Physics

Authors and titles for May 2016

[1] arXiv:1605.00002 [pdf, other]

Title: Honolulu Rail Transit: International Lessons from Barcelona in Linking Urban Form, Design, and Transportation

Geoff Boeing

Journal-ref: Planext, Vol 2, 28-47 (2016)

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

[2] arXiv:1605.00022 [pdf, other]

Title: Viscous effects on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability with background temperature gradient

S. Gerashchenko, D. Livescu

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[3] arXiv:1605.00025 [pdf, other]

Title: Impact of guided reflection with peers on the development of effective problem solving strategies and physics learning

Andrew J. Mason, Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 5 pages, Keywords: physics education research, collaborative learning, peer interaction, guided reflection, problem solving skills, physics learning, pedagogy, teaching. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1602.05628

Journal-ref: The Physics Teacher, 54, 295 (2016)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[4] arXiv:1605.00030 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimization of multilayered nanotubes for maximal scattering cancellation

Carlos Díaz-Aviñó, Mahin Naserpour, Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez

Journal-ref: Opt. Express, Vol. 24, Issue 16, pp. 18184-18196 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[5] arXiv:1605.00086 [pdf, other]

Title: Fractional Brownian motion time-changed by gamma and inverse gamma process

A. Kumar, A. Wyłomańska, R. Połoczański, S. Sundar

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

[6] arXiv:1605.00134 [pdf, other]

Title: SNO+ scintillator cocktail studies using an ${}^{90}$Y source

Evelina Arushanova, Jeanne R. Wilson

Comments: Poster presented at NuPhys2015 (London, 16-18 December 2015). 4 pages, LaTeX, 5 png figures

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

[7] arXiv:1605.00143 [pdf, other]

Title: Performance of the ALICE secondary vertex b-tagging algorithm

Gyulnara Eyyubova, Lukáš Kramárik (for the ALICE Collaboration)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of a poster presented at the International Conference of New Frontiers in Physics, ICNFP 2015

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

[8] arXiv:1605.00145 [pdf, other]

Title: Algebraic theory of endohedrally confined diatomic molecules: application to H$_2$@C$_{60}$

Lorenzo Fortunato, Francisco Perez-Bernal

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures plus 4 pages of supplemental material. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 032508 (2016)

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

[9] arXiv:1605.00149 [pdf, other]

Title: Emergent Structures in an Active Polar Fluid : dynamics of shape, scattering and merger

Kabir Husain, Madan Rao

Comments: To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. Movies available on request

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078104 (2017)

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

[10] arXiv:1605.00166 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical centrosymmetry breaking in graphene

David N. Carvalho, Andrea Marini, Fabio Biancalana

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

[11] arXiv:1605.00198 [pdf, other]

Title: Delocalized Epidemics on Graphs: A Maximum Entropy Approach

Faryad Darabi Sahneh, Aram Vajdi, Caterina Scoglio

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, American Control Conference-2016

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

[12] arXiv:1605.00215 [pdf, other]

Title: SoLid: Search for Oscillation with a 6Li Detector at the BR2 research reactor

Ianthe Michiels

Comments: Poster presented at NuPhys2015 (London, 16-18 December 2015)

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

[13] arXiv:1605.00222 [pdf, other]

Title: Two-particle atomic coalescences: Boundary conditions for the Fock coefficient components

Evgeny Z. Liverts

Comments: 26 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 022506 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[14] arXiv:1605.00235 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical study of the Transverse Diffusion coefficient for a one component model of a plasma

Lorenzo Valvo, Andrea Carati

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[15] arXiv:1605.00243 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical trapping by Laguerre-Gaussian beams: Symmetries, stability and equilibria

Alexei D. Kiselev, Dmytro O. Plutenko

Comments: 29 pages, 17 figures. corrected and expanded version; a continuation of our study arXiv:1401.7585

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[16] arXiv:1605.00244 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermally smart characteristics of nanofluids in parallel microchannel systems to mitigate hot spots in MEMS

Lakshmi Sirisha Maganti, Purbarun Dhar, T Sundararajan, Sarit K Das

Comments: 33 pages, 14 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[17] arXiv:1605.00255 [pdf, other]

Title: Development of a method for measuring blood coagulation using superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and an alternating magnetic field

Kenya Murase

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[18] arXiv:1605.00259 [pdf, other]

Title: Tailoring Rydberg interactions via F\"orster resonances: state combinations, hopping and angular dependence

Asaf Paris-Mandoki, Hannes Gorniaczyk, Christoph Tresp, Ivan Mirgorodskiy, Sebastian Hofferberth

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures, fixed notation

Journal-ref: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49 164001 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[19] arXiv:1605.00272 [pdf, other]

Title: Quench-Induced Degradation of the Quality Factor in Superconducting Resonators

M. Checchin, M. Martinello, A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, D. A. Sergatskov, S. Posen, O. Melnychuk, J. F. Zasadzinski

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Applied 5, 044019 (2016)

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[20] arXiv:1605.00279 [pdf, other]

Title: The general dielectric tensor for bi-kappa magnetized plasmas

Rudi Gaelzer, Luiz Fernando Ziebell, Anelise Ramires Meneses

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physics of Plasmas

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

[21] arXiv:1605.00292 [pdf, other]

Title: Collective Dipole-Dipole Interactions in an Atomic Array

R.T. Sutherland, F. Robicheaux

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 013847 (2016)

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

[22] arXiv:1605.00298 [pdf, other]

Title: III-V semiconductor nano-resonators-a new strategy for passive, active, and nonlinear all-dielectric metamaterials

Sheng Liu, Gordon A. Keeler, John L. Reno, Michael B. Sinclair, Igal Brener

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[23] arXiv:1605.00310 [pdf, other]

Title: Agreement dynamics on directed random graphs

Adam Lipowski, Dorota Lipowska, Antonio L. Ferreira

Comments: 7 pages, J. Stat. Mech. (in press)

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Mech. (2017) 063408

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

[24] arXiv:1605.00312 [pdf, other]

Title: Coherent blue emission induced by a combination of diode and femtosecond lasers

Jesus P. Lopez, Marco P. M. de Souza, Marcio H. G. de Miranda, Sandra S. Vianna

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[25] arXiv:1605.00327 [pdf, other]

Title: On Divergence in Radiation Fields

Joerg Fricke

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures (embedded in the pdf file); replaced by version with corrected section III C on Nov 11, 2016

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[26] arXiv:1605.00332 [pdf, other]

Title: Trapping atoms in the evanescent field of laser written wave guides

Dario Jukic, A Moqanaki, P Walther, A Szameit, T Pohl, J B Götte

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

[27] arXiv:1605.00345 [pdf, other]

Title: Supersymmetric correspondence in spectra on a graph and its line graph: From circuit theory to spoof plasmons on metallic lattices

Yosuke Nakata, Yoshiro Urade, Toshihiro Nakanishi, Fumiaki Miyamaru, Mitsuo Wada Takeda, Masao Kitano

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 043853 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[28] arXiv:1605.00350 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermodynamics of the collapse transition of the all-backbone peptide Gly15

D. Asthagiri

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

[29] arXiv:1605.00365 [pdf, other]

Title: Third-order analysis of pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann model for multiphase flow

Rongzong Huang, Huiying Wu

Comments: 27 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: J. Comput. Phys. 327 (2016) 121-139

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[30] arXiv:1605.00374 [pdf, other]

Title: Dissociative Electron Attachment to the Nitroamine HMX (Octahydro-1,3,5,7-Tetranitro-1,3,5,7-Tetrazocine)

J. Postler, M. M. Goulart, C. Matias, A. Mauracher, F. Ferreira da Silva, P. Scheier, P. Limão-Vieira, S. Denifl

Journal-ref: Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2013, Volume 24, Issue 5, pp 744-752,

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[31] arXiv:1605.00380 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding decreases in land relative humidity with global warming: conceptual model and GCM simulations

Michael P. Byrne, Paul A. O'Gorman

Comments: Submitted to Journal of Climate on May 1st, 2016

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

[32] arXiv:1605.00389 [pdf, other]

Title: Super-Resonant Intracavity Coherent Absorption

P. Malara, C. E. Campanella, A. Giorgini, S. Avino, P. De Natale, G. Gagliardi

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 6, 28947 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[33] arXiv:1605.00399 [pdf, other]

Title: Cavitation inception of a van der Waals fluid at a sack-wall obstacle

G. Kaehler, F. Bonelli, G. Gonnella, A. Lamura

Journal-ref: Phys. Fluids 27, 123307 (2015)

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

[34] arXiv:1605.00418 [pdf, other]

Title: Performance of the SDHCAL technological prototype

Gérald Grenier

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, proceeding of RPC 2016 conference. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.7507

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

[35] arXiv:1605.00426 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic Simulation of Electro-Hydrodynamically Interacting and Sedimenting Particles

Sagardip Majumder, Jayabrata Dhar, Suman Chakraborty

Comments: 31 pages

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

[36] arXiv:1605.00428 [pdf, other]

Title: Parameter based design of a twin-cylinder wave energy converter for real sea-states

Dali Xu, Raphael Stuhlmeier, Michael Stiassnie

Comments: 20 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[37] arXiv:1605.00440 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation Tests of Real-Sized Prototype RPCs for the Future CMS RPC Upscope

K. S. Lee, S. Choi, B. S. Hong, M. Jo, J. W. Kang, M. Kang, H. Kim, K. Lee, S. K. Parka, A. Cimmino, S. Crucy, A. Fagot, M. Gul, A. A. O. Rios, M. Tytgat, N. Zaganidis, S. Ali, Y. Assran, A. Radi, A. Sayed, G. Singh, M. Abbrescia, G. Iaselli, M. Maggi, G. Pugliese, P. Verwilligen, W. van Doninck, S. Colafranceschi, A. Sharma, L. Benussi, S. Bianco, D. Piccolo, F. Primavera, V. Bhatnagar, R. Kumar, A. Metha, J. Singhi, A. Ahmad, M. Ahmad, Q. Hassan, H. R. Hoorani, W. A. Khan, T. Khurshid, D. H. Kim, S. K. Nam, M. Goutzvitz, G. Grenier, F. Lagarde, I. B. Laktineh, S. Carpinteyro Bernardino, C. Uribe Estrada, I. Pedrazan, S. Carrillo Moreno, F. Vazquez Valenciao, L. M. Pantp, S. Buontempo, N. Cavallo, M. Esposito, F. Fabozzi, G. Lanza, L. Lista, S. Meola, M. Merola, I. Orso, P. Paolucci, F. Thyssenq, A. Braghieri, A. Magnani, P. Montagna, C. Riccardi, P. Salvini, I. Vai, P. Vitulo, Y. Ban, S. J. Qian, M. Choit, Y. Choi, J. Goh, D. Kim, A. Aleksandrov, R. Hadjiiska, P. Iaydjiev, M. Rodozov, S. Stoykova, G. Sultanov, M. Vutova, A. Dimitrov, L. Litov, B. Pavlov, P. Petkov, D. Lomidze, C. Avila, A. Cabrera, J. C. Sanabria, I. Crotty, J. Vaitkus

Comments: Conference proceeding for the 2016 Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors 8 pages, 9 figures

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

[38] arXiv:1605.00461 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic parameterization of subgrid-scale processes in coupled ocean-atmosphere systems: Benefits and limitations of response theory

Jonathan Demaeyer, Stéphane Vannitsem

Comments: 26 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[39] arXiv:1605.00463 [pdf, other]

Title: Thin n-in-p planar pixel modules for the ATLAS upgrade at HL-LHC

N. Savic, L. Bergbreiter, J. Breuer, A. La Rosa, A. Macchiolo, R. Nisius, S. Terzo

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

[40] arXiv:1605.00469 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectra and probability distributions of thermal flux in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection

Hirdesh K. Pharasi, Deepesh Kumar, Krishna Kumar, Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Physics of Fluids 28(5), 055103 (2016)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[41] arXiv:1605.00477 [pdf, other]

Title: Surface-enhanced gallium arsenide photonic resonator with a quality factor of six million

Biswarup Guha, Felix Marsault, Fabian Cadiz, Laurence Morgenroth, Vladimir Ulin, Vladimir Berkovitz, Aristide Lemaître, Carmen Gomez, Alberto Amo, Sylvian Combrié, Bruno Gérard, Giuseppe Leo, Ivan Favero

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[42] arXiv:1605.00485 [pdf, other]

Title: From Reaction-Diffusion Systems to Confined Brownian Motion

Steffen Martens

Comments: 2 pages, submitted to J. Chem. Phys

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[43] arXiv:1605.00493 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the speed of light with electric and magnetic pendulum

Vasil G. Yordanov, Vassil N. Gourev, Stojan G. Manolev, Albert M. Varonov, Todor M. Mishonov

Comments: With translation in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Russian, 8 figures, in general for 5 languages 59 pages

Journal-ref: Bulgarian Physics Education vol. 4, book 1-2, 42-70 (2016), (in Bulgarian)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[44] arXiv:1605.00494 [pdf, other]

Title: Localized travelling waves in the asymptotic suction boundary layer

Tobias Kreilos, John F. Gibson, Tobias M. Schneider

Journal-ref: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 795 / May 2016, R3

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[45] arXiv:1605.00505 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of Transformation from Segregation to Mixed Wealth Cities

Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166960 (2016)

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

[46] arXiv:1605.00520 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent Plasmoid Reconnection

Fabien Widmer, Jörg Büchner, Nobumitsu Yokoi

Comments: 10 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[47] arXiv:1605.00534 [pdf, other]

Title: Ramsey-type phase control of free electron beams

Katharina E. Echternkamp, Armin Feist, Sascha Schäfer, Claus Ropers

Journal-ref: Nature Phys 12 (2016) 1000-1004

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[48] arXiv:1605.00536 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast Mapping of Terahertz Bursting Thresholds and Characteristics at Synchrotron Light Sources

Miriam Brosi (1), Johannes L. Steinmann (1), Edmund Blomley (1), Erik Bründermann (1), Michele Caselle (2), Nicole Hiller (1 and 3), Benjamin Kehrer (1), Michael J. Nasse (1), Lorenzo Rota (2), Manuel Schedler (1), Patrik Schönfeldt (1), Marcel Schuh (1), Markus Schwarz (1), Marc Weber (2), Anke-Susanne Müller (1) ((1) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, LAS and IBPT, (2) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IPE, (3) now at PSI, Villigen, Switzerland)

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 19, 110701 (2016)

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[49] arXiv:1605.00537 [pdf, other]

Title: The interaction of $He^{-}$ with fullerenes

A. Mauracher, M. Daxner, S. E. Huber, J. Postler, M. Renzler, S. Denifl, P. Scheier, A. M. Ellis

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 142, 104306 (2015)

Subjects: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)

[50] arXiv:1605.00541 [pdf, other]

Title: Higher-order approximations of the residual-mean eddy streamfunction and the quasi-Stokes streamfunction

Jan Viebahn, Carsten Eden

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