AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY



Physical Review D – 15 March 2004
(Volume 69, Issue 6)



Rapid Communication
Possibility of a dynamical Higgs mechanism and of the respective phase transition induced by a boundary
A. N. Sissakian, O. Yu. Shevchenko, and V. N. Samoilov
Published 18 March 2004 (5 pages)
061701 [View   PDF (171 kB)  ]


Solar constraints on new couplings between electromagnetism and gravity
S. K. Solanki, O. Preuss, M. P. Haugan, A. Gandorfer, H. P. Povel, P. Steiner, K. Stucki, P. N. Bernasconi, and D. Soltau
Published 11 March 2004 (11 pages)
062001 [View   PDF (502 kB)  ]

Deflection of light and particles by moving gravitational lenses
Olaf Wucknitz and Ulrich Sperhake
Published 12 March 2004 (13 pages)
063001 [View   PDF (126 kB)  ]

CMB polarization from secondary vector and tensor modes
Silvia Mollerach, Diego Harari, and Sabino Matarrese
Published 12 March 2004 (11 pages)
063002 [View   PDF (134 kB)  ]

Gamma-ray bursts and magnetars as possible sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays: Correlation of cosmic ray event positions with IRAS galaxies
Shwetabh Singh, Chung-Pei Ma, and Jonathan Arons
Published 15 March 2004 (11 pages)
063003 [View   PDF (135 kB)  ]

Strong field limit analysis of gravitational retrolensing
Ernesto F. Eiroa and Diego F. Torres
Published 15 March 2004 (6 pages)
063004 [View   PDF (119 kB)  ]

CMBFIT: Rapid WMAP likelihood calculations with normal parameters
Håvard B. Sandvik, Max Tegmark, Xiaomin Wang, and Matias Zaldarriaga
Published 18 March 2004 (11 pages)
063005 [View   PDF (1265 kB)  ]

Cosmic microwave background and helical magnetic fields: The tensor mode
Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer, and Tina Kahniashvili
Published 24 March 2004 (20 pages)
063006 [View   PDF (800 kB)  ]

Search for non-Gaussianity in pixel, harmonic, and wavelet space: Compared and combined
Paolo Cabella, Frode Hansen, Domenico Marinucci, Daniele Pagano, and Nicola Vittorio
Published 25 March 2004 (11 pages)
063007 [View   PDF (674 kB)  ]

Neutrino interferometry in curved spacetime
Roland M. Crocker, Carlo Giunti, and Daniel J. Mortlock
Published 25 March 2004 (24 pages)
063008 [View   PDF (222 kB)  ]

Antiprotons in cosmic rays from neutralino annihilation
F. Donato, N. Fornengo, D. Maurin, P. Salati, and R. Taillet
Published 2 March 2004 (19 pages)
063501 [View   PDF (2262 kB)  ]

Inflationary attractor in the braneworld scenario
Zong-Kuan Guo, Hong-Sheng Zhang, and Yuan-Zhong Zhang
Published 5 March 2004 (7 pages)
063502 [View   PDF (156 kB)  ]

Generalized analysis of the direct weakly interacting massive particle searches
Andriy Kurylov and Marc Kamionkowski
Published 10 March 2004 (12 pages)
063503 [View   PDF (297 kB)  ]

Curvatons in supersymmetric models
Koichi Hamaguchi, Masahiro Kawasaki, Takeo Moroi, and Fuminobu Takahashi
Published 10 March 2004 (18 pages)
063504 [View   PDF (958 kB)  ]

From the production of primordial perturbations to the end of inflation
Michaël Malquarti, Samuel M. Leach, and Andrew R. Liddle
Published 10 March 2004 (6 pages)
063505 [View   PDF (982 kB)  ]

Cosmological variation of the deuteron binding energy, strong interaction, and quark masses from big bang nucleosynthesis
V. F. Dmitriev, V. V. Flambaum, and J. K. Webb
Published 10 March 2004 (9 pages)
063506 [View   PDF (338 kB)  ]

WMAP constraint on the P-term inflationary model
Bin Wang, Chi-Yong Lin, and Elcio Abdalla
Published 12 March 2004 (6 pages)
063507 [View   PDF (196 kB)  ]

WMAP, neutrino degeneracy, and non-Gaussianity constraints on isocurvature perturbations in the curvaton model of inflation
Christopher Gordon and Karim A. Malik
Published 16 March 2004 (7 pages)
063508 [View   PDF (207 kB)  ]

Primordial nuggets survival and QCD pairing
G. Lugones and J. E. Horvath
Published 17 March 2004 (6 pages)
063509 [View   PDF (65 kB)  ]

Two-field Q-ball solutions of supersymmetric hybrid inflation
Matt Broadhead and John McDonald
Published 17 March 2004 (5 pages)
063510 [View   PDF (91 kB)  ]

Forecasting cosmic doomsday from CMB-LSS cross-correlations
Jaume Garriga, Levon Pogosian, and Tanmay Vachaspati
Published 17 March 2004 (11 pages)
063511 [View   PDF (259 kB)  ]

Quintessence from the decay of superheavy dark matter
Houri Ziaeepour
Published 18 March 2004 (10 pages)
063512 [View   PDF (362 kB)  ]

Curvature and isocurvature perturbations in a three-fluid model of curvaton decay
Sujata Gupta, Karim A. Malik, and David Wands
Published 24 March 2004 (11 pages)
063513 [View   PDF (121 kB)  ]

Kasner and mixmaster behavior in universes with equation of state w>~1
Joel K. Erickson, Daniel H. Wesley, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Neil Turok
Published 24 March 2004 (11 pages)
063514 [View   PDF (174 kB)  ]

Large-scale power in the CMB and new physics: An analysis using Bayesian model comparison
Anastasia Niarchou, Andrew H. Jaffe, and Levon Pogosian
Published 24 March 2004 (6 pages)
063515 [View   PDF (85 kB)  ]

Significance of the largest scale CMB fluctuations in WMAP
Angélica de Oliveira-Costa, Max Tegmark, Matias Zaldarriaga, and Andrew Hamilton
Published 25 March 2004 (12 pages)
063516 [View   PDF (656 kB)  ]

Age constraints and fine tuning in variable-mass particle models
Urbano França and Rogerio Rosenfeld
Published 25 March 2004 (6 pages)
063517 [View   PDF (303 kB)  ]

Criterion for bubble formation in a de Sitter universe
V. Balek and M. Demetrian
Published 25 March 2004 (6 pages)
063518 [View   PDF (116 kB)  ]

Boundary inflation in the moduli space approximation
P. R. Ashcroft, C. van de Bruck, and A.-C. Davis
Published 26 March 2004 (12 pages)
063519 [View   PDF (651 kB)  ]

High order correlation functions for a self-interacting scalar field in de Sitter space
Francis Bernardeau, Tristan Brunier, and Jean-Philippe Uzan
Published 26 March 2004 (6 pages)
063520 [View   PDF (74 kB)  ]

Dark energy equation of state and anthropic selection
Jaume Garriga, Andrei Linde, and Alexander Vilenkin
Published 29 March 2004 (12 pages)
063521 [View   PDF (452 kB)  ]

Axion phantom energy
Pedro F. González-Díaz
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
063522 [View   PDF (62 kB)  ]

Equatorial circular orbits in the Kerr–de Sitter spacetimes
Zdeněk Stuchlík and Petr Slaný
Published 1 March 2004 (21 pages)
064001 [View   PDF (786 kB)  ]

Quantum states, thermodynamic limits, and entropy in M theory
M. C. Abdalla, A. A. Bytsenko, and M. E. Guimarães
Published 1 March 2004 (6 pages)
064002 [View   PDF (89 kB)  ]

Kaluza-Klein structure associated with a fat brane
Pham Quang Hung and Ngoc-Khanh Tran
Published 4 March 2004 (14 pages)
064003 [View   PDF (173 kB)  ]

Effective action and brane running
Iver Brevik, Kazuo Ghoroku, and Masanobu Yahiro
Published 5 March 2004 (8 pages)
064004 [View   PDF (90 kB)  ]

Static post-Newtonian equivalence of general relativity and gravity with a dynamical preferred frame
Christopher Eling and Ted Jacobson
Published 8 March 2004 (6 pages)
064005 [View   PDF (60 kB)  ]

Notes on spacetime thermodynamics and the observer dependence of entropy
Donald Marolf, Djordje Minic, and Simon F. Ross
Published 10 March 2004 (7 pages)
064006 [View   PDF (75 kB)  ]

Gödel brane
John D. Barrow and Christos G. Tsagas
Published 10 March 2004 (6 pages)
064007 [View   PDF (56 kB)  ]

Quantum inequalities for the free Rarita-Schwinger fields in flat spacetime
Hongwei Yu and Puxun Wu
Published 12 March 2004 (7 pages)
064008 [View   PDF (72 kB)  ]

Two-dimensional metric-affine gravity
Yuri N. Obukhov
Published 12 March 2004 (6 pages)
064009 [View   PDF (61 kB)  ]

Black hole initial data from a nonconformal decomposition
Nigel T. Bishop, Florian Beyer, and Michael Koppitz
Published 16 March 2004 (5 pages)
064010 [View   PDF (83 kB)  ]

Do rotations beyond the cosmological horizon affect the local inertial frame?
Jiří Bičák, Donald Lynden-Bell, and Joseph Katz
Published 17 March 2004 (12 pages)
064011 [View   PDF (141 kB)  ]

Toroidal perturbations of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes
Jiří Bičák, Donald Lynden-Bell, and Joseph Katz
Published 17 March 2004 (13 pages)
064012 [View   PDF (169 kB)  ]

Thermodynamics and area in Minkowski space: Heat capacity of entanglement
Ram Brustein and Amos Yarom
Published 17 March 2004 (8 pages)
064013 [View   PDF (97 kB)  ]

Periodic self-similar wave maps coupled to gravity
Piotr Bizoń, Sebastian J. Szybka, and Arthur Wasserman
Published 17 March 2004 (6 pages)
064014 [View   PDF (94 kB)  ]

Rotating perfect fluids in (2+1)-dimensional Einstein gravity
Mauricio Cataldo
Published 17 March 2004 (8 pages)
064015 [View   PDF (83 kB)  ]

Black holes in de Sitter space: Masses, energies, and entropy bounds
Alejandro Corichi and Andres Gomberoff
Published 17 March 2004 (15 pages)
064016 [View   PDF (150 kB)  ]

Exact gravitational lens equation in spherically symmetric and static spacetimes
Volker Perlick
Published 17 March 2004 (10 pages)
064017 [View   PDF (319 kB)  ]

Minkowski vacuum in background independent quantum gravity
Florian Conrady, Luisa Doplicher, Robert Oeckl, Carlo Rovelli, and Massimo Testa
Published 18 March 2004 (7 pages)
064019 [View   PDF (87 kB)  ]

Vacuum solutions of the gravitational field equations in the brane world model
T. Harko and M. K. Mak
Published 18 March 2004 (11 pages)
064020 [View   PDF (103 kB)  ]

Observer dependence for the phonon content of the sound field living on the effective curved space-time background of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer
Published 22 March 2004 (9 pages)
064021 [View   PDF (167 kB)  ]

Small brane black holes in the Randall-Sundrum type I scenario
D. Karasik, C. Sahabandu, P. Suranyi, and L. C. Wijewardhana
Published 22 March 2004 (11 pages)
064022 [View   PDF (116 kB)  ]

Holography: 2D or not 2D?
A.J.M. Medved
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
064023 [View   PDF (42 kB)  ]

Magnetic branes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity
M. H. Dehghani
Published 22 March 2004 (8 pages)
064024 [View   PDF (88 kB)  ]

Numerical analysis of quasinormal modes in nearly extremal Schwarzschild–de Sitter spacetimes
Shijun Yoshida and Toshifumi Futamase
Published 24 March 2004 (7 pages)
064025 [View   PDF (91 kB)  ]

Towards a realistic neutron star binary inspiral: Initial data and multiple orbit evolution in full general relativity
Mark Miller, Philip Gressman, and Wai-Mo Suen
Published 25 March 2004 (21 pages)
064026 [View   PDF (301 kB)  ]

Role of initial data in spherical collapse
Pankaj S. Joshi and Rituparno Goswami
Published 25 March 2004 (5 pages)
064027 [View   PDF (58 kB)  ]

Rotating dilaton black holes with hair
Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz, and Francisco Navarro-Lérida
Published 25 March 2004 (30 pages)
064028 [View   PDF (408 kB)  ]

Scaling solution, radion stabilization, and initial condition for brane-world cosmology
Shinji Mukohyama and Alan Coley
Published 25 March 2004 (13 pages)
064029 [View   PDF (126 kB)  ]

Palatini approach to Born-Infeld-Einstein theory and a geometric description of electrodynamics
Dan N. Vollick
Published 25 March 2004 (6 pages)
064030 [View   PDF (64 kB)  ]

Caged black holes: Black holes in compactified spacetimes. I. Theory
Barak Kol, Evgeny Sorkin, and Tsvi Piran
Published 25 March 2004 (12 pages)
064031 [View   PDF (124 kB)  ]

Caged black holes: Black holes in compactified spacetimes. II. 5D numerical implementation
Evgeny Sorkin, Barak Kol, and Tsvi Piran
Published 25 March 2004 (23 pages)
064032 [View   PDF (2107 kB)  ]

Quasinormal modes in Schwarzschild–de Sitter spacetime: A simple derivation of the level spacing of the frequencies
T. Roy Choudhury and T. Padmanabhan
Published 25 March 2004 (9 pages)
064033 [View   PDF (89 kB)  ]

Ultrarelativistic black hole in an external electromagnetic field and gravitational waves in the Melvin universe
Marcello Ortaggio
Published 26 March 2004 (11 pages)
064034 [View   PDF (110 kB)  ]

Massive-field approach to the scalar self-force in curved spacetime
Eran Rosenthal
Published 26 March 2004 (11 pages)
064035 [View   PDF (132 kB)  ]

Symmetry-breaking mechanism for the Z4 general-covariant evolution system
C. Bona, T. Ledvinka, C. Palenzuela, and M. Žáček
Published 26 March 2004 (11 pages)
064036 [View   PDF (123 kB)  ]

Bulk inflaton shadows of vacuum gravity
Tsutomu Kobayashi and Takahiro Tanaka
Published 26 March 2004 (16 pages)
064037 [View   PDF (289 kB)  ]

Metric perturbation approach to gravitational waves in isotropic cosmologies
E. M. O’Shea
Published 26 March 2004 (15 pages)
064038 [View   PDF (156 kB)  ]

Radiation reaction in Schwarzschild spacetime: Retarded Green’s function via Hadamard-WKB expansion
Paul R. Anderson and B. L. Hu
Published 29 March 2004 (7 pages)
064039 [View   PDF (74 kB)   See Also: Erratum]

Cosmological tensor perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum model: Evolution in the near-brane limit
Richard A. Battye, Carsten van de Bruck, and Andrew Mennim
Published 29 March 2004 (14 pages)
064040 [View   PDF (138 kB)  ]

Effective potential and spontaneous symmetry breaking in the noncommutative φ6 model
G. D. Barbosa
Published 2 March 2004 (8 pages)
065001 [View   PDF (97 kB)  ]

Harmonic oscillator force between heavy quarks
Stanisław D. Głazek
Published 4 March 2004 (23 pages)
065002 [View   PDF (247 kB)  ]

Monopoles in the Higgs phase
David Tong
Published 4 March 2004 (4 pages)
065003 [View   PDF (88 kB)  ]

Operator representation for Matsubara sums
Olivier Espinosa and Edgardo Stockmeyer
Published 10 March 2004 (9 pages)
065004 [View   PDF (171 kB)  ]

Energy loss of a heavy fermion in an anisotropic QED plasma
Paul Romatschke and Michael Strickland
Published 11 March 2004 (13 pages)
065005 [View   PDF (383 kB)  ]

Doubly periodic instantons and their constituents
C. Ford and J. M. Pawlowski
Published 12 March 2004 (12 pages)
065006 [View   PDF (557 kB)  ]

Effective potential for composite operators and for an auxiliary scalar field in a Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
Bang-Rong Zhou
Published 12 March 2004 (6 pages)
065007 [View   PDF (67 kB)  ]

Noncommutative synchrotron
Paolo Castorina, Alfredo Iorio, and Dario Zappalà
Published 16 March 2004 (6 pages)
065008 [View   PDF (75 kB)  ]

Exact scheme independence at two loops
Stefano Arnone, Antonio Gatti, Tim R. Morris, and Oliver J. Rosten
Published 17 March 2004 (13 pages)
065009 [View   PDF (182 kB)  ]

Interaction of a TeV scale black hole with the quark-gluon plasma at CERN LHC
Andrew Chamblin, Fred Cooper, and Gouranga C. Nayak
Published 17 March 2004 (8 pages)
065010 [View   PDF (87 kB)  ]

Dynamical breakdown of symmetry in a (2+1)-dimensional model containing the Chern-Simons field
Alex G. Dias, M. Gomes, and A. J. da Silva
Published 17 March 2004 (10 pages)
065011 [View   PDF (114 kB)  ]

(2+1)-dimensional noncommutative CPN-1 model
E. A. Asano, M. Gomes, A. G. Rodrigues, and A. J. da Silva
Published 22 March 2004 (14 pages)
065012 [View   PDF (154 kB)  ]

Center-vortex baryonic area law
John M. Cornwall
Published 24 March 2004 (6 pages)
065013 [View   PDF (147 kB)  ]

Noncommutative quantum mechanics and Bohm’s ontological interpretation
G. D. Barbosa and N. Pinto-Neto
Published 25 March 2004 (9 pages)
065014 [View   PDF (100 kB)  ]

Casimir force on a piston
R. M. Cavalcanti
Published 25 March 2004 (5 pages)
065015 [View   PDF (59 kB)  ]

Kink-boundary collisions in a two-dimensional scalar field theory
Nuno D. Antunes, Edmund J. Copeland, Mark Hindmarsh, and André Lukas
Published 26 March 2004 (11 pages)
065016 [View   PDF (856 kB)  ]

Kontsevich product and gauge invariance
Ashok Das and Josif Frenkel
Published 26 March 2004 (6 pages)
065017 [View   PDF (64 kB)  ]

Point-to-point description of the bubble wall dynamics in two-vacuum scalar field models
Eugene M. Maslov and Arkadi G. Shagalov
Published 26 March 2004 (9 pages)
065018 [View   PDF (113 kB)  ]

Relativistic center-vortex dynamics of a confining area law
John M. Cornwall
Published 26 March 2004 (15 pages)
065019 [View   PDF (381 kB)  ]

QCD and dimensional deconstruction
D. T. Son and M. A. Stephanov
Published 29 March 2004 (14 pages)
065020 [View   PDF (155 kB)  ]

Superfield formulation of central charge anomalies in two-dimensional supersymmetric theories with solitons
K. Shizuya
Published 29 March 2004 (10 pages)
065021 [View   PDF (119 kB)  ]

Scalar dark matter from theory space
Andreas Birkedal-Hansen and Jay G. Wacker
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
065022 [View   PDF (273 kB)  ]

Global fluctuation spectra in big-crunch–big-bang string vacua
Ben Craps and Burt A. Ovrut
Published 5 March 2004 (29 pages)
066001 [View   PDF (274 kB)  ]

Inflationary cosmologies from compactification?
Mattias N. Wohlfarth
Published 10 March 2004 (10 pages)
066002 [View   PDF (108 kB)  ]

Moduli Kähler potential for M theory on a G2 manifold
André Lukas and Stephen Morris
Published 10 March 2004 (17 pages)
066003 [View   PDF (182 kB)  ]

N=1 geometries for M theory and type IIA strings with fluxes
Gianguido Dall’Agata and Nikolaos Prezas
Published 12 March 2004 (17 pages)
066004 [View   PDF (172 kB)  ]

D-brane dynamics in the c=1 matrix model
Michael Gutperle and Per Kraus
Published 17 March 2004 (10 pages)
066005 [View   PDF (103 kB)  ]

Uniqueness of M-theory pp-wave background with extra supersymmetries
Nobuyoshi Ohta and Makoto Sakaguchi
Published 22 March 2004 (14 pages)
066006 [View   PDF (144 kB)  ]

Chiral symmetry breaking and pions in nonsupersymmetric gauge/gravity duals
J. Babington, J. Erdmenger, N. Evans, Z. Guralnik, and I. Kirsch
Published 24 March 2004 (13 pages)
066007 [View   PDF (585 kB)  ]

Experiment for measuring the post-Maxwellian parameters of nonlinear electrodynamics of vacuum with laser-interferometer techniques
Victor I. Denisov, Igor V. Krivchenkov, and Nikolay V. Kravtsov
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
066008 [View   PDF (39 kB)  ]

Anti–de Sitter vacua require fermionic brane charges
Kasper Peeters and Marija Zamaklar
Published 25 March 2004 (5 pages)
066009 [View   PDF (62 kB)  ]

Classical and quantum strings in compactified pp waves and Gödel type universes
Daniel Brace, Carlos A. Herdeiro, and Shinji Hirano
Published 31 March 2004 (21 pages)
066010 [View   PDF (221 kB)  ]


Thermal instability of the giant graviton in a matrix model on a pp-wave background
Wung-Hong Huang
Published 11 March 2004 (4 pages)
067701 [View   PDF (48 kB)  ]

New results for deformed defects
C. A. Almeida, D. Bazeia, L. Losano, and J. M. Malbouisson
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
067702 [View   PDF (61 kB)  ]

Analytical solution of the Gross-Neveu model at finite density
Michael Thies
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
067703 [View   PDF (55 kB)  ]