Physics

Authors and titles for August 2014

[1] arXiv:1408.0039 [pdf, other]

Title: Strongly correlated growth of Rydberg aggregates in a vapor cell

A. Urvoy, F. Ripka, I. Lesanovsky, D. Booth, J.P. Shaffer, T. Pfau, R. Löw

Comments: 5+3 pages, 3+3 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 203002 (2015)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[2] arXiv:1408.0041 [pdf, other]

Title: Passive mode-locking under higher order effects

Theodoros P. Horikis, Mark J. Ablowitz

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

[3] arXiv:1408.0063 [pdf, other]

Title: Epidemic spreading driven by biased random walks

Cunlai Pu, Siyuan Li, Jian Yang

Comments: 9 figures

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

[4] arXiv:1408.0075 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of the characteristics of GEM detectors for the future FAIR experiment CBM

S. Biswas, A. Abuhoza, U. Frankenfeld, J. Hehner, C.J. Schmidt, H.R. Schmidt, M.Traeger, S.Colafranceschi, A.Marinov, A.Sharma

Comments: 2 Pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 718 (2013) 403

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

[5] arXiv:1408.0091 [pdf, other]

Title: On the density limit in the helicon plasma sources

Igor A. Kotelnikov

Comments: Submitted to Physics of Plasmas

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[6] arXiv:1408.0112 [pdf, other]

Title: The linear tearing instability in three dimensional, toroidal gyrokinetic simulations

William Hornsby, Pierluigi Migliano, Rico Bucholz, Lukas Kroenert, Arthur Peeters, David Zarzoso, Emanuele Poli, Francis Casson

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[7] arXiv:1408.0128 [pdf, other]

Title: Time and space, frequency and wavevector: or, what I talk about when I talk about propagation

Paul Kinsler

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[8] arXiv:1408.0148 [pdf, other]

Title: High-efficiency waveguide couplers via impedance-tunable transformation optics

Jun Cao, Lifa Zhang, Weifeng Jiang, Senlin Yan, Xiaohan Sun

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, 26 references

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[9] arXiv:1408.0153 [pdf, other]

Title: Flow problem in three-dimensional geometry

Maxim Zaytsev, Vyacheslav Akkerman

Comments: 18 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[10] arXiv:1408.0155 [pdf, other]

Title: Field-reversed bubble in deep plasma channels for high quality electron acceleration

A. Pukhov, O. Jansen, T. Tueckmantel, J. Thomas, I. Yu. Kostyukov

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[11] arXiv:1408.0215 [pdf, other]

Title: A study of decays to strange final states with GlueX in Hall D using components of the BaBar DIRC

The GlueX Collaboration: M. Dugger, B. Ritchie, I. Senderovich, E. Anassontzis, P. Ioannou, C. Kourkoumeli, G. Vasileiadis, G. Voulgaris, N. Jarvis, W. Levine, P. Mattione, W. McGinley, C. A. Meyer, R. Schumacher, M. Staib, F. Klein, D. Sober, N. Sparks, N. Walford, D. Doughty, A. Barnes, R. Jones, J. McIntyre, F. Mokaya, B. Pratt, W. Boeglin, L. Guo, E. Pooser, J. Reinhold, H. Al Ghoul, V. Crede, P. Eugenio, A. Ostrovidov, A. Tsaris, D. Ireland, K. Livingston, D. Bennett, J. Bennett, J. Frye, M. Lara, J. Leckey, R. Mitchell, K. Moriya, M. R. Shepherd, O. Chernyshov, A. Dolgolenko, A. Gerasimov, V. Goryachev, I. Larin, V. Matveev, V. Tarasov, F. Barbosa, E. Chudakov, M. Dalton, A. Deur, J. Dudek, H. Egiyan, S. Furletov, M. Ito, D. Mack, D. Lawrence, M. McCaughan, M. Pennington, L. Pentchev, Y. Qiang, E. Smith, A. Somov, S. Taylor, T. Whitlatch, B. Zihlmann, R. Miskimen, B. Guegan, J. Hardin, J. Stevens, M. Williams, V. Berdnikov, G. Nigmatkulov, A. Ponosov, D. Romanov, S. Somov, I. Tolstukhin, C. Salgado, P. Ambrozewicz, A. Gasparian, R. Pedroni, T. Black, L. Gan, S. Dobbs, K. Seth, X. Ting, A. Tomaradze, T. Beattie, G. Huber, G. Lolos, Z. Papandreou, A. Semenov, I. Semenova, W. Brooks, H. Hakobyan

Comments: 25 pages, 29 figures

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

[12] arXiv:1408.0221 [pdf, other]

Title: The representations of the sky among the Tomaraho

Guillermo Sequera, Alejandro Gangui

Comments: Article in Spanish, PDF document including 10 figures

Journal-ref: Suplemento Antropologico, Vol. XLVII N.1, june 2012

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[13] arXiv:1408.0237 [pdf, other]

Title: Topological nature of bound states in the radiation continuum

Bo Zhen, Chia Wei Hsu, Ling Lu, A. Doug Stone, Marin Soljacic

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257401 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[14] arXiv:1408.0244 [pdf, other]

Title: Less trouble with orbits: The semi-classical hydrogen problem in parabolic and spherical coordinates

Manfred Bucher

Comments: 10 pages, Change from version 1: correction of Ref. 2

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

[15] arXiv:1408.0255 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient inference of protein structural ensembles

Thomas J. Lane, Christian R. Schwantes, Kyle A. Beauchamp, Vijay S. Pande

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

[16] arXiv:1408.0264 [pdf, other]

Title: Liquid Argon Dielectric Breakdown Studies with the MicroBooNE Purification System

R. Acciarri, B. Carls, C. James, B. Johnson, H. Jostlein, S. Lockwitz, B. Lundberg, J.L. Raaf, R. Rameika, B. Rebel, G.P. Zeller, M. Zuckerbrot

Journal-ref: JINST 9 (2014) P11001

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

[17] arXiv:1408.0273 [pdf, other]

Title: General Metasurface Synthesis Based on Susceptibility Tensors

Karim Achouri, Mohamed Ahmed Salem, Christophe Caloz

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[18] arXiv:1408.0280 [pdf, other]

Title: Development of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) for medical imaging

A. Banerjee, A. Roy, S. Biswas, S. Chattopadhyay, G. Das, S. Pal

Comments: 2 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 718 (2013) 138

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[19] arXiv:1408.0295 [pdf, other]

Title: Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Detector Fabrication Process and Recent Improvements

Andrew Jastram, Rusty Harris, Rupak Mahapatra, James Phillips, Mark Platt, Kunj Prasad, Joel Sander, Sriteja Upadhyayula

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

[20] arXiv:1408.0312 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpretation of the coherency matrix for three-dimensional polarization states

Jose J. Gil

Comments: 24 pages, 11 figures

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

[21] arXiv:1408.0316 [pdf, other]

Title: Computation of potentials from current electrodes in cylindrically stratified media: A stable, rescaled semi-analytical formulation

Haksu Moon, Fernando L. Teixeira, Burkay Donderici

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[22] arXiv:1408.0323 [pdf, other]

Title: Laboratory plasma physics experiments using merging supersonic plasma jets

S. C. Hsu, A. L. Moser, E. C. Merritt, C. S. Adams, J. P. Dunn, S. Brockington, A. Case, M. Gilmore, A. G. Lynn, S. J. Messer, F. D. Witherspoon

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables; published in J. Plasma Physics

Journal-ref: J. Plasma Phys. 81 (2015) 345810201

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[23] arXiv:1408.0330 [pdf, other]

Title: Role of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Improved Electrical Stability of Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O Thin-Film Transistors

Xiaosong Du, Brendan T. Flynn, Joshua R. Motley, William F. Stickle, Hendrik Bluhm, Gregory S. Herman

Comments: 27 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol. 2014 3(9): Q3045-Q3049

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

[24] arXiv:1408.0344 [pdf, other]

Title: RFQ Cooler SHIRaC developent

Ramzi Boussaid

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[25] arXiv:1408.0357 [pdf, other]

Title: Solving the flow fields in conduits and networks using energy minimization principle with simulated annealing

Taha Sochi

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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

[26] arXiv:1408.0362 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation friction vs ponderomotive effect

A.M. Fedotov, N.V. Elkina, E.G. Gelfer, N.B. Narozhny, H. Ruhl

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

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

[27] arXiv:1408.0365 [pdf, other]

Title: A new SATIRE-S spectral solar irradiance reconstruction for solar cycles 21--23 and its implications for stratospheric ozone

William T. Ball, Natalie A. Krivova, Yvonne C. Unruh, Joanna D. Haigh, Sami K. Solanki

Comments: 25 pages (18 pages in main article with 6 figures; 7 pages in supplementary materials with 6 figures) in draft mode using the American Meteorological Society package. Submitted to Journal of Atmospheric Sciences for publication

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[28] arXiv:1408.0369 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Estimator of Intrinsic Dimension Based on the Multipoint Morisita Index

Jean Golay, Mikhail Kanevski

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

[29] arXiv:1408.0376 [pdf, other]

Title: Homogeneous shear turbulence as a second-order cone program

Luoyi Tao

Comments: 39 pages, 3 figures. Maximization of objective substantiated from the strong mixing of physical turbulence. Discussion added about challenges faced by DNS in homogeneous shear turbulence. For steady state of the second-order model, computational domain in physical space enlarged, the predicated distributions of the second order correlation functions presented and compared with DNS data

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[30] arXiv:1408.0386 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of hadron interactions in a lead-emulsion target

Hirokazu Ishida, Tsutomu Fukuda, Takafumi Kajiwara, Koichi Kodama, Masahiro Komatsu, Tomokazu Matsuo, Shoji Mikado, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Satoru Ogawa, Andrey Sheshukov, Hiroshi Shibuya, Jun Sudou, Taira Suzuki, Yusuke Tsuchida

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures

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

[31] arXiv:1408.0410 [pdf, other]

Title: Slow ground state molecules from matrix isolation sublimation

Alvaro N. Oliveira, Rodrigo L. Sacramento, Bruno X. Alves, Bruno A. Silva, Wania Wolff, Claudio L. Cesar

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[32] arXiv:1408.0421 [pdf, other]

Title: Height distribution of equipotential lines in a region confined by a rough conducting boundary

C. P. de Castro, T. A. de Assis, C. M. C. de Castilho, R. F. S. Andrade

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26 445007 (2014)

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[33] arXiv:1408.0427 [pdf, other]

Title: Homesick L\'evy walk: A mobility model having Ichi-go Ichi-e and scale-free properties of human encounters

Akihiro Fujihara, Hiroyoshi Miwa

Comments: 8 pages, 10 figures

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

[34] arXiv:1408.0430 [pdf, other]

Title: Artificial Left Ventricle

Saeed Ranjbar, Tohid Emami Meybodi, Mahmood Emami Meybodi

Comments: 14

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[35] arXiv:1408.0445 [pdf, other]

Title: The physical limit of logical compare operation

Feng Pan, Heng-Liang Zhang, Jie Qi

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computational Complexity (cs.CC)

[36] arXiv:1408.0502 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytic stability analysis of three-component self-regulatory genetic circuit

Julian Lee

Comments: 16 pages, 1 figure (6 small figures), Typos corrected

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)

[37] arXiv:1408.0539 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral analysis of structure functions and their scaling exponents in forced isotropic turbulence

W. D. McComb, S. R. Yoffe, M. F. Linkmann, A. Berera

Comments: 31 pages including appendices, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 90 , 053010 (2014)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[38] arXiv:1408.0551 [pdf, other]

Title: A Prismatic Analyser concept for Neutron Spectrometers

Jonas O Birk, Márton Markó, Paul G Freeman, Johan Jacobsen, Niels B Christensen, Christof Niedermayer, Henrik M Rønnow, Kim Lefmann

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)

[39] arXiv:1408.0555 [pdf, other]

Title: Second-harmonic generation in subwavelength graphene waveguides

Daria Smirnova, Yuri S. Kivshar

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 90, 165433 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[40] arXiv:1408.0558 [pdf, other]

Title: Collective Dynamics of Interacting Particles in Unsteady Flows

Maryam Abedi, Mir Abbas Jalali

Comments: 21 Pages, 5 Figures

Journal-ref: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, Volume 13, 194 (2014)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[41] arXiv:1408.0566 [pdf, other]

Title: Aberrations in shift-invariant linear optical imaging systems using partially coherent fields

Mario A. Beltran, Marcus J. Kitchen, T. Petersen, David M. Paganin

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[42] arXiv:1408.0577 [pdf, other]

Title: Content adaptive sparse illumination for Fourier ptychography

Liheng Bian, Jinli Suo, Guohai Situ, Guoan Zheng, Feng Chen, Qionghai Dai

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[43] arXiv:1408.0590 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of intrinsic radioactive backgrounds from Cs-137 and U/Th chains in CsI(Tl) crystals

S.K. Liu, Q. Yue, S.T. Lin, Y.J. Li, C.J. Tang, H.T. Wong, H.Y. Xing, C.W. Yang, W. Zhao, J.J. Zhu

Comments: 8 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables

Journal-ref: Chin. Phys. C 39, 046002 (2015)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[44] arXiv:1408.0601 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards a piecewise-homogeneous metamaterial model of the collision of two linearly polarized gravitational plane waves

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

Journal-ref: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 62, 6149-6154 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[45] arXiv:1408.0604 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlling Voigt waves by the Pockels effect

Tom G. Mackay (University of Edinburgh)

Journal-ref: Journal of Nanophotonics 9, 093599 (2015)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[46] arXiv:1408.0608 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrogen adsorption in metal-organic frameworks: the role of nuclear quantum effects

Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, Christian F. J. Walther, Thomas Heine

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[47] arXiv:1408.0609 [pdf, other]

Title: Calculation, normalization and perturbation of quasinormal modes in coupled cavity-waveguide systems

Philip Trøst Kristensen, Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Niels Gregersen

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Opt. Lett. 39, 6359-6362 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[48] arXiv:1408.0622 [pdf, other]

Title: Parallel MRI Reconstruction by Convex Optimization

Cishen Zhang, Ifat-Al Baqee

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1311.2366

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[49] arXiv:1408.0623 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting the Upturn of the Solar $^8$B Neutrino Spectrum with LENA

Randolph Möllenberg, Franz von Feilitzsch, Dominikus Hellgartner, Lothar Oberauer, Marc Tippmann, Jürgen Winter, Michael Wurm, Vincenz Zimmer

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[50] arXiv:1408.0643 [pdf, other]

Title: Shock formation in the collapse of a vapor nano-bubble

Francesco Magaletti, Luca Marino, Carlo Massimo Casciola

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)