Physics

Authors and titles for September 2016

[1] arXiv:1609.00002 [pdf, other]

Title: A torsion pendulum ground test of the LISA Pathfinder Free-fall mode

Giuliana Russano

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

[2] arXiv:1609.00004 [pdf, html, other]

Title: On the initial value of PageRank

Krishanu Deyasi

Comments: 12 pages, 16 figures

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

[3] arXiv:1609.00018 [pdf, other]

Title: Can Free-Response Questions Be Approximated by Multiple-Choice Equivalents?

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Comments: journal version of arXiv:1603.07910

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys. 81, 624 (2013)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[4] arXiv:1609.00038 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleation and droplet growth from supersaturated vapor at temperatures below the triple point temperature

Søren Toxvaerd

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures

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

[5] arXiv:1609.00044 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of Double Ladder Lumped Circuits With Degenerate Band Edge

Jeff Sloan, Mohamed A. K. Othman, Filippo Capolino

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2017

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[6] arXiv:1609.00054 [pdf, other]

Title: Speckle-Free Coherence Tomography of Turbid Media

Orly Liba, Matthew D. Lew, Elliott D. SoRelle, Rebecca Dutta, Debasish Sen, Darius M. Moshfeghi, Steven Chu, Adam de la Zerda

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[7] arXiv:1609.00057 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantification of mixing in vesicle suspensions using numerical simulations in two dimensions

Gokberk Kabacaoglu, Bryan Quaife, George Biros

Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures

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

[8] arXiv:1609.00060 [pdf, other]

Title: Solving Large-Scale Inverse Magnetostatic Problems using the Adjoint Method

Florian Bruckner, Claas Abert, Gregor Wautischer, Christian Huber, Christoph Vogler, Michael Hinze, Dieter Suess

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[9] arXiv:1609.00063 [pdf, other]

Title: Mesh Resolution Effect on 3D RANS Turbomachinery Flow Simulations

Sergiy Yershov, Viktor Yakovlev

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[10] arXiv:1609.00068 [pdf, other]

Title: Mesa-top quantum dot single photon emitter arrays: growth, optical characteristics, and the simulated optical response of integrated dielectric nanoantenna-waveguide systems

Jiefei Zhang, Swarnabha Chattaraj, Siyuan Lu, Anupam Madhukar

Comments: 24 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: J. Appl. Phys. 120, 243103 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[11] arXiv:1609.00073 [pdf, other]

Title: Modulated Pulses Based High Spatial Resolution Distributed Fiber System for Multi-Parameter Sensing

Jingdong Zhang, Tao Zhu, Huan Zhou, Yang Li, Min Liu, Wei Huang

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures

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

[12] arXiv:1609.00078 [pdf, other]

Title: Coupled dynamics of node and link states in complex networks: A model for language competition

Adrián Carro, Raúl Toral, Maxi San Miguel

Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 18 113056 (2016)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)

[13] arXiv:1609.00094 [pdf, other]

Title: Articulation Points in Complex Networks

Liang Tian, Amir Bashan, Da-Ning Shi, Yang-Yu Liu

Comments: 51 pages, 16 figures

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

[14] arXiv:1609.00112 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytic Evaluation of Three Different Five-Electron Atomic Integrals Involving Exponentially Correlated Functions of $r_{ij}$ With $r_{ij}$'s Not Forming A Closed Loop

Bholanath Padhy

Comments: 7 pages

Journal-ref: Orissa Journal of Physics, Vol. 20, No.1, pp. 11-17, February 2013

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[15] arXiv:1609.00154 [pdf, other]

Title: Have precipitation extremes and annual totals been increasing in the world's dry regions over the last 60 years?

Sebastian Sippel, Jakob Zscheischler, Martin Heimann, Holger Lange, Miguel D. Mahecha, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Friederike E.L. Otto, Markus Reichstein

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

[16] arXiv:1609.00160 [pdf, other]

Title: Finite-Size Corrections to the Excitation Energy Transfer in a Massless Scalar Interaction Model

Nobuki Maeda, Tetsuo Yabuki, Yutaka Tobita, Kenzo Ishikawa

Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, published version

Journal-ref: Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2017, 053J01

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

[17] arXiv:1609.00180 [pdf, other]

Title: Wire and extended ladder model predict THz oscillations in DNA monomers, dimers and trimers

K. Lambropoulos, K. Kaklamanis, A. Morphis, M. Tassi, R. Lopp, G. Georgiadis, M. Theodorakou, M. Chatzieleftheriou, C. Simserides

Comments: 32 pages, 10 + 5 = 15 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 28 (2016) 495101

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[18] arXiv:1609.00182 [pdf, other]

Title: Pinning-depinning mechanism of the contact line during evaporation on chemically patterned surfaces: A lattice Boltzmann study

Qing Li, P. Zhou, H. J. Yan

Comments: Accepted by Langmuir, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Langmuir 2016, 32, 9389-9396

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

[19] arXiv:1609.00216 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymmetric transmission of surface plasmon polaritons on planar gratings

Vladimir Kuzmiak, Alexei A. Maradudin

Comments: 9 pages, 13 Postscript figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 92, 053813 (2015)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[20] arXiv:1609.00227 [pdf, other]

Title: Quark Confinement, New Cosmic Expansion and General Yang-Mills Symmetry

Jong-Ping Hsu

Comments: 8 pages, to be published in the Chinese Physics C (2017). (to replace the previous submission by the same author.)

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[21] arXiv:1609.00235 [pdf, other]

Title: Electronic structure and carrier transfer in B-DNA monomer polymers and dimer polymers: Stationary and time-dependent aspects of wire model vs. extended ladder model

K. Lambropoulos, M. Chatzieleftheriou, A. Morphis, K. Kaklamanis, R.Lopp, M. Theodorakou, M. Tassi, C. Simserides

Comments: 20 pages, 23 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 062403 (2016)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[22] arXiv:1609.00238 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized Maxwell equations and charge conservation censorship

G. Modanese

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Modern Physics Letters B Vol. 31, No. 6 (2017) 1750052

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[23] arXiv:1609.00249 [pdf, other]

Title: The ALFA Roman Pot Detectors of ATLAS

S. Abdel Khalek, B. Allongue, F. Anghinolfi, P. Barrillon, G. Blanchot, S. Blin-Bondil, A. Braem, L. Chytka, P. Conde Muíño, M. Düren, P. Fassnacht, S. Franz, L. Gurriana, P. Grafström, M. Heller, M. Haguenauer, W. Hain, P. Hamal, K. Hiller, W. Iwanski, S. Jakobsen, C. Joram, U. Kötz, K. Korcyl, K. Kreutzfeldt, T. Lohse, A. Maio, M.J.P. Maneira, D. Notz, L. Nozka, A. Palma, D. Petschull, X. Pons, P. Puzo, S. Ravat, T. Schneider, L. Seabra, T. Sykora, R. Staszewski, H. Stenzel, M. Trzebinski, S. Valkar, M. Viti, V. Vorobel, A. Wemans

Comments: 37 pages, 22 figures, final version published in JINST

Journal-ref: JINST 11 (2016) P11013

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

[24] arXiv:1609.00252 [pdf, other]

Title: Challenges in Large Scale Quantum Mechanical Calculations

Laura E. Ratcliff, Stephan Mohr, Georg Huhs, Thierry Deutsch, Michel Masella, Luigi Genovese

Comments: accepted for publication by WIREs Computational Molecular Science

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[25] arXiv:1609.00256 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of plasma around a small meteoroid: 2. Implications for radar head echo

Y. S. Dimant, M. M. Oppenheim

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[26] arXiv:1609.00269 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytic Evaluation of some 2-, 3- and 4- Electron Atomic Integrals Containing Exponentially Correlated Functions of $r_{ij}$

Bholanath Padhy

Comments: 9 pages

Journal-ref: Asian Journal of Spectroscopy - Special Issue (2012) 157-162

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[27] arXiv:1609.00272 [pdf, other]

Title: Competing quantum effects in the free energy profiles and diffusion rates of hydrogen and deuterium molecules through clathrate hydrates

Joseph R. Cendagorta, Anna Powers, Timothy J. H. Hele, Ondrej Marsalek, Zlatko Bačić, Mark E. Tuckerman

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18 (2016) 32169-32177

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[28] arXiv:1609.00277 [pdf, other]

Title: Relationalism about mechanics based on a minimalist ontology of matter

Antonio Vassallo, Dirk-André Deckert, Michael Esfeld

Comments: 25 pages, accepted for publication in European Journal for Philosophy of Science

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

[29] arXiv:1609.00281 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of oscillatory radial electric field relaxation in a helical plasma

J. A. Alonso, E. Sanchez, I. Calvo, J. L. Velasco, S. Perfilov, A. Chmyga, L. G. Eliseev, L. I. Krupnik, T. Estrada, R. Kleiber, K. J. McCarthy, A. V. Melnikov, P. Monreal, F. I. Parra, A. I. Zhezhera, the TJ-II Team

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 185002 (2017)

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[30] arXiv:1609.00307 [pdf, other]

Title: Transmission-matrix-based point-spread-function engineering through a complex medium

Antoine Boniface, Mickael Mounaix, Baptiste Blochet, Rafael Piestun, Sylvain Gigan

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Optica, 4 (1), pp. 54-59 (2017)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[31] arXiv:1609.00311 [pdf, other]

Title: Cuba: the strategic choice of advanced scientific development, 1959-2014

Angelo Baracca, Rosella Franconi

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

[32] arXiv:1609.00312 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum correlation enhanced super-resolution localization microscopy enabled by a fiber bundle camera

Yonatan Israel, Ron Tenne, Dan Oron, Yaron Silberberg

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, supporting information is not included. Comments are welcome

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

[33] arXiv:1609.00334 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic Dynamics of Extended Objects in Driven Systems II: Current Quantization in the Low-Temperature Limit

Michael J. Catanzaro, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, John R. Klein

Comments: To appear in Chemical Physics

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[34] arXiv:1609.00336 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic Dynamics of Extended Objects in Driven Systems: I. Higher-Dimensional Currents in the Continuous Setting

Michael J. Catanzaro, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, John R. Klein

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[35] arXiv:1609.00346 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing Self-Heating Dynamics Using Cyclostationary Measurements

SangHoon Shin, Muhammad Masuduzzaman, Muhammad Ashraful Alam

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, Journal

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

[36] arXiv:1609.00347 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal Structure and Burning Velocity of Flames in Non-volatile Fuel Suspensions

Michael J. Soo, Keishi Kumashiro, Samuel Goroshin, David L. Frost, Jeffrey M. Bergthorson

Comments: Published online in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[37] arXiv:1609.00348 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source - A Review of the first 8 Years of Operation

Georg Ehlers, Andrey A. Podlesnyak, Alexander I. Kolesnikov

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

[38] arXiv:1609.00389 [pdf, other]

Title: QED-driven laser absorption

M. C. Levy, T. G. Blackburn, N. Ratan, J. Sadler, C. P. Ridgers, M. Kasim, L. Ceurvorst, J. Holloway, M. G. Baring, A. R. Bell, S. H. Glenzer, G. Gregori, A. Ilderton, M. Marklund, M. Tabak, S. C. Wilks

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[39] arXiv:1609.00394 [pdf, other]

Title: 60dB high-extinction auto-configured Mach--Zehnder interferometer

Callum M. Wilkes, Xiaogang Qiang, Jianwei Wang, Raffaele Santagati, Stefano Paesani, Xiaoqi Zhou, David A. B. Miller, Graham D. Marshall, Mark G. Thompson, Jeremy L. O'Brien

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

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

[40] arXiv:1609.00403 [pdf, other]

Title: Laboratory Measurements of the K-shell transition energies in L-shell ions of Si and S

N. Hell (1 and 2), G. V. Brown (2), J. Wilms (1), V. Grinberg (3), J. Clementson (2), D. Liedahl (2), F. S. Porter (4), R. L. Kelley (4), C. A. Kilbourne (4), P. Beiersdorfer (2) ((1) Remeis-Sternwarte and ECAP, Univ. Erlangen, (2) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (3) MIT, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, (4) NASA-GSFC)

Comments: ApJ, in press

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[41] arXiv:1609.00413 [pdf, other]

Title: Hyperbolic Metamaterials and Coupled Surface Plasmon Polaritons: comparative analysis

Tengfei Li, Jacob B. Khurgin

Comments: 13 pages 15 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[42] arXiv:1609.00417 [pdf, other]

Title: The MARS15-based FermiCORD code system for calculation of the accelerator-induced residual dose

A. Grebe, A. Leveling, T. Lu, N. Mokhov, V. Pronskikh

Comments: Replaced with published version. Available under Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 877 (2018) 339-345

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[43] arXiv:1609.00430 [pdf, other]

Title: Ab initio effective rotational and rovibrational Hamiltonians for non-rigid systems via curvilinear second order vibrational M{\o}ller-Plesset perturbation theory

P. Bryan Changala, Joshua H. Baraban

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: J. Chem. Phys. 145, 174106 (2016)

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

[44] arXiv:1609.00431 [pdf, other]

Title: Symmetry-Breaking Zeeman-Coherence Parametric Wave Mixing Magnetometry

Feng Zhou, Chengjie Zhu, E. W. Hagley, L. Deng

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

[45] arXiv:1609.00432 [pdf, other]

Title: Network reconstruction from infection cascades

Alfredo Braunstein, Alessandro Ingrosso, Anna Paola Muntoni

Comments: 18 pages, 10 figures (main text: 13 pages, 9 figures; Appendix: 4 pages, 1 figure)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[46] arXiv:1609.00444 [pdf, other]

Title: Beam test of CSES silicon strip detector module

Da-Li Zhang, Hong Lu, Huan-Yu Wang, Xin-Qiao Li, Yan-Bing Xu, heng-Hua An, Xiao-xia Yu, Hui Wang, Feng Shi, Ping Wang, Xiao-Yun Zhao

Comments: 9 pages, 10 figures. This article is submitted to Chinese Physics C

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

[47] arXiv:1609.00448 [pdf, other]

Title: Do Mathematicians, Economists and Biomedical Scientists Trace Large Topics More Strongly Than Physicists?

Menghui Li, Liying Yang, Huina ZHang, Zhesi Shen, Chensheng Wu, Jinshan Wu

Comments: 11 papges, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of Informetrics 11(2) 598-607 (2017)

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

[48] arXiv:1609.00456 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of the Goos-H\"anchen shift in graphene via weak measurements

Shizhen Chen, Chengquan Mi, Liang Cai, Mengxia Liu, Hailu Luo, Shuangchun Wen

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Applied Physics Letters 110, 031105 (2017)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[49] arXiv:1609.00469 [pdf, other]

Title: Explosive Phase Transition in a Majority-Vote Model with Inertia

Hanshuang Chen, Chuansheng Shen, Haifeng Zhang, Guofeng Li, Zhonghuai Hou, Jürgen Kurths

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 97, 062304 (2018)

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

[50] arXiv:1609.00471 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulence as Information

W.I. Goldburg, R.T. Cerbus

Comments: 17 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)