Physics

Authors and titles for May 2016

[801] arXiv:1605.09724 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding polyethylene surface functionalization by an atmospheric He-O$_2$ plasma through combined experiments and simulation

Thierry Dufour, Johan Minnebo, Sami Abou Rich, Erik C. Neyts, Annemie Bogaerts, François Reniers

Journal-ref: J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2014, Vol. 47, Issue 22, 224007 (12 pp)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[802] arXiv:1605.09725 [pdf, other]

Title: Competitive and synergistic effects between excimer VUV radiation and O radicals on the etching mechanisms of polyethylene and fluoropolymer surfaces treated by atmospheric He-O$_2$ post-discharge

Thierry Dufour, Julie Hubert, Nicolas Vandencasteele, Pascal Viville, Roberto Lazzaroni, François Reniers

Journal-ref: J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2013, Vol. 46, Issue 31, 315203 (14 pp)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[803] arXiv:1605.09727 [pdf, other]

Title: A Mathematical Model of the Rainwater Flows in a Green Roof

Catherine Adley, Mark Cooker, Gemma Fay, Ian Hewitt, Andrew Lacey, Niklas Mellgren, Marguerite Robinson, Michael Vynnycky

Journal-ref: Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies, 2014, Vol. 6, pp 1 - 21

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[804] arXiv:1605.09751 [pdf, other]

Title: An adaptive interpolation scheme for molecular potential energy surfaces

Markus Kowalewski, Elisabeth Larsson, Alfa Heryudono

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 145, 084104 (2016)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[805] arXiv:1605.00027 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Nature's Book Keeping System

Gerard t Hooft

Comments: 9 pages, no figures, A contribution to the collection: Space, Time, and Frontiers of Human Understanding

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

[806] arXiv:1605.00069 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Community Evolution

Stanisław Saganowski, Piotr Bródka, Przemysław Kazienko

Comments: This is a pre-print version of Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining essay about different ways to track Community Evolution. This is ina update for the next edition of the Encyclopedia

Journal-ref: Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer New York, 2014, pages 220-232

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

[807] arXiv:1605.00108 (cross-list from cs.CY) [pdf, other]

Title: An analysis of visitors' length of stay through noninvasive Bluetooth monitoring in the Louvre Museum

Yuji Yoshimura, Anne Krebs, Carlo Ratti

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: IEEE Pervasive Computing 16(2) 26-34 (2017)

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

[808] arXiv:1605.00133 (cross-list from math.NA) [pdf, other]

Title: Accelerated High-Resolution Photoacoustic Tomography via Compressed Sensing

Simon Arridge, Paul Beard, Marta Betcke, Ben Cox, Nam Huynh, Felix Lucka, Olumide Ogunlade, Edward Zhang

Comments: submitted to "Physics in Medicine and Biology"

Subjects: Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[809] arXiv:1605.00144 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Substituents in Polyvinylcarbazole Structures on Their Optical Properties

Ya. Vertsimakha, P. Lutsyk, V. Syromyatnikov, I. Savchenko

Comments: 15 pages, Russian language

Journal-ref: Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii (translation published in Journal of Applied Spectroscopy 2016, Volume 82, Issue 6, pp 910-914)

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

[810] arXiv:1605.00159 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of self-interacting strings and energy-momentum conservation

Kurt Lechner

Comments: 42 pages, no figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[811] arXiv:1605.00195 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Solar Magnetic Flux Ropes Using Iron Forbidden Line

X. Cheng, M. D. Ding

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[812] arXiv:1605.00200 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, other]

Title: Slow Auger Recombination of Charged Excitons in Nonblinking Perovskite Nanocrystals without Spectral Diffusion

Fengrui Hu, Chunyang Yin, Huichao Zhang, Chun Sun, William W. Yu, Chunfeng Zhang, Xiaoyong Wang, Yu Zhang, Min Xiao

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

[813] arXiv:1605.00212 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetoelectric fields for microwave chirality discrimination in enantiomeric liquids

E. Hollander, E. O. Kamenetskii, R. Shavit

Comments: Submitted to Rev. Sci. Instr

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

[814] arXiv:1605.00225 (cross-list from nucl-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: An improved method for estimating the neutron background in measurements of neutron capture reactions

P. Žugec, D. Bosnar, N. Colonna, F. Gunsing

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 826 (2016) 80-89

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

[815] arXiv:1605.00269 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Entropy production by active particles: Coupling of odd and even functions of velocity

Debasish Chaudhuri

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 032603 (2016)

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

[816] arXiv:1605.00309 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia's First Link Network

Mark Ibrahim, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

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

[817] arXiv:1605.00383 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Simulation with Interacting Photons

Michael J. Hartmann

Comments: invited review for Journal of Optics

Journal-ref: J. Opt. 18, 104005 (2016)

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

[818] arXiv:1605.00427 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamic collective effects of active proteins in biological membranes

Yuki Koyano, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Alexander S. Mikhailov

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 022416 (2016)

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)

[819] arXiv:1605.00430 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other]

Title: Undamped relativistic magnetoplasmons in lossy two-dimensional electron systems

V.A. Volkov, A.A. Zabolotnykh

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, published version (Phys. Rev. B 94, 165408)

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 165408 (2016)

Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[820] arXiv:1605.00457 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, other]

Title: Solvent effects on optical excitations of poly para phenylene ethynylene studied by QM/MM simulations based on Many-Body Green's Functions Theory

Behnaz Bagheri, Mikko Karttunen, Björn Baumeier

Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[821] arXiv:1605.00478 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, other]

Title: A Mechanical Study of a Glass Fabric-Thermoplastic Resin Composite: 3D-DIC and X-ray tomographic observations explained by numerical simulations based on a spectral solver

Zakariya Boufaida (LEMTA), Julien Boisse (LEMTA), Stéphane André (LEMTA), Laurent Farge (LEMTA)

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

[822] arXiv:1605.00492 (cross-list from cs.MS) [pdf, other]

Title: High level implementation of geometric multigrid solvers for finite element problems: applications in atmospheric modelling

Lawrence Mitchell, Eike Hermann Müller

Comments: 22 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables. Submitted to JCP

Journal-ref: Journal of Computational Physics 327:1-18 (2016)

Subjects: Mathematical Software (cs.MS); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[823] arXiv:1605.00509 (cross-list from cs.DL) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantifying the changing role of past publications

Katalin Orosz, Illes J. Farkas, Peter Pollner

Comments: 31 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Scientometrics

Journal-ref: Scientometrics 108, 829 (2016)

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

[824] arXiv:1605.00517 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Uncovering dispersion properties in semiconductor waveguides to study photon-pair generation

K. Laiho, B. Pressl, A. Schlager, H. Suchomel, M. Kamp, S. Höfling, C. Schneider, G. Weihs

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Nanotechnology 27, 434003 (2016)

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

[825] arXiv:1605.00539 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other]

Title: Introduction to Quantum-limited Parametric Amplification of Quantum Signals with Josephson Circuits

Michel Devoret, Ananda Roy

Comments: Invited review article (updated version)

Journal-ref: Comptes Rendus Physique, 17, 7, 740-755 (2016)

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

[826] arXiv:1605.00551 (cross-list from math.NA) [pdf, other]

Title: Compatible finite element spaces for geophysical fluid dynamics

Andrea Natale, Jemma Shipton, Colin J. Cotter

Comments: Revision to version published on DSCS

Journal-ref: Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System, Volume 1, Issue 1, dzw005 (2016)

Subjects: Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[827] arXiv:1605.00564 (cross-list from hep-lat) [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleon matrix elements from lattice QCD with all-mode-averaging and a domain-decomposed solver: an exploratory study

Georg von Hippel, Thomas D. Rae, Eigo Shintani, Hartmut Wittig

Comments: 24 pages, 11 figures (25 pdf files); v3:version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. B 914 (2017) 138-159

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[828] arXiv:1605.00599 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of swelling and drying in a spherical gel

Thibault Bertrand, Jorge Peixinho, Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Christopher W. MacMinn

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Applied 6, 064010 (2016)

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

[829] arXiv:1605.00612 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Atmospheric Neutrino Status

E. O'Sullivan

Comments: Talk presented at NuPhys2015 (London, 16-18 December 2015). 8 pages, PDFLaTeX, 5 PDF figures

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

[830] arXiv:1605.00631 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay

Igor Ostrovskiy, Kevin O'Sullivan

Comments: Updated to include new KamLAND-Zen result. Minor fixes to text and plots

Journal-ref: Mod. Phys. Lett. A, 31, 1630017 (2016)

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

[831] arXiv:1605.00633 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Depletion of intense fields

D. Seipt, T. Heinzl, M. Marklund, S. S. Bulanov

Comments: 5 pages, 3 captioned figures, version to appear in PRL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154803 (2017)

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

[832] arXiv:1605.00640 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral shearing of quantum light pulses by electro-optic phase modulation

Laura J. Wright, Michal Karpinski, Christoph Soeller, Brian J. Smith

Comments: Final version. 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 023601 (2017)

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

[833] arXiv:1605.00659 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Predicting online extremism, content adopters, and interaction reciprocity

Emilio Ferrara, Wen-Qiang Wang, Onur Varol, Alessandro Flammini, Aram Galstyan

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables

Journal-ref: International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 22-39). Springer. 2016

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

[834] arXiv:1605.00694 (cross-list from cond-mat.other) [pdf, other]

Title: Calorimetric observation of single He2* excimers in a 100 mK He bath

F. W. Carter, S. A. Hertel, M. J. Rooks, P. V. E. McClintock, D. N. McKinsey, D. E. Prober

Comments: 7 pages, 10 figures

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

[835] arXiv:1605.00793 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum optics of lossy asymmetric beam splitters

Ravitej Uppu, Tom A. W. Wolterink, Tristan B. H. Tentrup, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Journal-ref: Opt. Express 24, 16440-16449 (2016)

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

[836] arXiv:1605.00806 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Measures and applications of quantum correlations

Gerardo Adesso, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Cianciaruso

Comments: The ABC of Quantum Correlations. 82 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables, 1 inequality wheel. Final version, published as a Topical Review in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49, 473001 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[837] arXiv:1605.00878 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Short-Time Elasticity of Polymer Melts: Tobolsky Conjecture and Heterogeneous Local Stiffness

S. Bernini, D. Leporini

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 53, 1401-1407 (2015)

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

[838] arXiv:1605.00882 (cross-list from cond-mat.quant-gas) [pdf, other]

Title: Truncated correlation hierarchy schemes for driven-dissipative multimode quantum systems

Wim Casteels, Stefano Finazzi, Alexandre Le Boité, Florent Storme, Cristiano Ciuti

Journal-ref: New Journal of Physics 18, 093007 (2016)

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

[839] arXiv:1605.00884 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Hyper-Kamiokande: Towards a measurement of CP violation in lepton sector

S. Bron

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

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

[840] arXiv:1605.00886 (cross-list from q-bio.BM) [pdf, other]

Title: Nanoconfined circular and linear DNA - equilibrium conformations and unfolding kinetics

M. Alizadehheidari, E. Werner, C. Noble, M. Reiter-Schad, L. K. Nyberg, J. Fritzsche, B. Mehlig, J. O. Tegenfeldt, T. Ambjörnsson, F. Persson, F. Westerlund

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: Macromolecules 48 (2015) 871

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

[841] arXiv:1605.00897 (cross-list from cond-mat.dis-nn) [pdf, other]

Title: Covering Problems and Core Percolations on Hypergraphs

Bruno Coelho Coutinho, Hai-Jun Zhou, Yang-Yu Liu

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248301 (2020)

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

[842] arXiv:1605.00899 (cross-list from q-bio.PE) [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of human dynamics on epidemic spreading in C\^{o}te d'Ivoire

Ruiqi Li, Wenxu Wang, Zengru Di

Journal-ref: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017

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

[843] arXiv:1605.00915 (cross-list from q-bio.PE) [pdf, other]

Title: Temporal network structures controlling disease spreading

Petter Holme

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 022305 (2016)

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

[844] arXiv:1605.00934 (cross-list from q-bio.BM) [pdf, other]

Title: Empirical corrections to the Amber RNA force field with Target Metadynamics

Alejandro Gil-Ley, Sandro Bottaro, Giovanni Bussi

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Theory Comput. 12, 2790 (2016)

Subjects: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[845] arXiv:1605.00981 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Asymmetric exchange in flocks

Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi, Rahul Chajwa, Ananyo Maitra, Sriram Ramaswamy

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 101, 052601 (2020)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[846] arXiv:1605.00984 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding the Onset of Oscillatory Swimming in Microchannels

Joost de Graaf, Arnold J.T.M. Mathijssen, Marc Fabritius, Henri Menke, Christian Holm, Tyler N. Shendruk

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 4704-4708

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

[847] arXiv:1605.00986 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-symmetric interactions trigger collective swings in globally ordered systems

Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Asja Jelic, Edmondo Silvestri, Massimiliano Viale

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 138003 (2017)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[848] arXiv:1605.01005 (cross-list from cond-mat.quant-gas) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum melting of two-component Rydberg crystals

Zhihao Lan, Weibin Li, Igor Lesanovsky

Comments: 6+2 pages, 4+1 figures, 1 table, published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 051603 (2016)

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

[849] arXiv:1605.01022 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Photophoresis on particles hotter/colder than the ambient gas in the free molecular flow

C. Loesche, G. Wurm, T. Jankowski, M. Kuepper

Comments: 11 pages

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[850] arXiv:1605.01023 (cross-list from cond-mat.quant-gas) [pdf, other]

Title: Universal space-time scaling symmetry in the dynamics of bosons across a quantum phase transition

Logan W. Clark, Lei Feng, Cheng Chin

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Science 354, 606-610 (2016)

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