Physics

Authors and titles for October 2010

[501] arXiv:1010.0227 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Massive Nordstr\"om Scalar (Density) Gravities from Universal Coupling

J. Brian Pitts

Comments: Forthcoming in General Relativity and Gravitation

Journal-ref: Gen.Rel.Grav.43:871-895,2011

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[502] arXiv:1010.0237 (cross-list from cs.CY) [pdf, other]

Title: Using Stochastic Models to Describe and Predict Social Dynamics of Web Users

Kristina Lerman, Tad Hogg

Comments: Submitted to ACM TIST Special Issue on Computational Models of Collective Intelligence in the Social Web

Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[503] arXiv:1010.0252 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Distinctive features of ion-acoustic solitons in EPI super-dense magneto-plasmas with degenerate electrons and positrons

M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Comments: Published in Physics of Plasmas (21 Pages and 4 Figures)

Journal-ref: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS, 17, 092304(2010)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[504] arXiv:1010.0258 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Sheared bioconvection in a horizontal tube

O. A. Croze, E. E. Ashraf, M. A. Bees

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures, published version available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys. Biol. 7 (2010) 046001

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[505] arXiv:1010.0302 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial Networks

Marc Barthelemy

Comments: Review article, revised and augmented version, 86 pages, 86 figures, 338 references

Journal-ref: Physics Reports 499:1-101 (2011)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[506] arXiv:1010.0339 (cross-list from q-bio.QM) [pdf, other]

Title: Monte Carlo Algorithm for Simulating Reversible Aggregation of Multisite Particles

Qiang Chang, Jin Yang

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Physical Review E, 83, 056701, 2011

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[507] arXiv:1010.0347 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: In vivo anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking of lipid granules

Jae-Hyung Jeon, Vincent Tejedor, Stas Burov, Eli Barkai, Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Kirstine Berg-Sorensen, Lene Oddershede, Ralf Metzler

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, REVTeX. Supplementary Material. Physical Review Letters, at press

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[508] arXiv:1010.0363 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other]

Title: Heat conductivity of DNA double helix

Alexander V. Savin (1), Mikhail A. Mazo (1), Irina P. Kikot (1), Leonid I. Manevitch (1), Alexey V. Onufriev (2) ((1) Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (2) Departments of Computer Science and Physics, Virginia Tech)

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[509] arXiv:1010.0379 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The Motion of a Body in Newtonian Theories

James Owen Weatherall

Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure. This is the version that appeared in JMP; it is only slightly changed from the previous version, to reflect small issue caught in proof

Journal-ref: J.Math.Phys.52: 032502,2011

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[510] arXiv:1010.0389 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Solvent-free coarse-grained lipid model for large-scale simulations

Hiroshi Noguchi

Comments: 13 pages, 19 figures

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 134, 055101 (2011)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[511] arXiv:1010.0408 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic-ray current driven turbulence in shocks with efficient particle acceleration: the oblique, long-wavelength mode instability

A.M. Bykov, S.M. Osipov, D.C. Ellison

Comments: MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: MNRAS vol. 410, page 39, 2011

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[512] arXiv:1010.0410 (cross-list from q-fin.GN) [pdf, other]

Title: Structure and Response in the World Trade Network

Jiankui He, Michael W. Deem

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Subjects: General Finance (q-fin.GN); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[513] arXiv:1010.0436 (cross-list from cond-mat.dis-nn) [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling the scaling properties of human mobility

Chaoming Song, Tal Koren, Pu Wang, Albert-László Barabási

Journal-ref: Nature Physics, 2010

Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[514] arXiv:1010.0470 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Active Motion of Janus Particle by Self-thermophoresis in Defocused Laser Beam

Hong-Ren Jiang, Natsuhiko Yoshinaga, Masaki Sano

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[515] arXiv:1010.0497 (cross-list from nlin.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Three-dimensional rogue waves in non-stationary parabolic potentials

Zhenya Yan, V. V. Konotop, N. Akhmediev

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 82, 036610 (2010)

Subjects: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[516] arXiv:1010.0557 (cross-list from nlin.PS) [pdf, other]

Title: Approximating Mexican highways with slime mould

Andrew Adamatzky, Genaro J. Martinez, Sergio V. Chapa-Vergara, Rene Asomoza-Palacio, Christopher R. Stephens

Journal-ref: Natural Computing Volume 10, Number 3 (2011), 1195-1214

Subjects: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[517] arXiv:1010.0577 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of heat treatment on mechanical dissipation in Ta$_2$O$_5$ coatings

I W Martin, R Bassiri, R Nawrodt, M M Fejer, A Gretarsson, E Gustafson, G Harry, J Hough, I MacLaren, S Penn, S Reid, R Route, S Rowan, C Schwar, P Seidel, J Scott, A L Woodcraft

Comments: accepted Classical and Quantum Gravity 2010

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav.27:225020,2010

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[518] arXiv:1010.0594 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Offsprings of a point vortex

Xavier Leoncini (CPT), Alain Barrat (CPT, ISI), Christophe Josserand (IJLRA), Simon Villain-Guillot (CPMOH, LOMA)

Journal-ref: European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems 82 (2011) 173-178

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[519] arXiv:1010.0601 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: A Random Matrix--Theoretic Approach to Handling Singular Covariance Estimates

Thomas L. Marzetta, Gabriel H. Tucci, Steven H. Simon

Comments: Submitted to Transactions on Information Theory

Subjects: Probability (math.PR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[520] arXiv:1010.0605 (cross-list from q-bio.NC) [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic Continuous Time Neurite Branching Models with Tree and Segment Dependent Rates

Ronald A.J. van Elburg

Comments: 41 pages, 2 figures, revised structure and text improvements

Journal-ref: Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2011

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[521] arXiv:1010.0624 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: Eigenvalue Results for Large Scale Random Vandermonde Matrices with Unit Complex Entries

Gabriel H. Tucci, Philip A. Whiting

Comments: Submitted to Transactions of Information Theory

Subjects: Probability (math.PR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[522] arXiv:1010.0643 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Propagation of an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection in three dimensions

Jason P. Byrne, Shane A. Maloney, R. T. James McAteer, Jose M. Refojo, Peter T. Gallagher

Comments: 5 figures, 2 supplementary movies

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[523] arXiv:1010.0652 (cross-list from math.NA) [pdf, other]

Title: A Correction Function Method for Poisson Problems with Interface Jump Conditions

Alexandre Noll Marques, Jean-Christophe Nave, Rodolfo Ruben Rosales

Comments: 59 pages, 42 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of Computational Physics 230 (20) (2011) 7567-7597

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

[524] arXiv:1010.0719 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Multinomial Diffusion Equation

Ariel Balter, Alexandre Tartakovsky

Comments: Fourth Revision

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[525] arXiv:1010.0726 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other]

Title: An effective theory of pulse propagation in a nonlinear and disordered medium in two dimensions

G. Schwiete, A. M. Finkelstein

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures. Prepared for "Perspectives of Mesoscopic Physics - Dedicated to Prof Yoseph Imry's 70th Birthday". This article is based on arXiv:0905.4722 [PRL 104, 103904 (2010)] and contains additional information and illustrations

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Optics (physics.optics)

[526] arXiv:1010.0736 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Accelerated Stochastic Sampling of Discrete Statistical Systems

Zsolt Bertalan, Hidetoshi Nishimori, Henri Orland

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E

Journal-ref: Physical Review E 82, (2010) 056704

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[527] arXiv:1010.0794 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Where is liquid-vapor interface located in solutions?

R. Tsekov, B. Cohen, B. Radoev, H.J. Schulze

Journal-ref: Euromech 367 (1997) 53-60

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[528] arXiv:1010.0872 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Computation of synthetic spectra from simulations of relativistic shocks

Brian Reville, John G. Kirk

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[529] arXiv:1010.0940 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal control of open quantum systems: cooperative effects of driving and dissipation

Rebecca Schmidt, Antonio Negretti, Joachim Ankerhold, Tommaso Calarco, Jürgen T. Stockburger

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures; 6 page supplement, v2: major revision for wider scope, additional data, change of title, v3: fixed typo, v4: minor changes for clarity, extended supplement

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 130404 (2011)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[530] arXiv:1010.0954 (cross-list from cond-mat.supr-con) [pdf, other]

Title: Dispersive readout scheme for a Josephson phase qubit

T. Wirth, J. Lisenfeld, A. Lukashenko, A. V. Ustinov

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[531] arXiv:1010.0971 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: The DAE{\delta}ALUS Project: Rationale and Beam Requirements

Jose R. Alonso (for the DAEδALUS Collaboration)

Comments: Presentation at Cyclotron'10 conference, Lanzhou, China, Sept 7, 2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[532] arXiv:1010.1028 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Stealing Reality

Yaniv Altshuler, Nadav Aharony, Yuval Elovici, Alex Pentland, Manuel Cebrian

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[533] arXiv:1010.1103 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of the square-shoulder fluid

S. B. Yuste, A. Santos, M. López de Haro

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Mol. Phys. 109, 987-995 (2011)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[534] arXiv:1010.1124 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Negative optical inertia for enhancing the sensitivity of future gravitational-wave detectors

Farid Khalili, Stefan Danilishin, Helge Mueller-Ebhardt, Haixing Miao, Yanbei Chen, Chunnong Zhao

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D83:062003,2011

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Optics (physics.optics)

[535] arXiv:1010.1162 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: The Accelerating Universe

Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)

Comments: Invited review chapter for book "Adventures in Cosmology" (ed. D. Goodstein) aimed at general scientists; 28 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[536] arXiv:1010.1171 (cross-list from astro-ph.EP) [pdf, other]

Title: Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Solar System Objects

M. I. Mishchenko, V. K. Rosenbush, N. N. Kiselev, D. F. Lupishko, V. P. Tishkovets, V. G. Kaydash, I. N. Belskaya, Y. S. Efimov, N. M. Shakhovskoy

Comments: Scientific monograph published by the academic publisher "Akademperiodyka", Kyiv, 2010

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Optics (physics.optics)

[537] arXiv:1010.1211 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Real-time monitoring of complex moduli from micro-rheology

Taiki Yanagishima, Daan Frenkel, Jurij Kotar, Erika Eiser

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[538] arXiv:1010.1233 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Cross Correlators and Galilean Invariance in Fluctuating Ideal Gas Lattice Boltzmann Simulations

Goetz Kaehler, Alexander Wagner

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, DSFD 2009

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[539] arXiv:1010.1297 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Additional Light Waves in Hydrodynamics and Holography

A. Amariti, D. Forcella, A. Mariotti

Comments: 20 pages, 17 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Optics (physics.optics)

[540] arXiv:1010.1408 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Interaction of the Electromagnetic S-Wave with the Thin Metal Film

A. V. Latyshev, A. A. Yushkanov

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[541] arXiv:1010.1422 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Pair interactions between complex mesoscopic particles from Widom's particle-insertion method

Bianca M. Mladek, Daan Frenkel

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Soft Matter

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[542] arXiv:1010.1449 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: The geometry of nonlinear least squares with applications to sloppy models and optimization

Mark K. Transtrum, Benjamin B. Machta, James P. Sethna

Comments: 40 pages, 29 Figures

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[543] arXiv:1010.1452 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, other]

Title: Cathodoluminescence and Selective Emission of Er3+ in Oxides

V. M. Marchenko, M. G. Voitik, V. A. Yuryev

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Laser Physics, 2008, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 756-761

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Optics (physics.optics)

[544] arXiv:1010.1460 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Aggregation of amphiphilic polymers in the presence of adhesive small colloidal particles

Vladimir A. Baulin, Albert Johner, Josep Bonet Avalos

Comments: J. Chem. Phys. (in press)

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 133, 174905 (2010)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[545] arXiv:1010.1467 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-relativistic Gravity in Entropic Quantum Dynamics

David T. Johnson, Ariel Caticha

Comments: Presented at MaxEnt 2010, the 30th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (July 4-9, 2010, Chamonix, France)

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

[546] arXiv:1010.1486 (cross-list from hep-lat) [pdf, other]

Title: Lattice SU(2) on GPU's

Nuno Cardoso, Pedro Bicudo

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LAT2010, July 14-19 2010, Villasimius, Sadinia, Italy

Journal-ref: PoS Lattice2010:024,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[547] arXiv:1010.1494 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Geometry and Statistics of Ehrenfest dynamics

J. L. Alonso, A. Castro, J. Clemente-Gallardo, J. C. Cuchí, P. Echenique, F. Falceto

Comments: LaTeX(RevTeX 4.1), 14 pages, 1 figure. Submitted for publication

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[548] arXiv:1010.1495 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on "Quantum Control and Entanglement in a Chemical Compass"

I. K. Kominis

Comments: 1 pages, 1 figure

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

[549] arXiv:1010.1520 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Differential Light Shift Cancellation in a Magnetic-Field-Insensitive Transition of $^{87}$Rb

R. Chicireanu, K. D. Nelson, S. Olmschenk, N. Lundblad, A. Derevianko, J. V. Porto

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[550] arXiv:1010.1542 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Lie symmetry analysis and exact solutions of the quasi-geostrophic two-layer problem

Alexander Bihlo, Roman O. Popovych

Comments: Extended version, 24 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: J. Math. Phys. 52 (2011), 033103, 24 pp

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