Statistical Mechanics

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA


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Some of Our Relevant Publications

Two-Point Microrheology and the Electrostatic Analogy, A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky. Submitted to Phys. Rev. E (2001).

Phase Transitions in a Ferrofluid at Magnetic Field Induced Microphase Separation, D. Lacoste and T.C. Lubensky. To appear in Phys. Rev. E (2001).

Maximizing Entropy by Minimizing Area: Towards a New Principle of Self-Organization, P. Ziherl and R.D. Kamien. To appear in J. Phys. Chem. (2001).

The Response Function of a Sphere in a Viscoelastic Two-Fluid Medium, A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky. Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 041510.

One- and Two-Particle Microrheology, A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1774.

Statistical Mechanics in Sheared Granular Matter, W. Losert, L. Bocquet, T.C. Lubensky, and J.P. Gollub. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1428.

Molecular Chirality and Chiral Parameters, A.B. Harris, Randall D. Kamien and T.C. Lubensky. Rev. Mod. Phys. 71 (1999) 1745.

Electrostatic Repulsion of Positively Charged Vesicles and Negatively Charged Objects, H. Aranda-Espinoza, Y. Chen, N. Dan, T.C. Lubensky, P. Nelson, L. Ramos and D.A. Weitz, Science 285 (1999) 394.

Entropic Elasticity of Twist-Storing Polymers, J.D. Moroz and Philip Nelson. Macromolecules 31 (1998) 6333 (gzipped.ps) [see Physics News Update].

Sequence-Disorder Effects on DNA Entropic Elasticity, Philip Nelson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 5810. (gzipped .ps)

Quantum Theory of Chiral Interactions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, A.S. Issaenko, A.B. Harris and T.C. Lubensky. Phys. Rev. E 60 (1999) 578.

Force Free Configurations of Vortices in High Temperature Superconductors near the Melting Transition, Randall D. Kamien. Phys. Rev. B 58 (1998) 8218.

Torsional Directed Walks, Entropic Elasticity, and DNA Twist Stiffness, J.D. Moroz and Philip Nelson. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 94 (1997) 14418.

On the Microscopic Origin of Cholesteric Pitch, A.B. Harris, Randall D. Kamien and T.C. Lubensky. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 1476; 2867.

Entropic Control of Particle Motion Using Passive Surface Microstructures, A.D. Dinsmore, A.G. Yodh and D.J. Pine. Nature 383 (September 19, 1996) 239.

Disclination Asymmetry in Deformable Hexatic Membranes and the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transitions, Jeong-Man Park and T.C. Lubensky. J. Phys. I France 6 (1996) 493.

Phase Diagrams of Nearly Hard-Sphere Binary Colloids, A.D. Dinsmore, A.G. Yodh, and D.J. Pine. Phys. Rev. E 52 (1995) 4045.