Department of Physics Papers
Papers from 2008
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
Structure and Interstitial Deuterium site of ß-phase ZrNi Deuteride, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush, Tanner Yildirim, Qingzhen Huang, and Robert C. Bowman Jr.
Excess Vibrational Modes and the Boson Peak in Model Glasses, Ning Xu, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Semisoft Nematic Elastomers and Nematics in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, Fangfu Ye, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Olaf Stenull, and Tom C. Lubensky
Diffuse Optical Monitoring of Blood Flow and Oxygenation in Human Breast Cancer During Early Stages of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Chao Zhou, Regine Choe, Natasha Shah, Turgut Durduran, Guoqiang Yu, Amanda Durkin, David Hsiang, Rita Mehta, John Butler, Albert Cerussi, Bruce J. Tromberg, and Arjun G. Yodh
Papers from 2006
Approach to Jamming in an Air-Fluidized Granular Bed, Adam Ross Abate and Douglas J. Durian
Higgs Sector in Extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, Vernon Barger, Paul Langacker, Hye-Sung Lee, and Gabe Shaughnessy
D-brane Charges in Gepner Models, Volker Braun and Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
Counterion-Mediated Attraction and Kinks on Loops of Semiflexible Polyelectrolyte Bundles, A. Cēbers, Z. Dogic, and Paul Janmey
Short GRB and Binary Black Hole Standard Sirens as a Probe of Dark Energy, Neal Dalal, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes, and Bhuvnesh Jain
What Is in a Pebble Shape?, Douglas J. Durian, H. Bideaud, P. Duringer, A. Schröder, F. Thalmann, and C. M. Marques
Constraints on energies of 15F(g.s.), 15O(1/2+ , T = 3/2 ), and 16F(0+, T = 2), H. Terry Fortune
Energy and Width of 11B(1/2+, T = 3/2), H. Terry Fortune
Excited 0+, T = 2 States in 12Be, 12C, and 12O, H. Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr
Time Reversal Polarization and a Z2 Adiabatic Spin Pump, Liang Fu and Charles L. Kane
Colloidal Electroconvection in a Thin Horizontal Cell. II. Bulk Electroconvection of Water During Parallel-Plate Electrolysis, Yilong Han and David G. Grier
Dimer Statistics on a Bethe Lattice, A. Brooks Harris and Michael Cohen
Theoretical Analysis of the Double-q Magnetic Structure of CeAl2, A. Brooks Harris and J. Schweizer
Is there Any Evidence for Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Signal in WMAP First Year Data?, Carlos Hernández-Monteaguado, Ricardo Génova-Santos, and Fernando Atrio-Barandela
Review of Leonard Susskind "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, Paul Langacker
Wetting and Contact Lines of Micrometer-Sized Ellipsoids, Jean-Christophe Loudet, Arjun G. Yodh, and Bernard Pouligny
Dark Energy Constratins from Lensing-Detected Galaxy Clusters, Laura Marian and Gary Bernstein
SpinWaves in the Frustrated Kagomé Lattice Antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2, Kittiwit Matan, Daniel Grohol, Daniel G. Nocera, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Seunghun H. Lee, Stephen E. Nagler, and Young S. Lee
Matter Density Perturbations in Interacting Quintessence Models, Germań Olivares, Fernando Atrio-Barandela, and Diego Pavón
Electrospun Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Semiconductor Schottky Nanodiode, Nicholas J. Pinto, Rosana González, Alan T. Johnson, and Alan G. MacDiarmid
Response to “Comment on ‘Electrospun hybrid organic/inorganic semiconductor Schottky nanodiode’ ” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 176101 (2006)], Nicolas J. Pinto, Rosana González, A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr., and Alan G. MacDiarmid
A Block Slipping on a Sphere with Friction: Exact and Perturbative Solutions, Tom Prior and Eugene J. Mele
N-Body Simulations of Alternative Gravity Models, Hans F. Stabenau and Bhuvnesh Jain
Soft Elasticity in Biaxial Smectic and Smectic-C Elastomers, Olaf Stenull and Thomas C. Lubensky
Nematic Textures in Spherical Shells, Vincenzo Vitelli and David R. Nelson
Papers from 2005
Colloidal Electroconvection in a Thin Horizontal Cell. I. Microscopic Cooperative Patterns at Low Voltage, Yilong Han and David G. Grier
Papers from 2003
A 64-pixel Positron-Sensitive Surgical Probe, F. Liu, J R. Saffer, Godwin M. Mayers, Walter Kononenko, F Mitchell Newcomer, Joel S. Karp, and N S. Lockyer