David C. Roberts

Feynman Fellow
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Email: dcr@lanl.gov
Tel: +1 505 667 6871

Publications

Journal Articles

Book Contributions

Preprints

Induced interaction and crystallization of self-localized impurity fields in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Sergio Rica and David C. Roberts. [arXiv]
Mapping the evolution of scientific ideas.
Mark Herrera, David C. Roberts, Natali Gulbahce. [arXiv]
Drag force on an impurity below the superfluid critical velocity in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate.
Andrew G. Sykes, Matthew J. Davis, David C. Roberts. [arXiv]
Predicting individual drug response in a panel of 104 genotyped and expression- profiled yeast strains.
Douglas M. Ruderfer, David C. Roberts, Ethan O. Perlstein, Stuart L. Schreiber and Leonid Kruglyak.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

When superfluids are a drag.
David C. Roberts. Accepted to Contemporary Physics.
Impurity crystal in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
David C. Roberts and Sergio Rica. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 025301 (2009). [arXiv]
A linear path toward synchronization: Anomalous scaling in a new class of exactly solvable Kuramoto models.
David C. Roberts and Razvan Teodorescu. Eur. Phys. J. S. T. 165, 103-109 (2008). [arXiv]
On the hydrodynamic boundary condition for superfluid flow.
Yves Pomeau and David C. Roberts Phys. Rev. B 77, 144508 (2008). [arXiv]
A linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model of self-synchronizing coupled oscillators.
David C. Roberts Phys. Rev. E 77, 031114 (2008). [arXiv]
- Selected for publication in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research Vol. 15, Issue 6 (2008)
Genetic basis of individual differences in the response to small molecule drugs.
Ethan O. Perlstein, Douglas M. Ruderfer, David C. Roberts, Stuart L. Schreiber and Leonid Kruglyak. Nature Genetics, 39, 496 (2007).
Finite-time collapse of N classical fields described by coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
David C. Roberts and Alan C. Newell. Phys. Rev. E. 74, 047602 (2006). [arXiv]
Force on a moving point impurity due to quantum fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
David C. Roberts Phys. Rev. A. 74, 013613 (2006). [arXiv]
Stability analysis for n-component Bose-Einstein condensate.
David C. Roberts and Masahito Ueda. Phys. Rev. A. 73, 053611 (2006). [arXiv]
Probing temperature and damping rates in Bose-Einstein condensates through dephasing in electromagnetically induced transparency conditions.
David C. Roberts Phys. Rev. A. 72, 065602 (2005). [arXiv]
Casimir-like force arising from quantum fluctuations in a slow-moving dilute Bose-Einstein condensate.
David C. Roberts and Yves Pomeau. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 145303 (2005). [arXiv]
Probing states in the Mott insulator regime in the case of coherent bosons trapped in an optical lattice.
David C. Roberts and Keith Burnett. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 150401 (2003). [arXiv]
Limitations of light delay and storage times in EIT experiments with condensates.
David C. Roberts, Thomas Gasenzer and Keith Burnett. Phys. Rev. A. 66, 023801 (2002). [arXiv]
Exciting relative number squeezed particles from condensates using stimulated light scattering.
David C. Roberts, Thomas Gasenzer and Keith Burnett. J. Phys. B. 35, L113 (2002). [arXiv]
Limitations of entanglement between photons and atoms coupled out from a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Thomas Gasenzer, David C. Roberts and Keith Burnett. Phys. Rev. A. 65, 021605 (R) (2002). [arXiv]
A solution to the graceful exit problem in pre-big bang cosmology.
George F.R. Ellis, David C. Roberts, Deon Solomons and Peter Dunsby. Phys. Rev. D, 62 (8), 084004 (2000). [arXiv]
The metagalactic ionizing radiation at low redshift.
J. Michael Shull, David C. Roberts, Mark Giroux and Steven Penton. Astron. Journal, 118, 1450 (1999). [arXiv]
Catastrophic resurfacing and episodic subduction of Venus.
Donald L. Turcotte, Gleb Morein, David C. Roberts and Bruce Malamud. Icarus, 139, 49 (1999).
Fractality and self-organized criticality of wars.
David C. Roberts and Donald L. Turcotte. Fractals, 6, n. 4, 351-357 (1998).


Peer-reviewed Book Contributions

A linear path towards self-synchronization: Analysis of the fully locked transition of the Kuramoto model.
David C. Roberts and Razvan Teodorescu. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization INDS'08. Kyandoghere Kyamakya, ed. (Shaker Verlag, Germany), 2008, pp. 184-187.
Casimir Friction I: Friction of the vacuum on a spinning dielectric.
Yves Pomeau. and David C. Roberts Modern Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (MEMPhys). Irina Aref'eva and Daniel Sternheimer, eds. (Springer Verlag, Germany). To appear in 2009. [arXiv]
Casimir Friction II: Casimir effect and drag in zero temperature superfluids.
David C. Roberts and Yves Pomeau. Modern Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (MEMPhys). Irina Aref'eva and Daniel Sternheimer, eds.. (Springer Verlag, Germany). To appear in 2009. [arXiv]
Earthquakes: friction or a plastic instability?
David C. Roberts and Donald L. Turcotte. Geocomplexity and the physics of earthquakes. J.B. Rundle, D.L. Turcotte, and W. Klein., eds. (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC), 2000, pp. 97-103.