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Publications

David Collins

      Journal Articles, Preprints and Conference Proceedings.

  1. Michael Frey, David Collins, and Karl Gerlach, "Probing the qudit depolarizing channel," J. Phys. A Math. Theor. 44, 205306 (2011). Preprint arXiv:1008.1557 (2010).

  2. David Collins, "Discrimination of unitary transformations in the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm," Phys. Rev. A 81, 052323 (2010).  Preprint arXiv:1002.4227 (2010).

  3. Michael Frey and David Collins, "Quantum Fisher information and the qudit depolarization channel," Quantum Information and Computation VII, Eds. Donker, Pirich and Brandt, Proc. SPIE, 7342, 73420N (2009).
  4. David Collins, "Discrimination of Unitary Transformations and Quantum Algorithms," Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC): Ninth International Conference on QCMC, AIP Conf. Proc., 1110, 403 (2009). Preprint arXiv:0811.1359. (2008).

  5. Tomasz M. Kott and David Collins, "Statistical comparison of ensemble implementations of Grover's search algorithm to classical sequential searches," Phys. Rev. A 77, 052314 (2008). Preprint quant-ph/0708.0808 (2007).

  6. Brandon M. Anderson and David Collins, "Polarization Requirements for Ensemble Implementations of Quantum Algorithms with a Single Bit Output," Phys. Rev. A 72, 042337 (2005). Preprint quant-ph/0508061.

  7. Arvind and David Collins, "Scaling issues in ensemble implementations of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm," Phys. Rev. A 68, 052301 (2003). Preprint quant-ph/0307153.

  8. David Collins, "Shortening Grover's search algorithm for an expectation value quantum computer," Preprint quant-ph/0209148. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC'02), Rinton Press, Princeton NJ, (2002).

  9. David Collins, "Modified Grover's algorithm for an expectation-value quantum computer," Phys. Rev. A. 65, 052321 (2002). Preprint quant-ph/0111108.

  10. David Collins, K. W. Kim, W. C. Holton, H. Sierzputowska-Gracz, E. O. Stejskal, "Orchestrating an NMR quantum computation: the N=3 Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm," Preprint quant-ph/0105045 (2001).

  11. David Collins, K. W. Kim, W. C. Holton, H Sierzputowska-Grazc, and E. O. Stejskal, "NMR quantum computation with indirectly coupled gates," Phys. Rev. A 62, 022304 (2000).

  12. David Collins, K. W. Kim, and W. C. Holton, "Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm as a test of quantum computation," Phys Rev A, 58, 1633 (1998).

  13. P. Cartier, C DeWitt-Morette, A. Wurm, and D. Collins, "A Rigorous Mathematical Foundation of Functional Integration," Contains an appendix on Functional Integration Over Complex Poisson Paths prepared by D. Collins. Functional Integration: Basics and Applications, Eds C. DeWitt-Morette, P. Cartier and A. Folacci, (Plenum Press, New York, 1997).

 

 

Alex Gurshtein

Books and book chapters.

  1. Evolution of Gods. An Alternative Future for Mankind, by E.W. Minard. Metropolitan Press: Portland, Oregon. Editor in Chief for the Russian translation. Moscow. Mir. 1996: p. 112.

  2. Progress Towards Cognition of the Universe (Russian Studies in the History of Astronomy). Editor in Chief. Vol. 24. Moscow. Yanus. 1994.

  3. Atlas for the Earth-like Planets and Their Satellites. Moscow: Nauka. 1992.

  4. A Man and the Universe. Moscow: Kartographia. 1992.

  5. Progress Towards Cognition of the Universe (Russian Studies in the History of Astronomy). Editor in Chief. Vol. 23. Moscow. Nauka. 1992.

  6. Sky Round Dance. Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo. 1991.

  7. Eternal Enigmas of the Heaven. 3rd Ed. Moscow. Nauka. 1991.

Journal Articles, Preprints and Conference Proceedings.

  1. "Landing the Moon," Sky and Telescope, June 2006, 12, (2006).

  2. "Did the Pre-Indo-Europeans Influence the Formation of the Western Zodiac? ," J. Indo-European Studies, 33, 103 (2005).
  3. "A Truly Noted Astronomer," Sky and Telescope, Sept 1999, 14, (1999).
  4. "Noah's Flood and the Origin of the Zodiac," Sky and Telescope, Aug 1999, 14, (1999).
  5. "A Revised History," Sky and Telescope, Oct 1997, 12, (1997).

  6. "The Evolution of the Zodiac in the Context of Ancient Oriental History." Vistas in Astronomy 41 (4), 507 (1998).

  7. "Much Ado About Nothing." Abstract. Symposium "In Search of Extraterrestrial Life." Seventy-fourth SWARM Annual Meeting. Proceedings of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division 38 (1), 27, AAAS Grand Junction, Colo. May 17-21 (1998).

  8. "The Origins of the Constellations." American Scientist 85 (3), 264 (1997).

  9. "In Search of the First Constellations." Sky and Telescope 93 (6), 46, (1997).

  10. "Ursa Major and the Number Seven." Sky and Telescope 93 (6), 50 (1997).

  11. "An Astronomer's Unfortunate Past," Sky and Telescope, March 1997 , 5 (1997).

  12. "The Great Pyramids of Egypt as Sanctuaries Commemorating the Origin of the Zodiac: An Analysis of Astronomical Evidence." Physics Doklady (Official English Translation of the Russian Academy of Sciences Transactions) 41 (5), 228 (1996). Original published in Russian 348 (3), 331 (1996).

  13. "Past Civilizations as Imprinted in the Zodiac." Magisterium, 43 (1996).

  14. "The 1958 IAU General Assembly in Moscow," Highlights of Astronomy 10, 119 (1995). (Transactions of the International Astronomical Union published on behalf of the IAU by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Vol. XXIIA).

  15. "Science Feasts Whilst the Public Starves: A Note on the Reconstruction of the Pulkovo Observatory After World War II," with C.I. Ivanov, J. Hist. Astr. 26, 363 (1995).

  16. "On the reconstruction of the Pulkovo Observatory after World War Two," in Russian, with C.I. Ivanov. Priroda (Nature). No. 12. (1995).

  17. "The far side of the Moon: A story of new names and old politics," Vistas in Astronomy 39, 724 (1995).

  18. "Prehistory of Zodiac Dating: Three Strata of Upper Paleolithic Constellations," Vistas in Astronomy 39, 347 (1995).

  19. "In the Name of Science," Air and Space 10 (3), 38, (1995).

  20. "When the Zodiac Climbed into the Sky," Sky and Telescope 90 (4), 28 (1995).

  21. "Zodiac and the Sources of European Culture," Vestnik drevnei istorii: The Herald of Ancient History, No. 1, 153 (1995).

  22. "The Science and the Victory," Priroda (Nature), No. 5, 3 (1995).

  23. "The Making of a Soviet Scientist, Roald Z. Sagdeev," Sky and Telescope, 88 (6), 54 (1994).

  24. "Signs of the Zodiac: at the Dawn of Culture," Science in Russia 5 (83), 34 (1994).

  25. "The Sky was Divided on Constellations in the Paleaolithic," Priroda (Nature), No. 9, 60 (1994).

  26. "Problems mit Widder und Waage. Tierkreis-Sternbilder in der Antike." Kultur und Technik. No. 2. 1994: pp. 28-29.

  27. "Dating the Origin of Constellations by Precession." Physics-Doklady, Official English Translation of the Russian Academy of Sciences Transactions. Vol. 39, No. 8. 1994: pp. 575-578.

  28. "The 1958 IAU General Assembly in Moscow." Sidereal Times. August 26, 1994.

  29. "The Zodiac and the Roots of European Civilization." Preprint for the International Archaeoastronominal Conference. Oxford-4. Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. 1993. In English.

  30. "On the Origin of the Zodiacal Constellations," Vistas in Astronomy, 36 (2), 171 (1993)

  31. "The Birth of the Zodiac." Novoe Vremya (New Times). No. 43. 1993: pp. 40-43.

  32. "Astronomy Past and Present in the Former Soviet Union," Sky and Telescope 84 (3), 256 (1992).

  33. "On the Competence of Science in the XX Century." Priroda (Nature). No. 5. 1992: pp. 3-11.

  34. "Reconstruction of Zodiacal Constellations' Origins." Russian Studies in the History of Astronomy. Vol. 23. 1992: pp. 19-63.

  35. "Dead Civilizations in the Mirror of the Zodiac." Priroda (Nature). No. 10. 1991: pp. 57-71.

  36. "International Manned Lunar Base: Beginning the 21st Century in Space." Science and Global Security. Vol. 2. 1991: pp. 209-233.

  37. "There is No Historical Truth without Historical Background." Priroda (Nature). No. 2. 1991: pp. 9-13.

  38. "Astronomy Among the Other Sciences." Russian Studies in the History of Astronomy. Vol. 22. 1990: pp. 19-40.

 

 

 

 

Chad Middleton

      Journal Articles, Preprints and Conference Proceedings.

  1. C. Middleton and E. Stanley, "Anisotropic evolution of 5D Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime," Phys. Rev. D 84, 085013 (2011), Preprint gr-qc/1107.1828.
  2. Jacob Cady and Chad A. Middleton, "The High/Low Road Demonstration, or Birds on a Wire," J. Undergraduate Research in Physics, 22, Dec 2009.
  3. Daniel R. Rottinghaus and Chad A. Middleton, "Kayaking Physics: The Tipping Angle,"  J. Undergraduate Research in Physics, 22, Aug 2009.
  4. Keith Andrew, Brett Bolen and Chad A. Middleton, "Solutions of higher dimensional Gauss-Bonnet FRW cosmology," Gen. Rel. Grav., 39 2061 (2007).
  5. Keith Andrew, Brett Bolen and Chad A. Middleton, " Effects of dynamical compactification on D-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet FRW cosmology. ," Preprint hep-th/0608127 (2007).
  6. James Alsup, George Siopsis, and Chad Middleton "AdS/CFT Correspondence with Heat Conduction," Phys. Lett. B, 654, 35 (2007).
  7. Chad Middleton, "Using A Brane to Probe the Bulk" Mercury Magazine, 35 No 2, 18 (2006).
  8. Chad Middleton, George Siopsis, "Constrained perturbative expansion of the DGP model," Phys. Lett. B 613, 189 (2005).
  9. Chad Middleton, George Siopsis, "The Schwarzschild solution in the DGP model, " Mod. Phys. Lett. A, 19, 2259 (2004).
  10. Chad Middleton, George Siopsis, "Fat branes in infinite volume extra space," Preprint hep-th/0210033 (2002).

 

Anwar Shiekh

 

      Journal Articles, Preprints and Conference Proceedings.

  1. A. Y. Shiekh, "Operator regularization of Feynman diagrams at multiloop order,"  Can. J. Phys. 89, 1149 (2011).
  2. A. Y. Shiekh, "Operator regularization of Feynman diagrams at one-loop order,"  Can. J. Phys. 89, 289 (2011).
  3. Arif Akhundov and Anwar Shiekh, "A Review of leading quantum gravitational corrections to Newtonian gravity," Electr. J. Theor. Phys. 5 (17), 1 (2008).
  4. A. Y. Shiekh, " The Quantum Interference Computer: Error Correction and an Experimental Proposal," Int. J. Theor. Phys. 47, 2176 (2008).
  5. A. Y. Shiekh, " The Role of Quantum Interference in Quantum Computing," Int. J. Theor. Phys. 45, 1646, (2006).
  6. A. Akhundov, S. Bellucci, A. Shiekh, "Gravitational interaction to one loop in effective quantum gravity," Phys. Lett. B, 395, 16 (1997).
  7. S.Bellucci, A.Shiekh, "Gravity quantized (the high tension string)," Invited presentation published in the Proceedings of the XX Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory, Eds I.V. Filimonova and V.A. Petrov (1997).
  8. A. Y. Shiekh, "Can the equivalence principle survive quantization?" Invited plenary talk at the International Workshop on AntiMatter, Gravity and AntiHydrogen Spectroscopy, Molise, Italy, May 1996. Published in Hyperfine Interactions 109, 105 (1997).
  9. A. Y. Shiekh, "Is there really no quantum form of Einstein gravity?" Invited plenary review at the XIX International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory, Protvino, Russia, June 1996. Eds. V.A. Petrov, A.P. Samokhin and R.N. Rogalyov (Published in the proceedings, page 171-) (1996).
  10. A. Y. Shiekh, "Quantizing orthodox gravity," Can. J. Phys. 74, 172 (1996).
  11. A. Y. Shiekh, "Quantum Canonical Transformations. Consistent quantization and the Path Integral." Invited talk at the XVIII International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory, Protvino, Russia, June 1995. Eds. V.A. Petrov, A.P. Samokhin and R.N. Rogalyov (published in the proceedings, page 311-) (1995).
  12. A. Y. Shiekh, "Quantum canonical transformations revisited," J. Math. Phys. 36, 6681 (1995).
  13. A. Y. Shiekh, "The Perturbative Quantization of Gravity." Invited talk at the Poincare conference in Protvino, Summer 1994. Problems in High Energy Physics and Field Theory. Proceedings of the XVII workshop, Eds. A.P Samokhin and G.L. Rcheulishvili. (published in the proceedings, page 156-). preprint (1994).
  14. A. Y. Shiekh, "Finite massless quantum field theory," Can. J. Phys. 70, 463 (1992).
  15. A. Y. Shiekh, "Does nature place a fundamental limit on strength," Can. J. Phys. 70, 458 (1992).
  16. A. Y. Shiekh, "Deriving the Path Integral from the Operator Formalism (a new view on an old problem)." Lectures on Path Integration: Trieste 1991, Eds. H. Cerdeira et al., World Scientific, 1993, p 563- preprint (1993).
  17. A. Y. Shiekh and S. Chakrabarti, "Force on a Charged Particle Orbiting Around a Kerr-Newman Black Hole. Proceedings of the Sixth Marcel Grossmann meeting on General Relativity, Kyoto 1991, Eds. Humitaka Sato and Takashi Nakamura, World Scientific, 1360 (1992). preprint (1992).
  18. S. C. Lee and A. Y. Shiekh, "Information loss down a black hole," Gen. Rev. Grav., 23, 81 (1991).
  19. R. B. Mann, A. Shiekh, and L. Tarasov, "Classical and quantum properties of two-dimensional black holes," Nucl. Phys. B. 341, 134 (1990).

  20. A. Y. Shiekh, "Zeta-function regularization of quantum field theory," Can. J. Phys. 68, 620 (1990).

  21. A. Y. Shiekh, "Deriving the path integral from the operator formalism," Can. J. Phys. 68, 428 (1990).
  22. A. Y. Shiekh, "The trivialization of constraints in quantum theory," J. Math. Phys. 31, 76 (1990).
  23. A. Y. Shiekh, "Canonical transformations in quantum mechanics, (a canonically invariant path integral)," J. Math. Phys. 29, 913 (1988).
  24. A. Y. Shiekh, "Calculation of nonrelativistic scattering of charged scalar particles from a classical Aharonov-Bohm solenoid without an explicit gauge choice: Working within gauge theories without the explicit use of a gauge," Ann. Phys. 166, 299 (1986).

 

Bill Tiernan

       Journal Articles, Preprints and Conference Proceedings.

  1. W. M. Tiernan, N. S. Bingham, and J. C. Combs, "Magnetization and Resistance of Melt-Textured Growth YBCO Near Tc and at Low Magnetic Fields," Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT24) 2005, AIP Conference Proceedings, 459, (2005).  

  2. W. M. Tiernan, "A superconducting persistent current experiment for an undergraduate laboratory," Am. J. Phys. 65, 778 (1997).

  3. W. M. Tiernan and R. B. Hallock, "ac susceptibility near the superconducting transition in polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O7-d , " Phys. Rev. B 49, 9168 (1994) .

  4. W. M. Tiernan, R. Joshi, and R. B. Hallock, "I-V characteristics and the superconducting transition in polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O7-d ,"  Phys. Rev. B 48, 3423 (1993) .

  5. W. M. Tiernan and R. B. Hallock, " Superconducting properties of polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O7-d: Evidence for a gauge glass ," Phys. Rev. B 46, 3688 (1992) .

  6. W. M. Tiernan, R. B. Hallock, J. C. Chien, and B. M. Gong, " Linear Tc depression in Mg-doped YBa2Cu3O7-d ," Phys. Rev. B 44, 4661 (1991) .

  7. W. M. Tiernan and R. B. Hallock, " Temperature- and field-dependent I-V characteristics of an Ag/YBa2Cu3O7-d fiber ," Phys. Rev. B 43, 10508 (1991) .

  8. W.M. Tiernan, J.M. Madsen, R.B. Hallock, James C.W. Chien, B.M. Gong, S.H. Dong and Y.S. Yang, "Transport properties of Ag-YBa2Cu3O7−x fibers prepared by a polymer-metal-complex precursor process," Physica C, 168, 189 (1990).

  9. James C. W. Chien, B. M. Gong and Y. S. Yang, J. M. Madsen, W. M. Tiernan and R. B. Hallock, "YBa2Cu3O7−x prepared by a polymer-metal-complex precursor process: Morphology and superconducting transition properties," Physica C, 165, 279 (1990).

 

Jared Workman

 

       Journal Articles, Preprints and Conference Proceedings.

  1. Jared C. Workman, Eric G. Blackman, and Chuang Ren, "Simulations reveal fast mode shocks in magnetic reconnection outflows," Phys. Plasmas, 18, 092902 (2011).
  2. Brian J. Morsony, Jared C. Workman, Davide Lazzati and Mikhail V. Medvedev, "Jitter radiation images, spectra and light curves from a relativistic spherical blastwave," MNRAS, 392, 1397–1402 (2009).

  3. Jared C. Workman and Philip J. Armitage, " Interaction of the Magnetorotational Instability with Hydrodynamic Turbulence in Accretion Disks," Astrophys. J., 685, 406 (2008).

  4. Jared C. Workman, Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati and Mikhail V. Medvedev , "Jitter radiation in gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows: emission and self-absorption," MNRAS, 386, 199-210 (2008).

  5. Mikhail V. Medvedev, Davide Lazzati, Brian C. Morsony and Jared C. Workman, "Jitter Radiation as a Possible Mechanism for Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Spectra and Light Curves," Astrophys. J., 666, 339 (2007).

Zhong Wu