Physics

Authors and titles for May 2016

[101] arXiv:1605.01102 [pdf, other]

Title: Heterogeneous resource allocation can change social hierarchy in public goods games

Sandro Meloni, Cheng-Yi Xia, Yamir Moreno

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, 55 references

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[102] arXiv:1605.01112 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical and computational analysis of second- and third-harmonic generation in periodically patterned graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Martin Weismann, Nicolae C. Panoiu

Comments: 28 pages, 21 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 94, 035435 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[103] arXiv:1605.01197 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Investigation of Vertical Cavity Lasers with Subwavelength Gratings Using the Fourier Modal Method

Alireza Taghizadeh, Jesper Mørk, Il-Sug Chung

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, IEEE copyright notice

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

[104] arXiv:1605.01247 [pdf, other]

Title: True thermal antenna with hyperbolic metamaterials

Grégory Barbillon, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[105] arXiv:1605.01269 [pdf, other]

Title: Suppression of a kinematic dynamo by large shear

Aditi Sood, Rainer Hollerbach, Eun-jin Kim

Comments: This paper is accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A and in press

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

[106] arXiv:1605.01283 [pdf, other]

Title: Barometric pumping effect for radon-due neutron flux in underground laboratories

Yu.V. Stenkin, V.V. Alekseenko, D.M. Gromushkin, O.B. Shchegolev, V.P. Sulakov

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. Report presented at TAUP-2015

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

[107] arXiv:1605.01291 [pdf, other]

Title: Direct visualization of mechanical beats by means of an oscillating smartphone

Marcos H. Giménez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Juan A. Monsoriu

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[108] arXiv:1605.01315 [pdf, other]

Title: From fire whirls to blue whirls and combustion without pollution

Huahua Xiao, Michael J. Gollner, Elaine S. Oran

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, 29 references, original research

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[109] arXiv:1605.01317 [pdf, other]

Title: Endohedral confinement of a DNA dodecamer onto pristine carbon nanotubes and the stability of the canonical B form

Fernando J.A.L. Cruz, Juan J. de Pablo, José P.B. Mota

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 140, 225103 (2014)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)

[110] arXiv:1605.01321 [pdf, other]

Title: Parker's model in geodynamo

M. Reshetnyak

Journal-ref: Magnetohydrodynamics. 2016. V.52. 1. 181-190

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[111] arXiv:1605.01339 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital motions of astronomical bodies and their Centre of Mass from different reference frames: a conceptual step between the Geocentric and Heliocentric models

André G C Guerra, Paulo Simeão Carvalho

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[112] arXiv:1605.01360 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin polarization in SCC-DFTB

Patrick Melix, Augusto Faria Oliveira, Robert Rüger, Thomas Heine

Comments: The final publication is available at Springer via this http URL

Journal-ref: Theor Chem Acc (2016) 135: 232

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[113] arXiv:1605.01366 [pdf, other]

Title: Nanoscopic Characterization of DNA within Hydrophobic Pores:Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Fernando J.A.L. Cruz, Juan J. de Pablo, José P.B. Mota

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1605.01317

Journal-ref: Biochem. Eng. J. 104, 2015, 41-47

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[114] arXiv:1605.01370 [pdf, other]

Title: Visualizing acoustical beats with a smartphones

Marcos H. Giménez, Isabel Salinas, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, José A. Gómez-Tejedor, Juan A. Monsoriu

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[115] arXiv:1605.01372 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical and experimental study of the normal modes in a coupled two-dimensional system

Marcos H. Giménez, Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio, José Antonio Gómez-Tejedor, Luisberis Velazquez, Juan A. Monsoriu

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[116] arXiv:1605.01378 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparing the diversity of information by word-of-mouth vs. web spread

Alon Sela, Louis Shekhtman, Shlomo Havlin, Irad Ben-Gal

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

[117] arXiv:1605.01395 [pdf, other]

Title: Viscoplastic flow in an extrusion damper

Alexandros Syrakos, Yannis Dimakopoulos, Georgios C. Georgiou, John Tsamopoulos

Journal-ref: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 232 (2016) 102-124

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

[118] arXiv:1605.01433 [pdf, other]

Title: To the Thomson cross-section of light scattered by moving particle

E.G. Bessonov, M.V. Gorbunkov, A.V. Vinogradov, Yu.Ya. Maslova, (Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS), A.A. Mikhailchenko (Cornell University, USA)

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[119] arXiv:1605.01448 [pdf, other]

Title: High efficiency energy extraction from a relativistic electron beam in a strongly tapered undulator

Nicholas Sudar, Pietro Musumeci, Joe Duris, Ivan Gadjev, Mikhail Polyaniy, Igor Pogorelsky, Mikhail Fedurin, Christina Swinson, Marcus Babzien, Karl Kusche, Avi Gover

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 174801 (2016)

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[120] arXiv:1605.01449 [pdf, other]

Title: Actuator line modeling of vertical-axis turbines

Peter Bachant, Anders Goude, Martin Wosnik

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[121] arXiv:1605.01452 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbit-spin coupling and the interannual variability of global-scale dust storm occurrence on Mars

James H. Shirley, Michael A. Mischna

Comments: 44 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[122] arXiv:1605.01460 [pdf, other]

Title: Fluid-structure interaction simulation of floating structures interacting with complex, large-scale ocean waves and atmospheric turbulence

Antoni Calderer, Xin Guo, Lian Shen, Fotis Sotiropoulos

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[123] arXiv:1605.01487 [pdf, other]

Title: A diabatic definition of geometric phase effects

Artur F. Izmaylov, Jiaru Li, Loic Joubert-Doriol

Comments: 4 figures

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[124] arXiv:1605.01496 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlling the Numerical Cerenkov Instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction

Fei Li, Peicheng Yu, Xinlu Xu, Frederico Fiuza, Viktor K. Decyk, Thamine Dalichaouch, Asher Davidson, Adam Tableman, Weiming An, Frank S. Tsung, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Wei Lu, Warren B. Mori

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[125] arXiv:1605.01518 [pdf, other]

Title: 3D printing of gas jet nozzles for laser-plasma accelerators

A. Döpp, E. Guillaume, C. Thaury, J. Gautier, K. Ta Phuoc, V. Malka

Journal-ref: Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 87, Issue 7, 2016

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[126] arXiv:1605.01520 [pdf, other]

Title: Preliminary study of 10Be/7Be in rainwater from Xi'an by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

Li Zhang, Yun-Chong Fu

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

[127] arXiv:1605.01525 [pdf, other]

Title: Single-Beam Optical Conveyor Belt for Chiral Particles

David E. Fernandes, Mário G. Silveirinha

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures, preprint

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[128] arXiv:1605.01527 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Vortex Dynamics in Fractal Fourier Turbulence

Alessandra S. Lanotte, Shiva Kumar Malapaka, Luca Biferale

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. E, 39 4 (2016) 49

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

[129] arXiv:1605.01538 [pdf, other]

Title: Exact solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equation via similarity reduction and applications to magnetically confined plasmas

Dimitrios A. Kaltsas, George N. Throumoulopoulos

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. A 380 (2016), 3373

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[130] arXiv:1605.01542 [pdf, other]

Title: The Roles of Substrate vs Nonlocal Optical Nonlinearities in the Excitation of Surface Plasmons in Graphene

Thomas J. Constant, Craig J. Tollerton, Euan Hendry, Darrick E. Chang

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[131] arXiv:1605.01565 [pdf, other]

Title: One-sided muon tomography - A portable method for imaging critical infrastructure with a single muon detector

K. Boniface, V.N.P. Anghel, A. Erlandson, G. Jonkmans, M. Thompson, S. Livingstone

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures

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

[132] arXiv:1605.01601 [pdf, other]

Title: Manufacturing and the LLRF Tests of the SANAEM RFQ

G. Turemen, A. Alacakir, Y. Akgun, S. Bolukdemir, I. Kilic, B. Yasatekin, H. Yildiz, G. Unel

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Proceedings of the International Particle Accelerator Conference 2016 (IPAC'16), 8 - 13 May 2016, MOPOY051, p. 964

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[133] arXiv:1605.01616 [pdf, other]

Title: Flat Bunches with a Hollow Distribution for Space Charge Mitigation

Adrian Oeftiger, Hannes Bartosik, Alan James Findlay, Steven Hancock, Giovanni Rumolo

Comments: Proceedings of International Particle Accelerator Conference 2016

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[134] arXiv:1605.01625 [pdf, other]

Title: Prototype muon detectors for the AMIGA component of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration: A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E.J. Ahn, I. Al Samarai, I.F.M. Albuquerque, I. Allekotte, P. Allison, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, M. Ambrosio, A. Aminaei, G.A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, S. Andringa, C. Aramo, F. Arqueros, N. Arsene, H. Asorey, P. Assis, J. Aublin, G. Avila, N. Awal, A.M. Badescu, C. Baus, J.J. Beatty, K.H. Becker, J.A. Bellido, C. Berat, M.E. Bertaina, X. Bertou, P.L. Biermann, P. Billoir, S.G. Blaess, A. Blanco, M. Blanco, J. Blazek, C. Bleve, H. Blümer, M. Boháčová, D. Boncioli, C. Bonifazi, N. Borodai, A.M. Botti, J. Brack, I. Brancus, T. Bretz, A. Bridgeman, P. Brogueira, P. Buchholz, A. Bueno, S. Buitink, M. Buscemi, K.S. Caballero-Mora, B. Caccianiga, L. Caccianiga, M. Candusso, L. Caramete, R. Caruso, A. Castellina, G. Cataldi, L. Cazon, R. Cester, A.G. Chavez, A. Chiavassa, J.A. Chinellato, J. Chudoba, M. Cilmo, R.W. Clay, G. Cocciolo, R. Colalillo, A. Coleman, L. Collica, M.R. Coluccia, R. Conceição, F. Contreras, M.J. Cooper, A. Cordier, S. Coutu, C.E. Covault, J. Cronin, R. Dallier, B. Daniel, S. Dasso, K. Daumiller, B.R. Dawson, R.M. de Almeida, S.J. de Jong, G. De Mauro, J.R.T. de Mello Neto, I. De Mitri, J. de Oliveira, V. de Souza, L. del Peral, O. Deligny, N. Dhital

Comments: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI

Journal-ref: JINST 11 (2016) P02012

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

[135] arXiv:1605.01650 [pdf, other]

Title: Small-angle neutron scattering and Molecular Dynamics structural study of gelling DNA nanostars

Javier Fernandez-Castanon, Francesca Bomboi, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Marco Zanatta, Alessandro Paciaroni, Lucia Comez, Lionel Porcar, Charl J. Jafta, Giulia C. Fadda, Tommaso Bellini, Francesco Sciortino

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

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

[136] arXiv:1605.01654 [pdf, other]

Title: Geometric integrator for simulations in the canonical ensemble

Diego Tapias, David P. Sanders, Alessandro Bravetti

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

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

[137] arXiv:1605.01671 [pdf, other]

Title: Intracycle Angular Velocity Control of Cross-Flow Turbines

Benjamin Strom, Steven L. Brunton, Brian Polagye

Comments: 7 pages plus supplement, 5 primary figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[138] arXiv:1605.01673 [pdf, other]

Title: Information Mechanics

Kiyam Lin, SongLing Lin

Comments: 20 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[139] arXiv:1605.01674 [pdf, other]

Title: Linear-scaling generation of potential energy surfaces using a double incremental expansion

Carolin König, Ove Christiansen

Journal-ref: The Journal of Chemical Physics 145, 064105 (2016)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[140] arXiv:1605.01691 [pdf, other]

Title: Eco-friendly gas mixtures for Resistive Plate Chambers based on Tetrafluoropropene and Helium

M. Abbrescia, L. Benussi, S. Bianco, M. Ferrini, S. Muhammad, L. Passamonti, D. Pierluigi, D. Piccolo, F. Primavera, A. Russo, G. Saviano

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

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

[141] arXiv:1605.01692 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of the breakdown voltage of SiPMs

V. Chmill, E. Garutti, R. Klanner, M. Nitschke, J. Schwandt

Comments: 7 pages, 1 table, 7 figures

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

[142] arXiv:1605.01697 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale dynamics of magnetic helicity

Moritz Linkmann, Vassilios Dallas

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, postprint version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 053209 (2016)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[143] arXiv:1605.01699 [pdf, other]

Title: Single-Molecule Imaging of Nav1.6 on the Surface of Hippocampal Neurons Reveals Somatic Nanoclusters

Elizabeth J. Akin, Laura Solé, Ben Johnson, Mohamed el Beheiry, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Diego Krapf, Michael M. Tamkun

Journal-ref: Biophysical Journal, Vol. 111, Issue 6, 1235-1247 (2016)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[144] arXiv:1605.01715 [pdf, other]

Title: An O(N) and parallel approach to integral problems by a kernel-independent fast multipole method: Application to polarization and magnetization of interacting particles

Xikai Jiang, Jiyuan Li, Xujun Zhao, Jian Qin, Dmitry Karpeev, Juan Hernandez-Ortiz, Juan de Pablo, Olle Heinonen

Comments: 29 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 145, 064307 (2016)

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[145] arXiv:1605.01754 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized Backpropagation Algorithms for Diffraction Tomography

Pavel Roy Paladhi, Ashoke Sinha, Amin Tayebi, Lalita Udpa

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[146] arXiv:1605.01761 [pdf, other]

Title: On the effect of self-steepening in modulation instability

Santiago M. Hernandez, Pablo I. Fierens, Juan Bonetti, Diego F. Grosz

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, letter

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[147] arXiv:1605.01774 [pdf, other]

Title: Review: Garbe, Annette. Die partiell konventional, partiell empirisch bestimmte Realit\"at physikalischer RaumZeiten. K\"onigshausen & Neumann: W\"urzburg 2001, pp. 419, ISBN: 978-3-8260-2080-3

Andrea Reichenberger

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

[148] arXiv:1605.01780 [pdf, other]

Title: First results of the new endcap TOF commissioning at BESIII

Zhi Wu, Shengsen Sun, Yuekun Heng, Xiaozhuang Wang, Yongjie Sun, Cheng Li, Hongliang Dai, Ping Cao, Jie Zhang, Weijia Sun, Siyu Wang, Yun Wang, Xiaolu Ji, Jinzhou Zhao, Wenxuan Gong, Mei Ye, Xiaoyan Ma, Mingming Chen, Meihang Xu, Xiaolan Luo, Rongxing Yang, Qi An, Xiaoshan Jiang, Zhen-an Liu, Shubin Liu, Kejun Zhu

Comments: 7 pages,8 figures,conference

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

[149] arXiv:1605.01786 [pdf, other]

Title: Developing an Action Concept Inventory

Lachlan P. McGinness, C. M. Savage

Comments: 6 pages. This paper started out as arXiv:1507.06075v1, then split into arXiv:1507.06075v2 and this paper as a result of feedback from referees and an editor. arXiv:1507.06075v2 presents the case for teaching action physics, while this paper presents an evaluation tool

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[150] arXiv:1605.01792 [pdf, other]

Title: Extending Geant4 Parallelism with External Libraries (MPI, TBB) and Its Use on HPC Resources

Andrea Dotti, Makoto Asai, Guy Barrand, Ivana Hrivnacova, Koichi Murakami

Comments: conference

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)