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2011
Challenges in Continuum Modelling of Intergranular Fracture, Coffman, V. R., Sethna J. P., Ingraffea A. R., Bozek J. E., Bailey N. P., and Barker E. I. , Strain, (2011)
Comment on "Sloppy models, parameter uncertainty, and the role of experimental design", Chachra, Ricky, Transtrum Mark K., and Sethna James P. , Mol. BioSyst., p.-, (2011)
Discussion on the Paper "Riemannian manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods" by Girolami and Calderhead, Transtrum, Mark K., Chen Yanjiun, Machta Benjamin B., Sethna James P., and Gutenkunst Ryan , J. Royal Stat. Soc., Volume 73, p.199, (2011)
Nucleation at the DNA supercoiling transition, Daniels, Bryan C., and Sethna James P. , Phys. Rev. E, Apr, Volume 83, Number 4, p.041924, (2011)
Superheating field of superconductors within Ginzburg-Landau theory, Transtrum, Mark K., Catelani Gianluigi, and Sethna James P. , Phys. Rev. B, Mar, Volume 83, Number 9, p.094505, (2011)
Universality beyond power laws and the average avalanche shape, Papanikolaou, Stefanos, Bohn Felipe, Sommer Rubem Luis, Durin Gianfranco, Zapperi Stefano, and Sethna James P. , Nature Physics, Volume 7, p.316-320, (2011)
2010
Bending crystals: the evolution of grain boundaries and fractal dislocation structures, Chen, Yong S., Choi Woosong, Papanikolaou Stefanos, and Sethna James P. , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 105, p.105501, (2010)
Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high-T$_c$ copper-oxide pseudogap states, Lawler, Michael J., Fujita K., Lee Jhinhwan, Schmidt A. R., Kohsaka Y., Kim Chung Koo, Eisaki H., Uchida S., Davis J. C., Sethna James P., et al. , Nature, Volume 466, p.347-351, (2010)
Why are nonlinear fits to data so challenging?, Transtrum, Mark K., Machta Benjamin B., and Sethna James P. , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 104, p.060201, (2010)
2009
Discontinuities at the DNA supercoiling transition, Daniels, B., Forth S., Sheinin M. Y., Wang M. D., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E Rapid Communications, Volume 80, Number 4, p.040901, (2009)
Visualization of avalanches in magnetic thin films: temporal processing, Magni, Alessandro, Durin Gianfranco, Zapperi Stefano, and Sethna James P. , Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Volume 2009, Number 01, p.P01020, (2009)
2008
Anomalous conductance oscillations and half-metallicity in atomic Ag-O chains, Strange, M., Thygesen K. S., Sethna J. P., and Jacobsen K. W. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 101, p.096804, (2008)
A comparison of finite element and atomistic modelling of fracture, Coffman, V. R., Sethna J. P., Heber G., Liu M., Ingraffea A., Bailey N. P., and Barker E. I. , Modelling And Simulation In Materials Science And Engineering, Volume 16, p.065008, (2008)
Grain boundary energies and cohesive strength as a function of geometry, Coffman, V. R., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 77, p.144111, (2008)
Shocks and slip systems: Predictions from a mesoscale theory of continuum dislocation dynamics, Limkumnerd, S., and Sethna J. P. , Journal Of The Mechanics And Physics Of Solids, Volume 56, p.1450-1459, (2008)
Sloppiness, robustness, and evolvability in systems biology, Daniels, B. C., Chen Y. J., Sethna J. P., Gutenkunst R. N., and Myers C. R. , Current Opinion In Biotechnology, Volume 19, p.389-395, (2008)
Temperature dependence of the superheating field for superconductors in the high-kappa London limit, Catelani, G., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 78, p.224509, (2008)
Variational method for estimating the rate of convergence of Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithms, Casey, F. P., Waterfall J. J., Gutenkunst R. N., Myers C. R., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E, Volume 78, p.190–202, (2008)
2007
Crackling wires, Sethna, J. P. , Science (Perspective), Volume 318, p.207-208, (2007)
Extracting falsifiable predictions from sloppy models, Gutenkunst, R. N., Casey F. P., Waterfall J. J., Myers C. R., and Sethna J. P. , Reverse Engineering Biological Networks, Volume 1115, p.203-211, (2007)
Optimal experimental design in an epidermal growth factor receptor signalling and down-regulation model, Casey, F. P., Baird D., Feng Q., Gutenkunst R. N., Waterfall J. J., Myers C. R., Brown K. S., Cerione R. A., and Sethna J. P. , Iet Systems Biology, Volume 1, p.190-202, (2007)
Phonons and conduction in molecular quantum dots: Density functional calculations of Franck-Condon emission rates for bifullerenes in external fields, Chang, C. T. C., Sethna J. P., Pasupathy A. N., Park J., Ralph D. C., and McEuen P. L. , Physical Review B, Volume 76, p.045435, (2007)
Python for education - Computational methods for nonlinear systems, Myers, C. R., and Sethna J. P. , Computing In Science & Engineering, Volume 9, p.75-79, (2007)
Python unleashed on systems biology, Myers, C. R., Gutenkunst R. N., and Sethna J. P. , Computing In Science & Engineering, Volume 9, p.34-37, (2007)
Statistical mechanics - Crackling crossover, Sethna, J. P. , Nature Physics (News and Views), Volume 3, p.518-519, (2007)
Stress-free states of continuum dislocation fields: Rotations, grain boundaries, and the Nye dislocation density tensor, Limkumnerd, S., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 75, p.224121, (2007)
Universally sloppy parameter sensitivities in systems biology models, Gutenkunst, R. N., Waterfall J. J., Casey F. P., Brown K. S., Myers C. R., and Sethna J. P. , P{L}o{S} Computational Biology, Volume 3, p.1871-1878, (2007)
2006
Mesoscale theory of grains and cells: Crystal plasticity and coarsening, Limkumnerd, S., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 96, p.095503, (2006)
Sloppy-model universality class and the Vandermonde matrix, Waterfall, J. J., Casey F. P., Gutenkunst R. N., Brown K. S., Myers C. R., Brouwer P. W., Elser V., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 97, p.150601, (2006)
2005
Bayesian error estimation in density-functional theory, Mortensen, J. J., Kaasbjerg K., Frederiksen S. L., Norskov J. K., Sethna J. P., and Jacobsen K. W. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 95, p.216401, (2005)
Vibration-assisted electron tunneling in C-140 transistors, Pasupathy, A. N., Park J., Chang C., Soldatov A. V., Lebedkin S., Bialczak R. C., Grose J. E., Donev L. A. K., Sethna J. P., Ralph D. C., et al. , Nano Letters, Volume 5, p.203-207, (2005)
2004
Bayesian ensemble approach to error estimation of interatomic potentials, Frederiksen, S. L., Jacobsen K. W., Brown K. S., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 93, p.216401, (2004)
Continuum mesoscale theory inspired by plasticity, Sethna, J. P., Rauscher M., and Bouchaud J. P. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 65, p.665-670, (2004)
A genome-wide model for translation in E-coli with statistical ensemble approaches for data fitting, Shaw, L. B., Sethna J. P., Brown K. S., and Lee K. H. , Biophysical Journal, Volume 86, p.316A-316A, (2004)
Mean-field approaches to the totally asymmetric exclusion process with quenched disorder and large particles, Shaw, L. B., Sethna J. P., and Lee K. H. , Physical Review E, Volume 70, p.021901, (2004)
The statistical mechanics of complex signaling networks: nerve growth factor signaling, Brown, K. S., Hill C. C., Calero G. A., Myers C. R., Lee K. H., Sethna J. P., and Cerione R. A. , Physical Biology, Volume 1, p.184-195, (2004)
2003
Macroscopic measure of the cohesive length scale: Fracture of notched single-crystal silicon, Bailey, N. P., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 68, p.205204, (2003)
Scaling in plasticity-induced cell-boundary microstructure: Fragmentation and rotational diffusion, Sethna, J. P., Coffman V. R., and Demler E. , Physical Review B, Volume 67, p.184107, (2003)
Statistical mechanical approaches to models with many poorly known parameters, Brown, K. S., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E, Volume 68, p.021904, (2003)
Wiring up single molecules, Park, J. W., Pasupathy A. N., Goldsmith J. I., Soldatov A. V., Chang C., Yaish Y., Sethna J. P., Abruna H. D., Ralph D. C., and McEuen P. L. , Thin Solid Films, Volume 438, p.457-461, (2003)
2002
Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in single-atom transistors, Park, J., Pasupathy A. N., Goldsmith J. I., Chang C., Yaish Y., Petta J. R., Rinkoski M., Sethna J. P., Abruna H. D., McEuen P. L., et al. , Nature, Volume 417, p.722-725, (2002)
Enhanced mesoscopic fluctuations in the crossover between random-matrix ensembles, Adam, S., Brouwer P. W., Sethna J. P., and Waintal X. , Physical Review B, Volume 66, p.165310, (2002)
Fracture in mode I using a conserved phase-field model, Eastgate, L. O., Sethna J. P., Rauscher M., Cretegny T., Chen C. S., and Myers C. R. , Physical Review E, Volume 65, p.036117, (2002)
Integrated approaches to signal transduction: PC12 differentiation, Brown, K. S., Hill C. C., Calero G. A., Lee K. H., Cerione R. A., and Sethna J. P. , Biophysical Journal, Volume 82, p.1067, (2002)
Kinetic Monte Carlo-molecular dynamics investigations of hyperthermal copper deposition on Cu(111), Pomeroy, J. M., Jacobsen J., Hill C. C., Cooper B. H., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 66, p.235412, (2002)
Universal pulse shape scaling function and exponents: Critical test for avalanche models applied to Barkhausen noise, Mehta, A. P., Mills A. C., Dahmen K. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E, Volume 65, p.046139, (2002)
2001
Calculation of quantum tunneling for a spatially extended defect: The dislocation kink in copper has a low effective mass, Vegge, T., Sethna J. P., Cheong S. A., Jacobsen K. W., Myers C. R., and Ralph D. C. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 86, p.1546-1549, (2001)
Dislocation mobility in two-dimensional Lennard-Jones material, Bailey, N. P., Sethna J. P., and Myers C. R. , Materials Science And Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure And Processing, Volume 309, p.152-155, (2001)
Hysteresis and avalanches: phase transitions and critical phenomena in driven disordered systems, Dahmen, K. A., Sethna J. P., Kuntz M. C., and Perkovic O. , Journal Of Magnetism And Magnetic Materials, Volume 226, p.1287-1292, (2001)
Software methodologies for multiscale descriptions of defects, deformation and fracture, Myers, CR, Cretegny T., Bailey NP, Chen CS, Dolgert AJ, Eastgate LO, Iesulauro E., Ingraffea AR, Rauscher M., and Sethna JP , Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Fracture, (2001)
Subloops, Barkhausen noise, and disorder induced critical behavior, Carpenter, J. H., Dahmen K. A., Sethna J. P., Friedman G., Loverde S., and Vanderveld A. , Journal Of Applied Physics, Volume 89, p.6799-6801, (2001)
2000
Hysteresis, Barkhausen noise, and disorder induced critical behavior, Dahmen, K. A., Sethna J. P., and Perkovic O. , IEEE Transactions On Magnetics, Volume 36, p.3150-3154, (2000)
Noise in disordered systems: The power spectrum and dynamic exponents in avalanche models, Kuntz, M. C., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 62, p.11699-11708, (2000)
1999
Disorder-induced critical phenomena in hysteresis: Numerical scaling in three and higher dimensions, Perkovic, O., Dahmen K. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 59, p.6106-6119, (1999)
Hysteresis, avalanches, and noise, Kuntz, M. C., Perkovic O., Dahmen K. A., Roberts B. W., and Sethna J. P. , Computing In Science & Engineering, Volume 1, p.73-81, (1999)
1998
Multicanonical methods, molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo methods: Comparison for Lennard-Jones glasses, Bhattacharya, K. K., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E, Volume 57, p.2553-2562, (1998)
Pulsed sputtering during homoepitaxial surface growth: layer-by-layer forever, Jacobsen, J., and Sethna J. P. , Surface Science, Volume 411, p.L858-L863, (1998)
Simulations of energetic beam deposition: From picoseconds to seconds, Jacobsen, J., Cooper BH, and Sethna J.P. , Physical Review B, Volume 58, Number 23, p.15847–15865, (1998)
1997
Decay of isolated surface features driven by the Gibbs-Thomson effect in an analytic model and a simulation, McLean, J. G., Krishnamachari B., Peale D. R., Chason E., Sethna J. P., and Cooper B. H. , Physical Review B, Volume 55, p.1811-1823, (1997)
Decay of isolated surface features driven by the Gibbs-Thomson effect., McLean, J. G., Krishnamachari B., Peale D. R., Chason E., Sethna J. P., and Cooper B. H. , Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society, Volume 213, p.471-PHYS, (1997)
Improved magnetic information storage using return-point memory, Perkovic, O., and Sethna J. P. , Journal Of Applied Physics, Volume 81, p.1590-1597, (1997)
Rate theory for correlated processes: Double jumps in adatom diffusion, Jacobsen, J., Jacobsen K. W., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 79, p.2843-2846, (1997)
Statistical mechanics of cracks: Fluctuations, breakdown, and asymptotics of elastic theory, Buchel, A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E, Volume 55, p.7669-7690, (1997)
Zero-temperature hysteresis in the random-field Ising model on a Bethe lattice, Dhar, D., Shukla P., and Sethna J. P. , Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And General, Volume 30, p.5259-5267, (1997)
1996
Acoustic emission from crumpling paper, Houle, P. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review E, Volume 54, p.278-283, (1996)
A bound on the decay of defect-defect correlation functions in two-dimensional complex order parameter equations, Roberts, B. W., Bodenschatz E., and Sethna J. P. , Physica D, Volume 99, p.252-268, (1996)
Elastic theory has zero radius of convergence, Buchel, A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 77, p.1520-1523, (1996)
A generalization of the theory of normal forms, Warner, W. H., Sethna P. R., and Sethna J. P. , Journal Of Nonlinear Science, Volume 6, p.499-506, (1996)
Hysteresis, avalanches, and disorder-induced critical scaling: A renormalization-group approach, Dahmen, K., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 53, p.14872-14905, (1996)
1995
Atomic tunneling from a scanning-tunneling or atomic-force microscope tip - dissipative quantum effects from phonons, Louis, A. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 74, p.1363-1366, (1995)
Avalanches, Barkhausen noise, and plain old criticality, Perkovic, O., Dahmen K., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 75, p.4528-4531, (1995)
Disorder-driven pretransitional tweed pattern in martensitic transformations, Kartha, S., Krumhansl J. A., Sethna J. P., and Wickham L. K. , Physical Review B, Volume 52, p.803-822, (1995)
Fast domain growth through density-dependent diffusion in a driven lattice-gas, Wickham, L. K., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 51, p.15017-15026, (1995)
1994
Disorder-driven 1st-order phase-transformations - a model for hysteresis, Dahmen, K., Kartha S., Krumhansl J. A., Roberts B. W., Sethna J. P., and Shore J. D. , Journal Of Applied Physics, Volume 75, p.5946-5948, (1994)
Melting a copper cluster - critical-droplet theory, Nielsen, O. H., Sethna J. P., Stoltze P., Jacobsen K. W., and Norskov J. K. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 26, p.51-56, (1994)
Spin-flip avalanches and dynamics of 1st-order phase-transitions - reply, Sethna, J. P., Dahmen K., Kartha S., Krumhansl J. A., Perkovic O., Roberts B. W., and Shore J. D. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 72, p.947-947, (1994)
1993
Collective Dynamics of Sliding Charge Density Waves: I. Critical Behavior, Myers, Christopher R., and Sethna James P. , Physical Review B, Volume 47, p.11171, (1993)
Collective Dynamics of Sliding Charge Density Waves: II. Finite Size Effects, Myers, Christopher R., and Sethna James P. , Physical Review B, Volume 47, p.11194, (1993)
Derivation of a general 3-dimensional crack-propagation law - a generalization of the principle of local symmetry, Hodgdon, J. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 47, p.4831-4840, (1993)
Erratum: Scaling theory for the glass-transition (vol 44, pg 4943, 1991), Sethna, J. P., Shore J. D., and Huang M. , Physical Review B, Volume 47, p.14661-14661, (1993)
Hysteresis and hierarchies - dynamics of disorder-driven 1st-order phase-transformations, Sethna, J. P., Dahmen K., Kartha S., Krumhansl J. A., Roberts B. W., and Shore J. D. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 70, p.3347-3350, (1993)
Hysteresis loop critical exponents in 6 - epsilon-dimensions, Dahmen, K., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 71, p.3222-3225, (1993)
Real-space renormalization-group for the random-field Ising-model, Newman, M. E. J., Roberts B. W., Barkema G. T., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 48, p.16533-16538, (1993)
1992
Logarithmically slow domain growth in nonrandomly frustrated systems - Ising-models with competing interactions, Shore, J. D., Holzer M., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 46, p.11376-11404, (1992)
Tweed in martensites - a potential new spin-glass, Sethna, J. P., Kartha S., Castan T., and Krumhansl J. A. , Physica Scripta, Volume T42, p.214-219, (1992)
1991
Evolving numerical enzymes - accelerating relaxation in the Frenkel-Kontorova model, Shumway, S. L., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 67, p.995-998, (1991)
Fock's expansion, Kato's cusp conditions, and the exponential ansatz, Myers, C. R., Umrigar C. J., Sethna J. P., and Morgan J. D. , Physical Review A, Volume 44, p.5537-5546, (1991)
History dependence of a 2-level system, Huang, M., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 43, p.3245-3254, (1991)
Infrared spectroscopic study of the dressed rotations of CN- isotopes in alkali-halide crystals, Mungan, C. E., Spitzer R. C., Sethna J. P., and Sievers A. J. , Physical Review B, Volume 43, p.43-61, (1991)
Model for low-temperature and intermediate-temperature properties of glasses, Sethna, J. P., Grannan E. R., and Randeria M. , Physica B, Volume 169, p.316-321, (1991)
Persistent infrared spectral hole burning of NO2- ions in potassium halide crystals .1. Principle and satellite hole generation, Ambrose, W. P., Sethna J. P., and Sievers A. J. , Journal Of Chemical Physics, Volume 95, p.8816-8842, (1991)
Prediction of logarithmic growth in a quenched Ising-model, Shore, J. D., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 43, p.3782-3785, (1991)
Scaling theory for the glass-transition, Sethna, J. P., Shore J. D., and Huang M. , Physical Review B, Volume 44, p.4943-4959, (1991)
Spin-glass nature of tweed precursors in martensitic transformations, Kartha, S., Castan T., Krumhansl J. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 67, p.3630-3633, (1991)
1990
Bethe lattice spin-glass - the effects of a ferromagnetic bias and external fields .2. Magnetized spin-glass phase and the de almeida-thouless line, Carlson, J. M., Chayes J. T., Sethna J. P., and Thouless D. J. , Journal Of Statistical Physics, Volume 61, p.1069-1084, (1990)
Bethe lattice spin-glass - the effects of a ferromagnetic bias and external fields .1. Bifurcation-analysis, Carlson, J. M., Chayes J. T., Chayes L., Sethna J. P., and Thouless D. J. , Journal Of Statistical Physics, Volume 61, p.987-1067, (1990)
Constrained spin model of phason dynamics in quasi-crystals, Gronlund, L. D., Wright D. C., Sethna J. P., and Rokhsar D. S. , Physical Review B, Volume 42, p.8517-8536, (1990)
Exactly soluble model of fractional statistics, Girvin, S. M., MacDonald A. H., Fisher M. P. A., Rey S. J., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 65, p.1671-1674, (1990)
Low-temperature properties of a model glass .1. Elastic dipole model, Grannan, E. R., Randeria M., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 41, p.7784-7798, (1990)
Low-temperature properties of a model glass .2. Specific-heat and thermal transport, Grannan, E. R., Randeria M., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 41, p.7799-7821, (1990)
1989
Density of states in a vortex core and the zero-bias tunneling peak, Shore, J. D., Huang M., Dorsey A. T., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 62, p.3089-3092, (1989)
Entropy distribution of a 2-level system - an asymptotic analysis, Langer, S. A., Dorsey A. T., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 40, p.345-352, (1989)
Neutral-fermion-soliton statistics in the short-range resonating-valence-bond state - a reevaluation - reply, Kivelson, S. A., Rokhsar D. S., Sethna J. P., and Shore J. D. , Physical Review B, Volume 40, p.7343-7344, (1989)
1988
2e or not 2e - flux-quantization in the resonating valence bond state, Kivelson, S. A., Rokhsar D. S., and Sethna J. P. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 6, p.353-358, (1988)
Critical-behavior of the Bethe lattice spin-glass, Carlson, J. M., Chayes J. T., Chayes L., Sethna J. P., and Thouless D. J. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 5, p.355-360, (1988)
Entropy of glasses, Langer, S. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 61, p.570-573, (1988)
Frustration in modulated phases - ripples and boojums, Carlson, J. M., Langer S. A., and Sethna J. P. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 5, p.327-331, (1988)
Griffiths singularities in the dynamics of disordered Ising-models, Dhar, D., Randeria M., and Sethna J. P. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 5, p.485-490, (1988)
Low-temperature properties of a model glass, Grannan, E. R., Randeria M., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 60, p.1402-1405, (1988)
Phase-diagram for the Bethe lattice spin-glass, Carlson, J. M., Chayes J. T., Chayes L., Sethna J. P., and Thouless D. J. , Journal Of Applied Physics, Volume 63, p.4001-4001, (1988)
Speculations on the glass-transition, Sethna, J. P. , Europhysics Letters, Volume 6, p.529-534, (1988)
1986
On the density of states for the quantum percolation problem, Chayes, J. T., Chayes L., Franz J. R., Sethna J. P., and Trugman S. A. , Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And General, Volume 19, p.L1173-L1177, (1986)
A mean field spin-glass with short-range interactions, Chayes, J. T., Chayes L., Sethna J. P., and Thouless D. J. , Communications In Mathematical Physics, Volume 106, p.41-89, (1986)
Quasi-crystalline textures of cholesteric liquid-crystals - blue phase-iii, Rokhsar, D. S., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 56, p.1727-1730, (1986)
Textures in a chiral smectic liquid-crystal film, Langer, S. A., and Sethna J. P. , Physical Review A, Volume 34, p.5035-5046, (1986)
1985
Explanation for the universal low-temperature and dynamical properties of a particular glass, Meissner, M., Knaak W., Sethna J. P., Chow K. S., Deyoreo J. J., and Pohl R. O. , Physical Review B, Volume 32, p.6091-6093, (1985)
Frustration, curvature, and defect lines in metallic glasses and the cholesteric blue phase, Sethna, J. P. , Physical Review B, Volume 31, p.6278-6297, (1985)
Low-frequency relaxation in Ising spin-glasses, Randeria, M., Sethna J. P., and Palmer R. G. , Physical Review Letters, Volume 54, p.1321-1324, (1985)

Sethna Group Doctorates

Zombies Reading Segmented Graphene Articles on the ArXiv, Alexander Amir Alemi, Ph.D. Thesis (2015). Internship with Google research; post-doc with Disney research, now working in the Google Brain research group.

"Topics in Disordered Systems: Glasses and Spin Glasses", Mohit Randeria, Ph.D. Thesis (1987). Post-Doctoral position with Tony Leggett at the University of Illinois at Urbana, faculty member at Stony Brook, staff scientist at Argonne National Labs, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Bombay, now professor of Physics at Ohio State.

"Topics in Quasicrystallography", Daniel Soleyman Rokhsar, Ph.D. Thesis (1987, primarily supervised by David Mermin). Post-Doctoral position with the theory group at IBM Yorktown Heights, then professor of Physics at Berkeley. Now head of the Computational and Theoretical Biology Department in the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs.

"Critical Properties of the Bethe Lattice Spin Glass", Jean M. Carlson, Ph.D. Thesis (1988). Post-Doctoral position with the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara. Currently professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara.

"Low Temperature Properties of Glasses", Eric Ralph Grannan, Ph.D. Thesis (1989). Post-doctoral position at AT&T Bell Labs, and with Clare Yu at the University of California at Irvine. Worked at Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse First Boston, West End Capital Management; now starting up a new hedge fund, partnering with FrontPoint.

"Entropy of Glasses", Stephen Aaron Langer, Ph.D. Thesis, (1989). Post-doctoral position with Leo Kadanoff at the University of Chicago, and with Michael Wortis's group at Simon Fraser. Now in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division at NIST, leading the development of OOF.

"Meissner Effects, Vortex Core States, and the Vortex Glass Phase Transition", Ming Huang, Ph.D. Thesis (1991). Graduated from Stanford Business School, assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; assistant and associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, now full professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management here at Cornell University.

"Sliding Charge Density Waves: Dynamics and Criticality in Many Degrees-of-Freedom", Christopher Robert Myers (1991). Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara, currently the Associate Director of the Cornell Theory Center with focus on computational life sciences.

"Logarithmically Slow Domain Growth in Nonrandomly Frustrated Models", Joel D. Shore, Ph.D. Thesis, (1991). Post-doc with Michael Wortis's group at Simon Fraser University, post-doc with Martin Grant at McGill, then senior scientist at Kodak in Rochester. Currently at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

"Accelerating the Glassy Relaxation of the Frenkel-Kontorova Model", Shelly L. Shumway, Ph.D. Thesis, (1991). Post-doctoral fellow at Argonne National Labs; post-doc in Chemistry at the University of Washington.

"Three Dimensional Fracture: Symmetry and Stability", Jennifer Hodgdon, Ph.D. Thesis, (1992). Post-doctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Labs, working with Frank Stillinger. Worked at Goldman Sachs for a few years; currently consulting in Seattle.

"Disorder-Driven Pretransitional Tweed Microstructures in Martensitic Transformations", Sivan Kartha, Ph.D. Thesis, (1993). Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, then at the Frank von Hippel Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University. Currently working in environmental and policy physics at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Boston.

"A Random Walk in Theoretical Physics", Bruce W. Roberts, Ph.D. Thesis, (1995). Post-doctoral fellow at Cornell, working with Mike Teter. Currently working in Seattle.

"Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Disorder-Induced Critical Scaling: A Renormalization Group Approach", Karin Andrea Sabine Dahmen, Ph.D. Thesis, (1995). Harvard Junior Fellow; currently an associate professor in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

"Disorder-Induced Critical Phenomena in Hysteresis, and Return-Point Memory Storage", Olga Perkovic, Ph.D. Thesis, (1996). Worked with McKinsey & Company, currently vice president for corporate planning of URS Corp.

"Effects of Faceting on the Behavior of Driven Voids", Lisa Kathleen Wickham, Ph.D. Thesis, (1999). Post-doc at Livermore, working on dislocation motion; staff position at Bell Laboratories; currently consulting and teaching in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell.

Barkhausen noise: simulations, experiments, power spectra, and two dimensional scaling, Matthew C. Kuntz, (1999); Started as Architect at WorldStreet Corporation, then Product Architect and Principle Technical Lead at DeNovis, now Chief Technology Officer at HealthEdge.

"Materials simulations at the atom-continuum interface: Dislocation mobility and notched fracture initiation", Nicholas Patrick Bailey, (2003). Post-docs at CAMP and the university of Roskilde in Denmark; now in the IMFUFA at Roskilde University.

"Signal transduction, sloppy models, and statistical mechanics", Kevin S. Brown (2003). Post-doc with Andrew Murray (Director of the Bauer Center for Genomics Research and professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard); post-doc and collaborator with Jean Carlson (Physics, UCSB), now in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, with joint appointments in Chemistry, Physics, and Marine Sciences.

"Phonon overlaps in molecular quantum dots", Connie Chang (2005). Post-doc with Kieron Burke at Rutgers.

"Universality in multiparameter fitting: Sloppy models", Joshua J. Waterfall (2006). Post-doc in experimental biology with John Lis at Cornell, now a research fellow at NCI in Paul Meltzer's lab.

"Macroscopic effects of atomic scale defects in crystals: Grain boundary fracture and brittle-ductile transitions", Valerie R. Coffman (2006). Post-doc at NIST with Stephen Langer, NIST staff, now doing freelance software and exploring starting up a company.

"Prediction and optimal experimental design in systems biology models", Fergal P. Casey (2006). Post-doc in bioinformatics with Denis Shields, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, then at Entelos Corporation, then at Novartis.

"Mesoscale theory of grains and cells: Polycrystals & plasticity", Surachate Limkumnerd (2006). Post-doc with Erik van der Giessen at the University of Groningen, now at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

"Sloppiness, Modeling, and Evolution in Biochemical Networks", Ryan Gutenkunst (2007). Post-doc with Williamson and Bustamante in Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University; post-doc at Los Alamos National Labs, now faculty member in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona. (Cornell dspace version.)

"Robustness and Evolvability in System Biology, and Plectoneme Formation in DNA Supercoiling", Bryan Daniels (2010). Post-doc at the Santa Fe Institute, then at the Center for Complexity at Madison.

"Information Geometry for Nonlinear Least-Squares Data Fitting and Numerical Calculation of the Superconducting Superheating Field", Mark K. Transtrum (2011). Post-doc with Peng Qiu in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, now assistant professor in Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University.

"Continuum Theory of Self-similar Dislocation Cellular Structures", Yong S. Chen (2011). Started as senior design engineer at Brion Technologies - ASML, then assistant vice president at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

"Criticality in Cellular Membranes and the Information Geometry of Simple Models", Benjamin Brooks Machta (2012). Lewis Sigler Theory Fellow, Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University.

"Physics of Singular Dislocation Structures in Continuum Dislocation Dynamics", Woosong Choi (2012). working as a developer at Jane Street Capital, LLC.

Fracture in Disordered Brittle Materials, Ashivni Shekhawat (2013). Miller Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering, Berkeley, working with Rob Ritchie. (Third in fifty years in MS&E; Ritchie was the first.)
http://www.ashivni.com

Universal Scaling Functions and Effective Functional Forms, Yan-Jiun Chen (2013). Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg.

Science in High Dimensions: Multiparameter Models and Big Data, Ricky Chachra (2013). Senior strategy consultant at IBM Business Performance Services in Armonk, NY.

Zombies Reading Segmented Graphene Articles on the ArXiv, Alexander Amir Alemi (2015). Internship with Google research; post-doc with Disney research.