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Recent Publications

Some of the recent publications by members of the department of physics. Faculty authors are in bold; student authors are underlined.

  1. C. Leighton, A. Cady, J. W. Freeland, M. Manno, L. Wang, K. Umemoto, R. M. Wentzcovitch, T. Y. Chen, C. L. Chien, P. L. Kuhns, M. J. R. Hoch, A.P. Reyes, W.G. Moulton, E. D. Dahlberg, J. Checkelsky, and J. Eckert , Composition controlled spin polarization in Co1-xFexS2 alloys: A review, Journal of the Physics of Condensed Matter xx (2007) (accepted).
  2. H. A. Sumeruk, S. Kneip, D. R. Symes, I. V. Churina, A. V. Belolipetski, T. D. Donnelly, and T. Ditmire, Control of strong-laser-field coupling to electrons in solid targets with wavelength-scale spheres, Physical Review Letters 98 (2007) 045001.
  3. A. D. Mont, P. A. Kienzle, S. M. Watson, J. A. Borchers, J. Eckert, P. Sparks, S. Moyerman, and M. J. Carey, Determination of complex magnetic structures from polarized neutron reflectivity data by flexible modeling of depth-dependent vector magnetization, IEEE Transactions on Magnetism xx (2007) (submitted).
  4. S. Watson, S. Moyerman, J. Borchers, M. Doucet, W. Gannett, M. Carey, P. Sparks, and J. Eckert, Spiral domain wall formation in spin valves with ultra-thin antiferromagnetic layers, Journal of Applied Physics xx (2007) (submitted).
  5. C. Furjanic, D. Draganova, W. Buchanan, S. Moyerman, W. Gannett, P. Sparks, M. Carey, and J. Eckert, The effects of ruthenium and grain size on spin valves with ultra-thin antiferromagnetic pinning la(...), IEEE Transactions on Magnetism xx (2007) (accepted).
  6. H. A. Sumeruk, S. Kneip, D. R. Symes, I. V. Churina, A. V. Belolipetski, G. Dyer, J. Landry, G. Bansal, A. Bernstein, T. D. Donnelly, A. Karmakar, and A. Pukhov and T. Ditmire, Hot electron and x-ray production from intense laser irradiation of wavelength-scale polystyrene spheres, Physics of Plasmas 14 (2007) 062704.
  7. Jun Park, S. M. Watson , C. Furjanic, D. Draganova, S. Eisenberg, D. Tighe, P. A. Kienzle , M. Carey, J. A. Borchers, P. D. Sparks, and J. C. Eckert, Thickness of the Pinned Layer as a Controlling Factor in Domain Wall Formation During Training in IrMn-based Spin Valves, Journal of Applied Physics (2007) (accepted).
  8. S. M. Moyerman, W. Gannett, J. A. Borchers, M. Doucet, M. J. Carey, P. D. Sparks, and J. C. Eckert, Ferromagnetic relaxation in spin valves with pico-scale antiferromagnetic layers , IEEE Transactions on Magnetism 42 (2006) 2630.
  9. L. Wang, T. Y. Chen, C. L. Chien, J .G. Checkelsky, J. C. Eckert, E. D. Dahlberg, K. Umemoto, R.M. Wentzcovitch, C. Leighton, and , Composition controlled spin polarization in Co1-xFexS2 II: Electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties , Physical Review B 73 (2006) 144402.
  10. S. M. Moyerman, J. Eckert, J. Borchers, K. Perdue, M. Doucet, P. Sparks, and M. Carey, Magnetic structure variations during GMR training in spin valves with pico-scale antiferromagnetic layers, Journal of Applied Physics 88 (2006) 08R505.
  11. R. C. Haskell, D. Liao, A. Pivonka, T. L. Bell, B. R. Haberle, B. M. Hoeling, and D. C. Petersen, Role of beat noise in limiting the sensitivity of optical coherence tomography, Journal of the Optical Society of America A 23 (2006) 2747.
  12. A. Murugan and V. Sahakian, Emergence of the fuzzy horizon through gravitational collapse, Physical Review D 74 (2006) 106010.
  13. V. Sahakian, Hairy strings, Physical Review D 73 (2006) 026002.
  14. D. A. Konkowski and T. M. Helliwell, Mining metrics for buried treasure, General Relativity and Gravitation 38 (2006) 1069-1082.
  15. W. S. Kolthammer, D. Barnard, N. Carlson, A. D. Edens, N. A. Miller, and P. N. Saeta, Harmonic generation in thin films and multilayers, Physical Review B 72 (2005) 045446.
  16. K. L. Perdue, M. J. Carey, P. D. Sparks, and J. C. Eckert, Exchange bias and giant magnetoresistance in spin valves with angstrom-scale antiferromagnetic layers at 5 K, IEEE Transactions on Magnetism 41 (2005) 2706.
  17. L. Wang, K. Umemoto, R. M. Wentzcovitch, T. Y. Chen, Y. T. Chen, C. L. Chen, J. G. Checkelsky, J. C. Eckert, E. D. Dahlberg, and and C. Leighton, Co1-xFexS2: A tunable source of highly spin-polarized electrons , Physical Review Letters 94 (2005) 0556602.
  18. K. F. Shakespear, K. L. Perdue, S. M. Moyerman, J. G. Checkelsky, S. S. Harberger, A. C. Tamboli, M. J. Carey, P. D. Sparks, and J. C. Eckert , Determining the spin-dependent mean free path in Co90Fe10 using giant magnetoresistance, Journal of Applied Physics 97 (2005) 10C513.
  19. T. D. Donnelly, J. Hogan, A. Mugler, M. Schubmehl, N. Schommer, Andrew J. Bernoff, S. Dasnurkar, and T. Ditmire, Using ultrasonic atomization to produce an aerosol of micron-scale particles, Review of Scientific Instruments 76 (2005) 113301.
  20. J. W. Wellhouse, D. W. Hoard, S. B. Howell, S. Wachter, and A. A. Esin, Magnetic white dwarfs in the two micron all sky survey: A search for candidate binary systems, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 117 (2005) 1378-1385.
  21. T. W. Lynn, K. Birnbaum, and H. J. Kimble, Strategies for real-time position control of a single atom in cavity QED, Journal of Optics B - Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 7 (2005) S215-S225.
  22. B. E. Carlson, E. Brobeck, C. J. Jilings, M. B. Larson, T. W. Lynn, R. D. McKeown, J. E. Hill, B. J. Falkowski, R. Seki, J. Sepikas, and G. B. Yodh, Search for correlated high energy cosmic ray events with CHICOS, Journal of Physics G - Nuclear and Particle Physics 31 (2005) 409-416.
  23. T. W. Lynn, E. Brobeck, B. E. Carlson, C. J. Jilings, M. B. Larson, R. D. McKeown, J. E. Hill, B. J. Falkowski, R. Seki, J. Sepikas, G. B. Yodh, D. Wells, and K. C. Chan, Studies of air showers above 1018 eV with the CHICOS array, Proceedings of the International Cosmic Ray Conference 29 (2005) .
  24. R. D. McKeown, B. E. Carlson, E. Brobeck, C. J. Jillings, M. B. Larson, T. W. Lynn, J. E. Hill, B. J. Falkowski, R. Seki, J. Sepikas, and G. B. Yodh, Search for correlated high energy cosmic ray events with CHICOS (update), Proceedings of the International Cosmic Ray Conference 29 (2005) .
  25. J.-Y. Bigot, L. Guidoni, E. Beaurepaire, and P. N. Saeta, Femtosecond spectrotemporal magneto-optics, Physical Review Letters 93 (2004) 077401.
  26. D. S. Snowden, J. G. Checkelsky, S.S. Harberger, N. P. Stern, J. C. Eckert, and P. D. Sparks, Magnetic resistivity measurements on nickel films for CIW and CPW domain geometries, IEEE Transactions on Magnetism 40 (2004) 2242.
  27. J. C. Eckert, M. Seetin, T. Gredig, and E. D. Dahlberg, Effects of seed layer on the coercivity and exchange bias in Co/Ag/CoO heterostructures, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 272 (2004) 1210.
  28. J. Eckert, N. Stern, D. Snowden, J. Checkelsky, P. Sparks, and M. Carey, Effects of oxygen concentration in cobalt/cobalt oxide exchange-coupled spin valves, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 272-276 (2004) 1898.
  29. P. D. Sparks, N. P. Stern, D. S. Snowden, B. A. Kappus, J. C. Eckert, and A.M. Fusello , Stripe domains and magnetoresistance in thermally deposited nickel films , Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 272-276 (2004) e1339.
  30. T. D. Donnelly, J. Hogan, A. Mugler, N. Schommer, M. Schubmehl, Andrew J. Bernoff, and B. Forrest, An experimental study of micron-scale droplet aerosols produced via ultrasonic atomization, Physics of Fluids 16 (2004) 2843.
  31. V. Shakian, On the polarization of closed strings by Ramond-Ramond fluxes, Journal of High Energy Physics 0410 (2004) 021.
  32. V. Sahakian, Closed strings in Ramond-Ramond backgrounds, Journal of High Energy Physics 0404 (2004) 026.
  33. D. A. Konkowski, T. M. Helliwell, and C. Wieland, Quantum singularity of Levi-Civita spacetimes, Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 265-272.
  34. M. T. Glasscoe, A. Donnellan, L. H. Kellogg, and G. A. Lyzenga, Evidence of strain partitioning between the Sierra Madre fault and the Los Angeles Basin, southern California from numerical models, Pure and Applied Geophysics 161 (2004) 2343-2357.
  35. G. Dubus, B. Kern, A. A. Esin, R. E. Rutledge, and C. Martin, Simultaneous optical and x-ray high-speed photometry of Cyg X-2, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 347 (2004) 1217-1223.
  36. B. M. Hoeling, M. E. Peter, D. C. Petersen, and R. C. Haskell, Improved phase modulation for an en-face scanning three-dimensional optical coherence microscope, Review of Scientific Instruments 75 (2004) 3348-3350.
  37. D. Loh, K. Rodolfa, and V. Sahakian, A note on non-commutative dynamics of spinning D0 branes, (unpublished) (2004) .
  38. J.-Y. Bigot, L. Guidoni, E. Beaurepaire, P. N. Saeta, and , Femotsecond spectrotemporal magneto-optics, Physical Review Letters 93 (2004) 077401.
  39. J. C. Eckert, N. P. Stern, D. S. Snowden, P. D. Sparks, and M. J. Carey, Properties of thin IrMn in exchange biased multilayers, Journal of Applied Physics 93 (2003) 6608.
  40. T. M. Helliwell, D. A. Konkowski, and V. Arndt, Quantum singularity in quasiregular spacetimes, as indicated by Klein-Gordon, Maxwell, and Dirac fields, General Relativity and Gravitation 35 (2003) 79.
  41. J.Z. Sanborn, C. Hellings, and T. D. Donnelly, Breakdown of the slowly varying amplitude approximation: generation of backward traveling second harmonic light, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 20 (2003) 152-157.
  42. J. Parker, A. Donnellan, G. Lyzenga, J. Rundle, and T. Tullis, Performance modeling codes for the QuakeSim problem solving environment, Computational Science - ICCS 2003, Pt. III 2659 (2003) 855-862.
  43. J. Ye and T. W. Lynn, Applications of optical cavities in modern atomic, molecular, and optical physics, Advances in Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 49 (2003) 1-83.
  44. P. N. Saeta, Using WebQuiz and the college intranet to enhance class time and support independent investigation, Campus-Wide Information Systems 19 (2002) 14.
  45. J. C. Eckert, N. P. Stern, A. E. Barton, D. A. Mann, P. D. Sparks, and M. J. Carey , Low temperature properties of spin valves with extremely thin IrMn , Journal of Applied Physics 91 (2002) 8569.
  46. G. R. Van Hecke, K. K. Karukstis, R. C. Haskell, C. S. McFadden, and F. S. Wettack, An integration of chemistry, biology, and physics: The interdisciplinary laboratory, Journal of Chemical Education 79 (2002) 837-844.
  47. H. J. Kimble and T. W. Lynn, Cavity QED with strong coupling: toward the deterministic control of quantum dynamics, Coherence and Quantum Optics 8 (2002) .