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The research programs in the SDSU Physics Department are distinguished by the number of B.S. and M.S. students who are co-authors of articles published in refereed professional journals.

names in bold are SDSU Physics Faculty
names in red are SDSU undergraduate students
names in blue are SDSU graduate students
* denotes conference proceeding

(The following Faculty also maintain their own (up to the minute) list of papers:
Anderson, Baljon, Bromley, Davis, Johnson, Weber.)

2005

``Glass Transition Behavior of Polymer Films of Nanoscopic Dimension," Arlette R.C. Baljon, Regina Barber DeGraaff, Maarten H.M. v. Weert, and Radjesh Khare, Macromolecules 38, 2391 (2005).

“Polarization multiplexed diffractive optical elements with liquid crystal displays”, J. A. Davis, G. H. Evans, and I. Moreno, Appl. Opt., 44, 4049-4052, (2005)

“Operation of liquid crystal displays for optical computing”, J. A. Davis, I. Moreno, M. J. Yzuel, J. Campos, A. Marquez, and J. Nicolas, Proc. SPIE, (2005)

“Shortcuts to nuclear structure: lessons in Hartree-Fock, RPA, and the no-core shell model,” C. W. Johnson and I. Stetcu, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 14, 57 (2005).

``Modelling Tubular Shapes of Mitochondrial Membranes," A. Ponnuswamy, J. Nulton, J. M. Mahaffy, P. Salamon, T.G. Frey, and A.R.C. Baljon, Physical Biology 2, 1 (2005).

“Fourier analysis of harmonic frequency transmission dielectric structures”, M. M. Sánchez-López, J. Cos, J. A. Davis, D. A. Miller, and I. Moreno, Appl. Opt., 44, 3774-3783, (2005)

“Electromagnetic transitions with effective operators,” I. Stetcu, B. R. Barrett, P. Navratil, and C. W. Johnson, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 14, 95 (2005).

"Evolution from insulator (x=0.003) to metal (x=1) of the Eu²⁺ local environment in Ca_1–xEu_xB₆", R. R. Urbano, S. Oseroff et al, J. Applied Physics 97, 10A924 (2005).

"Gradual transition from insulator to semimetal of Ca_1–xEu_xB₆ with increasing Eu concentration," R. R. Urbano, S. Oseroff et al, Phys. Rev. B 71, 184422 (2005).

2004

"All-reflective automated beam alignment device for ultrafast lasers," M. Anderson and C. Ward, accepted to American Journal of Physics (2004).

"Transitory response of confined polymer films subjected to oscillatory shear,“ Arlette R. C. Baljon, J. Chem. Phys. in press

"Glass Transition Behavior of Polymer Films of Nanoscopic Dimension,” Arlette R.C. Baljon, Regina Barber DeGraaff, Maarten H.M. v. Weert, and Radjesh Khare, cond-mat/0408523, to appear in Macromolecules.

"Percolation of Domains of Immobile Segments in Supercooled Thin Polymeric Films,” Arlette R.C. Baljon, J. Billen, and R. Khare, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.

"Contact time dependence of adhesive energy,” Arlette R.C. Baljon, Travis Depuy, and Joris Vorselaars, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, 366 (2003).*

"Computational studies of contact time dependence of adhesive energy due to redistribution of the locations of strong specific interfacial interactions,” Arlette R.C. Baljon, Travis Depuy, and Joris Vorselaars, Macromolecules 37, 5800 (2004).

"Monte Carlo Simulations of Curved Lipid Membranes,” Arlette R.C. Baljon, and Arun Ponnuswamy, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, 377 (2003).*

“Bragg grating Fabry Perot interferometer with variable finesse”, P. Betts and J. A. Davis, Opt. Eng., (in press, 2004)

“Optical processing with vortex producing lenses”, K. Crabtree, J. A. Davis, and I. Moreno, App. Opt., 43, 1360-1367, (2004)

“Polarizing binary diffraction grating beamsplitter”, J. A. Davis and G. H. Evans., Opt. Lett., 29, 1443-1445, (2004)

“Programmable birefringent lenses using a liquid crystal display”, J. A. Davis, G. H. Evans, K. Crabtree, and I. Moreno, Appl. Opt., 43, 6235-6241, (2004)

“Focusing properties of fractal zone plates: experimental implementation with a liquid-crystal display”, J. A. Davis, L. Ramirez, J. A. R. Martin-Romo, T. Alieva, and M. L. Calvo, Opt. Lett., 29, 1321-1323, (2004)

“Oblique-basis calculations for ⁴⁴Ti,” V.G. Gueorguiev, J. P. Draayer, W. E. Ormand, and C. W. Johnson, in Computational and Group Theoretical Methods in Nuclear Physics, J. Escher, et al, eds (World Scientific, Singapore, 2004)*

"Measuring ultrashort optical pulses in the presence of noise: an empirical study of the performance of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction," Steven Jensen and Matthew E. Anderson, Appl. Opt. 43, 883 (2004).

“Collectivity, computers, and chaos,” Calvin W. Johnson, in Computational and Group Theoretical Methods in Nuclear Physics, J. Escher, et al, eds (World Scientific, Singapore, 2004)*

"Efficient optical implementation of the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm," P Londero, C. Dorrer, M. E. Anderson, S. Wallentowitz, K. Banaszek and I. A. Walmsley, Phys. Rev. A 69, 010302(R) (2004).

“Magnons and Phonons in the Bilayered Magnetic Manganites”, Martinho, H., Rettori, C., Huber D.L., Mitchell, J.F., and Oseroff, S.B., JMMM 275, 1736 (2004).

“Magnetic properties of the frustrated antiferromagnet LiCrO₂", Moreno, N.O., Israel, C., Pagliuso, P.G., Garcia-Adeva, A.J., Rettori, C., Sarrao J.L., Thompson, J.D., Oseroff, S.B. JMMM 276, 1023 (2004).

"Modelling tubular shapes of mitochondrial membranes,” A. Ponnuswamy, J. Nulton, J. M. Mahaffy, P. Salamon, T.G. Frey, and A.R.C. Baljon, to appear in Interface (Royal Society of London)

“Dynamic magnetic response of LaMn_0.5Ga_0.5O₃”, Rinaldi, D., Caciuffo, R., Neumeier, J.J., Fiorani, D., Oseoff, S.B., JMMM 275, 571 (2004).

“Gamow-Teller transitions and deformation in the proton-neutron random phase approximation,” I. Stetcu and C. W. Johnson, Phys. Rev. C. 69, 024311 (2004).

"Single-iteration compression of femtosecond laser pulses," J. Thornes, P. Poon, and M. E. Anderson, accepted to Journal of the Optical Society of America B (2004).

“Evolution of the Eu²⁺local enviornment in Ca_1-xEu_xB₆”, Urbano, R.R., Pagliuso, P.G., Sarrao, J.L., Oseroff, S.B., Rettori, C., Nakatsuji, S., Fisk, Z., JMMM 276, 1659 (2004)

“Magnetic polaron and Fermi surface effects in the Spin-Flip scattering of EuB6.” Urbano, R.R., Pagliuso, P.G, Rettori, P.G, Oseroff, S.B., Sarrao, J.L., Schlottmann, P., Fisk, Z., Accepted by Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communications. (2004).

“Magnetic polaron and Fermi surface effects on the ESR spin-flip scattering of EuB6 above Tc = 15K”. Urbano, R.R., Pagliuso, P.G, Rettori, P.G, Oseroff, S.B., Sarrao, J.L., Schlottmann, P., Fisk, Z., Accepted by Physica B. (2004).

"Neutron Stars and Quark Stars'', F. Weber, to appear in Proceedings of the KIAS-APCTP International Symposium in Astro-Hadron Physics, "Compact Stars: Quest For New States of Dense Matter'', November 10--14, 2003, Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, World Scientific.

"The Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter'', F. Weber, to appear in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics, Olinda, Brazil, 12--16 October, 2003, ed. W. Greiner, R. Ruffini, H. Stoecker, H. Coelho, and C. Vasconcellos, to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D.*

"Strange Quark Matter and Compact Stars'', F. Weber, to appear in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 54.

2003

"Signatures of Field-induced Spin Polarization of Neutron Star Matter in Seismic Vibrations of Paramagnetic Neutron Stars'', S. I. Bastrukov, J. Yang, D. V. Podgainy, and F. Weber, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 29 (2003) 683.

"On the Maximum Rotational Frequency of Neutron and Hybrid Stars'', G. F. Burgio, H.-J. Schulze, and F. Weber, Astron. & Astrophys. 408 (2003) 675.

“Encoding amplitude and phase information onto a binary phase-only spatial light modulator”, J. A. Davis, K. O. Valadez, and D. M. Cottrell, , Appl. Opt., 42, 2003-2008, (2003)

“Review of operating modes for twisted nematic liquid crystal displays for applications in optical image processing”, J. A. Davis, M. J. Yzuel, J. Campos, I. Moreno, A. Marquez, and J. Nicolas, Proc. SPIE, 5181, 2003

“Complex encoding of rotation invariant filters onto a single phase-only SLM”, O. Gualdrón, J. A. Davis, , J. Nicolás, J. Campos and M. J. Yzuel, Appl. Opt., 42, 1973-1980, (2003)

“Fractional Fourier transform optical system utilizing programmable diffractive lenses”, I. Moreno, J.A. Davis and K. Crabtree, Appl. Opt., 42, 6544-6548. (2003)

“Coaxial cable analogs of multilayer dielectric optical coatings”, M. M. Sánchez-López, J. A. Davis, and K. Crabtree, Am. J. Phys., 71, 1314-1319, (2003)

"Measuring ultrafast pulses in the near-ultraviolet using spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction," P. Londero, M. E. Anderson, C. Radzewicz, C. Iaconis, and I. A. Walmsley, Journal of Modern Optics 50, 179 (2003).

“Level densities in ^56,57Fe and ^96,97Mo,” A. Schiller, E. Tavukcu, L.A. Bernstein, P.E. Garrett, M. Guttormsen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, C.W. Johnson, G.E. Mitchell, J. Rekstad, S. Siem, A. Voinov, and W. Younes. Phys. Rev. C. 68, 054326 (2003).

"Tests of the random phase approximation for transitions strengths,'' I. Stetcu and C. W. Johnson, Phys. Rev. C. 67, 043315 (2003).

“Low energy spin wave excitations in bilayed magnetic manganite La_2-2xSr_1+2xMn₂O₇ (0.30 < x < 0.50)”, Martinho, H., Rettori, C., Huber, D.L., Mitchell, J.F., Oseroff, S.B., . Phys. Rev. B 67,214428 (2003).

"Surface ablation of transparent materials using temporally shaped ultrashort laser pulses," J. Thornes, C. Barnes, A. Carson, and M. Anderson, proceedings of the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, October 2003.*

"Nuclear and High-Energy Astrophysics'', F. Weber, Proceedings of the International Hadron Physics School 2002, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, April 14--19, 2002, eds. Cesar A. Z. Vasconcellos, Victoria E. Herscovitz, Dimiter Hadjimichef, and Bardo E. J. Bodmann (World Scientific 2003, ISBN 981-238-192-9) p. 73-134.

"Quark Matter in Compact Stars'', F. Weber, Nucl. Phys. A721 (2003) 1032c.

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Last updated: 7th October 2006