Physics

Authors and titles for May 2014

[1] arXiv:1405.0001 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlocal coupling effects on single-photon transmission in a one-dimensional waveguide interacted with a side optical cavity

Yongyou Zhang, Bingsuo Zou

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

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

[2] arXiv:1405.0007 [pdf, other]

Title: Principle of Maximum Fisher Information from Hardy's Axioms Applied to Statistical Systems

B.R. Frieden, R.A. Gatenby

Comments: 17 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 88, 042144, 1-6 (2013)

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[3] arXiv:1405.0020 [pdf, other]

Title: Empirical analysis on the connection between power-law distributions and allometries for urban indicators

Luiz G.A. Alves, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Ervin K. Lenzi, Renio S. Mendes

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physica A

Journal-ref: Physica A 409, 175 (2014)

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

[4] arXiv:1405.0021 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on "Measurement of the speed-of-light perturbation of free-fall absolute gravimeters"

V D Nagornyi

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

[5] arXiv:1405.0058 [pdf, other]

Title: Underestimating extreme events in power-law behavior due to machine-dependent cutoffs

Filippo Radicchi

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 90, 050801 (2014)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computation (stat.CO)

[6] arXiv:1405.0061 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics with anisotropy and flow

Graham R. Dennis, Stuart R. Hudson, Robert L. Dewar, Matthew J. Hole

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1401.3076

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[7] arXiv:1405.0095 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization of physics on global courses

Allan L. Alinea, Wade Naylor

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; modified the discussion to focus on polarisation; the discussion on English ability can now be found in the appendix; added references

Journal-ref: 2015 Phys. Educ. 50 210

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

[8] arXiv:1405.0118 [pdf, other]

Title: Classical reactive scattering in a quantum spirit: Improving the shape of rotational state distributions in the quantum regime

L. Bonnet, P. Larrégaray, Ph. Halvick, J.-C. Rayez

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[9] arXiv:1405.0124 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the phase diagram of fully turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, Erwin P. van der Poel, Roberto Verzicco, Siegfried Grossmann, Detlef Lohse

Comments: 23 pages, submitted to JFM

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[10] arXiv:1405.0132 [pdf, other]

Title: Slow-light enhanced gain in active photonic crystal waveguides

Sara Ek, Per Lunnemann, Yaohui Chen, Elizaveta Semenova, Kresten Yvind, Jesper Mørk

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[11] arXiv:1405.0147 [pdf, other]

Title: Receivers for Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication: Exploiting Memory and Sampling Rate

Reza Mosayebi, Hamidreza Arjmandi, Amin Gohari, Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari, Urbashi Mitra

Comments: Submitted to JSAC

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[12] arXiv:1405.0168 [pdf, other]

Title: Adding SALT to Coupled Microcavities: the making of active photonic molecule lasers

Denis Gagnon, Joey Dumont, Jean-Luc Déziel, Louis J. Dubé

Comments: 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[13] arXiv:1405.0183 [pdf, other]

Title: Bulldozing of granular material

A. Sauret (1), N.J. Balmforth (2), C.P. Caulfield (3 and 4), J.N. McElwaine (5 and 6) ((1) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, USA, (2) Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (3) BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, UK, (4) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, UK, (5) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Durham UK, (6) WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse, Switzerland)

Journal-ref: Journal of Fluid Mechanics 748, 143-174 (2014)

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

[14] arXiv:1405.0187 [pdf, other]

Title: Split-Quaternions and the Dirac Equation

Francesco Antonuccio

Comments: 17 pages; corrected misprint in eqn (70); corrected sign for Weyl basis in Section 5; minor improvements in layout

Journal-ref: Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras (2015), Vol 25, pp 13-29

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[15] arXiv:1405.0192 [pdf, other]

Title: Geo-neutrinos and Earth Models

S.T. Dye, Y. Huang, V. Lekic, W.F. McDonough, O. Sramek

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures; Contributed paper TAUP 2013

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[16] arXiv:1405.0193 [pdf, other]

Title: The complex planetary synchronization structure of the solar system

Nicola Scafetta

Comments: 9 figure, 19 pages. This article is a chapter of the special issue "Pattern in solar variability, their planetary origin and terrestrial impacts" available at the url: this http URL

Journal-ref: Pattern Recognition in Physics 2, 1-19, 2014

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[17] arXiv:1405.0194 [pdf, other]

Title: SIESTA-PEXSI: Massively parallel method for efficient and accurate \textit{ab initio} materials simulation without matrix diagonalization

Lin Lin, Alberto García, Georg Huhs, Chao Yang

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[18] arXiv:1405.0199 [pdf, other]

Title: Liquid Phase 3D Printing for Quickly Manufacturing Metal Objects with Low Melting Point Alloy Ink

Lei Wang, Jing Liu

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[19] arXiv:1405.0200 [pdf, other]

Title: Black hole radiation of spin-1 particles in (1+2) dimensions

S. I. Kruglov

Comments: 7 pages, no figures, journal version

Journal-ref: Modern Physics Letters A Vol. 29, No. 39 (2014) 1450203

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[20] arXiv:1405.0207 [pdf, other]

Title: Reply to "Comment on 'A Scaling law beyond Zipf's law and its relation to Heaps' law'"

Francesc Font-Clos, Álvaro Corral

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

[21] arXiv:1405.0217 [pdf, other]

Title: Veselago lens by photonic hyper-crystals

Zun Huang, Evgenii E. Narimanov

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, APL in press

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[22] arXiv:1405.0220 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectrum multiplexing and coherent-state decomposition in Fourier ptychographic imaging

Siyuan Dong, Radhika Shiradkar, Pariksheet Nanda, Guoan Zheng

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[23] arXiv:1405.0226 [pdf, other]

Title: Wide-field, high-resolution Fourier ptychographic microscopy

Guoan Zheng, Roarke Horstmeyer, Changhuei Yang

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures. Nature Photonics,2013

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[24] arXiv:1405.0238 [pdf, other]

Title: Speed-of-light limitations in passive linear media

Aaron Welters, Yehuda Avniel, Steven G. Johnson

Comments: 19 pages, 1 figure

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

[25] arXiv:1405.0239 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Torque from Enhanced Scattering by Multipolar Plasmonic Resonance

Yoonkyung E. Lee, Kin Hung Fung, Dafei Jin, Nicholas Fang

Comments: main article 20 pages, 4 figures; supplementary material 6 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Nanophotonics 3, 343-350 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[26] arXiv:1405.0258 [pdf, other]

Title: FDE-vdW: A van der Waals Inclusive Subsystem Density-Functional Theory

Ruslan Kevorkyants, Henk Eshuis, Michele Pavanello

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[27] arXiv:1405.0273 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized Full-Vector Multi-Mode Matching Analysis of Whispering-Gallery Microcavities

Xuan Du, Serge Vincent, Mathieu Faucher, Marie-Josee Picard, Tao Lu

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[28] arXiv:1405.0304 [pdf, other]

Title: Phase-field theory of brine entrapment in sea ice: Short-time frozen microstructures

Silke Thoms, Bernd Kutschan, Klaus Morawetz

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[29] arXiv:1405.0307 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards Evidence of Long-Range Correlations in Shallow Seismic Activities

Douglas S. R. Ferreira, Jennifer Ribeiro, Andrés R. R. Papa, Ronaldo Menezes

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: FERREIRA, Douglas et al. Towards evidence of long-range correlations in shallow seismic activities. EPL (Europhysics Letters), v. 121, n. 5, p. 58003, 2018

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[30] arXiv:1405.0323 [pdf, other]

Title: Sector Models - A Toolkit for Teaching General Relativity. Part 1: Curved Spaces and Spacetimes

C. Zahn, U. Kraus

Comments: bilingual: English version 18 pages, 9 figures, for associated movies see this http URL. German version 19 pages, 9 figures, for associated movies see this http URL

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[31] arXiv:1405.0330 [pdf, other]

Title: Roughness Tolerance Studies for the Undulator Beam Pipe Chamber of LCLS-II

K. Bane, G. Stupakov

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[32] arXiv:1405.0336 [pdf, other]

Title: Updating the CSNS injector linac to 250 MeV with superconducting double-spoke cavities

LI Zhi-Hui, FU Shi-Nian

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Chinese Physics C Vol. 39, No. 3 (2015) 037004

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[33] arXiv:1405.0341 [pdf, other]

Title: Photonic Integrated Devices for Nonlinear Optics

Lucia Caspani, David Duchesne, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Sean Wagner, Marcello Ferrera, Luca Razzari, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, David J. Moss, J. Stewart Aitchison, Roberto Morandotti

Comments: 49 pages 119 references 19 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) Vol 28 page A67-A82 (2011)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[34] arXiv:1405.0350 [pdf, other]

Title: Free energy of cluster formation and a new scaling relation for the nucleation rate

Kyoko K. Tanaka (1), Jürg Diemand (2), Raymond Angélil (2), Hidekazu Tanaka (1) ((1) Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, (2) Institute for Computational Science, University of Zürich)

Comments: 7 figures

Subjects: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[35] arXiv:1405.0403 [pdf, other]

Title: A Primer on Energy Conditions

Erik Curiel

Journal-ref: in \emph{Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories}, eds. D. Lehmkuhl, G. Schiemann, and E. Scholz, Einstein Studies, Birkh\"auser, 2017, ch. 3

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

[36] arXiv:1405.0407 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of gas phase Ne$^*$ + NH$_3$ and Ne$^*$ + ND$_3$ Penning ionization at low temperatures

Justin Jankunas, Benjamin Bertsche, Krzysztof Jachymski, Michal Hapka, Andreas Osterwalder

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 140, 244302 (2014)

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

[37] arXiv:1405.0419 [pdf, other]

Title: Convective radial energy flux due to resonant magnetic perturbations and magnetic curvature at the tokamak plasma edge

F.A. Marcus, P. Beyer, G. Fuhr, A. Monnier, S. Benkadda

Comments: 17 pages, 26 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[38] arXiv:1405.0425 [pdf, other]

Title: Layer aggregation and reducibility of multilayer interconnected networks

M. De Domenico, V. Nicosia, A. Arenas, V. Latora

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Nature Communications 6, 6864 (2015)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[39] arXiv:1405.0429 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules in combined electric and magnetic fields

Markus Kurz, Peter Schmelcher

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 47 165101 (2014)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[40] arXiv:1405.0432 [pdf, other]

Title: Logarithmic Spatial Variations and Universal $f^{-1}$ Power Spectra of Temperature Fluctuations in Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard Convection

Xiaozhou He, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Guenter Ahlers

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 supplementary material

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174501 (2014)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[41] arXiv:1405.0438 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of input pulse chirp on nonlinear energy deposition and plasma excitation in water

C. Milián, A. Jarnac, Y. Brelet, V. Jukna, A. Houard, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31, 2829-2837 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[42] arXiv:1405.0454 [pdf, other]

Title: Shrunken Locally Linear Embedding for Passive Microwave Retrieval of Precipitation

Ardeshir Mohammad Ebtehaj, Rafael Luis Bras, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

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

[43] arXiv:1405.0455 [pdf, other]

Title: Epidemic and Cascading Survivability of Complex Networks

Marc Manzano, Eusebi Calle, Jordi Ripoll, Anna Manolova Fagertun, Victor Torres-Padrosa, Sakshi Pahwa, Caterina Scoglio

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

[44] arXiv:1405.0466 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on Y. Couder and E. Fort: "Single-Particle Diffraction and Interference at a Macroscopic Scale", Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006)

Anders Andersen, Jacob Madsen, Christian Reichelt, Sonja Rosenlund Ahl, Benny Lautrup, Clive Ellegaard, Mogens T. Levinsen, Tomas Bohr

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[45] arXiv:1405.0468 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotation-induced Mode Coupling in Open Wavelength-scale Microcavities

Li Ge, Raktim Sarma, Hui Cao

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[46] arXiv:1405.0493 [pdf, other]

Title: Consciousness as a State of Matter

Max Tegmark (MIT)

Comments: Minor typos corrected

Journal-ref: New Scientist, April 12 2014, p 28-31

Subjects: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[47] arXiv:1405.0505 [pdf, other]

Title: Complex groundwater flow systems as traveling agent models

Oliver López-Corona, Pablo Padilla, Oscar Escolero, Tomás González, Eric Morales-Casique

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: PeerJ 2:e557

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[48] arXiv:1405.0509 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the elastic limit of DNA bending

Tung T. Le, Harold D. Kim

Journal-ref: Nucleic Acids Research 42 (2014) 10786-10794

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

[49] arXiv:1405.0544 [pdf, other]

Title: Application of a Relativistic Coupled-Cluster Theory to the Effective Electric Field in YbF

M. Abe, G. Gopakumar, M. Hada, B. P. Das, H. Tatewaki, D. Mukherjee

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[50] arXiv:1405.0563 [pdf, other]

Title: Obtaining Self-similar Scalings in Focusing Flows

Joshua A. Dijksman, Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Cameron Gaebler, Tom P. Witelski, Robert P. Behringer

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for Phys Rev E

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 92, 043016 (2015)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)