Volume 78, Issue 6

15 September 2008

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Physics - spotlighting exceptional research

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. D 78, 060001 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observing the temperature of the big bang through large scale structure

Pedro G. Ferreira and João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. D 78, 061301(R) (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

$f (R)$ gravity equation of state

Emilio Elizalde and Pedro J. Silva

Phys. Rev. D 78, 061501(R) (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Pair production beyond the Schwinger formula in time-dependent electric fields

F. Hebenstreit, R. Alkofer, and H. Gies

Phys. Rev. D 78, 061701(R) (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the geometric tachyon

Ashok Das, Sudhakar Panda, and Shibaji Roy

Phys. Rev. D 78, 061901(R) (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

ARTICLES

Optical position meters analyzed in the noninertial reference frames

Sergey P. Tarabrin and Alexander A. Seleznyov

Phys. Rev. D 78, 062001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Geometric algorithm for efficient coincident detection of gravitational waves

C. A. K. Robinson, B. S. Sathyaprakash, and Anand S. Sengupta

Phys. Rev. D 78, 062002 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Double optical spring enhancement for gravitational-wave detectors

Henning Rehbein, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, Kentaro Somiya, Stefan L. Danilishin, Roman Schnabel, Karsten Danzmann, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. D 78, 062003 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Optimizing the regimes of the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detector for multiple source types

I. S. Kondrashov, D. A. Simakov, F. Ya. Khalili, and S. L. Danilishin

Phys. Rev. D 78, 062004 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Solution of the inverse problem in spherical gravitational wave detectors using a model with independent bars

César H. Lenzi, Nadja S. Magalhães, Rubens M. Marinho, Jr., César A. Costa, Helmo A. B. Araújo, and Odylio D. Aguiar

Phys. Rev. D 78, 062005 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Dynamics of interacting phantom scalar field dark energy in loop quantum cosmology

Xiangyun Fu, Hongwei Yu, and Puxun Wu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Ultrahigh energy tau neutrino flux regeneration while skimming the Earth

Oscar Blanch Bigas, Olivier Deligny, Kévin Payet, and Véronique Van Elewyck

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063002 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Lorentz violation and ultrahigh-energy photons

Matteo Galaverni and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063003 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Prospects for identifying the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays with IceCube

Francis Halzen, Alexander Kappes, and Aongus Ó Murchadha

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063004 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Cosmic vector for dark energy

Jose Beltrán Jiménez and Antonio L. Maroto

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063005 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Shear viscosity in neutron star cores

P. S. Shternin and D. G. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063006 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Can cosmological observations uniquely determine the nature of dark energy?

Sanil Unnikrishnan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063007 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Primordial non-Gaussianity estimator: The inhomogeneous noise effect

B. Yu and T. Lu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063008 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Astrophysical constraints on the confining models: The field correlator method

M. Baldo, G. F. Burgio, P. Castorina, S. Plumari, and D. Zappalà

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063009 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Dynamical and gravitational instability of an oscillating-field dark energy and dark matter

Matthew C. Johnson and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063010 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Plasmon annihilation into Kaluza-Klein gravitons: New astrophysical constraints on large extra dimensions?

Prasanta Kumar Das, V. H. Satheeshkumar, and P. K. Suresh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063011 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

CMB temperature anisotropy from broken spatial isotropy due to a homogeneous cosmological magnetic field

Tina Kahniashvili, George Lavrelashvili, and Bharat Ratra

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063012 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Evolution of anisotropies in Eddington-Born-Infeld cosmology

Davi C. Rodrigues

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063013 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Optical caustics of Kerr spacetime: The full structure

V. Bozza

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063014 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Cosmographic Hubble fits to the supernova data

Céline Cattoën and Matt Visser

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063501 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Moduli evolution in the presence of thermal corrections

Tiago Barreiro, Beatriz de Carlos, Edmund J. Copeland, and Nelson J. Nunes

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063502 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Observational tests of modified gravity

Bhuvnesh Jain and Pengjie Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063503 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Cosmography of $f (R)$ gravity

S. Capozziello, V. F. Cardone, and V. Salzano

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063504 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

High energy cosmic rays from the decay of gravitino dark matter

Koji Ishiwata, Shigeki Matsumoto, and Takeo Moroi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063505 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Cosmology without inflation

Patrick Peter and Nelson Pinto-Neto

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063506 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Attraction towards an inflection point inflation

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Bhaskar Dutta, and Anupam Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063507 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Caustic ring model of the Milky Way halo

L. D. Duffy and P. Sikivie

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063508 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Toward a minimum branching fraction for dark matter annihilation into electromagnetic final states

James B. Dent, Robert J. Scherrer, and Thomas J. Weiler

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063509 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Cosmic microwave background anisotropy from nonlinear structures in accelerating universes

Nobuyuki Sakai and Kaiki Taro Inoue

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063510 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Stability of spherically symmetric spacetimes in metric $f (R)$ gravity

Kimmo Kainulainen and Daniel Sunhede

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063511 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Nonperturbative decay of supersymmetric flat directions

A. Emir Gümrükçüoğlu, Keith A. Olive, Marco Peloso, and Matthew Sexton

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063512 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Solving Einstein field equations in observational coordinates with cosmological data functions: Spherically symmetric universes with a cosmological constant

M. E. Araújo, W. R. Stoeger, R. C. Arcuri, and M. L. Bedran

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063513 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

New coupled quintessence cosmology

J. F. Jesus, R. C. Santos, J. S. Alcaniz, and J. A. S. Lima

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063514 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Large curvature perturbations near horizon crossing in single-field inflation models

Edgar Bugaev and Peter Klimai

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063515 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Curvaton decay into baryons, antibaryons, and radiation

Martin Lemoine, Jérôme Martin, and Grégory Petit

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063516 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Reheating-volume measure for random-walk inflation

Sergei Winitzki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063517 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Higgs self-coupling as a probe of the electroweak phase transition

Andrew Noble and Maxim Perelstein

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063518 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Diffusing nonlocal inflation: Solving the field equations as an initial value problem

D. J. Mulryne and N. J. Nunes

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063519 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Predicting the cosmological constant with the scale-factor cutoff measure

Andrea De Simone, Alan H. Guth, Michael P. Salem, and Alexander Vilenkin

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063520 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Impact of prior assumptions on Bayesian estimates of inflation parameters and the expected gravitational waves signal from inflation

Wessel Valkenburg, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Jan Hamann

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063521 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Backreaction of cosmological perturbations in covariant macroscopic gravity

Aseem Paranjape

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063522 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Primordial perturbations and non-Gaussianities in DBI and general multifield inflation

David Langlois, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Danièle A. Steer, and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063523 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies with nonlinear electromagnetic radiation

Dan N. Vollick

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063524 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Squeezed states and Affleck-Dine baryogenesis

K. V. S. Shiv Chaitanya and Bindu A. Bambah

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063525 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Cosmic microwave background bispectrum on small angular scales

Cyril Pitrou, Jean-Philippe Uzan, and Francis Bernardeau

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063526 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Late universe dynamics with scale-independent linear couplings in the dark sector

Claudia Quercellini, Marco Bruni, Amedeo Balbi, and Davide Pietrobon

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063527 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Dynamic vacuum variable and equilibrium approach in cosmology

F. R. Klinkhamer and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063528 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Simulations and cosmological inference: A statistical model for power spectra means and covariances

Michael D. Schneider, Lloyd Knox, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann, David Higdon, and Charles Nakhleh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063529 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

CMB and 21-cm signals for dark matter with a long-lived excited state

Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Nikhil Padmanabhan, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063530 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Anomalous CMB north-south asymmetry

Armando Bernui

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063531 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Delayed recombination and cosmic parameters

Silvia Galli, Rachel Bean, Alessandro Melchiorri, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063532 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Effects of the cosmological expansion on the bubble nucleation rate for relativistic first-order phase transitions

Dimitrios Metaxas

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063533 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Tree theorem for inflation

Steven Weinberg

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063534 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Is our Universe likely to decay within 20 billion years?

Don N. Page

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063535 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Return of the Boltzmann brains

Don N. Page

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063536 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Backreaction of superhorizon perturbations in scalar field cosmologies

Naresh Kumar and Éanna É. Flanagan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063537 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Future foam: Nontrivial topology from bubble collisions in eternal inflation

Raphael Bousso, Ben Freivogel, Yasuhiro Sekino, Stephen Shenker, Leonard Susskind, I-Sheng Yang, and Chen-Pin Yeh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063538 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Large radius Hagedorn regime in string gas cosmology

Dimitri P. Skliros and Mark B. Hindmarsh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063539 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Direct/indirect detection signatures of nonthermally produced dark matter

Minoru Nagai and Kazunori Nakayama

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063540 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves from cosmological sources: Techniques and applications to preheating

Larry R. Price and Xavier Siemens

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063541 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Conservative constraints on dark matter annihilation into gamma rays

Gregory D. Mack, Thomas D. Jacques, John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, and Hasan Yüksel

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063542 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Constraints on kinetically modified inflation from WMAP5

Larissa Lorenz, Jérôme Martin, and Christophe Ringeval

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063543 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Nonperturbative quantum de Sitter universe

J. Ambjørn, A. Görlich, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063544 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Primordial curvature fluctuation and its non-Gaussianity in models with modulated reheating

Kazuhide Ichikawa, Teruaki Suyama, Tomo Takahashi, and Masahide Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063545 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Dark matter transfer function: Free streaming, particle statistics, and memory of gravitational clustering

D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, and N. G. Sanchez

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063546 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Anomaly freedom in perturbative loop quantum gravity

Martin Bojowald, Golam Mortuza Hossain, Mikhail Kagan, and S. Shankaranarayanan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 063547 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Stability of BTZ black strings

Lihui Liu and Bin Wang

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Quantum mechanics versus equivalence principle

Antonio Accioly and Ricardo Paszko

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064002 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Structure of the effective potential for a spherical wormhole

N. Montelongo García and T. Zannias

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064003 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

One-loop corrections to scalar and tensor perturbations during inflation in stochastic gravity

Yuko Urakawa and Kei-ichi Maeda

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064004 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Effect of higher harmonic corrections on the detection of massive black hole binaries with LISA

Edward K. Porter and Neil J. Cornish

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064005 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Quasinormal modes of black holes localized on the Randall-Sundrum 2-brane

Masato Nozawa and Tsutomu Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064006 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Role of Chaplygin gas as geometrical dark energy in anisotropic brane gravity

Malihe Heydari-Fard and Hamid R. Sepangi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064007 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Loop quantization of vacuum Bianchi I cosmology

M. Martín-Benito, G. A. Mena Marugán, and T. Pawlowski

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064008 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Canonical gravity with fermions

Martin Bojowald and Rupam Das

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064009 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Cosmological perturbations from stochastic gravity

Albert Roura and Enric Verdaguer

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064010 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Vacuum polarization in asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole geometries

Antonino Flachi and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064011 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Geometric phase for a neutral particle in the presence of a topological defect

K. Bakke, J. R. Nascimento, and C. Furtado

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064012 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Stable, accelerating universes in modified-gravity theories

Simon DeDeo and Dimitrios Psaltis

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064013 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Covariance and time regained in canonical general relativity

I. Kouletsis

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064014 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Asymptotically flat radiating solutions in third order Lovelock gravity

M. H. Dehghani and N. Farhangkhah

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064015 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Rotating Kaluza-Klein multi-black holes with Gödel parameter

Ken Matsuno, Hideki Ishihara, Toshiharu Nakagawa, and Shinya Tomizawa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064016 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Breakdown of the initial value formulation of scalar-tensor gravity and its physical meaning

Valerio Faraoni and Nicolas Lanahan-Tremblay

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064017 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Microscopic and macroscopic behaviors of Palatini modified gravity theories

Baojiu Li, David F. Mota, and Douglas J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064018 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Relativistic stars in $f (R)$ gravity, and absence thereof

Tsutomu Kobayashi and Kei-ichi Maeda

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064019 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Wormholes and trumpets: Schwarzschild spacetime for the moving-puncture generation

Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Frank Ohme, Bernd Brügmann, and Niall Ó Murchadha

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064020 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Testing alternative theories of dark matter with the CMB

Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow, David F. Mota, and HongSheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064021 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Hidden symmetries of higher-dimensional black holes and uniqueness of the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime

Pavel Krtouš, Valeri P. Frolov, and David Kubizňák

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064022 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Stationary strings in the spacetime of rotating black holes in five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity

Haji Ahmedov and Alikram N. Aliev

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064023 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Effective geometries in self-gravitating polytropes

D. Bini, C. Cherubini, and S. Filippi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064024 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Twist and teleportation analogy of the black hole final state

Doyeol Ahn and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064025 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Comparison between numerical relativity and a new class of post-Newtonian gravitational-wave phase evolutions: The nonspinning equal-mass case

Achamveedu Gopakumar, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, and Bernd Brügmann

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064026 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Nonlinear parent action and dual gravity

Nicolas Boulanger and Olaf Hohm

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064027 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Two-timescale analysis of extreme mass ratio inspirals in Kerr spacetime: Orbital motion

Tanja Hinderer and Éanna É. Flanagan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064028 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Coarse-graining of bubbling geometries and the fuzzball conjecture

Noriaki Ogawa (小川軌明) and Seiji Terashima (寺嶋靖治)

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064029 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Scalar emission in a rotating Gödel black hole

Songbai Chen, Bin Wang, and Jiliang Jing

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064030 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Magnetic branes in third order Lovelock-Born-Infeld gravity

M. H. Dehghani, N. Bostani, and S. H. Hendi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064031 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

5D Einstein-Maxwell solitons and concentric rotating dipole black rings

Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064032 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Generating technique for $U (1)^{3}$ 5D supergravity

Dmitri V. Gal’tsov and Nikolai G. Scherbluk

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064033 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Physical significance of the Babak-Grishchuk gravitational energy-momentum tensor

Luke M. Butcher, Anthony Lasenby, and Michael Hobson

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064034 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Loop quantum cosmology of diagonal Bianchi type I model: Simplifications and scaling problems

Łukasz Szulc

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064035 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Nonminimal coupling of perfect fluids to curvature

Orfeu Bertolami, Francisco S. N. Lobo, and Jorge Páramos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064036 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Nada: A new code for studying self-gravitating tori around black holes

Pedro J. Montero, José A. Font, and Masaru Shibata

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064037 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Geometry and topology of the quasiplane Szekeres model

Andrzej Krasiński

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064038 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Particle motion in the rotating black ring metric

James Hoskisson

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064039 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Phenomenological loop quantum geometry of the Schwarzschild black hole

Dah-Wei Chiou

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064040 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Homogeneous noncommutative quantum cosmology

Marco Maceda, Alfredo Macías, and Luis O. Pimentel

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064041 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Computational efficiency of frequency- and time-domain calculations of extreme mass-ratio binaries: Equatorial orbits

Jonathan L. Barton, David J. Lazar, Daniel J. Kennefick, Gaurav Khanna, and Lior M. Burko

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064042 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Do evaporating black holes form photospheres?

Jane H. MacGibbon, B. J. Carr, and Don N. Page

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064043 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Bremsstrahlung effects around evaporating black holes

Don N. Page, B. J. Carr, and Jane H. MacGibbon

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064044 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Moduli fixing and $T$ duality in type II brane gas models

Masakazu Sano and Hisao Suzuki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064045 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Topological field theories in $n$ -dimensional spacetimes and Cartan’s equations

Vladimir Cuesta, Merced Montesinos, Mercedes Velázquez, and José David Vergara

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064046 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Covariant entropy bound and loop quantum cosmology

Abhay Ashtekar and Edward Wilson-Ewing

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064047 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Numerical performance of the parabolized ADM formulation of general relativity

Vasileios Paschalidis, Jakob Hansen, and Alexei Khokhlov

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064048 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Horizons versus singularities in spherically symmetric space-times

K. A. Bronnikov, E. Elizalde, S. D. Odintsov, and O. B. Zaslavskii

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064049 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

New non-Abelian black hole solutions in Born-Infeld gravity

S. Habib Mazharimousavi, M. Halilsoy, and Z. Amirabi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064050 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Measurement analysis and quantum gravity

Mark Albers, Claus Kiefer, and Marcel Reginatto

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064051 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Separability of the massive Dirac equation in 5-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole geometry and its relation to a rank-three Killing-Yano tensor

Shuang-Qing Wu (吴双清)

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064052 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Energy-momentum distribution in static and nonstatic cosmic string space-times

Amir M. Abbassi, Saeed Mirshekari, and Amir H. Abbassi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064053 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Simulating coalescing compact binaries by a new code (SACRA)

Tetsuro Yamamoto, Masaru Shibata, and Keisuke Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064054 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Charged rotating dilaton black strings in (A)dS spaces

Ahmad Sheykhi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064055 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Gravitational wave burst signal from core collapse of rotating stars

Harald Dimmelmeier, Christian D. Ott, Andreas Marek, and H.-Thomas Janka

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064056 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi collapse from the perspective of loop quantum gravity

Martin Bojowald, Tomohiro Harada, and Rakesh Tibrewala

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064057 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Finite axisymmetric charged dust disks in conformastatic spacetimes

Guillermo A. González, Antonio C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres, and Paolo A. Ospina

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064058 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Type II critical phenomena of neutron star collapse

Scott C. Noble and Matthew W. Choptuik

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064059 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Phantom energy accretion onto black holes in a cyclic universe

Cheng-Yi Sun

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064060 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Hawking radiation in the ghost condensate is nonthermal

Brian Feldstein

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064061 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Rotating black lens solution in five dimensions

Yu Chen and Edward Teo

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064062 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Oscillations of rapidly rotating relativistic stars

Erich Gaertig and Kostas D. Kokkotas

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064063 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations in the presence of the Chaplygin gas: Stars and wormholelike solutions

V. Gorini, U. Moschella, A. Yu. Kamenshchik, V. Pasquier, and A. A. Starobinsky

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064064 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Three-dimensional Chern-Simons black holes

Karim Ait Moussa, Gérard Clément, Hakim Guennoune, and Cédric Leygnac

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064065 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Worldlines as Wilson lines

Daniel Green

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064066 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Symmetry analysis and exact solutions of modified Brans-Dicke cosmological equations

Metin Arık and Mikhail B. Sheftel

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064067 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Note on quantum Minkowski space

Z. Bentalha and M. Tahiri

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064068 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Eccentric binary black-hole mergers: The transition from inspiral to plunge in general relativity

Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, José A. González, Bernd Brügmann, and Marcus Ansorg

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064069 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Barbero-Immirzi parameter as a scalar field: $K$ -inflation from loop quantum gravity?

Victor Taveras and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064070 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Slowly rotating scalar field wormholes: The second order approximation

P. E. Kashargin and S. V. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064071 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Corrections to the Friedmann equations from loop quantum gravity for a universe with a free scalar field

Victor Taveras

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064072 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Higher dimensional slowly rotating dilaton black holes in AdS spacetime

A. Sheykhi and M. Allahverdizadeh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 064073 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Supersymmetry inspired QCD beta function

Thomas A. Ryttov and Francesco Sannino

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Twisted supersymmetric invariant formulation of Chern-Simons gauge theory on a lattice

Kazuhiro Nagata and Yong-Shi Wu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065002 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

$d = 4$ attractors, effective horizon radius, and fake supergravity

Sergio Ferrara, Alessandra Gnecchi, and Alessio Marrani

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065003 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

QCD-like theories on $R_{3} \times S_{1}$ : A smooth journey from small to large $r (S_{1})$ with double-trace deformations

M. Shifman and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065004 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Exact effective action for $(1 + 1)$ -dimensional fermions in an Abelian background at finite temperature and chemical potential

Soraya G. Maciel and Silvana Perez

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065005 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Particlelike solutions to classical noncommutative gauge theory

A. Stern

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065006 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Some multiquark potentials, pseudopotentials, and AdS/QCD

Oleg Andreev

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065007 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

QCD splitting/joining functions at finite temperature in the deep Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal regime

Peter Arnold and Çaḡlar Doḡan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065008 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Constraining massive neutrinos using cosmological 21 cm observations

Jonathan R. Pritchard and Elena Pierpaoli

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065009 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Classification of BPS equations in higher dimensions

E. K. Loginov

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065010 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Big-bang nucleosynthesis and gravitinos

Masahiro Kawasaki, Kazunori Kohri, Takeo Moroi, and Akira Yotsuyanagi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065011 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Recoherence by squeezed states in electron interferometry

Jen-Tsung Hsiang and L. H. Ford

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065012 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Dynamics of Chern-Simons vortices

Benjamin Collie and David Tong

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065013 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Dual equivalence between self-dual and Maxwell-Chern-Simons models with Lorentz symmetry breaking

C. Furtado, J. R. Nascimento, A. Yu. Petrov, and M. A. Anacleto

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065014 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Hawking radiation, entanglement, and teleportation in the background of an asymptotically flat static black hole

Qiyuan Pan and Jiliang Jing

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065015 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Universal limits on massless high-spin particles

M. Porrati

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065016 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Beyond the quenched/probe-brane approximation in lattice/holographic QCD

Adi Armoni

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065017 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Noncontact gears. I. Next-to-leading order contribution to the lateral Casimir force between corrugated parallel plates

Inés Cavero-Peláez, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, and K. V. Shajesh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065018 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Noncontact gears. II. Casimir torque between concentric corrugated cylinders for the scalar case

Inés Cavero-Peláez, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, and K. V. Shajesh

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065019 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Noncommutative nonlinear sigma models and integrability

Seçkin Kürkçüoğlu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065020 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Some stationary properties of a $Q$ -ball in arbitrary space dimensions

Mitsuo I. Tsumagari, Edmund J. Copeland, and Paul M. Saffin

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065021 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Twisted kink crystal in the chiral Gross-Neveu model

Gökçe Başar and Gerald V. Dunne

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065022 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Casimir energy for a double spherical shell: A global mode sum approach

M. S. R. Miltão

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065023 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Strongly coupled large $N$ spectrum of two matrices coupled via a Yang-Mills interaction

Martin N. H. Cook and João P. Rodrigues

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065024 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Fermions on thick branes in the background of sine-Gordon kinks

Yu-Xiao Liu, Li-Da Zhang, Li-Jie Zhang, and Yi-Shi Duan

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065025 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Canonical quantization of gauge fields in static space-times with applications to Rindler spaces

F. Lenz, K. Ohta, and K. Yazaki

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065026 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Constraints on the dark matter annihilations by neutrinos with substructure effects included

Peng-fei Yin, Jia Liu, Qiang Yuan, Xiao-jun Bi, and Shou-hua Zhu

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065027 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Effect of a positive cosmological constant on cosmic strings

Sourav Bhattacharya and Amitabha Lahiri

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065028 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Chiral condensate at nonzero chemical potential in the microscopic limit of QCD

J. C. Osborn, K. Splittorff, and J. J. M. Verbaarschot

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065029 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Thermal instability in a gravity-like scalar theory

F. T. Brandt, Ashok Das, and J. Frenkel

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065030 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Supersymmetric $N = 2$ Einstein-Yang-Mills monopoles and covariant attractors

M. Hübscher, P. Meessen, T. Ortìn, and S. Vaulà

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065031 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Interface between Hermitian and non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in a model calculation

H. F. Jones

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065032 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Magnetic monopole loops supported by a meron pair as the quark confiner

Kei-Ichi Kondo, Nobuyuki Fukui, Akihiro Shibata, and Toru Shinohara

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065033 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Steven S. Gubser

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065034 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Center-stabilized Yang-Mills theory: Confinement and large $N$ volume independence

Mithat Ünsal and Laurence G. Yaffe

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065035 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Hadronic light-by-light scattering in muonium hyperfine splitting

S. G. Karshenboim, V. A. Shelyuto, and A. I. Vainshtein

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065036 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Noncommutative corrections to the Robertson-Walker metric

S. Fabi, B. Harms, and A. Stern

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065037 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

$G_{2}$ -MSSM: An $M$ theory motivated model of particle physics

Bobby S. Acharya, Konstantin Bobkov, Gordon L. Kane, Jing Shao, and Piyush Kumar

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065038 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

One-loop corrections to the instanton transition in the Abelian Higgs model: Gel’fand-Yaglom and Green’s function methods

Jürgen Baacke

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065039 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Composite dark matter from a model with composite Higgs boson

Maxim Yu. Khlopov and Chris Kouvaris

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065040 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Dimensional reduction as a method to obtain dual theories for massive spin two in arbitrary dimensions

A. Khoudeir, R. Montemayor, and Luis F. Urrutia

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065041 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Topological BPS charges in 10- and 11-dimensional supergravity

Andrew K. Callister and Douglas J. Smith

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065042 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Phase structure of the massive chiral Gross-Neveu model from the Hartree-Fock approach

Christian Boehmer, Ulf Fritsch, Sebastian Kraus, and Michael Thies

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065043 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Decoherence and entropy of primordial fluctuations. I. Formalism and interpretation

David Campo and Renaud Parentani

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065044 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Decoherence and entropy of primordial fluctuations. II. The entropy budget

David Campo and Renaud Parentani

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065045 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Applicability of the linear $δ$ expansion for the $λ ϕ^{4}$ field theory at finite temperature in the symmetric and broken phases

R. L. S. Farias, G. Krein, and Rudnei O. Ramos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065046 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Refinement of the Gribov-Zwanziger approach in the Landau gauge: Infrared propagators in harmony with the lattice results

D. Dudal, J. A. Gracey, S. P. Sorella, N. Vandersickel, and H. Verschelde

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065047 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Spontaneous breaking of a metastable string

A. Monin and M. B. Voloshin

Phys. Rev. D 78, 065048 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Nonperturbative time-dependent string backgrounds and axion-induced optical activity

Jean Alexandre, Nick E. Mavromatos, and Dylan Tanner

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Quantum corrections to energy of short spinning string in ${AdS}_{5}$

A. Tirziu and A. A. Tseytlin

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066002 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Radion effective potential in brane gas cosmology

Jin Young Kim

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066003 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Gauge theory analog of some “stringy” D-instantons

Daniel Krefl

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066004 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Gravitational-wave probe of effective quantum gravity

Stephon Alexander, Lee Samuel Finn, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066005 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Reconciling grand unification with strings by anisotropic compactifications

Ben Dundee, Stuart Raby, and Akin Wingerter

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066006 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Magnetized baryonic matter in holographic QCD

Ethan G. Thompson and Dam T. Son

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066007 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

String GUT scenarios with stabilized moduli

Ralph Blumenhagen, Sebastian Moster, and Erik Plauschinn

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066008 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Universal conductivity and central charges

Pavel Kovtun and Adam Ritz

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066009 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Causal hydrodynamics and the membrane paradigm

Makoto Natsuume

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066010 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Note about redefinition of the BRST operator for pure spinor string in a general background

J. Klusoň

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066011 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

$D$ -instanton generated Dirac neutrino masses

Mirjam Cvetič and Paul Langacker

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066012 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

Brane world corrections to the scalar vacuum force in the Randall-Sundrum II- $p$ scenario

Román Linares, Hugo A. Morales-Técotl, and Omar Pedraza

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066013 (2008) - Published 23 September, 2008

Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions

Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, and Amos Yarom

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066014 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

Mass-deformed Bagger-Lambert theory and its BPS objects

Kazuo Hosomichi, Ki-Myeong Lee, and Sungjay Lee

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066015 (2008) - Published 24 September, 2008

7D Randall-Sundrum cosmology, brane-bulk energy exchange, and holography

Liuba Mazzanti

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066016 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Shear transport coefficients from gauge/gravity correspondence

J. I. Kapusta and T. Springer

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066017 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

From nesting to dressing

Romuald A. Janik and Tomasz Łukowski

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066018 (2008) - Published 25 September, 2008

Multiple M2-branes and generalized 3-Lie algebras

Sergey Cherkis and Christian Sämann

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066019 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Cosmology of the closed string tachyon

Ian Swanson

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066020 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Tachyon condensation and quark mass in the modified Sakai-Sugimoto model

Avinash Dhar and Partha Nag

Phys. Rev. D 78, 066021 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Singularities in geodesic surface congruence

Yong Seung Cho and Soon-Tae Hong

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067301 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Dark matter from cosmic defects on galactic scales?

N. Guerreiro, P. P. Avelino, J. P. M. de Carvalho, and C. J. A. P. Martins

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067302 (2008) - Published 22 September, 2008

Phantom dark energy models with a nearly flat potential

Robert J. Scherrer and A. A. Sen

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067303 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Varying alpha: New constraints from seasonal variations

John D. Barrow and Douglas J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067304 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Stability of the Schwarzschild interior in loop quantum gravity

Christian G. Böhmer and Kevin Vandersloot

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067501 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Faddeev-Popov-ghost propagators for Yang-Mills theories and perturbative quantum gravity in the covariant gauge in de Sitter spacetime

Mir Faizal and Atsushi Higuchi

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067502 (2008) - Published 26 September, 2008

Abelian zero modes in odd dimensions

Gerald V. Dunne and Hyunsoo Min

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067701 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Bound on four-dimensional Planck mass

Xavier Calmet and Marco Feliciangeli

Phys. Rev. D 78, 067702 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: The energy-momentum of plane-fronted gravitational waves in the teleparallel equivalent of GR [Phys. Rev. D 78, 047502 (2008)]

J. W. Maluf and S. C. Ulhoa

Phys. Rev. D 78, 069901 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Erratum: Thermal corrections to $π - π$ scattering lengths in the linear sigma model [Phys. Rev. D 77, 105006 (2008)]

Marcelo Loewe and Cristian Martínez-Villalobos

Phys. Rev. D 78, 069902 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Erratum: Black diring and infinite nonuniqueness [Phys. Rev. D 75, 064018 (2007)]

Hideo Iguchi and Takashi Mishima

Phys. Rev. D 78, 069903 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008