The Department of Physics at Syracuse University has been educating students and carrying out research for over 125 years. Our faculty members, research associates, graduate students, and undergraduate majors are active in fields ranging from biological and condensed matter physics, through cosmology and particle physics, to gravitational wave detection and astrophysics.

Physics attempts to understand how the world works; from the very small scales inside the nucleus of an atom to the very largest scales in the Universe; from the behavior of the most basic constituents of matter to the rich and diverse phenomena that arise when many simple components interact together. We have internationally recognized research groups working in all of these areas; from soft condensed matter and biological physics to elementary particle physics and cosmology and the search for gravitational waves

This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2008

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Dynamical Transition in Sliding Charge-Density Waves with Quenched Disorder, Lee-Wen Chen, Leon Balents, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and M. Cristina Marchetti

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SU(5) Grand Unification on a Domain-Wall Brane from an E_6-Invariant Action, Aharon Davidson, Damien P. George, Archil Kobakhidze, Raymond R. Volkas, and Kameshwar C. Wali

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Depinning in a Two-Layer Model of Plastic Flow, Pierre Le Doussal, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Kay Jorg Wiese

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Energy-dependent Ps-He momentum-transfer cross section at low energies, J. J. Engbrecht, M. J. Erickson, C. P. Johnson, A. J. Kolan, A. E. Legard, S. P. Lund, M. J. Nyflot, and J. D. Paulsen

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Vortex Dynamics and Defects in Simulated Flux Flow, Michael Chance Faleski, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Alan Middleton

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Complex Spontaneous Flows and Concentration Banding in Active Polar Films, Luca Giomi, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Tanniemola B. Liverpool

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Picovoltmeter for Probing Vortex Dynamics in a Single Weak-Pinning Corbino Channel, T. W. Heitmann, Kang Yu, C. Song, M P. DeFeo, and B.L.T. Plourde

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A study of angular instability due to radiation pressure in LIGO gravitational wave detector, Eiichi Hirose

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Topics in QCD and electroweak theory, Catalina Renata Jora

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Mode-Locking in Driven Disordered Systems as a Boundary-Value Problem, William Kung and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Poisson-Bracket Approach to the Dynamics of Bent-Core Molecules, William Kung and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Hydrodynamics of Polar Liquid Crystals, William Kung, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Karl Saunders

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Organization and Instabilities of Entangled Active Polar Filaments, Tanniemola B. Liverpool and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Rheology of Active Filament Solutions, Tanniemola B. Liverpool and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Mechanical Response of Active Gels, Tanniemola B. Liverpool, M. Cristina Marchetti, J-F. Joanny, and J. Prost

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Depinning and Plasticity of Driven Disordered Lattices, M. Cristina Marchetti

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Models of Plastic Depinning of Driven Disordered Systems, M. Cristina Marchetti

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Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-Field Limits, M. Cristina Marchetti, Alan Middleton, Karl Saunders, and J. M. Schwarz

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Patterned Geometries and Hydrodynamics at the Vortex Bose Glass Transition, M. Cristina Marchetti and David R. Nelson

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Vortex Physics in Confined Geometries, M. Cristina Marchetti and David R. Nelson

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Interstitials, Vacancies and Dislocations in Flux-Line Lattices: A Theory of Vortex Crystals, Supersolids and Liquids, M. Cristina Marchetti and Leo Radzihovsky

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Viscoelasticity from a Microscopic Model of Dislocation Dynamics, M. Cristina Marchetti and Karl Saunders

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Statistics of Static Avalanches in a Random Pinning Landscape, Alan Middleton, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jorg Wiese

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Picovoltmeter for Probing Vortex Dynamics in a Single Weak-Pinning Corbino Channel, Britton Plourde, T. W. Heitmann, Kang Yu, C. Song, and M. P. DeFeo

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Quantum Nondemolition-Like, Fast Measurement Scheme for a Superconducting Qubit, Britton Plourde, I. Serban, and F. K. Wilhelm

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Absolute branching fraction measurements for exclusives Ds semileptonic decays, Koloina A. Randrianarivony

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Numerical simulations for channel flow in disordered materials, Berta Elizabeth Rodriguez Milla

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Toward a quantum dynamics for causal sets, Roberto B. Salgado

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Mean Field Theory of Collective Transport with Phase Slips, Karl Saunders, J. M. Schwarz, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Alan Middleton

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Exploration of a Physical Picture for the QCD Scalar Channel, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Note on a Sigma Model Connection with Instanton Dynamics, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Simple Two Higgs Doublet Model, Joseph Schechter, Renata Jora, Sherif Moussa, Salah Nasri, and M. Naeem Shahid

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Order, defects and dynamics on the sphere, Homin Shin

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Modifying gravity: Cosmic acceleration and the large scale structure of the universe, Alessandra Silvestri

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The Yale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber, Mitchell Soderberg, Alessandro Curioni, and Bonnie T. Fleming

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Search for light Higgs in radiative decays of Upsilon(1 S), Nasra Sultana

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Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Low Temperature Surfaces in Temperature Programmed Desorption Experiments, Gianfranco Vidali, Ling Li, J. Roser, and E. Congiu

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Glassy Motion of Elastic Manifolds, Valerii M. Vinokur, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Lee-Wen Chen

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Electronic transport in polyaniline films and polyaniline/silicon heterostructure solar cells, Weining Wang

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Non-Thermal Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem in String Frameworks, Scott Watson, Bobby Samir Acharya, Piyush Kumar, and Konstantin Bobkov

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Is the PAMELA Positron Excess Winos?, Scott Watson, Phill Grajek, Gordon L. Kane, Daniel J. Phalen, and Aaron Pierce

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Neutralino Dark Matter from Indirect Detection Revisited, Scott Watson, Phill Grajek, Gordon Kane, Daniel J. Phalen, and Aaron Pierce

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Geometric Precipices in String Cosmology, Scott Watson and Nemanja Kaloper

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Dark Matter and LHC: What is the Connection?, Scott Watson and Gordon Kane

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Inflation without Inflaton(s), Scott Watson, Malcolm J. Perry, Gordon L. Kane, and Fred C. Adams

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Isotropic-Cholesteric Transition of a Weakly Chiral Elastomer Cylinder, Xiangjun Xing and Aparna Baskaran

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Development and implementation of fully three-dimensional iterative reconstruction approaches in spect with parallel, fan- and cone-beam collimators, Hongwei Ye

2007

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Creating Statistically Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Perturbations, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models, Christian Armendariz-Picon, Mark Trodden, and Eric J. West

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Parity-violating electron scattering on hydrogen and helium and strangeness in the nucleon, Hachemi Benaoum

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Vacancy Localization in the Square Dimer Model, Mark Bowick, J. Bouttier, Emmanuel Guitter, and Monwhea Jeng

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Crystalline Order On Riemannian Manifolds With Variable Gaussian Curvature And Boundary, Mark Bowick and Luca Giomi

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Bubble Raft Model for a Paraboloidal Crystal, Mark Bowick, Luca Giomi, Homin Shin, and Creighton K. Thomas

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Interstitial Fractionalization and Spherical Crystallography, Mark Bowick, David R. Nelson, and Homin Shin

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Dynamics and Instabilities of Defects in Two-Dimensional Crystals on Curved Backgrounds, Mark Bowick, Homin Shin, and Alex Travesset

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From Twisted Supersymmetry to Orbifold Lattices, Simon Catterall

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On the Restoration of Supersymmetry in Twisted Two-Dimensional Lattice Yang-Mills Theory, Simon Catterall

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Minimal Walking on the Lattice, Simon Catterall and Francesco Sannino

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Gauge-Gravity Duality -- Super Yang Mills Quantum Mechanics, Simon Catterall and Toby Wiseman

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Towards Lattice Simulation of the Gauge Theory Duals to Black Holes and Hot Strings, Simon Catterall and Toby Wiseman

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Baryons and Mesons with Beauty, Goldstein R. Gary and Kameshwar C. Wali

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Hydrodynamic and Rheology of Active Polar Filaments, Tanniemola B. Liverpool and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Leptonic decays of charged D and Ds mesons, Nabil Menaa

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Irrational Mode Locking in Quasiperiodic Systems, Alan Middleton and Creighton K. Thomas

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Matching Kasteleyn Cities for Spin Glass Ground States, Alan Middleton and Creighton K. Thomas

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Persistence and Memory in Patchwork Dynamics for Glassy Models, Alan Middleton, Creighton K. Thomas, and Olivia L. White

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Branching fraction measurements and SU(3) diagrammatic analysis of Cabibbo-suppressed D meson decays, Shabana Nisar

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Long-Range Coupling and Scalable Architecture for Superconducting Flux Qubits, Britton Plourde and Austin G. Fowler

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Asymmetric Weak-Pinning Superconducting Channels: Vortex Ratchets, Britton Plourde, T. W. Heitmann, C. Song, M. P. DeFeo, and Kang Yu

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Symmetries in noncommutative physics, Babar Ahmed Qureshi

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Two or Four: A Hint from Scalar Mesons in Radiative Phi Decays?, Joseph Schechter, Deirdre Black, and Masayasu Harada

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Low Energy Scattering with a Nontrivial Pion, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Scalar Mesons from an Effective Lagrangian Approach, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Two Chiral Nonet Model with Massless Quarks, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Exact Relativistic Beta Decay Endpoint Spectrum, Joseph Schechter and S. S. Masood

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Alternative Large Nc Schemes and Chiral Dynamics, Joseph Schechter and Francesco Sannino

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Establishment of Bs meson production at the psi(5S) energy using beauty and charm decays, Radia Sia

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The Yale Lar TPC, Mitchell Soderberg, A. Curioni, and Bonnie T. Fleming

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Formation of Molecular Hydrogen on Amorphous Silicate Surfaces, Gianfranco Vidali, Ling Li, E. Congiu, and S. Swords

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Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Amorphous Silicates Under Interstellar Conditions, Gianfranco Vidali, Hagai B. Perets, Ling Li, S. Swords, and E. Congiu

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Polyaniline on Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells, Weining Wang and Eric A. Schiff

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Cosmological Moduli Dynamics, Scott Watson, Brian Greene, Simon Judes, and Amanda Weltman

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Living on a dS Brane: Effects of KK modes on Inflation, Scott Watson and Claudia De Rham

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Topology of Smectic Order on Compact Substrates, Xiangiun Xing

2006

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First indications of causal set cosmology, Maqbool Ahmed

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Near Scale Invariance with Modified Dispersion Relations, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Why Should Primordial Perturbations be in a Vacuum State?, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Experimental investigations towards production of hyperpolarized xenon-129 through the condensed state, Durdana Nazim Balakishiyeva

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First Observation of psi(3770) decays to photon chi(cJ), Jamila Bashir Butt

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Simulations of {\cal N}=2 Super Yang-Mills Theory in Two Dimensions, Simon Catterall

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A Critique of the Link Approach to Exact Lattice Supersymmetry, Simon Catterall, Falk Bruckmann, and Mark de Kok

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Twisted Supersymmetric Sigma Model on the Lattice, Simon Catterall and Sofiane Ghadab

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Intracellular Signaling: How do Cells Respond to Single and Multiple Inputs, LaToya Crayton

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Exact supersymmetry on the lattice, Sofiane Ghadab

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Temperature Dependence of the Electron Diffusion Coefficient in Electrolyte-Filled TiO2, Nikos Kopidakis, Kurt D. Benkstein, Arthur J. Frank, Quan Yuan, and Eric A. Schiff

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Temperature Dependence of the Electron Diffusion Coefficient in Electrolyte-Filled TiO2 Nanoparticle Films: Evidence Against Multiple Trapping in Exponential Conduction-Band Tails, Nikos Kopidakis, Kurt D. Benkstein, Jao van de Lagemaat, Quan Yuan, and Eric A. Schiff

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Hole Mobility Limit of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells, Jiang Liang, Eric A. Schiff, S. Guha, Baojie Yan, and Jeff Yang

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Device physics of hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells, Jianjun Liang

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Are Domain Walls in Spin Glasses Described by Stochastic Loewner Evolutions?, Alan Middleton, Denis Bernard, and Pierre Le Doussal

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Measuring Functional Renormalization Group Fixed-Point Functions for Pinned Manifolds, Alan Middleton, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jorg Wiese