home   ::   academic personnel   ::   research   ::   graduate studies   ::   undergraduate studies   ::   courses & instruction
administration & staff   ::   seminars & colloquia   ::   employment opportunities


Recent Faculty Publications

Myron Bander
"Quark Resonances and High Et Jets," Phys. Rev. Lett., 601 (1996).

"Sum Rule for Heavy Meson Decay Widths," in the Proceedings of The Blois ‘97 Workshop (International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering), M. Bander, eds. K. Kang, S. K. Lee and C. Lee, June, 1997, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1998).

Steven Barwick
"Observations of High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos with AMANDA", E. Andres, et al., submitted to Nature, 2000.

"Search for Point Source of High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA", E. Andres, et al., in preparation, to be submitted to Astrophysics Journal, 2000

Gregory Benford
"Coherent Emission and the Escape of High Brightness Temperature Radiation in Active Galactic Nuclei," G. Benford and H. Lesch, MNRAS 301, 414 (1998).

"Coherent Synchrotron Emission Observed: Implications for Radio Astronomy," G. Benford and D. Tzach, MNRAS 317, 497 (2000).

David Buote
"X-Ray Isophote Shapes and the Mass of NGC 3923," D. A. Buote & C. R. Canizares, MNRAS, 298, 811 (1998)

"X-ray Evidence for Multiphase Hot Gas with Nearly Solar Abundances in the Brightest Groups of Galaxies," D. A.Buote, MNRAS, 311, 176 (2000)

Gary Chanan
"Phase Discontinuity Sensing: An Algorithm for Phasing Segmented Optics in the Infrared," G. A. Chanan, M. Troy, and F. G. Dekens, Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI, L. M. Stepp, ed., Proc SPIE 3352 (1998).

"Phasing the Mirror Segments of the Keck Telescopes: The Broadband Phasing, Algorithm," G.A. Chanan, M. Troy, F.G. Dekens, S. Michaels, J. Nelson, T. Mast, D. Kirkman, Applied Optics 101, 140?155 (1998).

Liu Chen
"Excitation of Zonal Flow by Drift Waves in Toroidal Plasmas," L. Chen, Z. Lin, and R. White, Phys. of Plasmas 7(8), 3129 (2000).

"Internal Kink Instability During Off-Axis Electron Cyclotron Current Drive in the DIII-Tokamak," K. Wong, M. Chu, T. Luce, C. Petty, P. Politzer, R. Prater, L. Chen, R. Harvey, M. Austin, L. Johnson, R. La Haye, and R. Snider, Phys. Rev. Letts. 85(5), 996 (2000).

Michael Dennin
"Effect of subphase Ca++  ions on the viscoelastic properties of Langmuir monolayers," R.S. Ghaskadvi, S. Carr, and M. Dennin, J. of Chem. Phys. 111, 3675 (1999).

"Temporal modulation of the control parameter in electroconvection in the nematic liquid crystal I52," M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. E 62, 7842 (2000).

Igor Dzyaloshinskii
"Extended Van Hove Singularity and Related Non-Fermi Liquids," I. Dzyaloshinskii, J. Phys. I 6, 119 (1996).

"Parquet Solution for a Flat Fermi Surface," A. Zheleznyak, V. Yalovenko, I. Dzyaloshinskii, Phys. Rev. B 55, 3200 (1997).

Steven Gross
"Developmental and Genetic Regulation of Vesicle Transport in Drosphila Embryos," S.P. Gross, M. Welte, M. Postner, S. M. Block, and E.F. Wieschaus Cell 92, 547(1998).

"Dynein-mediated cargo transport In vivo. A switch controls travel distance," S.P Gross, M. Welte, S.M. Block, and E.F. Wieschaus, J. Cell Biol. 148 945-56 (2000).

Herbert Hamber
"On the Quantum Correction to the Newtonian Potential," H. Hamber and S. Liu, Phys. Lett., B357, 51?56 (1995).

"Gauge Invariance in Simplicial Gravity" H. Hamber and R. Williams, Nuclear Phys. B487, 345?408 (1997).

William Heidbrink
"What is the "Beta-Induced Alfvén Eigenmode?," W. Heidbrink, E. Ruskov, E. Carolipio, J. Fang, M. van Zeeland and R. James, Phys. of Plasmas 6, 1147 (1999).

"The Weak Effect of Static, Externally Imposed, Helical Fields on Fusion Product Confinement in the DIII-D Tokamak," W. Heidbrink, E. Carolipio, R. La Haye and J. Scoville, Nucl. Fusion 40, 935 (2000).

Wilson Ho
"Vibrationally-Mediated Negative Differential Resistance in a Single Molecule." J. Gaudioso, L.J. Lauhon, and W. Ho. Physical Review Letters 85, 1918. (2000)

"Direct Observation of the Quantum Tunneling of Single Hydrogen Atoms with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope." L.J. Lauhon and W. Ho, Physical Review Letters 85, 4566 (2000).

Herbert Hopster
"Non-Equilibrium Magnetization Near the Reorientation Phase Transition of Fe/Ag(100)-Films," A. Berger and H. Hopster, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 519 (1996).

"Magnetic Microscopy of Fe/Mn/Fe Layers," H. Hopster, Y. Iwasaki, J. Barthel, E. B. Maiken, B.P. Miller, J. Kondis, and Y. Yu, Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 475, 75 (1997).

Andrew Lankford
"Measurement of the Mass of the t Lepton," J. Z. Bai et al., Phys. Rev. D53, 20-34 (1996).

"Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Dx Inclusive Semileptonic Decay DSÆ e+X," J. Z. Bai et al., Phys. Rev. D56, 3779 (1997).

Jon Lawrence
"L3 X-ray Absorption in Yb Compounds: Temperature Dependence of the Valence," J. M. Lawrence et al. Phys. Rev. B49, 1627 (1994).

"Inelastic Neutron Scattering in Single Crystal YbInCu4," J. M. Lawrence et al., Phys. Rev. B55, 14467 (1997).

Mark Mandelkern
"Nuclear Techniques for Medical Imaging: Positron Emission Tomography," M. Mandelkern, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 45, 205 (1995).

"Observation of Atomic Antihydrogen," G. Blanford et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3037 (1998).

"Measuring the Antihydrogen Lamb Shift with a Relativistic Antihydrogen Beam," G. Blanford et al., Phys.Rev. D57, 6649 (1998).

Alexei Maradudin
"Design of one-dimensional band-limited uniform diffusers of light," T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin, I.V. Novikov, A.V. Shchegrov, and E.R. Méndez, Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 1943-1945 (1998).

"Symmetry analysis of the localized modes associated with substitutional and interstitial defects in a two-dimensional triangular photonic crystal," V. Kuzmiak and A.A. Maradudin, Phys. Rev. B61, 10750-10761 (2000).

Roger McWilliams
"Ion Acceleration and Anomalous Transport in the Near Wake of Plasma Limiter," D. P. Sheehan, J. Bowles and R. D. McWilliams, Phys. of Plasmas 4, 3177 (1997).

"Argon Ion Laser-Induced Fluorescence with Diode Laser," G. D. Severn, D. A. Edrich, and R. D. McWilliams, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69, 10 (1998).

Douglas Mills
"Low Frequency Dynamic Response and Hysteresis in Magnetic Superlattices," S. Rakhmanova, D. L. Mills and E. E. Fullerton, Phys. Rev. B57, 476, (1998).

"Theory of the Spin Dynamics of Bulk Fe and Ultrathin Fe(100) Films," M. Plihal and D. L. Mills, J. of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 187, 23, (1998).

William Molzon
"A Search for m?N Æ e?N with Sensitivity Below 10?16," M. Bachman et al., Proposal 940, Submitted to Brookhaven National Laboratory (1997).

"Improved Limits on Muon and Electron Lepton Number Violation from KL0 Æ m+?e+? Decay," D. Ambrose, et al., submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (1998).

Riley Newman
"Future Torsion Balances for Gravitation Experiments: What are Their Limits?" Proceedings of the Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, R. D. Newman, M. Bantel, M. Beilby, N. Krishnan, E. Siragusa, P. E. Boynton, and A. Goodson, 1619, World Scientific Publishing Co. (1996).

Norman Rostoker
"Turbulent Transport in Magnetic Confinement: How to Avoid It," M. Binderbauer and N. Rostoker, J. Plasma Phys. 56, 451 (1996).

"Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor," N. Rostoker, M. W. Binderbauer and H. J. Monkhorst, Science 278, 1419 (1997).

Steven Ruden
"The Theory of Planet Formation, 1998," in The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, S. P. Ruden, NATO ASI Series, eds. C. J. Lada and N. D. Kylafis.

James Rutledge
"Superfluid Droplets on a Solid Surface," D. Ross, J. E. Rutledge and P. Taborek, Science 278, 664 (1997).
"Wetting Behavior of H2 on Cesium," D. Ross, P. Taborek and J. E. Rutledge, Phys. Rev. B58, R4274 (1998).

Jonas Schultz
"Observation of Atomic Antihydrogen," G. Blanford et al., Phys. Rev. Letters 80, 3037 (1998).
"Measuring the Antihydrogen Lamb Shift with a Relativistic Antihydrogen Beam," G. Blanford et al., Phys. Rev. D57, 6649 (1998).

Dennis Silverman
"B Factory Constraints on Isosinglet Down Quark Mixing, and Predictions for Other CP Violating Experiments," D. Silverman, Int. J. Modern Phys. A11, 2253 (1996),  hep-ph/9504387, hep-ph/
9806489.

"Effects of Anomalous Couplings of Quarks on Prompt Photon Production," K. Cheung and D. Silverman, Phys. Rev. D55, 2724 (1997), hep-ph/9610318.

Tammy Smecker-Hane
"Galaxy Evolution in Abell 2390," R. G. Abraham, T. A. Smecker-Hane, J. B. Hutchings, R. G. Carlberg, H. K. C. Yee, E. Ellingson, S. Morris, J. B. Oke, and M. Rigler, Ap. J. 471, 694?719 (1996).

"The Star Formation Histories of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies," T. Smecker-Hane, invited review in The 7th Astrophysics Conference at College Park Maryland: Star Formation Near and Far, eds. S. Holt and L.G. Mundy, (AIP: New York), AIP Conf. Proceedings, 571?581 (1997).

Henry Sobel
"Measurements of the Solar Neutrino Flux from Super-Kamiokande’s First 300 Days," The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration: Y Fukuda et al., Submitted to Phys. Lett. B (April 1998).

"Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos,"  The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration: Y. Fukuda et al., Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (June 1998).

Peter Taborek
"Superfluid Droplets on a Solid Surface," D. Ross, J. E. Rutledge and P. Taborek, Science 278, 664 (1997).

"Wetting Near Triple Points," K. G. Sukhatme, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 129 (1998).

Virginia Trimble
"Astrophysics in 1999," V. Trimble & M. Aschwanden, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 112, 434-503 (2000)

"Some Characteristics of Young vs. Established American Astronomers: Entering the New Century," V. Trimble, Scientometrics 48, 403 (2000).

Richard Wallis
"Theory of Kink and Domain Wall Excitation in Translationally Invariant Lattices with Quartic Anharmonicity," V. Bortolani, A. Franchini, and R. Wallis, Phys. Rev. B56, 8047 (1997).

Steven White
"Density Matrix Approach to Local Hilbert Space Reduction," Chunli Zhang, Eric Jeckelmann, and S. R. White, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2661 (1998).

"DMRG Study of the Striped Phase in the 2D t-J Model," S. R. White and D. J. Scalapino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1272 (1998).

Gaurang Yodh
"TeV Observations of Markarian 501 with the Milagrito Water Cherenkov Detector," R. Atkins et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters 525, L25-L28 (1999)

"Evidence for TeV Emission from GRB 970417a," R. Atkins et al. Astrophysical Journal Letters 533,  L119-L122 (2000)

Clare Yu
"First Order Premelting Transition of Vortex Lattices,’’ H. M. Carruzzo and C. C. Yu, Phil. Mag. B77, 1001 (1998).
 
 




..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Department of Physics & Astronomy
4129 Frederick Reines Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-4575
telephone:  949.824.6911
fax:  949.824.2174
email:  physics@uci.edu