle and Nucleon Widths in 19F and 19Ne, H. Terry Fortune, A G. Lacaze, and Rubby Sherr
Coulomb Energies in 16Ne and Low-lying levels of 17Na, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr
Energy and Width of the Excited 0+ stat in 12O, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr
Oscillatory Flows Induced by Microoganisms Swimming in Two Dimensions, Jeffrey S. Guasto, Karl A. Johnson, and Jerry P. Gollub
Hydrodynamic Irreversibility in Particle Suspensions with Nonuniform Strain, Jeffrey S. Guasto, Andrew S. Ross, and Jerry P. Gollub
Tests of Gravity from Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys, Jacek Guzik, Bhuvnesh Jain, and Masahiro Takada
A System Exhibiting Toroidal Order, A. Brooks Harris
Charge and Spin Ordering in the Mixed-Valence Compound LuFe2O4, A Brooks Harris and Tanner Yildirim
Colloquium: Topological Insulators, M. Zahid Hasan and Charles L. Kane
Multifield Galileons and Higher Codimension Branes, Kurt Hinterbichler, Mark Trodden, and Daniel Wesley
Vortex Scattering and Intercommuting Cosmic Strings on a Noncommutative Spacetime, Anosh Joseph and Mark Trodden
Helical Packings and Phase Transformations of Soft Spheres in Cylinders, Matthew A. Lohr, A. M. Alsayed, Zheng Zhang, Bryan G. Chen, Randall D. Kamien, and Arjun G. Yodh
Elastic Response and Ward Identities in Stressed Nematic Elastomers, Thomas C. Lubensky and Fangfu Ye
DNA-decorated Graphene Chemical Sensors, Ye Lu, Brett R. Goldsmith, Nicholas Kybert, and Charlie Johnson
Commensuration and Interlayer Coherence in Twisted Bilayer Graphene, Eugene J. Mele
Centrifugal Compression of Soft Particle Packings: Theory and Experiment, Kerstin N. Nordstrom, Emilie Verneuil, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Tom C. Lubensky, Jerry P. Gollub, and Douglas J. Durian
Melting of Colloidal Crystal Films, Yi Peng, Ziren Wang, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Arjun G. Yodh, and Y Han
Stable Levitation and Alignment of Compact Objects by Casimir Spring Forces, Sahand Jamal Rahi and Saad Zaheer
Spherical Collapse and the Halo Model in Braneworld Gravity, Fabian Schmidt, Wayne Hu, and Marcos Lima
Nanoparticle Shape Selection by Repulsive Interactions: Metal Islands on Few-Layer Graphene, Luke A. Somers, Natalya A. Zimbovskaya, Charlie Johnson, and Eugene J. Mele
Majorana Fermoins and Non-Abelian Statistics in Three Dimensions, Jeffrey C.Y. Teo and Charles L. Kane
Topological Defects and Gapless Modes in Insulators and Superconductors, Jeffrey C.Y. Teo and Charles L. Kane
Scalar Kinks in Warped Extra Dimensions, Manuel Toharia, Mark Trodden, and Eric J. West
Heat Transport in Model Jammed Solids, Vincenzo Vitelli, Ning Xu, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Chirality Dependence of the K-momentum Dark Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes, Patrick M. Vora, X Tu, Eugene J. Mele, M Zheng, and James M. Kikkawa
Optimizing Information Flow in Small Genetic Networks. II. Feed-forward Interactions, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Gasper Tkačik, and William Bialek
Two-dimensional freezing criteria for crystallizing colloidal monolayers, Ziren Wang, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Arjun G. Yodh, and Yilong Han
Enhanced Peculiar Velocities in Brane-induced Gravity, Mark Wyman and Justin Khoury
Observation of the Disorder-Induced Crystal-to-Glass Transition, Peter Yunker, Zexin Zhang, and Arjun G. Yodh
Casimir interactions of an object inside a spherical metal shell, Saad Zaheer, Sahand Jamal Rahi, Thorsten Emig, and Robert L. Jaffe
Casimir potential of a compact object enclosed by a spherical cavity, Saad Zaheer, Sahand Jamal Rahi, Thorsten Emig, and Robert L. Jaffe
Papers from 2009
Are Black Holes Really Two Dimensional?, Vijay Balasubramanian
Three-point Correlations in ƒ(R) Models of Gravity, Alexander Borisov and Bhuvnesh Jain
33S NMR Measurements in 33S-enriched Ferromagnetic EuS and the Question of Power-law Behaviors, N. Bykovetz, J. Klein, and C. L. Lin
Extremal Black Hole/CFT Correspondence in (Guaged) Supergravities, David D.K. Chow, Mirjam Cvetič, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope
Galileon Cosmology, Nathan Chow and Justin Khoury
Dynamics of Gas-Fluidized Granular Rods, L. J. Daniels, Y. Park, Thomas C. Lubensky, and Douglas J. Durian
Gate Coupling to Nanoscale Electronics, Sujit S. Datta, Douglas R. Strachan, and A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr.
One- and Two-Photon Absorption of Highly Conjugated Multiporphyrin Systems in the Two-Photon Soret Transition Region, Jonathan A.N. Fisher, Kimihiro Susumu, Michael J. Therien, and Arjun G. Yodh
Can Cosmic Parallax Distinguish Between Anisotrophic Cosmologies?, Michele Fontanini, Eric J. West, and Mark Trodden
Josephson Current and Noise at a Superconductor/Quantum-Spin-Hall-Insulator/Superconductor Junction, Liang Fu and Charles L. Kane
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