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The aim of physicists is to discover the most fundamental principles of nature. Their tools are mathematics and experiment. The physical world as we perceive it is very complex, yet the principles of Physics are inherently simple. A physicist's forte is the ability to analyze a problem, reduce its complexity, and arrive at an understanding of the underlying patterns of nature in terms of simple relationships among constituent elements. Learning to do this gives Physics majors an intellectual versatility that can serve them well in a variety of future activities ranging from research and teaching in Physics or related sciences to careers in law, the health professions, and high-technology companies.

Papers from 2012 2012

Scaling Exponents for a Monkey on a Tree: Fractal Dimensions of Randomly Branched Polymers, Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull

DNA-decorated carbon nanotube-based FETs as ultrasensitive chemical sensors: Discrimination of homologues, structural isomers, and optical isomers, S. M. Khamis, R. A. Jones, A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr., G. Preti, J. Kwak, and A. Gelperin

Spatially Covariant Theories of a Transverse, Traceless Graviton: Formalism, Justin Khoury, Godfrey E. J. Miller, and Andrew J. Tolley

DBI Inflation in N = 1 Supergravity, Michael Koehn, Jean-Luc Lehners, and Burt A. Ovrut

Higher-Derivative Chiral Superfield Actions Coupled to N = 1 Supergravity, Michael Koehn, Jean-Luc Lehners, and Burt A. Ovrut

Controlled Doping of Graphene Using Ultraviolet Irradiation, Zhentang Luo, Nicholas J. Pinto, Yarely Davila, and A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr.

Graphene-Protein Bioelectronic Devices with Wavelength-Dependent Photoresponse, Ye Lu, Mitchell B. Lerner, Zhengqing John Qi, Joseph J. Mitala Jr., Jong Hsien Lim, Bohdana M. Discher, and A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr.

Breaking the rules for topological defects: Smectic order on conical substrates, Ricardo A. Mosna, Daniel A. Beller, and Randall Kamien

Spare the (Elastic) Rod, Philip C. Nelson

Why Do Axons Differ in Caliber?, Janos A. Perge, Jeremy E. Niven, Enrico Mugnaini, Vijay Balasubramanian, and Peter Sterling

Coarsening of a Two-dimensional Foam on a Dome, A. E. Roth, C. D. Jones, and Douglas J. Durian

Environmental Chamber for in Situ Dynamic Control of Temperature and Relative Humidity During X-Ray Scattering, David Salas-de la Cruz, Jeffrey G. Denis, Matthew D. Griffith, Daniel R. King, Paul A. Heiney, and Karen I. Winey

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cross-Correlation of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing and Quasars, Blake D. Sherwin, Sudeep Das, Amir Hajian, Graeme Addison, Richard Bond, Devin Crichton, Mark J. Devlin, and Erik D. Reese

Quantum Stability of Chameleon Field Theories, Amol Upadhye, Wayne Hu, and Justin Khoury

No-Go Theorems for Generalized Chameleon Field Theories, Junpu Wang, Lam Hui, and Justin Khoury

Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Using the Skewness of the CMB Temperature Distribution, Michael J. Wilson, Blake D. Sherwin, J. Colin Hill, Graeme Addison, Nick Battaglia, J. Richard Bond, Sudeep Das, Mark J. Devlin, Erik D. Reese, and Daniel S. Swetz

Dirac Semimetal in Three Dimensions, Steve M. Young, Saad Zaheer, Jeffrey C. Teo, Charles L. Kane, Eugene J. Mele, and A M. Rappe

Influence of Particle Shape on Bending Rigidity of Colloidal Monolayer Membranes and Particle Deposition during Droplet Evaporation in Confined Geometries, Peter J. Yunker, Matthew Gratale, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Thomas C. Lubensky, and Arjun G. Yodh

Surface States of Topological Insulators, Fan Zhang, Charles L. Kane, and Eugene J. Mele

Papers from 2011 2011

Screening Bulk Curvature in the Presence of Large Brane Tension, Nishant Agarwal, Rachel Bean, Justin Khoury, and Mark Trodden

Stabilizing all geometric moduli in heterotic Calabi-Yau vacua, Lara B. Anderson, James Gray, Andre Lukas, and Burt A. Ovrut

Instabilities of spherical solutions with multiple Galileons and SO(N) symmetry, Melinda Andrews, Kurt Hinterbichler, Justin Khoury, and Mark Trodden

Thermalization of Strongly Coupled Field Theories, Vijay Balasubramanian, Alice Bernamonti, Johannes de Boer, Neil Copland, Ben Craps, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Berndt O. Müller, Andreas Schäfer, Masaki Shigemori, and Wieland Staessens

Helical Luttinger Liquids and Three-Dimensional Black Holes, Vijay Balasubramanian, Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Finn Larsen, and Joan Simón

Changepoint Analysis for Single-Molecule Polarized Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy Experiments, John F. Beausang, Yale E. Goldman, and Philip C. Nelson

Pb-free Ferroelectrics Investigated with Density Functional Theory: SnAl_½Nb_½O₃ Perovskites, Joseph W Bennett, Ilya Grinberg, Peter K. Davies, and Andrew M. Rappe

Conformal Invariance and Near-Extreme Rotating AdS Black Holes, Tolga Birkandan and Mirjam Cvetič

Serious discrepancies between nuclear magnetic resonance and neutron scattering measurements in the critical region of classic two-dimensional magnets and anomalous behaviors at low temperatures, Nicholas Bykovetz, J. Klein, and C. L. Lin

Is EuSe a pseudo two-dimensional magnetic system?, Nicholas Bykovetz, J. Klein, C. L. Lin, and K. Raj

Measurement of Correlations between Low-Frequency Vibrational Modes and Particle Rearrangements in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Colloidal Glasses, Ke Chen, M. L. Manning, Peter J. Yunker, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Zexin Zhang, Andrea J. Liu, and Arjun G. Yodh

Universal Area Product Formulas for Rotating and Charged Black Holes in Four and Higher Dimensions, Mirjam Cvetič, Gary W. Gibbons, and Christopher N. Pope

Black Hole Enthalpy and an Entropy Inequality for the Thermodynamic Volume, Mirjam Cvetič, G. W. Gibbons, D. Kubizňák, and C. N. Pope

Propagating Waves in a Monolayer of Gas-Fluidized Rods, Linda J. Daniels

Tackling Higher Derivative Ghosts with the Euclidean Path Integral, Michele Fontanini and Mark Trodden

The Puzzle of ³²Mg, H Terry Fortune

Widths in ¹⁵C and ¹⁵F, H Terry Fortune

(sd)² States or Superclusters in ¹⁰Be, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Neutron Widths and Configuration Mixing in ¹¹Be, H. Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Structure of 2⁺, T = 2 States in A = 12 Nuclei, H. Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Stability and Superluminality of Spherical DBI Galileon Solutions, Garrett L. Goon, Kurt Hinterbichler, and Mark Trodden

Measuring Oscillatory Velocity Fields Due to Swimming Algae, Jeffrey S. Guasto, Karl A. Johnson, and Jerry P. Gollub

Phonons and Their Coupling to Magnons in n=2 Ruddlesden-Popper Compounds, A. Brooks Harris

Symmetry Analysis for the Ruddlesden-Popper Systems Ca₃Mn₂O₇ and Ca₃Ti₂O₇, A. Brooks Harris

Symmetry analysis for the Ruddlesden-Popper systems Ca₃Mn₂O₇ and Ca₃Ti₂O₇, A. Brooks Harris

Universal Jamming Phase Diagram in the Hard-Sphere Limit, Thomas K. Haxton, Michael Schmiedeberg, and Andrea J. Liu

Internal Stresses, Normal Modes, and Nonaffinity in Three-Dimensional Biopolymer Networks, E. M. Huisman and Thomas C. Lubensky

Collapse Transition of Randomly Branched Polymers: Renormalized Field Theory, Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull

Interface Between Topological and Superconducting Qubits, Liang Jiang, Charles L. Kane, and John Preskill

Scale Invariance via a Phase of Slow Expansion, Austin Joyce and Justin Khoury

Optimized Photolithographic Fabrication Process for Carbon Nanotube Devices, Samuel M. Khamis, R. A. Jones, and A. T. Charlie Johnson

Supersymmetric Galileons, Justin Khoury, Jean-Luc Lehners, and Burt A. Ovrut

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

Abrasion of Flat Rotating Shapes, A. E. Roth, C. M. Marques, and Douglas J. Durian

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 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

Noise and Bias in Square-Root Compression Schemes, Gary M. Bernstein, Chris Bebek, Jason Rhodes, Chris Stoughton, R. Ali Vanderveld, and Penshu Yeh

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

Magnetic Structure and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Bulk and Thin Film FeVO₄, Ambesh V. Dixit, Gavin J. Lawes, and A. Brooks Harris

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

A System Exhibiting Toroidal Order, A. Brooks Harris

Charge and Spin Ordering in the Mixed-Valence Compound LuFe₂O₄, A. Brooks Harris and Taner Yildirim

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

Photometric Redshift Biases from Galaxy Evolution, C. Jonathan MacDonald and Gary Bernstein

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

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