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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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math.FA2006

Measure Functions for Frames

Radu Balan, Zeph Landau

This paper addresses the natural question: ``How should frames be compared?'' We answer this question by quantifying the overcompleteness of all frames with the same index set. We…

cond-mat.soft2006★ 55 cited

Universal velocity distributions in an experimental granular fluid

Pedro M. Reis, Rohit A. Ingale, Mark D. Shattuck

We present experimental results on the velocity statistics of a uniformly heated granular fluid, in a quasi-2D configuration. We find the base state, as measured by the single part…

cond-mat.soft2006★ 28 cited

Shear flow pumping in open microfluidic systems

Markus Rauscher, S. Dietrich, Joel Koplik

We propose to drive open microfluidic systems by shear in a covering fluid layer, e.g., oil covering water-filled chemical channels. The advantages as compared to other means of pu…

cond-mat.str-el2006★ 51 cited

Spontaneous breaking of the Fermi surface symmetry in the t-J model: a numerical study

Bernhard Edegger, V. N. Muthukumar, Claudius Gros

We present a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) study of spontaneous Fermi surface symmetry breaking in the t-J model. We find that the variational energy of a Gutzwiller projected Ferm…

cond-mat.soft2006★ 159 cited

Caging dynamics in a granular fluid

Pedro M. Reis, Rohit A. Ingale, Mark D. Shattuck

We report an experimental investigation of the caging motion in a uniformly heated granular fluid, for a wide range of filling fractions, . At low the classic diffusive beha…

hep-th2006★ 2 cited

Mass-Gaps and Spin Chains for (Super) Membranes

Abhishek Agarwal

We present a method for computing the non-perturbative mass-gap in the theory of Bosonic membranes in flat background spacetimes with or without background fluxes. The computation…

math.GR2006

Algebraic Geometric Invariants of Parafree Groups

S. Liriano

Given a finitely generated (fg) group G, the set R(G) of homomorphisms from G to SL(2,C) inherits the structure of an algebraic variety known as the "representation variety" of G.…

nucl-ex2006★ 21 cited

Rapidity and species dependence of particle production at large transverse momentum for +Au collisions at \sqrt s_NN = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We determine rapidity asymmetry in the production of charged pions, protons and anti-protons for large transverse momentum (pT) for d+Au collisions at \sqrt s_NN = 200 GeV. The ide…

cond-mat.str-el2006★ 94 cited

Flow diagram of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions

S. Anissimova, S. V. Kravchenko, A. Punnoose +2

The discovery of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems challenged the veracity of one of the most influential conjectures in the physics of…

hep-th2006★ 237 cited

Physics and Mathematics of Calogero particles

Alexios P. Polychronakos

We give a review of the mathematical and physical properties of the celebrated family of Calogero-like models and related spin chains.

nucl-ex2006★ 47 cited

Neutral Kaon Interferometry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present the first statistically meaningful results from two-K0s interferometry in heavy-ion collisions. A model that takes the effect of the strong interaction into account has…

cond-mat.soft2006★ 69 cited

Dynamic particle tracking reveals the aging temperature of a colloidal glass

Ping Wang, Chaoming Song, Hernan A. Makse

Understanding glasses is considered to be one of the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. A theoretical approach to unravel their universal properties is to consider t…

hep-ph2006★ 22 cited

CPT/Lorentz Invariance Violation and Neutrino Oscillation

Paola Arias, Ashok Das, Jorge Gamboa +2

We analyze the consequences of violation of Lorentz and invariance in the massless neutrino sector by deforming the canonical anti-commutation relations for the fields. We sh…

hep-ex2006★ 170 cited

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry and cross section for inclusive jet production in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report a measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A_LL and the differential cross section for inclusive midrapidity jet production in polarized proton collisions at…

nucl-ex2006★ 368 cited

Measurements of Strange Particle Production in Collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. Abelev

We present strange particle spectra and yields measured at mid-rapidity in GeV proton-proton () collisions at RHIC. We find that the previously observed…

cond-mat.mes-hall2006★ 80 cited

Effect of DC electric field on longitudinal resistance of two dimensional electrons in a magnetic field

Jing-qiao Zhang, Sergey Vitkalov, A. A. Bykov +2

The effect of a DC electric field on the longitudinal resistance of highly mobile two dimensional electrons in heavily doped GaAs quantum wells is studied at different magnetic fie…

nucl-ex2006★ 437 cited

Erratum: Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of high-\pt\ non-photonic electron suppression in Au+Au collisions at \sqrtsNN\ = 200 GeV

B. I. Abelev

The STAR collaboration at RHIC reports measurements of the inclusive yield of non-photonic electrons, which arise dominantly from semi-leptonic decays of heavy flavor mesons, over…

nucl-ex2006★ 57 cited

Delta- phi Delta- eta Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 Gev

Star Collaboration, J. Adams

We report charged-particle pair correlation analyses in the space of Delta -phi (azimuth) and Delta -eta (pseudo-rapidity), for central Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV…

math.PR2006★ 16 cited

moduli of continuity of Gaussian processes and local times of symmetric Lévy processes

Michael B. Marcus, Jay Rosen

Let be a real-valued symmetric Lévy process with continuous local times and characteristic function .…

cond-mat.mes-hall2006★ 73 cited

Optical Aharonov-Bohm effect in stacked type-II quantum dots

Igor L Kuskovsky, W. MacDonald, A. O. Govorov +5

Excitons in vertically stacked type-II quantum dots experience the topological magnetic phase and demonstrate the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the emission intensity. Photolumines…

cond-mat.supr-con2006★ 35 cited

Determining the underlying Fermi surface of strongly correlated superconductors

Claudius Gros, Bernhard Edegger, V. N. Muthukumar +1

The notion of a Fermi surface (FS) is one of the most ingenious concepts developed by solid state physicists during the past century. It plays a central role in our understanding o…

nlin.AO2006

Periodic structure of spin-transfer current in ferromagnetic multilayers

Pavel Levin

We show that the drift-diffusion mechanism in a normal-metal layer in combination with the resonance electron-magnon interactions at ferromagnet-normal interface of F-N-F heterostu…

nucl-ex2006★ 69 cited

The multiplicity dependence of inclusive spectra from p-p collisions at = 200 GeV

J. Adams

We report measurements of transverse momentum spectra for ten event multiplicity classes of p-p collisions at GeV. By analyzing the multiplicity dependence w…

cond-mat.other2006★ 4 cited

Su(3) Algebraic Structure of the Cuprate Superconductors Model based on the Analogy with Atomic Nuclei

Shuo Jin, Bing-Hao Xie, Feng Pan +2

A cuprate superconductor model based on the analogy with atomic nuclei was shown by Iachello to have an structure. The mean-field approximation Hamiltonian can be written a…