Physics

Authors and titles for August 2016

[801] arXiv:1608.08770 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic Club, or Galactic Cliques? Exploring the limits of interstellar hegemony and the Zoo Hypothesis

Duncan H Forgan

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted to the International Journal of Astrobiology

Subjects: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[802] arXiv:1608.08778 [pdf, other]

Title: The light-yield response of a NE-213 liquid-scintillator detector measured using 2 -- 6 MeV tagged neutrons

J. Scherzinger, R. Al Jebali, J.R.M. Annand, K.G. Fissum, R. Hall-Wilton, K. Kanaki, M. Lundin, B. Nilsson, H. Perrey, A. Rosborg, H. Svensson

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, to be submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A, Referee comments addressed

Journal-ref: Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 840 (2016) 121

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

[803] arXiv:1608.08810 [pdf, other]

Title: Conformity, anticonformity and polarization of opinions: insights from a mathematical model of opinion dynamics

Tyll Krueger, Janusz Szwabiński, Tomasz Weron

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.07556

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

[804] arXiv:1608.08812 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimisation of confinement in a fusion reactor using a nonlinear turbulence model

E. G. Highcock, N. R. Mandell, M. Barnes, W. Dorland

Comments: 32 pages, 8 figures, accepted to JPP

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[805] arXiv:1608.08827 [pdf, other]

Title: Spontaneous dehydrogenation of methanol over defect-free MgO(100) thin film deposited on molybdenum

Zhenjun Song, Hu Xu

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

[806] arXiv:1608.08839 [pdf, other]

Title: Normalizing and classifying shape indexes of cities by ideas from fractals

Yanguang Chen

Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables

Journal-ref: Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021, 154: 111653

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

[807] arXiv:1608.08845 [pdf, other]

Title: Faddeev-Jackiw analysis for the charged compressible fluid in a higher-derivative electromagnetic field background

Albert C. R. Mendes, Everton M. C. Abreu, Jorge Ananias Neto, Flavio I. Takakura

Comments: 7 pages. Two-column format

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[808] arXiv:1608.08846 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigation of Free Particle Propagator with Generalized Uncertainty Problem

F. Ghobakhloo, H. Hassanabadi

Comments: accepted for publication in Advances in High Energy Physics journal

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[809] arXiv:1608.08849 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of MRI in stratified viscous plasma configuration

Nakia Carlevaro, Giovanni Montani, Fabrizio Renzi

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Europhys. Lett. 117(4), 49001 (2017)

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

[810] arXiv:1608.08857 [pdf, other]

Title: Teleparallel equivalent of general relativity and local Lorentz transformation: Revisited

Gamal G.L. Nashed, B. Elkhatib

Comments: Latex, 15 pages

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[811] arXiv:1608.08863 [pdf, other]

Title: From Schwinger Balls to Curved Space

Davood Allahbakhshi

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[812] arXiv:1608.08864 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy momentum tensor in the nonsymmetric gravity

Boris V. Gisin

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[813] arXiv:1608.08865 [pdf, other]

Title: Time dependent electromagnetic fields and 4-dimensional Stokes' theorem

Ryan Andosca, Douglas Singleton

Comments: 25 pages ReVTeX, 5 eps figures, 3 appendices. To be published American Journal of Physics

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys. 84 (2016) 848-857

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[814] arXiv:1608.08867 [pdf, other]

Title: Stagnation of electron flow by a nonlinearly generated whistler wave

Toshihiro Taguchi, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Kunioki Mima

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[815] arXiv:1608.08870 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of Bloch oscillations in complex PT-symmetric photonic lattices

Martin Wimmer, Mohammed-Ali Miri, Demetrios Christodoulides, Ulf Peschel

Comments: Published online 07 December 2015 in Scientific Reports

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 5, 17760 (2015)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[816] arXiv:1608.08877 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Tunneling Enhancement of the C + H2O and C + D2O Reactions at Low Temperature

Kevin M. Hickson, Jean-Christophe Loison, Dianailys Nunez-Reyes, Raphael Mereau

Comments: Accepted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[817] arXiv:1608.08894 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of two coupled Faraday waves in a vertically vibrating Hele-Shaw cell with one of them oscillating horizontally

Xiaochen Li, Xiaoming Li, Shijun Liao

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Physics of Fluid, vol. 30, 012108 (2018)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[818] arXiv:1608.08911 [pdf, other]

Title: Gyrotactic swimmer dispersion in pipe flow: testing the theory

O. A. Croze, R. N. Bearon, M. A. Bees

Comments: 24 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: J. Fluid Mech. Vol. 113, 481-506 (2017)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[819] arXiv:1608.08915 [pdf, other]

Title: All-carbon multi-electrode array for real-time in vitro measurements of oxidizable neurotransmitters

F. Picollo, A. Battiato, E. Bernardi, M. Plaitano, C. Franchino, S. Gosso, A. Pasquarelli, E. Carbone, P. Olivero, V. Carabelli

Comments: 24 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 6, 20682 (2016)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[820] arXiv:1608.08916 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimization on fixed low latency implementation of GBT protocol in FPGA

Kai Chen, Hucheng Chen, Weihao Wu, Hao Xu, Lin Yao

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

[821] arXiv:1608.08917 [pdf, other]

Title: Single-shot phase retrieval in high-energy X-ray grating interferometry

Wang Zhili, Liu Dalin

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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

[822] arXiv:1608.08919 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear 3-D simulation of high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy in the kidney

Visa Suomi, Jiri Jaros, Bradley Treeby, Robin Cleveland

Comments: Conference proceeding

Journal-ref: 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016, pp. 5648-5651

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[823] arXiv:1608.08945 [pdf, other]

Title: On the bending of light from the Newtonian point of view

Attilio Palatini

Comments: Plain TeX, 9 pages

Journal-ref: Mem. Soc. Astr. Ital, vol. 2, pp. 371-379 (1923)

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

[824] arXiv:1608.08961 [pdf, other]

Title: Generation of intermittent gravitocapillary waves via parametric forcing

Gustavo Castillo, Claudio Falcón

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, Physical Review E

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 97, 043101 (2018)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[825] arXiv:1608.08976 [pdf, other]

Title: High-precision spectroscopy of the HD+ molecule at the 1-p.p.b. level

J. Biesheuvel, J.-Ph. Karr, L. Hilico, K.S.E. Eikema, W. Ubachs, J.C.J. Koelemeij

Comments: 22 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: Appl. Phys. B 123, 23 (2017)

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

[826] arXiv:1608.08979 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of autoionization in electron loss from helium-like highly charged ions in collisions with photons and fast atomic particles

K. N. Lyashchenko, O. Yu. Andreev, A. B. Voitkiv

Comments: 25 pages including 15 figures and 1 table

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 96, 052702 (2017)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[827] arXiv:1608.08985 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlling mode competition by tailoring the spatial pump distribution in a laser: A resonance-based approach

Alexander Cerjan, Brandon Redding, Li Ge, Seng Fatt Liew, Hui Cao, A. Douglas Stone

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[828] arXiv:1608.09003 [pdf, other]

Title: Initial state dependence of a quantum-resonance ratchet

Jiating Ni, Wa Kun Lam, Siamak Dadras, Mario F. Borunda, Sandro Wimberger, Gil S. Summy

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 043620 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[829] arXiv:1608.09010 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical physics of vaccination

Zhen Wang, Chris T. Bauch, Samit Bhattacharyya, Alberto d'Onofrio, Piero Manfredi, Matjaz Perc, Nicola Perra, Marcel Salathé, Dawei Zhao

Comments: 150 pages, 42 figures; published in Physics Reports

Journal-ref: Phys. Rep. 664 (2016) 1-113

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Applications (stat.AP)

[830] arXiv:1608.09015 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical consistency of subgrid-scale models for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent flows

Maurits H. Silvis, Ronald A. Remmerswaal, Roel Verstappen

Comments: 26 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Fluids 29, 015105 (2017)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[831] arXiv:1608.00010 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: Kinetics and mechanisms of the acid-base reaction between NH$_3$ and HCOOH in interstellar ice analogs

Jennifer B. Bergner, Karin I. Oberg, Mahesh Rajappan, Edith C. Fayolle

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[832] arXiv:1608.00029 (cross-list from cond-mat.str-el) [pdf, other]

Title: Projected Hartree Fock Theory as a Polynomial Similarity Transformation Theory of Single Excitations

Yiheng Qiu, Thomas M. Henderson, Gustavo E. Scuseria

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 145, 111102 (2016)

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

[833] arXiv:1608.00108 (cross-list from q-bio.QM) [pdf, other]

Title: Direct quantification of brown algae-derived fucoidans in human plasma by a fluorescent probe assay

Ulrich Warttinger, Christina Giese, Job Harenberg, Roland Krämer

Comments: article, 15 pages, 2 schemes, 3 figures, 3 tables

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[834] arXiv:1608.00142 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Identifying vital edges in Chinese air route network via memetic algorithm

Wen-Bo Du, Bo-Yuan Liang, Gang Yan, Oriol Lordan, Xian-Bin Cao

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

[835] arXiv:1608.00167 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Aggregation models on hypergraphs

Diego Alberici, Pierluigi Contucci, Emanuele Mingione, Marco Molari

Comments: Improved version, 12 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[836] arXiv:1608.00175 (cross-list from cond-mat.supr-con) [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical estimates of maximum fields in superconducting resonant radio frequency cavities: Stability theory, disorder, and laminates

Danilo B. Liarte, Sam Posen, Mark K. Transtrum, Gianluigi Catelani, Matthias Liepe, James P. Sethna

Comments: 22 pages, 17 figures

Journal-ref: Supercond. Sci. Technol. 30, 033002 (2017)

Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[837] arXiv:1608.00176 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Reply to Els\"asser's Comment on "How many principles does it take to change a light bulb ... into a laser?"

Howard M. Wiseman

Comments: 5 pages. Reply to a Comment [arXiv:1607.03647] on my paper published in Physica Scripta

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

[838] arXiv:1608.00205 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Bohr's Relational Holism and the classical-quantum Interaction

Mauro Dorato

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

[839] arXiv:1608.00301 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Anomaly detection in online social networks

David Savage, Xiuzhen Zhang, Xinghuo Yu, Pauline Chou, Qingmai Wang

Journal-ref: Social Networks, Volume 39, October 2014, Pages 62 to70

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

[840] arXiv:1608.00306 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Taiwan EXperiment On NeutrinO -- History, Status and Prospects

Henry Tsz-King Wong

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures; Invited Review at "The Universe", published by the Asia Pacific Organization for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics; Web Link - this http URL

Journal-ref: The Universe Vol. 3, No.4, 22-37 (2015)

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

[841] arXiv:1608.00348 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced thermoelectric performance in thin films of three-dimensional topological insulators

T. H. Wang, H. T. Jeng

Comments: 19 pages 5 figures, and 6 pages 3 figures supplement

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

[842] arXiv:1608.00361 (cross-list from cs.CV) [pdf, other]

Title: Fast and robust pushbroom hyperspectral imaging via DMD-based scanning

Reza Arablouei, Ethan Goan, Stephen Gensemer, Branislav Kusy

Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Optics (physics.optics)

[843] arXiv:1608.00366 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization basis tracking scheme for quantum key distribution with revealed sifted key bits

Yu-Yang Ding, Wei Chen, Hua Chen, Chao Wang, Ya-Ping li, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Guang-Can Guo, Zheng-Fu Han

Comments: 8 pages 5 figures

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

[844] arXiv:1608.00375 (cross-list from cs.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Hiding Individuals and Communities in a Social Network

Marcin Waniek, Tomasz Michalak, Talal Rahwan, Michael Wooldridge

Comments: 29 pages, 22 figures

Journal-ref: Nature Human Behaviour 2, 139-147 (2018)

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

[845] arXiv:1608.00383 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Universal Bound on Sampling Bosons in Linear Optics

Man-Hong Yung, Xun Gao, Joonsuk Huh

Comments: 6 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[846] arXiv:1608.00405 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: A balance for Dark Matter bound states

F. Nozzoli

Comments: 39 pages, 4 figures

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

[847] arXiv:1608.00425 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-classical Dynamics of Superradiant Rayleigh Scattering in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

J. H. Müller, D. Witthaut, R. le Targat, J. J. Arlt, E. S. Polzik, A. J. Hilliard

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of Modern Optics, Volume 63, Issue 18, pages 1886-1897, 2016 Special Issue: 20 years of Bose-Einstein Condensates: Current trends and applications of ultracold quantum gases

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

[848] arXiv:1608.00427 (cross-list from math.OC) [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum Likelihood Localization of Radiation Sources with unknown Source Intensity

Henry E. Baidoo-Williams

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures

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

[849] arXiv:1608.00446 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Chiral Quantum Optics

Peter Lodahl, Sahand Mahmoodian, Søren Stobbe, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Volz, Arno Rauschenbeutel, Hannes Pichler, Peter Zoller

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

[850] arXiv:1608.00462 (cross-list from cs.CY) [pdf, other]

Title: Are Safer Looking Neighborhoods More Lively? A Multimodal Investigation into Urban Life

Marco De Nadai, Radu L. Vieriu, Gloria Zen, Stefan Dragicevic, Nikhil Naik, Michele Caraviello, Cesar A. Hidalgo, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference (MM), 2016. October 15 - 19, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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