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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1998

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H2 Formation on Interstellar Grains in Different Physical Regimes, Gianfranco Vidali, Ofer Biham, Itay Furman, N. Katz, and Valerio Pirronello

1997

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Dynamical breaking of string model in 1 + 1 dimension, Thamer Abdulmohsen Al-Aithan

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Minimal Dynamical Triangulations of Random Surfaces, Mark Bowick, Simon Catterall, and Gudmar Thorleifsson

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Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes, Mark Bowick, Marco Falcioni, and Gudmar Thorleifsson

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Effects of Self-Avoidance on the Tubular Phase of Anisotropic Membranes, Mark Bowick and Emmanuel Guitter

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Minimal Dynamical Triangulations of Random Surfaces, Simon Catterall, Mark Bowick, and Gudmar Thorleifsson

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Phase Structure of Dynamical Triangulation Models in Three Dimensions, Simon Catterall, Ray L. Renken, and John B. Kogut

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Singular Structure in 4D Simplicial Gravity, Simon Catterall, R. Renken, and John B. Kogut

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Studies in random surfaces, Falcioni Falcioni

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The Poisson ratio of crystalline surfaces, Marco Falcioni, Mark Bowick, Emmanuel Guitter, and Gudmar Thorleifsson

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Investigations leading to large solid frozen-spin polarized HD targets and implementation of such targets for photonuclear spin-physics studies, Qun Fan

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Laboratory synthesis of molecular hydrogen on surfaces of interstellar dust grain analogues, Chi Liu

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Statistical Topography of Glassy Interfaces, Alan Middleton, Chen Zeng, Jane Kondev, and David McNamara

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Aspects of boundary states in gauge field theories, Arshad Momen

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Effective Lagrangian Models for gauge theories of fundamental interactions, Francesco Sannino

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Multiflavor Massive Schwinger Model With Non-Abelian Bosonization, Joseph Schechter and David Delphenich

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Remark on the Potential Function of the Linear Sigma Model, Joseph Schechter and David Delphenich

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Hyperfine Splitting of Low-Lying Heavy Baryons, Joseph Schechter, Masayasu Harada, Asif Qamar, Francesco Sannino, and Herbert Weigel

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Generalization of the Bound State Model, Joseph Schechter, Masayasu Harada, Francesco Sannino, and Herbert Weigel

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Toy Model for Breaking Super Gauge Theories at the Effective Lagrangian Level, Joseph Schechter and Francesco Sannino

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An analysis of the theta sectors of quantum gravity, Sumati, Surya,

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Efficiency of Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Silicates, Gianfranco Vidali, Valerio Pirronello, Ofer Biham, Chi Liu, and Lyiong Shen

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The precision measurement of the neutron spin structure function using polarized helium-3 target, Xuejun Wang

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Search for electroweak penguin decay bottom quark to s quark lepton+ lepton-, Xing Xia

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Application of multi-dimensional NMR in the study of DNA structure and dynamics, Jiqun, Yu

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Characterization of lead zirconate titanate thin films by atomic force microscopy, Genaro, Ph Zavala-Enriquez

1996

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Comment on "Moving Glass Phase of Driven Lattices", Leon Balents, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Leo Radzihovsky

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The Flat Phase of Crystalline Membranes, Mark Bowick, Simon Catterall, Marco Falcioni, Gudmar Thorleifsson, and Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos

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Discrete Folding, Mark Bowick, Philippe Di Francesco, Oliver Golinelli, and Emmanuel Guitter

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Geometrical Folding Transitions of the Triangular Lattice in the Face-Centred Cubic Lattice, Mark Bowick, Oliver Golinelli, Emmanuel Guitter, and S. Mori

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The Flat Phase of Crystalline Membranes, Simon Catterall, Mark Bowick, and Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos

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The Flat Phase of Fixed-Connectivity Membranes, Simon Catterall, Mark Bowick, Marco Falcioni, G. Thorleifsson, and Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos

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Suppressing Curvature Fluctuations in Dynamical Triangulations, Simon Catterall, Mark Bowick, and G. Thorleifssona

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Blocking of Dynamical Triangulations with Matter, Simon Catterall, E. Gregory, and G. Thorleifsson

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Simplicial Gravity in Dimension Greater than Two, Simon Catterall, G. Thorleifsson, John B. Kogut, and R. Renken

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Nonequilibrium dynamics of driven elastic manifolds in random media, Lee-Wen Chen

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Random interactions with disk galaxies, David J. Edelsohn

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Test mass suspension Q measurement and excess loss diagnosis for gravitational wave interferometers, Yinglei Huang

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

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Ground-State Roughness of the Disordered Substrate and Flux Line in d=2, Alan Middleton, Chen Zeng, and Y. Shapir

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Analyzing Regge calculus as a tool in numerical relativity, Mark Allen Miller

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Hidden Structure in a Lagrangian for Hyperfine Splitting of the Heavy Baryons, Joseph Schechter, Masayasu Harada, Asif Qamar, Francesco Sannino, and Herbert Weigel

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Comment on ``Confirmation of the Sigma Meson'', Joseph Schechter, Masayasu Harada, and Francesco Sannino

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Scaling Behavior in Soliton Models, Joseph Schechter, Masayasu Harada, F. Sannino, and H. Weigel

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Laboratory Synthesis of Molecular Hydrogen on Surfaces of Astrophysical Interest, Gianfranco Vidali, V Pirronello, Chi Liu, and Liyong Shen

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Attenuation correction in SPECT using emission data, Thomas Michael Young

1995

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Lattice Quantum Gravity: Review and Recent Developments, Simon Catterall

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The Phase Diagram of Crystalline Surfaces, Simon Catterall, Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos, Mark Bowick, Marco Falcioni, and G. Thorleifsson

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A Real-Space Renormalization Group for Random Surfaces, Simon Catterall and G. Thorleifsson

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Scaling and the Fractal Geometry of Two-Dimensional Quantum Gravity, Simon Catterall, G. Thorleifsson, Mark Bowick, and V. John

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Singular Vertices and the Triangulation Space of the D-sphere, Simon Catterall, G. Thorleifsson, John B. Kogut, and R. Renken

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Light-Heavy Symmetry: Geometric Mass Hierarchy for Three Families, Aharon Davidson, Tomer Schwartz, and Kameshwar C. Wali

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WebWork: Integrated Programming Environment Tools for National and Grand Challenges, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Marina Chen, Claudio Rebbi, and James H. Cowie

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The development, characterization and applications of polymeric films containing bacteriorhodopsin, Richard Brian Gross

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Peak Effect in Twinned Superconductors, A. I. Larkin, M. Cristina Marchetti, and V. M. Vinokur

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B_s Mixing Via ψ K*, Patricia McBride and Sheldon Stone

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Numerical Results for the Ground-State Interface in a Random Medium, Alan Middleton

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Numerical Results for the Ground-State Interface in a Random Medium, Alan Middleton

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Regge Calculus as a Fourth Order Method in Numerical Relativity, Mark A. Miller

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Monte Carlo Studies of a Novel LiF Radiator for RICH Detectors, Raymond Mountain, A. Efimov, Marina Artuso, and Min Gao

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Effects of Symmetry Breaking on the Strong and Electroweak Interactions of the Vector Nonet, Joseph Schechter and Masayasu Harada

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Simple Description of Pion-Pion Scattering to 1 GeV, Joseph Schechter, Masayasu Harada, and Francesco Sannino

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Exploring \pp Scattering in the \1N Picture, Joseph Schechter and Francesco Sannino

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Heavy Quark Solitons: Towards Realistic Masses, Joseph Schechter, A. Subbaraman, S. Vaidya, and H. Weigel

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Resolving Ordering Ambiguities in the Collective Quantization by Particle Conjugation Constraints, Joseph Schechter and H. Weigel

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Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Astrophysically Relevant Surfaces, Gianfranco Vidali, N. Katz, Itay Furman, Ofer Biham, and Valerio Pirronello

1994

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Group Cohomology, Modular Theory And Space-Time Symmetries, R. Brunetti, D. Guido, and R. Longo

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On the Absence of an Exponential Bound in Four Dimensional Simplicial Gravity, Simon Catterall, John B. Kogut, and R. Renken

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Phase Structure of Four Dimensional Simplicial Quantum Gravity, Simon Catterall, John B. Kogut, and R. Renken

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Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group Flows in Two-Dimensional Quantum Gravity, Simon Catterall, Ray L. Renken, and John B. Kogut

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AC Response of the Flux-Line Liquid in High-Tc Superconductors, Lee-Wen Chen and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Interface Motion in Random Media at Finite Temperature, Lee-Wen Chen and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Gravity And Electromagnetism In Noncommutative Geometry, Giovanni Landi, Nguyen Ai Viet, and Kameshwar C. Wali

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Low-Temperatures Vortex Dynamics in Twinned Superconductors, M. Cristina Marchetti and Valerii M. Vinokur

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Twin-Boundary Pinning of Superconducting Vortex Arrays, M. Cristina Marchetti and Valerii M. Vinokur

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Self-Organized Criticality in Non-Conserved Systems, Alan Middleton and Chao Tang

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Possible Extension of the Chiral Perturbation Theory Program, Joseph Schechter

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Heavy Meson Radiative Decays and Light Vector Meson Dominance, Joseph Schechter, Pankaj Jain, and Arshad Momen

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Heavy Quark Solitons: Strangeness and Symmetry Breaking, Joseph Schechter, Arshad Momen, and Anand Subbaraman

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Excited Heavy Baryons in the Bound State Picture, Joseph Schechter and Anand Subbaraman

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Particle Conjugation and the 1/N_C Corrections to g_A, Joseph Schechter and H. Weigel

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Measurement of the neutron spin structure function and its implications for QCD sum rules, Jianguo Xu

1993

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Quantization of Chern-Simons theories on manifolds with boundaries, Giuseppe Roberto Bimonte

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Critical Slowing Down of Cluster Algorithms for Ising Models Coupled to 2-d Gravity, Mark Bowick, Marco Falcioni, Geoffrey Harris, and Enzo Marinari

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Radial Excited States for Heavy Quark Systems in NRQCD, Simon Catterall, F. R. Devlin, I. T. Drummond, and R. R. Hogan

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The XY Model on a Dynamical Random Lattice, Simon Catterall, John B. Kogut, and Ray L. Renken

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Three-Dimensional Quantum Gravity Coupled to Gauge Fields, Simon Catterall, Ray L. Renken, and John B. Kogut

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The recovery of locality for causal sets and related topics, Alan Ronald Daughton

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Correlation of electronic structure and ferromagnetism at rare earth metal surfaces, Dongqi Li

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Avalanches and the Renormalization Group for Pinned Charge-Density Waves, Alan Middleton and Onuttom Narayan

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Heavy Quark Solitons, Joseph Schechter, Kumar S. Gupta, M. Arshad Momen, and A. Subbaraman

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Resonant and Non-Resonant Pieces of the D\rightarrow \bar{K}π Semileptonic Transition Amplitude, Joseph Schechter, A. Subbaraman, and S. Surya

1992

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Accessible passively stored highly spin-polarized deuterium in solid hydrogen deuterium, with application to inertially confined fusion, Neil Brooks Alexander

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Multicriticality, Scaling Operators and mKdV Flows for the Symmetric Unitary One Matrix Models, Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos and Mark Bowick

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Unitary One Matrix Models: String Equation and Flows, Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos and Mark Bowick

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The Cosmological Kibble Mechanism in the Laboratory: String Formation in Liquid Crystals, Mark Bowick, L. Chandar, Eric A. Schiff, and Ajit M. Srivastava

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Non-Relativistic QCD for Heavy Quark Systems, Simon Catterall, F. R. Devlin, I. T. Drummond, R. R. Horgan, and A. D. Simpson

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Numerical Study of c>1 Matter Coupled to Quantum Gravity, Simon Catterall, John B. Kogut, and Ray L. Renken

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Three Dimensional Quantum Gravity Coupled to Ising Matter, Simon Catterall, Ray L. Renken, and John B. Kogut

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Empirical Relations Between Static and Dynamic Exponents for Ising Model Cluster Algorithms, Paul D. Coddington and Clive F. Baillie