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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 2004 2004

Dynamics of Normal and Superfluid Fogs Using Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy, Heetae Kim and Pierre-Anthony Lemieux

Competing Magnetic Phases on a Kagomé Staircase, Gavin J. Lawes, Michel Kenzelmann, Nyrissa S. Rogado, Keehoon Kim, Guillermo A. Jorge, Robert J. Cava, Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, A. Brooks Harris, Taner Yildirim, Qingzhen Huang, Sungil Park, C. Broholm, and Arthur P. Ramirez

Comment on “Rotational Drag on DNA: A Single Molecule Experiment, Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 2003 2003

Speckle Visibility Spectroscopy and Variable Granular Fluidization, P. K. Dixon and Douglas J. Durian

Relaxing in Foam, A. D. Gopal and Douglas J. Durian

Unusual Symmetries in the Kugel-Khomskii Hamiltonian, A. Brooks Harris, Taner Yildirim, Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and I. Ya Korenblit

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

Projectile-Shape Dependence of Impact Craters in Loose Granular Media, K. A. Newhall

Low-Speed Impact Craters in Loose Granular Media, J. S. Uehara, M. A. Ambroso, R. Ojha, and Douglas J. Durian

Quantum Dynamics of a Hydrogen Molecule Confined in a Cylindrical Potential, Taner Yildirim and A. Brooks Harris

Papers from 2002 2002

The Bend Stiffness of S-DNA, Philip C. Nelson and Cornelis Storm

Effective Temperatures of a Driven System Near Jamming, Ian K. Ono, Corey S. O'Hern, Douglas J. Durian, Stephen A. Langer, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Enhanced Drainage and Coarsening in Aqueous Foams, M. U. Vera and Douglas J. Durian

Rotational and Vibrational Dynamics of Interstitial Molecular Hydrogen, Taner Yildirim and A. Brooks Harris

Papers from 2001 2001

Quantum Fluctuations in the Frustrated Antiferromagnet Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂, A. Brooks Harris, Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, I. Ya Korenblit, Robert J. Birgeneau, and Youngjune Kim

Direct Observation of the Quantum Energy Gap in S = ½ Tetragonal Cuprate Antiferromagnets, Koichi Katsumata, Masayuki Hagiwara, Zentaro Honda, Junko Satooka, Amnon Aharony, Robert J. Birgeneau, Fangcheng Chou, Ora Entin-Wohlman, A. Brooks Harris, Marc A. Kastner, Youngjune Kim, and Youngsu Lee

Neutron Scattering Study of Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂, Youngjune Kim, Robert J. Birgeneau, Fangcheng Chou, Martin Greven, Marc A. Kastner, Youngsu Lee, Barrett O. Wells, Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, I. Ya Korenblit, A. Brooks Harris, Ross W. Erwin, and Gen Shirane

Two-Stage Rotational Disordering of a Molecular Crystal Surface: C₆₀, C. Laforge, Daniele Passerone, A. Brooks Harris, Philippe Lambin, and Erio Tosatti

Magnetization Measurements of Antiferromagnetic Domains in Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂, Beth Parks, Marc A. Kastner, Youngjune Kim, A. Brooks Harris, Fangcheng Chou, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony

Reply to Comment by S. J. Cox and D. Weaire on "Free Drainage of Aqueous Foams: Container Shape Effects on Capillarity and Vertical Gradients", A. Saint-Jalmes and Douglas J. Durian

Papers from 2000 2000

van der Waals Interactions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, Sergei A. Issaenko and A. Brooks Harris

From Avalanches to Fluid Flow: A Continuous Picture of Grain Dynamics Down a Heap, P. A. Lemieux and Douglas J. Durian

Hysteresis and Packing in Gas-Fluidized Beds, R. Ojha, Narayanan Menon, and Douglas J. Durian

Free Drainage of Aqueous Foams: Container Shape Effects on Capillarity and Vertical Gradients, A. Saint-Jalmes, M. U. Vera, and Douglas J. Durian

Instabilities in a Liquid-Fluidized Bed of Gas Bubbles, M. U. Vera, A. Saint-Jalmes, and Douglas J. Durian

Papers from 1999 1999

Electrostatic Repulsion of Positively Charged Vesicles and Negatively Charged Objects, Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Yi Chen, Nily Dan, T C. Lubesnky, Philip C. Nelson, Lauren Ramos, and D. A. Weitz

Molecular Chirality and Chiral Parameter, A. Brooks Harris, Randal D. Kamien, and Thomas C. Lubensky

Quantum Theory of Chiral Interactions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, Sergei A Issaenko, A. Brooks Harris, and Tom C. Lubensky

Field-Dependent Antiferromagnetism and Ferromagnetism of the Two Copper Sublattices in Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂, Marc A. Kastner, Amnon Aharony, Robert J. Birgeneau, Fangcheng Chou, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Martin Greven, A. Brooks Harris, Youngjune Kim, Youngsu Lee, M. E. Parks, and Qing Zhu

Ordering Due to Quantum Fluctuations in Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂, Youngjune Kim, Amnon Aharony, Robert J. Birgeneau, Fangcheng Chou, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Ross W. Erwin, Martin Greven, A. Brooks Harris, Marc A. Kastner, I. Ya Korenblit, Youngsu Lee, and Gen Shirane

Transport of Torsional Stress in DNA, Philip C. Nelson

Vanishing Elasticity for Wet Foams: Equivalence With Emulsions and Role of Polydispersity, A. Saint-James and Douglas J. Durian

Statistics of Shear-Induced Rearrangements in a Two-Dimensional Model Foam, Shubha Tewari, Dylan Schiemann, Douglas J. Durian, Charles M. Knobler, Stephen A. Langer, and Andrea J. Liu

Papers from 1998 1998

Critical Disordered Systems With Constraints and the Inequality ν > 2/d, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Shai Wiseman

Diffusing-Light Spectroscopies Beyond the Diffusion Limit: The Role of Ballistic Transport and Anisotropic Scattering, P. A. Lemieux, M. U. Vera, and Douglas J. Durian

Chirality in Liquid Crystals: From Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Structure, Tom C. Lubensky, A. Brooks Harris, Randall D. Kamien, and Gu Yan

Entropic Elasticity of Twist-Storing Polymers, J. David Moroz and Philip C. Nelson

New Measurements of DNA Twist Elasticity, Philip C. Nelson

Sequence-Disorder Effects on DNA Entropic Elasticity, Philip C. Nelson

Frustration and Quantum Fluctuations in Heisenberg fcc Antiferromagnets, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, and Eugene F. Shender

Dynamic Excitations in Membranes Induced by Optical Tweezers, Roy Bar Ziv, Elisha Moses, and Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 1997 1997

Ferromagnetic Moment and Spin Rotation Transitions in Tetragonal Antiferromagnetic Sr₂Cu₃O₄Cl₂, Fangcheng Chou, Amnon Aharony, Robert J. Birgeneau, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Martin Greven, A. Brooks Harris, Marc A. Kastner, Youngjune Kim, D. S. Kleinberg, Youngsu Lee, and Qing Zhu

Hard Spheres in Vesicles: Curvature-Induced Forces and Particle-Induced Curvature, A. D. Dinsmore, D. T. Wong, Philip C. Nelson, and A. G. Yodh

Bubble-Scale Model of Foam Mechanics: Melting, Nonlinear Behavior, and Avalanches, Douglas J. Durian

Microscopic Origin of Cholesteric Pitch, A. Brooks Harris, Randall D. Kamien, and Tom C. Lubensky

Particle Motions in a Gas-Fluidized Bed of Sand, Narayanan Menon and Douglas J. Durian

A Complete Devil's Staircase in the Falicov - Kimball Model, Cristian Micheletti, A. Brooks Harris, and Julia M. Yeomans

Dynamically-Stabilized Pores in Bilayer Membranes, J. David Moroz and Philip C. Nelson

Torsional Directed Walks, Entropic Elasticity, and DNA Twist Stiffness, J. David Moroz and Philip C. Nelson

Spontaneous Expulsion of Giant Lipid Vesicles Induced by Laser Tweezers, J David Moroz, Philip C. Nelson, Roy Bar-Ziv, and Elisha Moses

Elasticity Theory of a Twisted Stack of Plates, Corey S. O'Hern, Randall Kamien, Thomas C. Lubensky, and Philip C. Nelson

Single-Ion Anisotropy, Crystal-Field Effects, Spin Reorientation Transitions, and Spin Waves in R₂CuO₄ (R=Nd, Pr, and Sm), Ravi Sachidanandam, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Amnon Aharony, and Ora Entin-Wohlman

Towards a Microscopic Approach to the Intermolecular Interaction in Solid C₆₀, Sergei Savin, A. Brooks Harris, and Taner Yildirim

Papers from 1996 1996

Absence of Self-Averaging and Universal Fluctuations in Random Systems Near Critical Points, Amnon Aharony and A. Brooks Harris

Magnetic Anisotropies and General On-Site Coulomb Interactions in the Cuprates, Ora Entin-Wohlman, A. Brooks Harris, and Amnon Aharony

Critical Behavior of the Random-Field Ising Model, Misha Gofman, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Moshe Schwartz

Complete Wetting in the Three-Dimensional Transverse Ising Model, A. Brooks Harris, Cristian Micheletti, and Julia M. Yeomans

Direct Determination of DNA Twist-Stretch Coupling, Randall Kamien, Tom Lubensky, Philip C. Nelson, and Corey S. O'Hern

Role of Bilayer Tilt Difference in Equlibrium Membrane Shapes, Udo Seifert, Julian Shillcock, and Philip C. Nelson

Straightening of Thermal Fluctuations in Semi-Flexible Polymers by Applied Tension, Udo Seifert, Wolfgang Wintz, and Philip C. Nelson

Angular Distribution of Diffusely Transmitted Light, M. U. Vera and Douglas J. Durian

Three-Dimensional Ordering in bct Antiferromagnets Due to Quantum Disorder, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, and Eugene F. Shender

Papers from 1995 1995

Localization Length Exponent in Quantum Percolation, Iksoo Chang, Zvi Lev, A. Brooks Harris, Joan Adler, and Amnon Aharony

A Model for the Two-Phase Behavior of Fluids in Dilute Porous Media, James P. Donley, Rebecca M. Nyquist, Andrea J. Liu, Herman Z. Cummins, Douglas J. Durian, David L. Johnson, and Eugene H. Stanley

Replica-Symmetry Breaking in the Critical Behaviour of the Random Ferromagnet, Viktor Dotsenko, A. Brooks Harris, David Sherrington, and Robin B. Stinchcombe

Accuracy of Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy Theories, Douglas J. Durian

Foam Mechanics at the Bubble Scale, Douglas J. Durian

Importance of Boundary Reflections in the Theory of Diffusive Light Scattering, Douglas J. Durian

Front Propagation in the Pearling Instability of Tubular Vesicles, Raymond E. Goldstein, Philip C. Nelson, Thomas Powers, and Udo Seifert

Nonlinear Bubble Dynamics in a Slowly Driven Foam, A. D. Gopal and Douglas J. Durian

What Future Will We Choose for Physics?, Sol M. Gruner, James S. Langer, Philip C. Nelson, and Viola Vogel

Lifting of Multiphase Degeneracy by Quantum Fluctuations, A. Brooks Harris, Cristian Micheletti, and Julia M. Yeomans

Quantum Fluctuations in the Axial Next-Nearest-Neighbor Ising Model, A. Brooks Harris, Cristian Micheletti, and Julia M. Yeomans

Domain Walls in the Quantum Transverse Ising Model, Malte Henkel, A. Brooks Harris, and Marek Cieplak

Dynamical Theory of the PearlingInstability in Cylindrical Vesicles, Philip C. Nelson, Thomas Powers, and Udo Seifert

Fluctuating Membranes With Tilt Order, Thomas Powers and Philip C. Nelson

Phenomenologial Dynamics of C₇₀, Ravi Sachidanandam, Tom C. Lubensky, and A. Brooks Harris

Anisotropic Spin Hamiltonians Due to Spin-Orbit and Coulomb Exchange Interactions, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Amnon Aharony, and Ora Entin-Wohlman

Yildirim et al. Reply, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony

Papers from 1994 1994

Measure Factors, Tension, and Correlations of Fluid Membranes, W Cai, T C. Lubensky, Philip C. Nelson, and Thomas Powers

Influence of Boundary Reflection and Refraction on Diffusive Photon Transport, Douglas J. Durian

Mean-Field Theory for Alkali-Metal-Doped Polyacetylene, A. Brooks Harris

Solid H₂ and D₂: Remarkable Differences in Some NMR Properties, A. Brooks Harris, Horst Meyer, and X. Qin

Symmetry Analysis of the 2a Phase of C₆₀, A. Brooks Harris, Ravi Sachidanandam, and Taner Yildirim

Viscous and Elastic Fingering Instabilities in Foam, S. S. Park and Douglas J. Durian

Mean-Field Theory for C₇₀, Ravi Sachidanandam and A. Brooks Harris

Phase Diagram of the Dilute Ising Spin Glass in General Spatial Dimension, Shye Shapira, Lior Klein, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

Spin Structures of Tetragonal Lamellar Copper Oxides, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony

Symmetry, Spin-Orbit Interactions, and Spin Anisotropies, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony

Papers from 1993 1993

Distribution of the Logarithms of Currents in Percolating Resistor Networks. II. Series Expansions, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, Raphael Blumenfeld, A. Brooks Harris, and Yigal Meir

Distribution of the Logarithms of Currents in Percolating Resistor Networks. I. Theory, Amnon Aharony, Raphael Blumenfeld, and A. Brooks Harris

Was Superlocalization Observed in Carbon-Black–Polymer Composites?, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Ora Entin-Wohlman

Evidence for Two Exponent Scaling in the Random Field Ising Model, Michael Gofman, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Moshe Schwartz

Comment on "New Orientationally Ordered Low-Temperature Superstructure in High-Purity C₆₀", A. Brooks Harris and Ravi Sachidanandam

Renormalization of Chiral Couplings in Tilted Bilayer Membranes, Philip C. Nelson and Thomas Powers

Heisenberg Antiferromagnet With a Low Concentration of Static Defects, C. C. Wan, A. Brooks Harris, and Deepak Kumar

Orientational Phase Transition in NaxC60 (1 < x < 3), Taner Yildirim, John E. Fischer, A. Brooks Harris, Peter W. Stephens, Dan Liu, Laurent Brard, Robert M. Strongin, and Amos B. Smith III

Multipole Approach to Orientational Interactions in Solid C₆₀, Taner Yildirim, A. Brooks Harris, Steven C. Erwin, and Mark R. Pederson

Orientational Phases for M₃C₆₀, Taner Yildirim, Suklyun Hong, A. Brooks Harris, and Eugene J. Mele

Papers from 1992 1992

Vibrational Excitations in Percolation: Localization and Multifractality, Armin Bunde, H. Eduardo Roman, Stefanie Russ, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

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