Search Results - "Bowick, M.J."

The flat phase of fixed-connectivity membranes by Bowick, M.J., Catterall, S.M., Falcioni, M., Thorleifsson, G., Anagnostopoulos, K.

“…The statistical mechanics of flexible two-dimensional surfaces (membranes) appears in a wide variety of physical settings. In this talk we discuss the simplest…”
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On the Modeling of Endocytosis in Yeast by Zhang, Tao, Sknepnek, Rastko, Bowick, M.J., Schwarz, J.M.

“…The cell membrane deforms during endocytosis to surround extracellular material and draw it into the cell. Results of experiments on endocytosis in yeast show…”
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Thick smectic shells by Manyuhina, O.V., Bowick, M.J.

“…The known ground state of ultrathin smectic films confined to the surface of a sphere is described by four +1/2 defects assembled on a great circle and a…”
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Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical Crystallography by Bausch, A. R., Bowick, M. J., Cacciuto, A., Dinsmore, A. D., Hsu, M. F., Nelson, D. R., Nikolaides, M. G., Travesset, A., Weitz, D. A.

“…We describe experimental investigations of the structure of two-dimensional spherical crystals. The crystals, formed by beads self-assembled on water droplets…”
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The Cosmological Kibble Mechanism in the Laboratory: String Formation in Liquid Crystals by Bowick, Mark J., Chandar, L., Schiff, E. A., Srivastava, Ajit M.

“…The production of strings (disclination lines and loops) has been observed by means of the Kibble mechanism of domain (bubble) formation in the…”
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Universality classes of self-avoiding fixed-connectivity membranes by Bowick, M.J., Cacciuto, A., Thorleifsson, G., Travesset, A.

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Axionic black holes and an Aharonov-Bohm effect for strings by BOWICK, M. J, GIDDINGS, S. B, HARVEY, J. A, HOROWITZ, G. T, STROMINGER, A

“…It is shown that a black hole of fixed mass can carry arbitrary axionic charge. The unique static black-hole solution is found to have vanishing axion field…”
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Superstrings at high temperature by Bowick, MJ, Wijewardhana, LC

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The phase diagram of crystalline surfaces by Anagnostopoulos, K., Bowick, M.J., Catterall, S.M., Falcioni, M., Thorleifsson, G.

“…We report the status of a high-statistics Monte Carlo simulation of non-self-avoiding crystalline surfaces with extrinsic curvature on lattices of size up to…”
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Suppressing curvature fluctuations in dynamical triangulations by Bowick, M.J., Catterall, S.M., Thorleifsson, G.

“…We study numerically the dynamical triangulation formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity using a restricted class of triangulation, so-called minimal…”
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Role of string excitation in the last stages of black-hole evaporation by Bowick, MJ, Smolin, L, Wijewardhana, LC

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Quantum gravity, random geometry and critical phenomena by BOWICK, M. J, MARINARI, E

“…The authors discuss the theory of non-critical strings with extrinsic curvature embedded in a target space dimension d greater than one. They emphasize the…”
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gamma Z kinetic mixing as signal of a higher scale by Bars, I, I, Bowick, MJ

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Isospin-Symmetry Breaking in Electroweak Theories by Appelquist, Thomas, Bowick, Mark J., Cohler, Eugene, Hauser, Avi I.

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Spontaneous breaking of parity in (2+1)-dimensional QED by APPELQUIST, T, BOWICK, M. J, KARABALI, D, WIJEWARDHANA, L. C. R

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Breaking of isospin symmetry in theories with a dynamical Higgs mechanism by Appelquist, T, Bowick, MJ, Cohler, E, Hauser, AI

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