Paul Goldbart's recent preprints and reprints

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David Sherrington as a mentor of young scientists by Paul M. Goldbart; delivered at "Viewing the World Through Spin Glasses," a conference in honour of David Sherrington (Oxford, August 31-September 1, 2007); to appear in a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2008), Ton Coolen, Hidetoshi Nishimori, Nicolas Sourlas and Michael Wong (guest editors)
Mathematics for Physics - A Guided Tour for Graduate Students by Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart; to be published by Cambridge University Press (2009)
Evidence for quantum phase slip events in superconducting nanowires at high bias current by Mitrabhanu Sahu, Myung-Ho Bae, Andrey Rogachev, David Pekker, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Nayana Shah, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; arXiv:0804.2251, 25 pages
Emergence of h/e-period oscillations in the critical temperature of small superconducting rings threaded by magnetic flux by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B (2008, in press); arXiv:0712.2596, 30 pages
Inherent stochasticity of superconductive-resistive switching in nanowires by Nayana Shah, David Pekker and Paul M. Goldbart; arXiv:0709.3971v2, 5 pages
Nematic elastomers: From a microscopic model to macroscopic elasticity theory by Xiangjun Xing, Stephan Pfahl, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review E 77, 051802 (2008), 10 pages; preprint, 11 pages.
Local superfluid densities probed via current-induced superconducting phase gradients by David S. Hopkins, David Pekker, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Physical Review B 76, 220506(R) (2007), 4 pages; arXiv:0709.4180, 5 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (December 15, 2007, volume 13, issue 12).
Probing dynamics using fluorescence resonance energy transfer with donors of differing lifetimes by Weiqun Peng, Tania Chakrabarty, Paul M. Goldbart and Paul R. Selvin; Biophysical Journal (submitted, 2007), 16 pages
Elastic heterogeneity of soft random solids by Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing and Annette Zippelius; Europhysics Letters 80, 26004 (2007), 5 pages; cond-mat/0610407, 5 pages
Thermal fluctuations and rubber elasticity by Xiangjun Xing, Paul M.Goldbart and Leo Radzihovsky; Physical Review Letters 98, 075502 (2007), 4 pages; see also the Physical Review Focus article Rubber Theory Fits without a Stretch (February 20, 2007)
Elasticity of highly cross-linked random networks by Stephan Ulrich, Xiaoming Mao, Paul M.Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Europhysics Letters 76, 677-682 (2006); cond-mat/0608388, 6 pages
Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of helium-four through arrays of nanosize apertures by David Pekker, Roman Barankov and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 98, 175301 (2007), 4 pages; cond-mat/0606560, 8 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (May 7, 2007)
Magnetic field enhancement of superconductivity in ultra-narrow wires by Andrey Rogachev, Tzu-Chieh Wei, David Pekker, A. T. Bollinger, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Physical Review Letters 97, 137001 (2006), 4 pages; cond-mat/0604351, 5 pages
Universal point contact resistance between thin-film superconductors by Michael Hermele, Gil Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 73, 134504 (2006), 21 pages; cond-mat/0511210, 29 pages
Enhancing superconductivity: Magnetic impurities and their quenching by magnetic fields by Tzu-Chieh Wei, David Pekker, Andrey Rogachev, Alexey Bezryadin and Paul M. Goldbart; Europhysics Letters 75, 943-949 (2006); cond-mat/0510476, 8 pages
Glassy correlations and microstructures in randomly crosslinked homopolymer blends by Christian Wald, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Journal of Chemical Physics 124, 214905 (2006), 18 pages; cond-mat/0509694, 19 pages
Squeezing superfluid from a stone: Coupling superfluidity and elasticity in a supersolid by Alan T. Dorsey, Paul M. Goldbart and John Toner; Physical Review Letters 96, 055301 (2006), 4 pages; cond-mat/0508271, 4 pages
Operation of a superconducting nanowire quantum interference device with mesoscopic leads by David Pekker, Alexey Bezryadin, David S. Hopkins and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 72, 104517 (2005), 18 pages; cond-mat/0507315, 20 pages; an extended, primarily theoretical paper complementing Hopkins et al., Science 308, 1762-65 (2005) -- see below; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (October 1, 2005, volume 9, issue 7); also reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (October 10, 2005).
Fate of the Josephson effect in thin-film superconductors by Michael Hermele, Gil Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher and Paul M. Goldbart; Nature Physics 1, 117-121 (2005); see the Nature Physics News and Views article by Steven M. Girvin entitled Quantum coherence: Just what is superconductivity?
Cavity approach to the random solid state by Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Marc Mézard and Martin Weigt; Physical Review Letters 95, 148302 (2005), 4 pages; cond-mat/0506194, 4 pages
Double-exchange model for noninteracting electron spins coupled to a lattice of classical spins: Phase diagram at zero temperature by David Pekker, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Nandini Trivedi and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 72, 075118 (2005), 9 pages; cond-mat/0502621, 9 pages
Quantum interference device made by DNA templating of superconducting nanowires by David S. Hopkins, David Pekker, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Science 308, 1762-65 (2005)
From vulcanization to isotropic and nematic rubber elasticity by Xiangjun Xing, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; cond-mat/0411660, 7 pages
Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends by Christian Wald, Annette Zippelius and Paul M. Goldbart; Europhysics Letters 70, 843-849 (2005); cond-mat/0411056, 7 pages
Global entanglement and quantum criticality in spin chains by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Dyutiman Das, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Smitha Vishveshwara and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review A 71, 060305(R) (2005), 4 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (June 27, 2005, volume 11, issue 25)
Synthesizing arbitrary two-photon polarization mixed states by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Joseph B. Altepeter, David Branning, Paul M. Goldbart, D. F. V. James, Evan Jeffrey, Paul G. Kwiat, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay and Nicholas A. Peters; Physical Review A 71, 032329 (2005), 12 pages; quant-ph/0501115, 9 pages
Sam Edwards and the statistical mechanics of rubber by Paul M. Goldbart and Nigel Goldenfeld, in Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards (published by Oxford University Press, 2004)
Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards
A selection of reprints accompanied by chapters by various authors; edited by Paul M. Goldbart, Nigel Goldenfeld and David Sherrington (published by Oxford University Press, 2004; see the cover)
Quantifying multipartite entanglement by T.-C. Wei, J. B. Altepeter, D. Das, M. Ericsson, P. M. Goldbart, S. Mukhopadhyay, W. J. Munro and S. Vishveshwara; pdf version, 4 pages; in Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Volume 734 (2004), pp. 241-244 (Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, Strathclyde, Scotland, July 2004)
Scaling of entropic shear rigidity by Xiangjun Xing, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 93, 225701 (2004), 4 pages; cond-mat/0406411, 5 pages
Connections between relative entropy of entanglement and geometric measure of entanglement by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Marie Ericsson, Paul M. Goldbart and William J. Munro; Quantum Information and Computation 4, 252-272 (2004), quant-ph/0405002
Goldstone-type fluctuations and their implications for the amorphous solid state by Paul M. Goldbart, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review B 70, 184201 (2004), 21 pages; cond-mat/0405154, 20 pages
h/e magnetic flux modulation of the energy gap in nanotube quantum dots by Ulas C. Coskun, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Smitha Vishveshwara, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Science 304, 1132-34 (2004)
Goldstone fluctuations in the amorphous solid state by Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Europhysics Letters 67, 49-55 (2004), 7 pages; cond-mat/0310664, 7 pages
Measures of entanglement in multipartite bound entangled states by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Joseph B. Altepeter, Paul M. Goldbart and William J. Munro; Physical Review A 70, 022322 (2004), 5 pages
Geometric measure of entanglement and applications to bipartite and multipartite quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review A 68 042307 (2003), 12 pages; quant-ph/0307219
Application of the geometric measure of entanglement to three-qubit mixed states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, quant-ph/0303158
Geometric measure of entanglement for multipartite quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, quant-ph/0212030
Connecting the geometric measure of entanglement and entanglement witnesses by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, quant-ph/0303079
Two-qubit mixed states and the entanglement-entropy frontier by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Kae Nemoto, Paul M. Goldbart, Paul G. Kwiat, William J. Munro and Frank Verstraete, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC'02, July 22-26 2002, MIT, Cambridge, MA) (Rinton Press, December 2002), (pdf version)
Instantaneous liability rule auctions: The continuous extension of higher-order liability rules by Sergey I. Knysh, Paul M. Goldbart and Ian Ayres, submitted to the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (October 2002); preprint version (33 pages; in PostScript, in pdf)
Density of states in d-wave superconductors disordered by extended impurities by Inanc Adagideli, Daniel E. Sheehy and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 66 140512(R) (2002), 4 pages; cond-mat/0201339
Maximal entanglement versus entropy for mixed quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Kae Nemoto, Paul M. Goldbart, Paul G. Kwiat, William J. Munro and Frank Verstraete, Physical Review A 67 022110 (2003), 12 pages; quant-ph/0208138
Probing d-wave pairing correlations in the pseudogap regime of the cuprate superconductors via low-energy states near impurities by Daniel E. Sheehy, Inanc Adagideli, Paul M. Goldbart and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review B 64, 224518 (2001), 8 pages; cond-mat/0106026
Quantal Andreev billiards: Semiclassical approach to mesoscale oscillations in the density of states by Inanc Adagideli and Paul M. Goldbart, International Journal of Modern Physics Vol. B 16, No. 10, 1381-1458 (2002); cond-mat/0108102
Charge transport in manganites: Hopping conduction, the anomalous Hall effect and universal scaling by Y. Lyanda-Geller, S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, P. M. Goldbart, P. D. Han, Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu and Y. Tokura, Physical Review B 63, 184426-184452 (2001); cond-mat/0012462
Connecting the vulcanization transition to percolation by Weiqun Peng, Paul M. Goldbart and Alan J. McKane, Physical Review E 64, 031105 (2001), 7 pages; cond-mat/0104212
Optimal delegation and decoupling in the design of liability rules by Ian Ayres and Paul M. Goldbart, Michigan Law Review 100 (Centenary Volume), pp. 1-79, preprint (in pdf) (121 pages)
Correlated values in the theory of property and liability rules by Ian Ayres and Paul M. Goldbart, 32 Journal of Legal Studies 121-151 (2003), preprint (in pdf) (41 pages); more about the Journal of Legal Studies
Quantal Andreev billiards: Density of states oscillations and the spectrum-geometry relationship by Inanc Adagideli and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 65, 201306(R) (2002), 4 pages; cond-mat/0010016
Density-correlator signatures of the vulcanization transition by Weiqun Peng and Paul M. Goldbart, European Physical Journal B 19, 461-466 (2001), cond-mat/0009479
Andreev interferometry as a probe of superconducting phase correlations in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates by Daniel E. Sheehy, Paul M. Goldbart, Joerg Schmalian and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review B 62, 4105-4113 (2000), cond-mat/0001039
Vulcanization and the random solid state it yields: A statistical mechanical perspective by Paul M. Goldbart and Weiqun Peng, in Disordered and Complex Systems (AIP Conference Proceedings, 553, p. 41-71, 2001), edited by P. Sollich, A. C. C. Coolen and L. P. Hughston, Proceedings of the King's College (London) Conference (July 10-14, 2000), PostScript version
Semi-microscopic theory of elasticity near the vulcanization transition by Horacio E. Castillo and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 62, 8159-8174 (2000); cond-mat/9909054
Renormalization-group approach to the vulcanization transition by Weiqun Peng and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 61, 3339-3357 (2000); cond-mat/9911048
Low-energy quasiparticle states near extended scatterers in d-wave superconductors and their connection with SUSY quantum mechanics by Inanc Adagideli, Paul M. Goldbart, Alexander Shnirman and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review Letters 83, 5571-5574 (1999), cond-mat/9907245
Random solids and random solidification: What can be learned by exploring systems obeying permanent random constraints? by Paul M. Goldbart, presented at a workshop entitled Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics (ICTP, Trieste, September 15-18, 1999), published in a special issue of Journal of Physics -- Condensed Matter 12, 6585-6599 (2000), cond-mat/9911159
Early stages of homopolymer collapse by Avi Halperin and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 61, 565-573 (2000), cond-mat/9905306
The amorphous solid state: a locally stable thermodynamic phase of randomly constrained systems by Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius, Physical Review B 60, 14702-14718 (1999), cond-mat/9905326
Magnetotransport in manganites and the role of quantal phases: Theory and experiment by S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, Y. Lyanda-Geller, P. M. Goldbart and P. D. Han, Physical Review Letters 84, 757-760 (2000); PostScript version

Magnetotransport in manganites and the role of quantal phases
I: Theory by Y. Lyanda-Geller, P. M. Goldbart, S. H. Chun and M. B. Salamon, cond-mat/9904331;
II: Experiment by S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, P. D. Han, Y. Lyanda-Geller and P. M. Goldbart, cond-mat/9904332
Statistical mechanics of permanent random atomic and molecular networks: Structure and heterogeneity of the amorphous solid state by Konstantin A. Shakhnovich and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 60, 3862-3884 (1999), cond-mat/9901185
Resonant states and order-parameter suppression near point-like impurities in d-wave superconductors by Alexander Shnirman, Inanc Adagideli, Paul M. Goldbart and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review B 60, 7517-7522 (1999), cond-mat/9903252
Mesoscopic phenomena in Bose-Einstein systems: Persistent currents, population oscillations and quantal phases by Yuli Lyanda-Geller and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review A 61, 43609-43617 (2000); cond-mat/9812159
Topological defects and the short-distance behavior of the structure factor in nematic liquid crystals by Martin Zapotocky and Paul M. Goldbart, submitted to Physical Review E, cond-mat/9812235
Observing the Berry phase in diffusive conductors: Necessary conditions for adiabaticity by Daniel Loss, Herbert Schoeller, Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 59, 13328-13337 (1999), cond-mat/9805128
Rigidity as an emergent property of random networks: A statistical mechanical view by Paul M. Goldbart, in Rigidity: Theory and Applications, pp. 95-124, edited by M. F. Thorpe and P. M. Duxbury (Plenum, 1999), PostScript version
Conductivity of mesoscopic ferromagnets by Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Igor L. Aleiner and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review Letters 81, 3215-3218 (1998), cond-mat/9801113
Elasticity near the vulcanization transition by Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 58, R24-27 (1998), cond-mat/9712050
Quasi-Andreev reflection in inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids by Dmitrii L. Maslov and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 57, 9879-9882 (1998), cond-mat/9711070
Intrinsic dissipation and the SO(5) theory of high-temperature superconductivity by Daniel E. Sheehy and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 57, R8131-8134 (1998), cond-mat/9711193
Multiply-connected Bose-Einstein condensed alkali gases: Current- carrying states and their decay by Erich J. Mueller, Paul M. Goldbart and Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Physical Review A 57, R1505-1508 (1998), cond-mat/9711106
Antiferromagnetic hedgehogs with superconducting cores by Paul M. Goldbart and Daniel E. Sheehy, Physical Review B 58, 5731-5735 (1998), cond-mat/9711088
Universality and its origins at the amorphous solidification transition by Weiqun Peng, Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius, Physical Review B 57 839-47 (1998), 8 pages; cond-mat/9709250
Dynamical signatures of the vulcanization transition by Kurt Broderix, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review Letters 79, 3688-3691 (1997), cond-mat/9706226
Exact calculation of multifractal exponents of the critical wave function of Dirac fermions in a random magnetic field by Horacio E. Castillo, Claudio de C. Chamon, Eduardo Fradkin, Paul M. Goldbart and Christopher Mudry, Physical Review B 56, 10668-10677 (1997), cond-mat/9706084
Vulcanised matter: A model glass? by Annette Zippelius, Paul M. Goldbart, in Spin Glasses and Random Fields, pp. 357-386, edited by A. P. Young (World Scientific, Singapore, 1997)
Continuous random alloy networks: Glass transition and elasticity by Oliver Theissen, Annette Zippelius and Paul M. Goldbart, International Journal of Modern Physics B11, 1945-1957 (1996)
Random networks of crosslinked manifolds by Christian Roos, Annette Zippelius and Paul M. Goldbart, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 30, 1967-1977 (1997)
Induction of non-d-wave order- parameter components by currents in d-wave superconductors by Martin Zapotocky, Dmitrii L. Maslov and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 55, 6599-6604 (1997), cond-mat/9610063
Randomly crosslinked macromolecular systems: Vulcanisation transition to and properties of the amorphous solid state by Paul M. Goldbart, Horacio E. Castillo and Annette Zippelius, Advances in Physics 45, 393-468 (1996); Preprint version, 81 pages

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