Physics

Authors and titles for November 2005

[201] arXiv:physics/0511201 [pdf, other]

Title: Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics

Andrea Baronchelli, Luca Dall'Asta, Alain Barrat, Vittorio Loreto

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Artificial Life X, edited by L. M. Rocha et al., pages 480-485, MIT press (2006)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)

[202] arXiv:physics/0511202 [pdf, other]

Title: Ordering Algorithms and Confidence Intervals in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters

Giovanni Punzi

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of PhyStat2005, Oxford, UK, Sept 2005, Imperial College Press

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[203] arXiv:physics/0511203 [pdf, other]

Title: Subgrid-scale modeling of reacting scalar fluxes in large-eddy simulations of atmospheric boundary layers

Jean-François Vinuesa (SAFL), Fernando Porté-Agel (SAFL, NCED), Sukanta Basu (SAFL), Rob Stoll (SAFL)

Comments: Submitted to Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[204] arXiv:physics/0511204 [pdf, other]

Title: Fluctuation of magnetic induction in von K\'arm\'an swirling flows

Romain Volk, Philippe Odier, Jean-Francois Pinton

Comments: 26 pages, 14 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[205] arXiv:physics/0511205 [pdf, other]

Title: Random Phase Approximation For allowed and Parity Non-conserving Electric Dipole Transition Amplitudes and its connection with Many-Body Perturbation Theory and Coupled Cluster Theory

Geetha Gopakumar, Chiranjib Sur, Bhanu Pratap Das, Rajat K. Chaudhuri, D. Mukherjee, Kimihiko Hirao

Comments: 12 pages, 7 pictures - accepted in JTCC- Proceedings of the APCTCC2 conference held at Bankok, Thailand

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[206] arXiv:physics/0511206 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups

Anthony F.J. van Raan

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[207] arXiv:physics/0511207 [pdf, other]

Title: Simple derivation of dyadic Green functions of a simply moving, isotropic, dielectric-magnetic medium

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Tom G. Mackay

Comments: 3 pages

Journal-ref: Microwave Opt. Technol. Lett. 48 (2006), 1073-1074.

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[208] arXiv:physics/0511208 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical and Mathematical Properties of a Quasi-Geostrophic Model of Intermediate Complexity of the Mid-Latitudes Atmospheric Circulation

Valerio Lucarini, Antonio Speranza, Renato VItolo

Comments: 57 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[209] arXiv:physics/0511209 [pdf, other]

Title: The LHC, shining light on the Dark Side

Anna Lipniacka

Comments: 7pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[210] arXiv:physics/0511210 [pdf, other]

Title: Orthogonal-Phase-Velocity Propagation of Electromagnetic Plane Waves

Tom G. Mackay (University of Edinburgh), Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Pennsylvania State University)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[211] arXiv:physics/0511211 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydration process of multi-stacked phospholipid bilayers to form giant vesicles

M. Hishida, H. Seto, N.L. Yamada, K. Yoshikawa

Comments: 4pages, 4figures

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[212] arXiv:physics/0511212 [pdf, other]

Title: Advanced Photodetectors for Hyperspectroscopy and Other Applications

I. Rodionov, J-M. Bidault, I. Crotty, P. Fonte, F. Galy, V. Peskov, O. Zanette

Comments: Presented at the IEEE Nuclear Science Syposium, Puerto Rico, October 2005

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[213] arXiv:physics/0511213 [pdf, other]

Title: Low vorticity and small gas expansion in premixed flames

Bruno Denet (IRPHE), Vitaly Bychkov

Journal-ref: Combustion Science and Technology 177 (2005) 1543

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[214] arXiv:physics/0511214 [pdf, other]

Title: Zero-spin-photon hypothesis: `Zero-spin-photon generation in pair-production and its subsequent decay into neutrino and antineutrino' - solves many-riddles of physics and universe

R.C.Gupta, Anirudh Pradhan, Ruchi Gupta, Sanjay Gupta, V.P.Gautam, B.Das, Sushant Gupta

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, Zero-spin-photon is inevitable consequence of second law of thermodynamics and spin conservation, and its subsequent splitting explains neutrino-genesis

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[215] arXiv:physics/0511215 [pdf, other]

Title: The Network of Collaboration Among Rappers and its Community Structure

Reginald D. Smith

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables Accepted for publication in The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. Minor changes in TeX style, added comments, table formatting corrected

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Mech. (2006) P02006

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[216] arXiv:physics/0511216 [pdf, other]

Title: Zipf Law for Brazilian Cities

Newton J. Moura Jr. (1), Marcelo B. Ribeiro (2) ((1) IBGE - Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics, Geosciences Directorate, Rio de Janeiro, (2) Physics Institute, University of Brazil - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro)

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, Elsevier LaTeX, accepted for publication in "Physica A". Correction of minor mistyping (eq. 8)

Journal-ref: Physica A 367 (2006) 441-448

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[217] arXiv:physics/0511217 [pdf, other]

Title: Computing stationary free-surface shapes in microfluidics

M. Schindler, P. Talkner, P. Hanggi

Comments: Revised version

Journal-ref: Physics of Fluids 18, 103303 (2006)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[218] arXiv:physics/0511218 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Features of Vacuum Flux Impact: An Interpretation of Quantum Phenomena

C. L. Herzenberg

Comments: 27 pages, 0 figures, submitted for publication to Physics Essays

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[219] arXiv:physics/0511219 [pdf, other]

Title: Algorithm for Model Validation: Theory and Applications

D. Sornette (ETH Zurich), A. B. Davis (LANL), K. Ide (UCLA), K. R. Vixie (LANL), V. Pisarenko (Acad. Russia), J. R. Kamm (LANL)

Comments: 26 page with 5 figures: version in press in PNAS extended to incorporate the referee's suggestion and 4 added figures

Journal-ref: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 104 (16), 6562-6567 (2007)

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[220] arXiv:physics/0511220 [pdf, other]

Title: Annual change of Pareto index dynamically deduced from the law of detailed quasi-balance

Atushi Ishikawa

Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); General Finance (q-fin.GN)

[221] arXiv:physics/0511221 [pdf, other]

Title: Progress on a spherical TPC for low energy neutrino detection

S Aune, P Colas, H Deschamps, J Dolbeau, G Fanourakis, E Ferrer Ribas, T Enqvist, T Geralis, Y Giomataris, P Gorodetzky, G J Gounaris, M Gros, I G Irastorza, K Kousouris, V Lepeltier, J Morales, T Patzak, E A Paschos, P Salin, I Savvidis, J. D. Vergados

Comments: 3 pages, talk given at the 9th Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Zaragoza, September 10-14

Journal-ref: J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 39 (2006) 281-283

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[222] arXiv:physics/0511222 [pdf, other]

Title: A forgotten publication of Ettore Majorana on the improvement of the Thomas-Fermi statistical model

Francesco Guerra (1), Nadia Robotti (2) ((1) Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", and INFN, sezione di Roma1, (2) Department of Physics, University of Genova)

Comments: 17 pages

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[223] arXiv:physics/0511223 [pdf, other]

Title: Interaction of scanning probes with semiconductor nanocrystals; Physical mechanism and basis for near field optical imaging

Yuval Ebenstein, Eyal Yoskovitz, Ronny Costi, Asaf Aharoni, Uri Banin

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Optics (physics.optics)

[224] arXiv:physics/0511224 [pdf, other]

Title: Grouping in the stock markets of Japan and Korea

Woo-Sung Jung, Okyu Kwon, Taisei Kaizoji, Seungbyung Chae, Hie-Tae Moon

Comments: 12 pages

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)

[225] arXiv:physics/0511225 [pdf, other]

Title: Reynolds' Dream?

Jerzy Hanckowiak

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[226] arXiv:physics/0511226 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic field induced by elliiptical instability in a rotating tidally distorded sphere

P. Le Gal (IRPHE), L. Lacaze (IRPHE), S. Le Dizès (IRPHE)

Journal-ref: Journal of Physics: conference Series 14 (2005) 30-34

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[227] arXiv:physics/0511227 [pdf, other]

Title: Demonstration of all-optical beam steering in modulated photonic lattices

Christian R. Rosberg, Ivan L. Garanovich, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Yuri S. Kivshar

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Opt. Lett. 31, 1498-1500 (2006)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[228] arXiv:physics/0511228 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Singularities

Giampiero Esposito

Comments: Expository article

Journal-ref: Published in Inizio e Futuro del Cosmo: Linguaggi a Confronto, pp. 113-122, Editors: Renato Pucci and Giuseppe Ruggieri, Edizioni S. Paolo, year 1999, ISBN 88-215-4009-X

Subjects: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[229] arXiv:physics/0511229 [pdf, other]

Title: Transition Radiation Spectra of Electrons from 1 to 10 GeV/c in Regular and Irregular Radiators

A. Andronic, et al (for the ALICE collaboration)

Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A

Journal-ref: Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A558:516-525,2006

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[230] arXiv:physics/0511230 [pdf, other]

Title: Elliptical instability of a flow in a rotating shell

L. Lacaze (IRPHE), P. Le Gal (IRPHE), S. Le Dizès (IRPHE)

Journal-ref: Physics of Earth and Planetary Interior 151 (2005) 194-205

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[231] arXiv:physics/0511231 [pdf, other]

Title: Conceptual design of a phase shifting telescope-interferometer

Francois Henault

Comments: 17 pages and 5 figures

Journal-ref: Opt.Commun.261:34-42,2006

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[232] arXiv:physics/0511232 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolutionary search agents in complex landscapes - a new model for the role of competence and meta-competence (EVOLINO and other simulation tools)

Andrea Scharnhorst (1), Werner Ebeling (2) ((1) Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (2) Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

Comments: 104 pages, 39 figures, for the interactive simulation tools see this http URL

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[233] arXiv:physics/0511233 [pdf, other]

Title: Position Reconstruction in Drift Chambers operated with Xe, CO2 (15%)

C. Adler, et al (for the ALICE TRD collaboration)

Comments: 30 pages, 18 figures

Journal-ref: Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A540:140-157,2005

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[234] arXiv:physics/0511234 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical properties of the radiation from VUV FEL at DESY operating at 30 nm wavelength in the femtosecond regime

E.L. Saldin, E.A. Schneidmiller, M.V. Yurkov

Comments: 24 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A562 (2006) 472-486

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[235] arXiv:physics/0511235 [pdf, other]

Title: Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D$_1$ line

Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 73, 043409 (2006)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[236] arXiv:physics/0511236 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient Data Assimilation for Spatiotemporal Chaos: a Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

Brian R. Hunt, Eric J. Kostelich, Istvan Szunyogh

Comments: Revised version: 32 pages, 2 figures; includes new Section 5 and many editorial changes

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[237] arXiv:physics/0511237 [pdf, other]

Title: Taming the Gerrymander--Statistical Physics Approach to Political Districting Problem

Chung-I Chou, Sai-Ping Li

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[238] arXiv:physics/0511238 [pdf, other]

Title: Explicit Representations for the T-Matrix on Unphysical Energy Sheets and Resonances in Two- and Three-Body Systems

Alexander K. Motovilov

Comments: Based on a lecture given at the International Workshop ``Critical Stability of Few-Body Quantum Systems'' (Dresden, October 17--22, 2005)

Journal-ref: Few Body Systems, Vol. 38 (2006) 115-120

Subjects: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[239] arXiv:physics/0511239 [pdf, other]

Title: Coupled dynamics of atoms and radiation pressure driven interferometers

D. Meiser, P. Meystre

Comments: 11 pages; 13 figures; two added references and other minor corrections

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[240] arXiv:physics/0511240 [pdf, other]

Title: The quantization of energy in the harmonic-oscillator potential: Power series solution

Omer Sise

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[241] arXiv:physics/0511241 [pdf, other]

Title: Laser cooling of trapped ytterbium ions with an ultraviolet diode laser

D. Kielpinski, M. Cetina, J.A. Cox, F.X. Kaertner

Comments: submitted to Opt. Lett

Journal-ref: Opt. Lett. 31, 757 (2006)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[242] arXiv:physics/0511242 [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic identification of a poroelastic cylinder

Zine Fellah (LMA), Jean-Philippe Groby (LMA, LATF), Erick Ogam (LMA), Thierry Scotti (LMA), Armand Wirgin (LMA)

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[243] arXiv:physics/0511243 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial Coupling of a Lattice Boltzmann fluid model with a Finite Difference Navier-Stokes solver

Jonas Latt, Bastien Chopard, Paul Albuquerque

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[244] arXiv:physics/0511244 [pdf, other]

Title: Tuning quadratic nonlinear photonic crystal fibers for zero group-velocity mismatch

Morten Bache, Hanne Nielsen, Jesper Lægsgaard, Ole Bang

Comments: 3 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Optics Letters

Journal-ref: Opt. Lett. 31, 1612-1614 (2006)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[245] arXiv:physics/0511245 [pdf, other]

Title: Forecasting Convective Downburst Potential Over The United States Great Plains

Kenneth Pryor

Comments: web page (.html) format, 6 figures; minor text modifications, revised figure; replaced with PDF version

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[246] arXiv:physics/0511246 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced surface plasmon resonance absorption in metal-dielectric-metal layered microspheres

Keisuke Hasegawa, Charles A. Rohde, Miriam Deutsch

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication, Optics Letters. Revisions upon final review

Journal-ref: Opt. Lett. 31, 1136 (2006)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[247] arXiv:physics/0511247 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized relativistic velocity addition with spacetime algebra

Carlos R. Paiva, Marco A. Ribeiro

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[248] arXiv:physics/0511248 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced transmission of optically thick metallic films at infrared wavelengths

Dezhuan Han, Xin Li, Fengqin Wu, Jian Zi

Comments: 3 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett

Journal-ref: Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 161110 ?(2006?)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[249] arXiv:physics/0511249 [pdf, other]

Title: Positive-, negative-, and orthogonal-phase-velocity propagation of electromagnetic plane waves in a simply moving medium

Tom G. Mackay (University of Edinburgh), Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Pennsylvania State University), Sandi Setiawan (University of Edinburgh)

Journal-ref: Optik 118, 195-202 (2007)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[250] arXiv:physics/0511250 [pdf, other]

Title: On a separation criterion for symmetric elliptic bluff body flows

Kaushik Srinivasan

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)