Theoretical Division Research Highlights 2005
A Supplement to the Division Annual Self Assessment
LA-UR-05-1500, April 2005
Cover (PDF
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About
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Title
page, Preface, Contents (PDF 3.5 MB)
Entire
Publication (PDF 107.6 MB)
Part 1: Featured Groups T-4, T-6, T-8, T-16, T-DO/QC
- Line-Edge
Blending in ATOMIC (PDF 240 KB)
Joseph Abdallah, Jr., Peter Hakel, David P. Kilcrease, Norman H. Magee, Jr., Stephane Mazevet, and Manolo Sherrill (T-4) - Time-Dependent
Studies of Photoionization of
Light Systems: Beyond Two-Electron Systems (PDF 528 KB)
James Colgan (T-4) - Double
Slit Interferometry with a
Bose-Einstein Condensate (PDF 872 KB)
Lee Collins (T-4), Luca Pezzé and Augusto Smerzi (T-13/CNLS), Gennady Berman(T-13), and Alan Bishop (T-DO) - Extended
Thomas-Fermi Models for Equations of
State of Dense, High Energy-Density Matter (PDF 1 MB)
George Csanak (T-4), Jérôme Daligault and Michael S. Murillo (T-15) - Cold
Atom Quantum Simulators (PDF 168 KB)
Jim Gubernatis and Gerardo Ortiz (T-11), Daniel F. V. James and Eddy Timmermans (T-4), and Juan Pablo Paz (T-DO/QC); in collaboration with Dana Berkeland (P-21), David Vieira and Xinxin Zhao (C-INC) - An
Equation of State for Opacity Calculations (PDF 188 KB)
Peter Hakel and David Kilcrease (T-4) - Manipulating
Quantum Systems with
Ultrashort Laser Pulses (PDF 600 KB)
Suxing Hu and Lee Collins (T-4) - Measuring
Quantum Processes (PDF 312 KB)
Daniel James (T-4) - Quantum
Teleportation with Atoms (PDF 1 MB)
Daniel James (T-4) - Spectral
Analysis of Short Time Signals (PDF 172 KB)
Zbyszek Karkuszewski (T-4) - Insulator
to Metal Transition in
Shock-Compressed Silica (PDF 192 KB)
Stephane Mazevet (T-4); Y. Laudernet and J. Clérouin (Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée, CEA/DAM Ile-de-France, France) - Large-Scale
Time-Dependent
Schrödinger Equation Solver (PDF 1.2 MB)
Stephane Mazevet and Eddy Timmermans(T-4) - Physical
Properties of White Dwarf
Atmospheres (PDF 428 KB)
S. Mazevet (T-4), and Piotr Kowalski and Didier Saumon (X-7) - Generating
Incoherent Solitons in
Bragg Structures (PDF 2.7 MB)
Sergey Ponomarenko (T-4), N.M. Litchinitser ( University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), and G.P. Agrawal (T-4 and The Institute of Optics) - Theory
of Incoherent Optical Solitons:
Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation (PDF 213 KB)
Sergey Ponomarenko (T-4), N.M. Litchinitser ( University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), and E. Poutrina and G.P. Agrawal (The Institute of Optics) - Acoustic Attenuation to Probe
Fermion
Superfluidity in Cold Atom Traps (PDF 424 MB)
Eddy Timmermans (T-4) and Sergio Gaudio (T-11 and Boston College) - Bose-Einstein
Condensate Interferometry (PDF 492 KB)
Eddy Timmermans, Lee Collins, and Zbyszek Karkuszewski (T-4), Gennady Berman and Augusto Smerzi (T-13), and Diego Dalvit and Peter Milonni (T-DO/QC) - Fermion-Boson
Quantum Liquid
Mixtures in Cold Atom Physics (PDF 144 KB)
Eddy Timmermans (T-4)
- Implications
of the Uncertainties in
the n + Li Cross Sections (PDF 176 KB)
Anna C. Hayes (T-6), Gerald Hale (T-16), Steven Howe (LANSCE-DO), Andrew S. Johnson (X-2), Britton Girard (X-4), Thomas Gorman (X-3), and Robert Little (X-5) - Nuclear
Isomers (PDF
160 KB)
Anna C. Hayes and Gerard Jungman (T-6), Eric Lynn (T-16), and Britton Girard (X-4) - Stellar
Burning and Mixing (PDF
1.1 MB)
Falk Herwig, Alexander Heger, and Frank Timmes (T-6), and Rob Hueckstaedt and Rob Coker (X-2) - Gravitational
Lensing of Supernovae (PDF 200 KB)
Daniel E. Holz (T-6), Xuelei Chen (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics), Neal Dalal (Institute for Advanced Study), Josh Frieman and Robert Wald ( University of Chicago), and Eric Linder ( Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) - Gravitational
Radiation Rocket (PDF 336 KB)
Daniel E. Holz (T-6), Marc Favata (Cornell University), Scott Hughes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Merritt (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Milos Milosavljevic (California Institute of Technology) - Gravitational
Wave Standard Candles (PDF
192 KB)
Daniel E. Holz (T-6), and Scott A. Hughes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Precision
Cosmology: Constraining the Mass
Function and Bias of Dark Matter Halos (PDF 216 KB)
Michael S. Warren, Gerard Jungman, and Daniel Holz (T-6), Salman Habib, Kev Abazajian, and Luis Teodoro (T-8), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), and Uros Seljak (Princeton University) - Soft
ware Technology to Enable Reliable
High-Performance Distributed Disk Arrays (PDF 1.8 MB)
Michael S. Warren, Chris L. Fryer, M. Patrick Goda, and Ryan Joseph (T-6)
T-8 Elementary Particles and Field Theory
- Cosmological
Lepton Asymmetry, Primordial
Nucleosynthesis, and Sterile Neutrinos (PDF 184 KB)
Kevork Abazajian (T-8), Nicole Bell (California Institute of Technology), George Fuller ( University of California, San Diego), and Yvonne Wong (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) - Cosmology
and Galaxy Formation from Small-Scale
Galaxy Clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (PDF 296 KB)
Kevork Abazajian (T-8), Zheng Zheng ( Ohio State University and Institute for Advanced Study), Idit Zehavi ( University of Arizona), David Weinberg ( Ohio State University), Josh Frieman [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and University of Chicago], and Andreas Berlind and Michael Blanton ( New York University) - Neutrino
Clustering in Dark Matter Halos and the
Nonlinear Cosmological Matter Power Spectrum (PDF 1.3 MB)
Kevork Abazajian (T-8), Scott Dodelson (FNAL and University of Chicago), Salman Habib (T-8), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1) Eric Switzer (Princeton University), Michael S. Warren (T-6) - Physical
Cosmology with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (PDF 183 KB)
Kevork Abazajian (T-8), Salman Habib and Yongzhong Xu (T-8), Scott Dodelson (FNAL/University of Chicago), Hume Feldman (University of Kansas), Josh Frieman (FNAL/University of Chicago), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), Daniel Holz (T-6), Lam Hui (Columbia University), Adam Lidz (Harvard University), and Michael Warren (T-6) - Improving
Convergence in Lattice Gauge Theory (PDF
648 KB)
Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Rajan Gupta (T-8), Weonjong Lee ( Seoul National University, South Korea), and Stephen Sharpe ( University of Washington, Seattle) - Studying
Strong Corrections to Weak Interactions
using Lattice Quantum Chromodynamic (PDF 768 KB)
Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Rajan Gupta (T-8), Weonjong Lee ( Seoul National University, SouthKorea), and Stephen Sharpe (University of Washington, Seattle) - Using
Computational Tools to Inform HIV Vaccine Design (PDF
752 KB)
Tanmoy Bhattacharya (T-8) and Bette Korber (T-10) - Inverse
Scattering and Density Perturbations from Inflation (PDF
232 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), and Gerard Jungman (T-6) - Nonlinear
and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Geomaterials (PDF 188 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), Paul Johnson, Donatella Pasqualini, and James TenCate (EES-11) - Nonlinear
Quantum Dynamics (PDF 264 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Kurt Jacobs (Griffi th University), and Kosuke Shizume ( University of Tsukuba) - Precision
Cosmology: Scalar and Tensor
Perturbations from Inflation (PDF 220 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Andreas Heinen ( University of Dortmund), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), and Gerard Jungman (T-6) - Quantum
Feedback in Cavity QED and
Quantum Nanomechanics (PDF 792 KB)
Salman Habib and Tanmoy Bhattacharya (T-8), Asa Hopkins (California Institute of Technology), Kurt Jacobs (Griffi th University), Hideo Mabuchi (California Institute of Technology), Keith Schwab (Laboratory for Physical Sciences), Daniel Steck (University of Oregon) - Robustness
of Cosmological Simulations (PDF 424 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), Paul Ricker ( University of Chicago, Urbana), and Michael Warren (T-6) - Semiclassics
and Topological Aspects of the
Quantum-Classical Transition (PDF 1.0 MB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Benjamin Greenbaum ( Columbia University), Kosuke Shizume ( University of Tsukuba), and Bala Sundaram (The City University of New York) - Taming
and Accelerating Particle-In-Cell (PDF 1.8 MB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Phil Colella and Robert Ryne (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), David Higdon (D-1), and Charles Nakhleh (X-2) - The
Cosmic Data Archive (PDF 580 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1), Paul Ricker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),and Michael S. Warren (T-6) - The
Morphology and Dynamics of Cosmic Voids (PDF 352 KB)
Salman Habib (T-8), Hume Feldman and Sergei Shandarin (University of Kansas), and Katrin Heitmann (ISR-1) - The
Pioneer Anomaly May Be Tested (PDF 720 KB)
Michael Martin Nieto (T-8) and Slava Turyshev and John Anderson (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) - Application
of Voronoi Tessellation on Finding
Large-Scale Structures (PDF 452 KB)
Yongzhong Xu (T-8)
- A
Relativistic Symmetry in Nuclei (PDF
496 KB)
Joseph N. Ginocchio (T-16) - CP-Violation
in the R-Parity Violating Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model Muon Decay (PDF 532 KB)
Peter Herczeg (T-16) - Global
Calculation of
-strength
Functions for Modeling
Antineutrino Spectra and Stellar EC Capture Rates (PDF 220 KB)
Peter Möller and Bill Wilson (T-16) - Global
Calculation of Nuclear Shape Isomers (PDF
692 KB)
Peter Möller (T-16) and Ragnar Bengtsson and Peter Olivius ( Lund University, Sweden) - Testing
the Predictive Power of Nuclear-Structure
Models Against New Experimental Data (PDF 464 KB)
Peter Möller (T-16) -
Be
Nuclear Data Evaluation (PDF 1.1 MB)
Philip R. Page and Gerald M. Hale (T-16) - Neutron
Emission Spectra from Actinides (PDF 244 KB)
Phillip G. Young, Mark B. Chadwick, and Robert E. MacFarlane (T-16) and Stephanie C. Frankle (X-5)
- Reversing
Time: Decoherence, the Loschmidt Echo,
and Quantum Computers (PDF 252 KB)
Fernando Cucchietti, Diego A. R. Dalvit, Juan Pablo Paz, and Wojciech Zurek (T-DO/QC) - Dynamical
Casimir Effect (PDF
432 KB)
Diego A. R. Dalvit (T-DO/QC)
Part 2: Other T-Division Groups T-DO, T-1, T-3, T-7, T-10, T-11, T-12, T-13, T-14, T-15, CNLS
- Intrinsic
Decay of Quantum Many-Body Systems (PDF 252 KB)
George E. Cragg and Arthur K. Kerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Simulating
the Dynamics of Simple Societies (PDF 208 KB)
Stephen M. Younger (T-DO)
T-1 Mechanics of Materials and Equation of State
- Adiabatic
and Non-Adiabatic Contributions to the Free
Energy from the Electron-Phonon Interaction
for Na, K, Al, and Pb (PDF 1.3 MB)
Nicolas Bock and Duane C. Wallace (T-1), D. Coffey ( Buffalo State College) - Nonspherical
Void Growth Theories (PDF
340 KB)
Brad E. Clements and Eric M. Mas (T-1) and Paul J. Maudlin (T-3) - Modeling
Dynamic Phase Changes in Zr—EOS and
Kinetics (PDF 252 KB)
Carl Greeff and Sven Rudin (T-1), Frank Addessio and Eric Harstad (T-3), Paulo Rigg and Rob Hixson (DX-2), G.T. Gray, III (MST-8), Yusheng Zhao and Jianzhong Zhang (LANSCE-12), and Marcus Knudson (Sandia National Laboratory) - Calculations
to Refine Beryllium’s Equation of State (PDF
520 KB)
Sven P. Rudin and J.D. Johnson (T-1)
- A
Model for Heterogeneous Materials Including
Phase Transformations (PDF 284 KB)
Frank L. Addessio and Todd O. Williams (T-3), and Brad E. Clements and Eric M. Mas (T-1) - Modeling
Phase Transformations with Strength in
Zirconium (PDF 1 MB)
Eric N. Harstad, Francis L. Addessio, Q. Ken Zuo, and Todd O. Williams (T-3) in collaboration with Carl W. Greeff (T-1) - Arctic
Ocean Simulation,
1948–2002 (PDF 1 MB)
Elizabeth C. Hunke, Mathew E. Maltrud, and William H. Lipscomb (T-3), and Marika M. Holland ( National Center for Atmospheric Research) - Shock
Passage Over an Interface (PDF 1.5 MB)
Rick Rauenzahn, Manjit Sahota, and Francis Harlow (T-3), Robert Gore (X-2), Michael Steinkamp (X-3), and Jon Weisheit (T-15) - Direct
Numerical Simulation of Polycrystal (PDF 1.8 MB)
Manjit S. Sahota, Rick Rauenzahn, Frank L. Addessio,and Francis H. Harlow (T-3) - Damage
Surface Based on the Critical Crack
Orientation (PDF 360 KB)
Q. Ken Zuo and Frank L. Addessio (T-3), and John K. Dienes (T-14) - Modeling
Plastic Instability and Strain Localization
in Explosively-Driven U6 Hemi (PDF 1.1 MB)
Q. Ken Zuo and Paul J. Maudlin (T-3), and Larry M. Hull (DX-3)
T-7 Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
- A
Memory Efficient Parallel Tridiagonal Solver (PDF
924 KB)
Travis M. Austin, Markus Berndt, and J. David Moulton (T-7) - A
Mortar Mimetic Finite Difference Method on Nonmatching Grids (PDF
144 KB)
Markus Berndt, Konstantin Lipnikov, and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7), M. F. Wheeler (University of Texas), and I. Yotov ( University of Pittsburg) - Efficient
Smoothing of Unstructured Grids (PDF
212 KB)
Markus Berndt and J. David Moulton (T-7) - Superconvergence
of the Velocity in Mimetic Finite Difference Methods on Quadrilaterals (PDF
212 KB)
Markus Berndt, Konstantin Lipnikov, and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7), M.F. Wheeler ( University of Texas), and I. Yotov ( University of Pittsburgh) - Convergence
of Mimetic Finite Difference Method for Diffusion Problems on Polyhedral
Meshes (PDF
380 KB)
Franco Brezzi ( University of Pavia, Italy), and Konstantin Lipnikov and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7) - Spatial
Patterns of Infection: The 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic in Uruguay (PDF
620 KB)
Gerardo Chowell (Cornell University/T-7), Ariel R. Rivas ( Cornell University), Nick Hengartner (D-1), J. Mac Hyman (T-7), and Carlos Castillo-Chavez ( Arizona State University) - Interface
Reconstruction on General Polygonal Meshes (PDF
444 KB)
Rao V. Garimella, Mikhail J. Shashkov, and Blair K. Swartz (T-7) - Computer
Arithmetic for Probability Distribution Variables (PDF
208 KB)
Weiye Li and J. Mac Hyman (T-7) - Multilevel
Upscaling of Heterogeneous Media (PDF
684 KB)
Scott P. MacLachlan (T-7/University of Colorado, Boulder) and J. David Moulton (T-7)
T-10 Theoretical Biology and Biophysics
- Brownian
Walks in Conformational Space (PDF
224 KB)
Paul W. Fenimore, Hans Frauenfelder, and Benjamin H. McMahon (T-10) - Least-Error
Acoustic-Source Localization of
Discrete Events (PDF 168 KB)
David Torney (T-10) and Robert J. Nemzek (ISR-4)
T-11 Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
- Strain-Induced
Phase Transformations in Shape
Memory Alloys (PDF 788 KB)
Rajeev Ahluwalia, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena (T-11) - Ultrafast
Relaxation Dynamics in Normal Metals and
Heavy Fermions (PDF 336 KB)
Ken H. Ahn (Argonne National Laboratory), Matthias J. Graf and Stuart A. Trugman (T-11), Jure Demsar (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Richard D. Averitt and John L. Sarrao (MST-10), and Antoinette J. Taylor (MST-CINT) - Adaptability
and “Intermediate Phases” in Randomly
Connected Networks (PDF 396 KB)
J. Barré, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena (T-11), and Alan R. Bishop (T-DO) - Impurities
Block the
to
Martensitic
Transformation
in Titanium (PDF 680 KB)
Richard G. Hennig, Dallas R. Trinkle, and John W. Wilkins ( Ohio State University), Johann Bouchet and Robert C. Albers (T-11), and Srivilliputhur G. Srinivasan (MST-8) - DNA
Bubbles (PDF
392 KB)
Kim Ø. Rasmussen (T-11), N.K. Voulgarakis ( University of Crete, Greece), S. Ares (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), and Alan R. Bishop (T-DO) - Towards
Modeling Elastic Properties of Estane® (PDF
828 KB)
Kim Ø. Rasmussen and Turab Lookman (T-11), Panagiotis Maniadis (CNLS/T-11), and Edward M. Kober (T-14)
T-12 Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics
- Quantum
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Liquid Plutonium and Hydrogen/Metal
Mixtures (PDF
444 KB)
Joel D. Kress (T-12) and Lee A. Collins (T-4) - N -Scaling
Materials Response by Density Matrix Perturbation Theory N (PDF
1.7 MB)
Anders M. N. Niklasson (T-1), Matt Challacombe (T-12), and Valéry Weber (T-12/University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
- Global
Roadmap for Quantum Computation (PDF
260 KB)
Gary Doolen (T-13) - Modeling
a Full Adder in an Ising Spin Quantum Computer with 1000 Qubits using
Quantum Maps(PDF
196 KB)
Dmitry I. Kamenev, Gennady P. Berman, and R.B. Kassman(T-13), and V.I. Tsifrinovich (Polytechnical University) - Self-Focusing
of Plasma Waves and the Control of Laser-Plasma-Instability (PDF
192 KB)
Harvey A. Rose (T-13) - Physics
Package Confidence: “ONE” vs “1.0” (PDF 384 KB)
David H. Sharp (T-13 and X-DO), Timothy C. Wallstrom (T-13), and Merri Wood-Schultz (X-2)
T-14 Explosives and Organic Materials
- Large-Scale
Epidemiological Simulation: Building New Capabilities on Renowned Science
Foundations (PDF 800 KB)
Krastan Blagoev (T-11), Timothy C. Germann (X-7), Norman L. Johnson (T-3), Kai Kadau (T-14), Peter S. Lomdahl (T-11), Catherine A. Macken (T-10), and Timothy N. McPherson (D-3) - Atomistic
Studies of PBX-9501 Constituents and Interactions Among Them (PDF 476
KB)
Eugenio Jaramillo and Thomas D. Sewell (T-14), Chee Kwan Gan and Matt Challacombe (T-12), and Hemali Davande, Dmitry Bedrov, Oleg Borodin, and Grant D. Smith (University of Utah) - Large-Scale
Simulations of Shock-Induced Transformations in Gallium, On the Way to
Plutonium (PDF 1.7 MB)
Kai Kadau (T-14), Timothy C. Germann (X-7), Peter S. Lomdahl (T-11), Brad L. Holian (T-12), Ramon J. Ravelo(University of Texas/X-7), Frank J. Cherne (DX-2), and Michael I. Baskes(MST-8) - Nanohydrodynamics
Simulations: An Atomistic View of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (PDF
1.6 MB)
Kai Kadau (T-14), Timothy C. Germann (X-7), Peter S. Lomdahl (T-11), Brad L. Holian (T-12), Guy Dimonte (X-4), Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Berni Alder(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) - World
Record: Large-Scale Molecular-Dynamics Simulation of 19 Billion Particles
(PDF 956 KB)
Kai Kadau (T-14), Timothy C. Germann(X-7), and Peter S. Lomdahl(T-11) - Elastic-Plastic
Response of HMX (PDF 508 KB)
Ralph Menikoff (T-14)
- A
Nonlinear, Fully Coupled Adaptive Grid Strategy (PDF 408 KB)
Luis Chacón and Giovanni Lapenta (T-15) - MHD
Equilibrium Reconstruction from Correlated Experimental Data (PDF
1 MB)
Christopher S. Jones and John M. Finn (T-15) - A
New Role for the Lower Hybrid Drift Instability in Magnetic Reconnection (PDF
812 KB)
Giovanni Lapenta and Paolo Ricci (T-15) and William Daughton (X-1) - Two
Positive Charges Immersed in a Plasma May Attract Each Other (PDF
1.1 MB)
Giovanni Lapenta and Gian L. Delzanno (T-15) - Recent
Developments in High Energy-Density Plasma Physics (PDF
476 KB)
Michael S. Murillo and Jon Weisheit (T-15)
CNLS Center for Nonlinear Studies
- Modeling DNA Bubble
Formation at the Atomic Scale (PDF 1.2 MB)
Violeta Beleva (T-10/CNLS), Kim Ø. Rasmussen (T-11), and Angel E. Garcia (T-10) - The Effect of Initial
Conditions on the Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor Flow (PDF 428 KB)
Praveen Ramaprabhu (T-CNLS), Guy Dimonte (X-4), and M.J. Andrews (Texas A&M University)
