Pfeiffer Physics Library News
November, 2007
** News **
- The Physics Library will be closed November 22-23, 2007 for the
Thanksgiving holiday.
- PhysMath Central announced
that PMC Physics A, the first
PhysMath Central journal, has published its first research articles. The articles
included a groundbreaking study that could change the way physicists understand
dark matter. In addition, PMC announced the launch of PMC
Physics B.
- Particle
physicists push for publishing changes - The high-energy physics community
wants all of its published research to be freely available to everybody. Jens Vigen
reports on how a radical new initiative hopes to achieve this.
- Scholarly Communication - Two new blogs you may be interested in:
- Bernard Becker Medical Library Scholarly Communications Update - This blog includes
information on scholarly communications issues such as author rights, copyright,
public access mandates, fair use, open access, economics of scholarly resources,
support for authors, publishing models, preservation, and digital repositories.
- The Center for Information Technology at Princeton is hosting a blog-based
Symposium on the Future of Scholarly Communication. The symposium is a strong
group of panelists conducting a discussion in blog (or serial essay) format.
- Bernard Becker Medical Library Scholarly Communications Update - This blog includes
information on scholarly communications issues such as author rights, copyright,
public access mandates, fair use, open access, economics of scholarly resources,
support for authors, publishing models, preservation, and digital repositories.
- The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on Tuesday, October 9. The Nobel
Prize in Physics has been won by Albert Fert, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES,
Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich,
Germany, for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. This year's physics prize
is awarded for the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. It is thanks
to this technology that it has been possible to miniaturize hard disks so radically
in recent years. Sensitive read-out heads are needed to be able to read data from
the compact hard disks used in laptops and some music players, for instance.
- Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently
indexed by INSPEC and published by members of the Physics Department:
- Title: Exact ground states of extended t-Jz models on a square lattice
Author(s): Nussinov, Z.; Rosegren, A.
Source: Philosophical Magazine Letters vol.87, no.7 : 515-26, July 2007 - Title: Plane wave source with minimal harmonic distortion for investigating
nonlinear acoustic properties
Author(s): Lloyd, C.W.; Wallace, K.D.; Holland, M.R.; Miller, J.G.
Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol.122, no.1 : 91-6, July 2007 - Title: Anisotropy of the backscatter coefficient of formalin-fixed ovine myocardium
Author(s): Min Yang; Krueger, T.M.; Holland, M.R.; Miller, J.G.
Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol.122, no.1 : 581-6, July 2007 - Title: Is the Kramers-kronig relationship between ultrasonic attenuation and dispersion
maintained in the presence of apparent losses due to phase cancellation?
Author(s): Bauer, A.Q.; Marutyan, K.R.; Holland, M.R.; Miller, J.G.
Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol.122, no.1 : 222-8, July 2007 - Title: Origin of the decrease in the torsional-oscillator period of solid 4He
Author(s): Nussinov, Z.; Balatsky, A.V.; Graf, M.J.; Trugman, S.A.
Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.76, no.1 : 14530/1-10, 1 July 2007 - Title: Pressure-induced superconductivity in Sc to 74 GPa
Author(s): Hamlin, J.J.; Schilling, J.S.
Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.76, no.1 : 12505/1-4, 1 July 2007 - Title: Post-Newtonian gravitational radiation and equations of motion via direct
integration of the relaxed Einstein equations. V. Evidence for the strong equivalence
principle to second post-Newtonian order
Author(s): Mitchell, T.; Will, C.M.
Source: Physical Review D vol.75, no.12 : 124025/1-12, 15 June 2007 - Title: Mining information from binary black hole mergers: a comparison of estimation
methods for complex exponentials in noise
Author(s): Berti, E.; Cardoso, V.; Gonzalez, J.A.; Sperhake, U.
Source: Physical Review D vol.75, no.12 : 124017/1-17, 15 June 2007 - Title: Staggered baryon operators with flavor SU(3) quantum numbers
Author(s): Bailey, J.A.
Source: Physical Review D vol.75, no.11 : 114505/1-28, 1 June 2007 - Title: Design and performance of a sub-nanoradian resolution autocollimating optical lever
Author(s): Cowsik, R.; Srinivasan, R.; Kasturirengan, S.; Kumar, A.S.; Wagoner, K.
Source: Review of Scientific Instruments vol.78, no.3 : 35105/1-7, March 2007
- Title: Exact ground states of extended t-Jz models on a square lattice
**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**
These additions are somewhere in the Physics and
Astronomy Subject Guide
[http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/physics/] portion of the
Washington University Library web pages.
- PhysMathCentral Physics
B is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes
articles on condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical physics and the interfaces
between these areas.
**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**
Note: If you want more information on any of these, please search the Library Catalog by title, keywords or author.Analytical methods for problems of molecular transport / by I. N. Ivchenko, S.K. Loyalka, and R. V. Tompson, Jr. QC175.2 .I93 2007 Causal dispersion relations applied to measurements on soft and hard biological tissue / by Karen R. Marutyan. LD5791.8.PhD2007 M26 Classical and quantum PT-symmetric theories / by Jun-hua Chen. LD5791.8.PhD2007 C45 Complete course in astrobiology / edited by Gerda Horneck and Petra Rettberg. QH326 .C66 2007 A dressing method in mathematical physics / by Evgeny V. Doktorov and Sergey B. Leble. QC20.7.D52 D65 2007 Einstein's jury : the race to test relativity / Jeffrey Crelinsten. QC173.585 .C74 2006 Elastic moduli and ultrasonic scattering properties of myocardium / by Min Yang. LD5791.8.PhD2007 Y28 Elements of string cosmology / Maurizio Gasperini. QB981 .G37 2007 Energetics and dynamics of actin filament bundling and escape from potential wells / by Le Yang. LD5791.8.PhD2007 Y26 Exploring the secrets of the aurora / Syun-Ichi Akasofu. QC971 .A42 2007 Introduction to quantum effects in gravity / Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Sergei Winitzki. QC174.45 .M85 2007 Isaac Newton / Richard S. Westfall. QC16.N7 W339 2007 Mindful universe : quantum mechanics and the participating observer / Henry P. Stapp. QC174.13 .S73 2007 Motions of self-gravitating bodies to the second post-Newtonian order of general relativity / by Thomas Mitchell. LD5791.8.PhD2007 M57 Multiphase reacting flows : modelling and simulation / edited by Daniele L. Marchisio, Rodney O. Fox. TA357.5.M84 M85 2007 PENELOPE : a code system for Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon transport : workshop proceedings, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 7-10 July 2003. QC175.25.R3 P46 2003 Staggered baryons / by Jon Andrew Bailey. LD5791.8.PhD2007 B22 Statistical physics of fields / Mehran Kardar. QC793.3.F5 K37 2007 Statistical physics of particles / Mehran Kardar. QC174.8 .K37 2007 Structural approaches to sequence evolution : molecules, networks, populations / U. Bastolla ... [et al.] (eds.). QH506 .S828 2007 Structural study of supercooled liquids and metallic glasses by high-energy x-ray diffraction and reverse Monte Carlo simulation / by Tae Ho Kim. LD5791.8.PhD2007 K55 Survival skills for scientists / Federico Rosei, Tudor Johnston. Q180.55.V6 R67 2006 Thermal biophysics of membranes / Thomas Heimburg. QH601 .H44 2007 Thin films of soft matter / edited by Serafim Kalliadasis, Uwe Thiele. TA418.9.T45 T44 2007 Topics and methods in condensed matter theory : from basic quantum mechanics to the forefront of research / Michele Cini. QC173.454 .C55 2007 Transient nucleation and local structure in ZR-based metallic glasses / by Youtao Shen. LD5791.8.PhD2007 S44 Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions / Ramona Vogt. QC794.8.H4 V64 2007 Wave scattering by time-dependent perturbations : an introduction / G.F. Roach. QC157 .R53 2007 Yearbook of astronomy QB1 Y4 2007
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