Physics

Authors and titles for May 2014

[601] arXiv:1405.7025 [pdf, other]

Title: From populations to coherences and back again: a new insight about rotating dipoles

Sharly Fleischer, Robert W. Field, Keith A. Nelson

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[602] arXiv:1405.7026 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical methods for a Kohn-Sham density functional model based on optimal transport

Huajie Chen, Gero Friesecke, Christian B. Mendl

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Theory Comput. 10, 4360-4368 (2014)

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

[603] arXiv:1405.7052 [pdf, other]

Title: Initial report from the ICFA Neutrino Panel

J. Cao, A. de Gouvêa, D. Duchesneau, R. Funchal, S. Geer, S.B. Kim, T. Kobayashi, K. Long, M. Maltoni, M. Mezzetto, N. Mondal, M. Shiozawa, J. Sobczyk, H. A. Tanaka, M. Wascko, G. Zeller

Comments: ICFA Neutrino Panel 2014(01)

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

[604] arXiv:1405.7060 [pdf, other]

Title: Evanescent-wave and open-air chiral sensing via signal-reversing cavity-enhanced polarimetry

Dimitris Sofikitis, Lykourgos Bougas, Georgios E. Katsoprinakis, Alexandros K. Spiliotis, Benoit Loppinet, T. Peter Rakitzis

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[605] arXiv:1405.7066 [pdf, other]

Title: Broadband Rydberg Atom-Based Electric-Field Probe: From Self-Calibrated Measurements to Sub-Wavelength Imaging

Christopher L. Holloway, Josh A. Gordon, Steven Jefferts, Andrew Schwarzkopf, David A. Anderson, Stephanie A. Miller, Nithiwadee Thaicharoen, Georg Raithel

Comments: 12 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 12, 6169-6182, 2014

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[606] arXiv:1405.7082 [pdf, other]

Title: Wideband Microstrip Antenna Design

Scott A. Wilson

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

[607] arXiv:1405.7086 [pdf, other]

Title: Ken Wilson: Solving the Strong Interactions

Michael E. Peskin

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures; v2: corrected figure v3: minor proof corrections

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[608] arXiv:1405.7088 [pdf, other]

Title: Velocity alignment leads to high persistence in confined cells

Brian A. Camley, Wouter-Jan Rappel

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 89, 062705 (2014)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)

[609] arXiv:1405.7101 [pdf, other]

Title: SINAP surface preparation processing for 500MHz superconducting cavity

Zhenyu Ma, Haibo Yu, Dongqing Mao, Hongtao Hou, Ziqiang Feng, Chen Luo, Shenjie Zhao, Yubin Zhao, Zhigang Zhang, Xiang Zheng, Zheng Li, Bo Yin, Jianfei Liu

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[610] arXiv:1405.7108 [pdf, other]

Title: The Australian Aboriginal People: How to Misunderstand Their Science

Ray P. Norris

Comments: This article was published in 'The Conversation' in April 2014: this http URL

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

[611] arXiv:1405.7116 [pdf, other]

Title: Giant Negative Mobility of Janus Particles in a Corrugated Channel

Pulak K. Ghosh, Peter Hanggi, Fabio Marchesoni, Franco Nori

Comments: to be published in Physical Review E

Journal-ref: Physical Review E 89, 062115 (2014)

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

[612] arXiv:1405.7131 [pdf, other]

Title: Unveiling spatial correlations in biophotonic architecture of transparent insect wings

Pramod Kumar, Danish Shamoon, Dhirendra P. Singh, Sudip Mandal, Kamal P. Singh

Comments: 5, 4 figures, Conference on Photonics,Optics and Laser Technology 2013

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the International Conference on Photonics,Optics and Laser Technology,2013

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[613] arXiv:1405.7136 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nobel Prize delay

Francesco Becattini, Arnab Chatterjee, Santo Fortunato, Marija Mitrović, Raj Kumar Pan, Pietro Della Briotta Parolo

Comments: Extended version of Nature 508, 186 (2014) this http URL ; this http URL

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Digital Libraries (cs.DL)

[614] arXiv:1405.7138 [pdf, other]

Title: Action Principle for Hydrodynamics and Thermodynamics including general, rotational flows

Christian Frønsdal

Comments: This is a major revision. 28 pages,9 figures

Journal-ref: Int.J,Mod.Phys. A32, 1741016 (2017

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[615] arXiv:1405.7149 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of Vision Angle on the Phase Transition in a Flocking Behavior of Animal Groups

P. The Nguyen, Sang-Hee Lee, V. Thanh Ngo

Comments: 04 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 92, 032716 2015

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[616] arXiv:1405.7151 [pdf, other]

Title: A simplified spectrometer based on a fast digital oscilloscope for the measurement of high energy $\gamma$-rays

S. S. Markochev, N. V. Eremin

Comments: 8 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[617] arXiv:1405.7182 [pdf, other]

Title: Cavity resonances dominating the photon statistics in the non-equilibrium steady state

Felix Rüting, Christoph Weiss

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

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

[618] arXiv:1405.7185 [pdf, other]

Title: An ab initio approach to free-energy reconstruction using logarithmic mean force dynamics

Makoto Nakamura, Masao Obata, Tetsuya Morishita, Tatsuki Oda

Comments: 11 pages, 12 Postscript figures

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 140, 184110 (2014)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[619] arXiv:1405.7186 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Hydrogen bubbles formation on thin vacuum deposited Aluminum layers after proton irradiation

Maciej Sznajder, Ulrich Geppert

Comments: Conference proceeding of the "European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials & Environmental Testing", 1-4 April 2014, Braunschweig, Germany

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[620] arXiv:1405.7189 [pdf, other]

Title: Intermittency of Solar Wind Density Fluctuations From Ion to Electron Scales

C. H. K. Chen, L. Sorriso-Valvo, J. Šafránková, Z. Němeček

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J. Lett. 789 L8 (2014)

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

[621] arXiv:1405.7191 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic Calibration of Higher Eigenmode Parameters of a Cantilever in Atomic Force Microscopy Using Tip-Surface Interactions

Stanislav S. Borysov, Daniel Forchheimer, David B. Haviland

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1899-1904

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[622] arXiv:1405.7203 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonant Bloch-wave beatings

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Optics Letters

Journal-ref: Optics Letters 39, 3826 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[623] arXiv:1405.7209 [pdf, other]

Title: The TITAN in-trap decay spectroscopy facility at TRIUMF

K.G. Leach, A. Grossheim, A. Lennarz, T. Brunner, J.R. Crespo López-Urrutia, A.T. Gallant, M. Good, R. Klawitter, A.A. Kwiatkowski, T. Ma, T.D. Macdonald, S. Seeraji, M.C. Simon, C. Andreoiu, J. Dilling, D. Frekers

Comments: Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A

Journal-ref: Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (2015), pp. 91-99

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[624] arXiv:1405.7215 [pdf, other]

Title: A time scale for electrical screening in pulsed gas discharges

Jannis Teunissen, Anbang Sun, Ute Ebert

Journal-ref: 2014 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 47 365203

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[625] arXiv:1405.7216 [pdf, other]

Title: The inception of pulsed discharges in air: simulations in background fields above and below breakdown

Anbang Sun, Jannis Teunissen, Ute Ebert

Journal-ref: J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 47 445205 (2014)

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[626] arXiv:1405.7222 [pdf, other]

Title: A new way of producing electron vortex probes for STEM

J. Verbeeck H. Tian A. Béché

Journal-ref: Ultramicroscopy, vol. 113, pp. 83 87, Feb. 2012

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

[627] arXiv:1405.7231 [pdf, other]

Title: Longest-path attacks on complex networks

Cunlai Pu, Wei Cui

Comments: 5 figures, 6pages

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[628] arXiv:1405.7235 [pdf, other]

Title: Pseudo 5D HN(C)N Experiment to Facilitate the Assignment of Backbone Resonances in Proteins Exhibiting High Backbone Shift Degeneracy

Dinesh Kumar, Nisha Raikwal, Vaibhav Kumar Shukla, Himanshu Pandey, Ashish Arora, Anupam Guleria

Comments: 28 pages, 5 main Figures, 1 Supplementary Table, 4 Supplementary Figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1305.4715

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

[629] arXiv:1405.7238 [pdf, other]

Title: High Power Fibre Laser System for a High Repetition Rate Laserwire

L.J. Nevay, R.Walczak, L.Corner

Comments: 11 pages, 14 figures. Accepted by PR-STAB

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[630] arXiv:1405.7241 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficiency of cellular information processing

Andre C. Barato, David Hartich, Udo Seifert

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 16, 103024, 2014

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)

[631] arXiv:1405.7243 [pdf, other]

Title: A Simulations Study of the Muon Response of the Iron Calorimeter Detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory

Animesh Chatterjee (HRI), Meghna K. K. (IMSc), Kanishka Rawat (Panjab U), Tarak Thakore (TIFR), Vipin Bhatnagar (Panjab U), R. Gandhi (HRI), D. Indumathi (IMSc), N.K. Mondal (TIFR), Nita Sinha (IMSc)

Comments: 21 pages, lates with eps figures; accepted in JINST

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

[632] arXiv:1405.7247 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomic scale electron vortices for nanoresearch

J. Verbeeck, P. Schattschneider, S. Lazar, M. Stöger-Pollach, S. Löffler, A. Steiger-Thirsfeld, G. Van Tendeloo

Journal-ref: Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 99, no. 20, p. 203109, 2011

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

[633] arXiv:1405.7269 [pdf, other]

Title: A genetic algorithm to design Laue lenses with optimal performance for focusing hard X- and gamma-rays

Riccardo Camattari, Vincenzo Guidi

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 570, A17 (2014)

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

[634] arXiv:1405.7281 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutral particle Mass Spectrometry with Nanomechanical Systems

Eric Sage, Ariel Brenac, Thomas Alava, Robert Morel, Cécilia Dupré, Mehmet Selim Hanay, Michael L. Roukes, Laurent Duraffourg, Christophe Masselon, Sébastien Hentz

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

[635] arXiv:1405.7282 [pdf, other]

Title: Contactless measurement of nonlinear conductivity in the radio-frequency range

Marija Došlić, Damjan Pelc, Miroslav Požek

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, to be submitted to Rev. Sci. Instrum

Journal-ref: Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 073905 (2014)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[636] arXiv:1405.7306 [pdf, other]

Title: Java application for the superposition T-matrix code to study the optical properties of cosmic dust aggregates

P. Halder, A. Chakraborty, P. Deb Roy, H. S. Das

Comments: 12 pages, 18 figures

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[637] arXiv:1405.7315 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent pair dispersion as a continuous-time random walk

Simon Thalabard, Giorgio Krstulovic, Jeremie Bec

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)

[638] arXiv:1405.7338 [pdf, other]

Title: The motion of a neutrally buoyant particle of an elliptic shape in two dimensional shear flow: a numerical study

Shih-Lin Huang, Shih-Di Chen, Tsorng-Whay Pan, Chien-Cheng Chang, Chin-Chou Chu

Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1209.0805

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[639] arXiv:1405.7344 [pdf, other]

Title: The flow gradients in the vicinity of a shock wave for a thermodynamically imperfect gas

Vladimir N. Uskov, Pavel S. Mostovykh

Comments: 31 pages, 11 figures. Shortened version submitted to the Shock Waves Journal

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[640] arXiv:1405.7346 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation Reaction in Quantum Vacuum

Keita Seto

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figure. The update model of Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2014, 043A101 (2014). [arXiv:1310.6646v3] Major Version UP

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[641] arXiv:1405.7355 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasi-classical description of molecular dynamics based on Egorov's theorem

Johannes Keller, Caroline Lasser

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141, 054104 (2014)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[642] arXiv:1405.7366 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum fluctuations and isotope effects in ab initio descriptions of water

Lu Wang, Michele Ceriotti, Thomas E. Markland

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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

[643] arXiv:1405.7386 [pdf, other]

Title: The vectorial photoelectric effect under solar irradiance and its application to sun sensing

Gerald Hechenblaikner, Tobias Ziegler

Comments: draft, 9 pages, 6 figures (Color)

Journal-ref: Measurement Science and Technology 25.7 (2014): 075103

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[644] arXiv:1405.7402 [pdf, other]

Title: Visible-light beam size monitors using synchrotron radiation at CESR

S.T. Wang, D.L. Rubin, J. Conway, M. Palmer, D. Hartill, R. Campbell, R. Holtzapple

Comments: 26 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 703 (2013) 80

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[645] arXiv:1405.7404 [pdf, other]

Title: Computer algebra in spacetime embedding

Waldir L. Roque, Renato P. dos Santos

Comments: 9 pages

Journal-ref: J. Symbolic Computation (1991) 12(3):381-389

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

[646] arXiv:1405.7407 [pdf, other]

Title: Reproducing Kernel Functions: A general framework for Discrete Variable Representation

Hamse Mussa

Comments: 14 pages and 1 table

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[647] arXiv:1405.7425 [pdf, other]

Title: PM noise Measurement at W-Band

A. Hati, C.W. Nelson, D.A. Howe

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

[648] arXiv:1405.7434 [pdf, other]

Title: Wavelength conversion and parametric amplification of optical pulses via quasi-phase-matched FWM in long-period Bragg silicon waveguides

Spyros Lavdas, Shuang Zhao, Jeffrey B. Driscoll, Richard R. Grote, Richard M. Osgood, Nicolae C. Panoiu

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[649] arXiv:1405.7463 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetohydrodynamic Viscous Flow Over a Shrinking Sheet With Second Order Slip Flow Model

T. Mahmood, S. Munawar Shah, G. Abbas

Comments: 13 Pages, 8 Figures. Accepted for Publication in Heat Transfer Research

Journal-ref: Heat Transfer Research 8(2015)725

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[650] arXiv:1405.7467 [pdf, other]

Title: Influence of small scale $E_M$ and $H_M$ on the growth of large scale magnetic field

Kiwan Park

Comments: 21 page, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1403.1328

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)