Physics

Authors and titles for February 2016

[401] arXiv:1602.05416 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster-based control of nonlinear dynamics

Eurika Kaiser, Bernd R. Noack, Andreas Spohn, Louis N. Cattafesta, Marek Morzynski

Comments: journal submission

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[402] arXiv:1602.05417 [pdf, other]

Title: Telegraph equations for the case of a waveguide with moving boundary

V.G. Baryshevsky

Comments: 9 pages, 2 eps figures

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[403] arXiv:1602.05421 [pdf, other]

Title: $\mu$MECH Micromechanics Library

Ladislav Svoboda, Stanislav Šulc, Tomáš Janda, Jan Vorel, Jan Novák

Comments: 28 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables

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

[404] arXiv:1602.05425 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of adiabatic connection in density functional theory with an accurate wavefunction for 2-electron atoms

Rabeet Singh Chauhan, Manoj K. Harbola

Comments: 6 Pages, 4 Figures and 2 Tables

Subjects: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[405] arXiv:1602.05434 [pdf, other]

Title: Exchange-correlation functionals via local interpolation along the adiabatic connection

Stefan Vuckovic, Tom Irons, Andreas Savin, Andrew M. Teale, Paola Gori-Giorgi

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[406] arXiv:1602.05440 [pdf, other]

Title: Surveying students' understanding of quantum mechanics in one spatial dimension

Guangtian Zhu, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[407] arXiv:1602.05442 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of roll number on the statistics of turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico, Detlef Lohse, Roberto Verzicco

Journal-ref: Physical Review Fluids, 5 (1), 054402, 2016

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[408] arXiv:1602.05443 [pdf, other]

Title: Signature of Wave Chaos in Spectral Characteristics of Microcavity Lasers

Satoshi Sunada, Susumu Shinohara, Takehiro Fukushima, Takahisa Harayama

Comments: 5 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203903 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[409] arXiv:1602.05461 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Mechanics by Using Peer Instruction Tools

Chandralekha Singh, Guangtian Zhu

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[410] arXiv:1602.05468 [pdf, other]

Title: Clausius-Mossotti Lorentz-Lorenz relations and retardation effects for two-dimensional crystals

Luca Dell'Anna, Michele Merano

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 053808 (2016)

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

[411] arXiv:1602.05474 [pdf, other]

Title: Special Operations Forces: A Global Immune System?

Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)

[412] arXiv:1602.05488 [pdf, other]

Title: Selected List of Low Energy Beam Transport Facilities for Light-Ion, High-Intensity Accelerators

Lionel R. Prost

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[413] arXiv:1602.05497 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulated Annealing Approach to the Temperature-Emissivity Separation Problem in Thermal Remote Sensing Part One: Mathematical Background

John A. Morgan

Comments: 7 pages. To be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[414] arXiv:1602.05498 [pdf, other]

Title: Fluctuation analysis of high frequency electric power load in the Czech Republic

Jiří Kracík, Hynek Lavička

Comments: sent to Physica A for consideration

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

[415] arXiv:1602.05502 [pdf, other]

Title: de Sitter Spacetime as a Natural Superconductor

Davood Momeni, Ratbay Myrzakulov, Zaid Zaz

Comments: Version accepted in the Canadian Journal of Physics

Journal-ref: Can.J.Phys. 95 (2017) no.2, 111-113

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[416] arXiv:1602.05505 [pdf, other]

Title: White Holes as the Asymptotic Limit of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

Jeffrey S. Lee, Gerald B. Cleaver

Comments: 23 pages, 4 tables, 3 figures

Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics A Vol. 31 (2016) 1650162

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[417] arXiv:1602.05508 [pdf, other]

Title: Subatomic mechanism of the oscillatory magnetoresistance in superconductors

Boris I. Ivlev

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[418] arXiv:1602.05509 [pdf, other]

Title: PAMELA's measurements of geomagnetic cutoff variations during the 14 December 2006 storm

O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, C. De Donato, G. A. de Nolfo, C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, A. M. Galper, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Koldobskiy, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, M. Martucci, A. G. Mayorov, W. Menn, M. Mergé V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, R. Munini, G. Osteria, F. Palma, B. Panico, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, R. Sarkar, V. Scotti, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. I. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa

Comments: 26 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in Space Weather

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[419] arXiv:1602.05516 [pdf, other]

Title: Overview of the software architecture and data flow for the J-PET tomography device

W. Krzemień, D. Alfs, P. Białas, E. Czerwiński, A. Gajos, B. Głowacz, B. Jasińska, D. Kamińska, G. Korcyl, P. Kowalski, T. Kozik, E.Kubicz, Sz. Niedźwiecki, M. Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, L. Raczyński, Z. Rudy, M. Silarski, A. Strzelecki, A. Wieczorek, W. Wiślicki, M. Zieliński, P. Moskal

Comments: Paper withdrawn since it was already uploaded to arXiv by the first author on 10.09.2015. The identifier of the article is arXiv:1508.02451

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

[420] arXiv:1602.05520 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Currents on Arbitrarily Shaped Surfaces

L. Jelinek, M. Capek

Comments: 13 pages, 18 figures, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 65, 2017

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[421] arXiv:1602.05530 [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme robustness of scaling in sample space reducing processes explains Zipf's law in diffusion on directed networks

Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 18 093010 (2016)

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

[422] arXiv:1602.05550 [pdf, other]

Title: Confinement-Induced Resonances in Ultracold Atom-Ion Systems

Vladimir S. Melezhik, Antonio Negretti

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

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

[423] arXiv:1602.05564 [pdf, other]

Title: Anomalous Parity-Time Symmetry Transition away from an Exceptional Point

Li Ge

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 013837 (2016)

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

[424] arXiv:1602.05596 [pdf, other]

Title: Rural to urban population density scaling of crime and property transactions in English and Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies

Quentin S. Hanley, Dan Lewis, Haroldo V. Ribeiro

Comments: Accepted for publication in PLoS ONE

Journal-ref: PLoS ONE 11, e0149546 (2016)

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

[425] arXiv:1602.05615 [pdf, other]

Title: Electronic torsional sound in linear atomic chains: chemical energy transport at 1000 km/s

Arkady A. Kurnosov, Igor V. Rubtsov, Andrii O. Maksymov, Alexander L. Burin

Comments: 6 figures

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[426] arXiv:1602.05616 [pdf, other]

Title: Student Difficulties with Quantum Mechanics Formalism

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 4 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1504.02056

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, AIP Conf. Proc., Melville New York 883, 185-188, (2007)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[427] arXiv:1602.05619 [pdf, other]

Title: Cognitive Issues in Learning Advanced Physics: An Example from Quantum Mechanics

Chandralekha Singh, Guangtian Zhu

Comments: 4 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, AIP Conf. Proc., Melville, New York 1179, 63-66 (2009)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[428] arXiv:1602.05628 [pdf, other]

Title: Helping students learn effective problem solving strategies by reflecting with peers

Andrew Mason, Chandralekha Singh

Comments: PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL

Journal-ref: American Journal of Physics, 78(7), 748-754, (2010)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[429] arXiv:1602.05640 [pdf, other]

Title: Superfluid Brillouin Optomechanics

A. D. Kashkanova, A. B. Shkarin, C. D. Brown, N. E. Flowers-Jacobs, L. Childress, S. W. Hoch, L. Hohmann, K. Ott, J. Reichel, J. G. E. Harris

Comments: 41 pages, 7 figures (including supplementary information). The following article has been submitted to Nature Physics

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

[430] arXiv:1602.05652 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of base pair mismatch on DNA strand displacement

Bo Broadwater, Harold Kim

Journal-ref: Biophysical Journal 110 (2016) 1476-1484

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

[431] arXiv:1602.05655 [pdf, other]

Title: Transfer of Learning in Quantum Mechanics

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 4 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Sacramento, CA, AIP Conference Proceedings, Melville New York 790, 23-26, (2005)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[432] arXiv:1602.05664 [pdf, other]

Title: Assessing and improving student understanding of quantum mechanics

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 4 pages, PACS:01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 2005 Physics Education Research Conference, Salt Lake City, AIP Conference Proceedings, Melville New York 818, 69-72, (2006)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[433] arXiv:1602.05667 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards numerically robust multireference theories: The driven similarity renormalization group truncated to one- and two-body operators

Chenyang Li, Francesco A. Evangelista

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[434] arXiv:1602.05668 [pdf, other]

Title: Attosecond Interference Induced by Coulomb-Field-Driven Transverse Backward-Scattering Electron Wave-Packets

Xiaohong Song, Peng Liu, Cheng Lin, Zhihao Sheng, Xianhuan Yu, Weifeng Yang, Shilin Hu, Jing Chen, SongPo Xu, YongJu Chen, Wei Quan, XiaoJun Liu

Comments: 6 pages,3 figures

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[435] arXiv:1602.05670 [pdf, other]

Title: Military Strategy in a Complex World

Dominic K. Albino, Katriel Friedman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, William G. Glenney IV

Comments: 22 pages, 1 figure

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

[436] arXiv:1602.05678 [pdf, other]

Title: Coherent dynamics of mixed Frenkel and Charge Transfer Excitons in Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2'3'-f]thieno[3,2-b]-thiophene Thin Films: The Importance of Hole Delocalization

Takatoshi Fujita, Sule Atahan-Evrenk, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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

[437] arXiv:1602.05689 [pdf, other]

Title: Using Isomorphic Problems to Learn Introductory Physics

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[438] arXiv:1602.05695 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust seismic velocity change estimation using ambient noise recordings

E. Daskalakis, C. P. Evangelidis, J. Garnier, N. S. Melis, G. Papanicolaou, C. Tsogka

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[439] arXiv:1602.05697 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of Scaffolding on Helping Introductory Physics Students Solve Quantitative Problems Involving Strong Alternative Conceptions

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[440] arXiv:1602.05710 [pdf, other]

Title: Using an Isomorphic Problem Pair to Learn Introductory Physics: Transferring from a Two-step Problem to a Three-step Problem

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[441] arXiv:1602.05714 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Measurement Part 1: Investigation of Difficulties

Guangtian Zhu, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[442] arXiv:1602.05716 [pdf, other]

Title: A GPU-based Large-scale Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Systems with Long-range Interactions

Yihao Liang, Xiangjun Xing, Yaohang Li

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[443] arXiv:1602.05720 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Measurement

Guangtian Zhu, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[444] arXiv:1602.05727 [pdf, other]

Title: Teaching assistants' beliefs regarding example solutions in introductory physics

Shih-Yin Lin, Charles Henderson, William Mamudi, Chandralekha Singh, Edit Yerushalmi

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[445] arXiv:1602.05739 [pdf, other]

Title: A simple and straightforward technique for single shot measurement of terahertz profile

Sonal Saxena, B.S. Rao, J.A. Chakera, P.A. Naik

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[446] arXiv:1602.05740 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous, inherently temperature and strain insensitive bio-sensors based on dual-resonance long-period gratings

Saurabh Mani Tripathi, Deep Shikha Verma, Wojtek J. Bock, Predrag Mikulic

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[447] arXiv:1602.05743 [pdf, other]

Title: The $Re$-number dependence of the longitudinal dispersion in a turbulent channel flow

Christopher Hawkins, Luiza Angheluta, Marcin Krotkiewski, Bjørn Jamtveit

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 043119 (2016)

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

[448] arXiv:1602.05769 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Study of the Sedimentation of Spheroidal Particles

Mehdi Niazi Ardekani, Pedro Costa, Wim-Paul Breugem, Luca Brandt

Journal-ref: Int. J. Multiphase Flow 87 (2016) 16-34

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[449] arXiv:1602.05778 [pdf, other]

Title: Supersymmetrically bounding of asymmetric states and quantum phase transitions by anti-crossing of symmetric states

Muhammad Imran Afzal, Yong Tak Lee

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[450] arXiv:1602.05782 [pdf, other]

Title: The coevolution of overconfidence and bluffing in the resource competition game

Kun Li, Attila Szolnoki, Rui Cong, Long Wang

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 21104

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