• Statistical and soft matter physics
  • random solid forming media
  • vulcanized macromolecular networks (e.g. rubber and gels)
  • crystalline liquids
  • disordered systems
• Quantum nanoscience
  • superconducting nanostructures and nanodevices
  • graphene
  • mesoscopic systems and geometric phases
  • Andreev billiards and chaos
• Quantum fluids and solids
  • superfluidity and unconventional superconductivity
  • collective phenomena in ultracold atomic gases
  • magnetic and orbital ordering
• Quantum information
  • measures of quantum entanglement
• Law and economics
  • liability rules; options as strategies for dispute resolution

Publications List (PDF)

Mathematics for Physics - A Guided Tour for Graduate Students

co-authored with Michael Stone (Cambridge University Press 2009) 

Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards
co-edited with Nigel Goldenfeld and David Sherrington (Oxford University Press 2005)

• Flocking from a quantum analogy: Spin-orbit coupling in an active fluid by Benjamin Loewe, Anton Souslov, and Paul M. Goldbart arXiv:1708.00937 [13 pages] 
   
• Phase separation leads to buckling in polymer-gel tori by Ya-Wen Chang, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Anton Souslov, Nikolov N. Svetoslav, Samantha M. Marquez, Alexander Alexeev, Paul M. Goldbart, and Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (2017) 
   
• Defect transitions in nematics liquid crystal capillary bridges by Perry W. Ellis, Shengnan Huang, Susannah Doss, Jayalakshmi Vallamkondu, Edward Danemiller, Mark Vernon, Paul M. Goldbart, and Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (2017) 
   
• Control of noisy quantum systems: Field-theory approach to error mitigation by Rafael Hipolito and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review A 93, 042319 (2016) [24 pages];arXiv:1512.05477 [25 pages] 
   
• Emergent tilt order in Dirac polymer liquids by Anton Souslov, Benjamin Loewe and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review E 92, 030601(R) (2015) [5 pages]; arXiv:1412.7491[6 pages] 
   
• Beads on a string: structure of bound aggregates of globular particles and long polymer chains by Anton Souslov, Jennifer E. Curtis and Paul M. Goldbart; Soft MatterA 11, 8092-8099 (2015) [8 pages]; arXiv:1505.07868 [8 pages] 
   
• Impact of single-particle compressibility on the fluid-solid phase transition for ionic microgel suspensions by M. Palaez-Fernandez, Anton Souslov, L. A. Lyon, P. M. Goldbart and A. Fernandez-Nieves; Physical Review Letters 114, 098303 (2015) [5 pages]; arXiv:1410.4874 [5 pages] 
   
• Directed-polymer systems explored via their quantum analogs: General polymer interactions and their consequences by D. Zeb Rocklin and Paul M. Goldbart;Physical Review B 88, 165417 (2013) [9 pages]; arXiv:1307.0852 [11 pages] 
   
• Organization of strongly interacting directed polymer liquids in the presence of stringent constraints by Anton Souslov, D. Zeb Rocklin and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 111, 096401 (2013) [5 pages]; arXiv:1304.5267 [5 pages] 
   
• Statistical physics of isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers I: Structure and correlations at high temperatures by Bing-Sui Lu, Fangfu Ye, Xiangjun Xing and Paul M. Goldbart; International Journal of Modern Physics B 27 (2013) 1330012 [51 pages]; arXiv:1304.3878 [33 pages] 
   
• Generalized Deam-Edwards approach to the statistical mechanics of randomly crosslinked systems by Xiangjun Xing, Bing-Sui Lu, Fangfu Ye and Paul M. Goldbart;New Journal of Physics -- Focus Issue on Frontiers of Disorder Physics 15 (2013) 085017 [25 pages] arXiv:1305.0718 [19 pages] 
   
• Dephasing dynamics of Rydberg atoms by F. Bariani, Paul M. Goldbart and T.A.B. Kennedy; Physical Review A 86, 041802(R) (2012) [4 pages]; arXiv:1208.0355 [6 pages] 
   
• Dependence of global superconductivity on inter-island coupling in arrays of long SNS junctions by Serena Eley, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Paul M. Goldbart and Nadya Mason; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 445701 (2013) [5 pages]; arXiv:1206.5999 [12 pages] 
   
• Directed-polymer systems explored via their quantum analogs: Topological constraints and their consequences by D. Zeb Rocklin, Shina Tan and Paul M. Goldbart;Physical Review B 86, 165421 (2012) [16 pages]; arXiv:1205.5027 [17 pages] 
   
• Ettingshausen effect due to Majorana modes by Chang-Yu Hou, Kirill Shtengel, Gil Refael and Paul M. Goldbart; New Journal of Physics -- Focus Issue on Topological Quantum Computation 14 (2012) 105005 [17 pages]; arXiv:1203.5793 [10 pages] 
   
• Phenomenological theory of isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers by Bing-Sui Lu, Fangfu Ye, Xiangjun Xing and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 108, 257803 (2012) [5 pages]; arXiv:1203.0982 [5 pages] 
   
• Exploring models of associative memory via cavity quantum electrodynamics by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin L. Lev and Paul M. Goldbart; Philosophical Magazine92, 353-361 (2012); this article is published in a special issue of Philosophical Magazine in celebration of the 70th birthday of David Sherrington; preprint version [5 pages] 
   
• Approaching zero-temperature metallic states in mesoscopic superconductor-normal-superconductor arrays by Serena Eley, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Paul M. Goldbart and Nadya Mason; Nature Physics 8, 59-62 (2012); published online 4 December 2011 (DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2154) [4 pages], Supplementary Information [2 pages], see also the Nature Physics (vol. 8, pages 8-9) News and Views article by James Annett entitled Metals in flatland; arXiv:1107.2837 [13 pages], Supplementary Information [2 pages]  
   
• Two-step stabilization of orbital order and the dynamical frustration of spin in the model charge-transfer insulator KCuF₃ by James C. T. Lee, Shi Yuan, Siddhartha Lal, Young Il Joe, Yu Gan, Serban Smadici, Ken Finkelstein, Yejun Feng, Andrivo Rusydi, Paul M. Goldbart, S. Lance Cooper and Peter Abbamonte; Nature Physics, 8, 63-66 (2012); published online 16 October 2011, DOI:10.1038/NPHYS2117 [4 pages]; arXiv:0911.0619 [13 pages] 
   
• Frustration and glassiness in spin models with cavity-mediated interactions by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin L. Lev, and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters107, 277201 (2011) [5 pages]; arXiv:1108.1400 [5 pages] 
   
• Universal phase structure of dilute Bose gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Austen Lamacraft, and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review A 84, 061604(R) (2011) [5 pages]; arXiv:1106.2552 [5 pages] 
   
• Polydomain structure and its origins in isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers by Bing-Sui Lu, Fangfu Ye, Xiangjun Xing, and Paul M. Goldbart; arXiv:1101.1323 [7 pages]
   
• Cratered Lorentzian response of driven microwave superconducting nanowire-bridged resonators: oscillatory and magnetic-field induced stochastic states by Matthew W. Brenner, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Jaseung Ku, Timothy J. McArdle, James N. Eckstein, Nayana Shah, Paul M. Goldbart, and Alexey Bezryadin;  Physical ReviewB 83, 184503 (2011) [18 pages]; arXiv:1101.0817 [40 pages] 
   
• Penetration of nonintegral magnetic flux through domain-wall bends in time-reversal symmetry broken superconductors by David G. Ferguson and Paul M. Goldbart;Physical Review B 84, 014523 (2011) [18 pages]; arXiv:1011.2765 (19 pages) 
   
• Weber blockade theory of magnetoresistance oscillations in superconducting strips by David Pekker, Gil Refael, and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 107, 017002 (2011) [4 pages]; arXiv:1010.4799 [5 pages] 
   
• Global geometric entanglement in transverse-field XY spin chains: finite and infinite systems by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Smitha Vishveshwara, and Paul M. Goldbart; Quantum Information and Computation 11, 0326-354 (2011); arXiv:1012.4114 [36 pages] 
   
• Atom-light crystallization of BECs in multimode cavities: Nonequilibrium classical and quantum phase transitions, emergent lattices, supersolidity, and frustrationby Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin L. Lev, and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review A 82, 043612 (2010) [29 pages]; see also the Viewpoint: Liquid-crystalline phases of ultracold atoms by Jonathan Keeling, Joe Bhaseen and Ben Simons, Physics 3, 88 (2010); arXiv:1007.0922 [34 pages] 
   
• Probing the mechanical properties of graphene using a corrugated elastic substrate by Scott Scharfenberg, D.Z. Rocklin, Cesar Chialvo, Richard L. Weaver, Paul M. Goldbart, and Nadya Mason; Applied Physics Letters 98, 091908 (2011) [3 pages]; arXiv:1006.3037 [5 pages] 
   
• Transport through Andreev bound states in a graphene quantum dot by Travis Dirks, Taylor L. Hughes, Siddhartha Lal, Bruno Uchoa, Yung-Fu Chen, Cesar Chialvo, Paul M. Goldbart, and Nadya Mason; Nature Physics 7, 386-390 (2011); arXiv:1005.2749 [16 pages] 
   
• Observation of half-height magnetization steps in Sr₂RuO₄ by J. Jang, D.G. Ferguson, V. Vakaryuk, R. Budakian, S.B. Chung, P.M. Goldbart, and Y. Maeno; Science 331, 186-188 (2011); Supplementary online material; arXiv:1101.3611 [43 pages] 
   
• An anomalously elastic, intermediate phase in randomly layered superfluids, superconductors, and planar magnets by Priyanka Mohan, Paul M. Goldbart, Rajesh Narayanan, John Toner, and Thomas Vojta; Physical Review Letters 105, 085301 (2010) [4 pages]; arXiv:1003.5201 [5 pages] 
   
• Approaching multichannel Kondo physics using correlated bosons: Quantum phases and how to realize them by Siddhartha Lal, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 81, 245314 (2010) [8 pages]; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (June 28, 2010) and in Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids (July 2010) 
   
• Superconducting nanowires fabricated using molecular templates by Alexey Bezryadin and Paul M. Goldbart; Advanced Materials 22, 1111-1121 (2010); review paper prepared for a special issue of the journal Advanced Materials devoted to research being done currently in the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; preprint [longer version, 45 pages] 
   
• Heterogeneous solids and the micro/macro connection: Structure and elasticity in architecturally complex media as emergent collective phenomena by Paul M. Goldbart; Journal of Thermal Stresses 33, 1-8 (2010); prepared in connection with a keynote address at the International Congress on Thermal Stresses (Urbana, Illinois, June 1-4, 2009) 
   
• Critical velocity of a clean one-dimensional superconductor by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 80, 134507 (2009) [10 pages]; arXiv:0904.2904[20 pages] 
   
• Emergent crystallinity and frustration with Bose-Einstein condensates in multimode cavities by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin L. Lev, and Paul M. Goldbart; Nature Physics 5, 845-850 (2009); Supplementary Information at Nature Physics (8 pages, DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS1403), see also the Nature Physics (vol. 5, pages 781-782) News and Views article by Helmut Ritsch entitled Crystals of atoms and light; arXiv:0903.2254, 8 pages 
   
• Stochastic dynamics of phase-slip trains and superconductive-resistive switching in current-biased nanowires by David Pekker, Nayana Shah, Mitrabhanu Sahu, Alexey Bezryadin and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 80, 214525 (2009), 17 pages; arXiv:0904.4432, 21 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (January 1, 2010) 
   
• Soft random solids and their heterogeneous elasticity by Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review E 80, 031140 (2009), 35 pages; arXiv:0812.3935, 39 pages 
   
• Quantized vortices and superflow in arbitrary dimensions: Structure, energetics and dynamics by Paul M. Goldbart and Florin Bora; Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 422 (2009), 185001, 30 pages;  arXiv:0812.3969, 35 pages 
   
• Mathematics for Physics - A Guided Tour for Graduate Students by Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart; Cambridge University Press (2009), 806 pages; for a review seePhysics Today (October 2009, page 57); copies can be found at 
  Amazon.com | Cambridge University Press (USA) or (elsewhere) | Pre-publication version 
   
• Individual topological tunnelling events of a quantum field probed via their macroscopic consequences by Mitrabhanu Sahu, Myung-Ho Bae, Andrey Rogachev, David Pekker, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Nayana Shah, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Nature Physics 5, 503-508 (2009) and supplementary information; preprint versionarXiv:0804.2251, 25 pages; University of Illinois News Bureau press release 
   
• David Sherrington as a mentor of young scientists by Paul M. Goldbart; delivered at "Viewing the World Through Spin Glasses," a conference in honour of David Sherrington (Oxford, August 31-September 1, 2007); Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (special issue) 41 (2008) 1-3, Ton Coolen, Hidetoshi Nishimori, Nicolas Sourlas and Michael Wong (guest editors) 
   
• Emergence of h/e-period oscillations in the critical temperature of small superconducting rings threaded by magnetic flux by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart;Physical Review B 77, 224512 (2008), 16 pages; arXiv:0712.2596, 30 pages 
   
• Inherent stochasticity of superconductive-resistive switching in nanowires by Nayana Shah, David Pekker and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 101, 207001 (2008), 4 pages; arXiv:0709.3971v2, 5 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (November 15, 2008, volume 15, issue 10), and in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (November 24, 2008, volume l8, issue 21) 
   
• Nematic elastomers: From a microscopic model to macroscopic elasticity theory by Xiangjun Xing, Stephan Pfahl, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review E 77, 051802 (2008), 10 pages; preprint, 11 pages 
   
• Local superfluid densities probed via current-induced superconducting phase gradients by David S. Hopkins, David Pekker, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Physical Review B 76, 220506(R) (2007), 4 pages; arXiv:0709.4180, 5 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (December 15, 2007, volume 13, issue 12) 
   
• Probing dynamics using fluorescence resonance energy transfer with donors of differing lifetimes by Weiqun Peng, Tania Chakrabarty, Paul M. Goldbart and Paul R. Selvin; Biophysical Journal (submitted, 2007), 16 pages 
   
• Elastic heterogeneity of soft random solids by Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing and Annette Zippelius; Europhysics Letters 80, 26004 (2007), 5 pages;cond-mat/0610407, 5 pages 
   
• Thermal fluctuations and rubber elasticity by Xiangjun Xing, Paul M.Goldbart and Leo Radzihovsky; Physical Review Letters 98, 075502 (2007), 4 pages; see also the Physical Review Focus article Rubber Theory Fits without a Stretch (February 20, 2007) 
   
• Elasticity of highly cross-linked random networks by Stephan Ulrich, Xiaoming Mao, Paul M.Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Europhysics Letters 76, 677-682 (2006); cond-mat/0608388, 6 pages 
   
• Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of helium-four through arrays of nanosize apertures by David Pekker, Roman Barankov and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 98, 175301 (2007), 4 pages; cond-mat/0606560, 8 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (May 7, 2007) 
   
• Magnetic field enhancement of superconductivity in ultra-narrow wires by Andrey Rogachev, Tzu-Chieh Wei, David Pekker, A. T. Bollinger, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Physical Review Letters 97, 137001 (2006), 4 pages; cond-mat/0604351, 5 pages 
   
• Universal point contact resistance between thin-film superconductors by Michael Hermele, Gil Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 73, 134504 (2006), 21 pages; cond-mat/0511210, 29 pages 
   
• Enhancing superconductivity: Magnetic impurities and their quenching by magnetic fields by Tzu-Chieh Wei, David Pekker, Andrey Rogachev, Alexey Bezryadin and Paul M. Goldbart; Europhysics Letters 75, 943-949 (2006); cond-mat/0510476, 8 pages 
   
• Glassy correlations and microstructures in randomly crosslinked homopolymer blends by Christian Wald, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Journal of Chemical Physics 124, 214905 (2006), 18 pages; cond-mat/0509694, 19 pages 
   
• Squeezing superfluid from a stone: Coupling superfluidity and elasticity in a supersolid by Alan T. Dorsey, Paul M. Goldbart and John Toner; Physical Review Letters96, 055301 (2006), 4 pages; cond-mat/0508271, 4 pages 
   
• Operation of a superconducting nanowire quantum interference device with mesoscopic leads by David Pekker, Alexey Bezryadin, David S. Hopkins and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 72, 104517 (2005), 18 pages; cond-mat/0507315, 20 pages; an extended, primarily theoretical paper complementing Hopkins et al., Science 308, 1762-65 (2005) -- see below; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (October 1, 2005, volume 9, issue 7); also reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (October 10, 2005). 
   
• Fate of the Josephson effect in thin-film superconductors by Michael Hermele, Gil Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher and Paul M. Goldbart; Nature Physics 1, 117-121 (2005), see also the Nature Physics (vol. 1, pages 83-84) News and Views article by Steven Girvin entitled Quantum coherence: Just what is superconductivity? 
   
• Cavity approach to the random solid state by Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Marc Mézard and Martin Weigt; Physical Review Letters 95, 148302 (2005), 4 pages; cond-mat/0506194, 4 pages 
   
• Double-exchange model for noninteracting electron spins coupled to a lattice of classical spins: Phase diagram at zero temperature by David Pekker, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Nandini Trivedi and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review B 72, 075118 (2005), 9 pages; cond-mat/0502621, 9 pages 
   
• Quantum interference device made by DNA templating of superconducting nanowires by David S. Hopkins, David Pekker, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin;Science 308, 1762-65 (2005) 
   
• From vulcanization to isotropic and nematic rubber elasticity by Xiangjun Xing, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; cond-mat/0411660, 7 pages 
   
• Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends by Christian Wald, Annette Zippelius and Paul M. Goldbart; Europhysics Letters 70, 843-849 (2005); cond-mat/0411056, 7 pages 
   
• Global entanglement and quantum criticality in spin chains by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Dyutiman Das, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Smitha Vishveshwara and Paul M. Goldbart;Physical Review A 71, 060305(R) (2005), 4 pages; reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (June 27, 2005, volume 11, issue 25) 
   
• Synthesizing arbitrary two-photon polarization mixed states by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Joseph B. Altepeter, David Branning, Paul M. Goldbart, D. F. V. James, Evan Jeffrey, Paul G. Kwiat, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay and Nicholas A. Peters; Physical Review A 71, 032329 (2005), 12 pages;  quant-ph/0501115, 9 pages 
   
• Sam Edwards and the statistical mechanics of rubber by Paul M. Goldbart and Nigel Goldenfeld, in Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards (published by Oxford University Press, 2004) 
   
• Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards
  A selection of reprints accompanied by chapters by various authors; edited by Paul M. Goldbart, Nigel Goldenfeld and David Sherrington (published by Oxford University Press, 2004; see the cover) 
   
• Quantifying multipartite entanglement by T.-C. Wei, J. B. Altepeter, D. Das, M. Ericsson, P. M. Goldbart, S. Mukhopadhyay, W. J. Munro and S. Vishveshwara; pdf version, 4 pages; in Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Volume 734 (2004), pp. 241-244 (Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, Strathclyde, Scotland, July 2004) 
   
• Scaling of entropic shear rigidity by Xiangjun Xing, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay and Paul M. Goldbart; Physical Review Letters 93, 225701 (2004), 4 pages; cond-mat/0406411, 5 pages 
   
• Connections between relative entropy of entanglement and geometric measure of entanglement by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Marie Ericsson, Paul M. Goldbart and William J. Munro; Quantum Information and Computation 4, 252-272 (2004), quant-ph/0405002 
   
• Goldstone-type fluctuations and their implications for the amorphous solid state by Paul M. Goldbart, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review B 70, 184201 (2004), 21 pages; cond-mat/0405154, 20 pages 
   
• h/e magnetic flux modulation of the energy gap in nanotube quantum dots by Ulas C. Coskun, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Smitha Vishveshwara, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin; Science 304, 1132-34 (2004) 
   
• Goldstone fluctuations in the amorphous solid state by Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Europhysics Letters 67, 49-55 (2004), 7 pages; cond-mat/0310664, 7 pages 
   
• Measures of entanglement in multipartite bound entangled states by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Joseph B. Altepeter, Paul M. Goldbart and William J. Munro; Physical Review A 70, 022322 (2004), 5 pages  
   
• Geometric measure of entanglement and applications to bipartite and multipartite quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review A 68042307 (2003), 12 pages; quant-ph/0307219 
   
• Application of the geometric measure of entanglement to three-qubit mixed states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, quant-ph/0303158 
   
• Geometric measure of entanglement for multipartite quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, quant-ph/0212030 
   
• Connecting the geometric measure of entanglement and entanglement witnesses by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, quant-ph/0303079 
   
• Two-qubit mixed states and the entanglement-entropy frontier by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Kae Nemoto, Paul M. Goldbart, Paul G. Kwiat, William J. Munro and Frank Verstraete, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC'02, July 22-26 2002, MIT, Cambridge, MA) (Rinton Press, December 2002), (pdf version) 
   
• Instantaneous liability rule auctions: The continuous extension of higher-order liability rules by Sergey I. Knysh, Paul M. Goldbart and Ian Ayres, submitted to the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (October 2002); preprint version (33 pages; in PostScript, in pdf) 
   
• Density of states in d-wave superconductors disordered by extended impurities by Inanc Adagideli, Daniel E. Sheehy and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 66140512(R) (2002), 4 pages; cond-mat/0201339 
   
• Maximal entanglement versus entropy for mixed quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei, Kae Nemoto, Paul M. Goldbart, Paul G. Kwiat, William J. Munro and Frank Verstraete, Physical Review A 67 022110 (2003), 12 pages; quant-ph/0208138 
   
• Probing d-wave pairing correlations in the pseudogap regime of the cuprate superconductors via low-energy states near impurities by Daniel E. Sheehy, Inanc Adagideli, Paul M. Goldbart and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review B 64, 224518 (2001), 8 pages;  cond-mat/0106026 
   
• Quantal Andreev billiards: Semiclassical approach to mesoscale oscillations in the density of states by Inanc Adagideli and Paul M. Goldbart, International Journal of Modern Physics Vol. B 16, No. 10, 1381-1458 (2002); cond-mat/0108102 
   
• Charge transport in manganites: Hopping conduction, the anomalous Hall effect and universal scaling by Y. Lyanda-Geller, S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, P. M. Goldbart, P. D. Han, Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu and Y. Tokura, Physical Review B 63, 184426-184452 (2001);  cond-mat/0012462 
   
• Connecting the vulcanization transition to percolation by Weiqun Peng, Paul M. Goldbart and Alan J. McKane, Physical Review E 64, 031105 (2001), 7 pages; cond-mat/0104212 
   
• Optimal delegation and decoupling in the design of liability rules by Ian Ayres and Paul M. Goldbart, Michigan Law Review 100 (Centenary Volume), pp. 1-79, preprint (in pdf) (121 pages) 
   
• Correlated values in the theory of property and liability rules by Ian Ayres and Paul M. Goldbart, 32 Journal of Legal Studies 121-151 (2003), preprint (in pdf) (41 pages); more about the Journal of Legal Studies 
   
• Quantal Andreev billiards: Density of states oscillations and the spectrum-geometry relationship by Inanc Adagideli and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 65, 201306(R) (2002), 4 pages; cond-mat/0010016 
   
• Density-correlator signatures of the vulcanization transition by Weiqun Peng and Paul M. Goldbart, European Physical Journal B 19, 461-466 (2001), cond-mat/0009479
   
• Andreev interferometry as a probe of superconducting phase correlations in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates by Daniel E. Sheehy, Paul M. Goldbart, Joerg Schmalian and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review B 62, 4105-4113 (2000), cond-mat/0001039 
   
• Vulcanization and the random solid state it yields: A statistical mechanical perspective by Paul M. Goldbart and Weiqun Peng, in Disordered and Complex Systems (AIP Conference Proceedings, 553, p. 41-71, 2001), edited by P. Sollich, A. C. C. Coolen and L. P. Hughston, Proceedings of the King's College (London) Conference (July 10-14, 2000), PostScript version 
   
• Semi-microscopic theory of elasticity near the vulcanization transition by Horacio E. Castillo and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 62, 8159-8174 (2000); cond-mat/9909054 
   
• Renormalization-group approach to the vulcanization transition by Weiqun Peng and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 61, 3339-3357 (2000); cond-mat/9911048 
   
• Low-energy quasiparticle states near extended scatterers in d-wave superconductors and their connection with SUSY quantum mechanics by Inanc Adagideli, Paul M. Goldbart, Alexander Shnirman and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review Letters 83, 5571-5574 (1999), cond-mat/9907245 
   
• Random solids and random solidification: What can be learned by exploring systems obeying permanent random constraints? by Paul M. Goldbart, presented at a workshop entitled Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics (ICTP, Trieste, September 15-18, 1999), published in a special issue of Journal of Physics -- Condensed Matter 12, 6585-6599 (2000), cond-mat/9911159 
   
• Early stages of homopolymer collapse by Avi Halperin and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 61, 565-573 (2000), cond-mat/9905306 
   
• The amorphous solid state: a locally stable thermodynamic phase of randomly constrained systems by Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius,Physical Review B 60, 14702-14718 (1999), cond-mat/9905326 
   
• Magnetotransport in manganites and the role of quantal phases: Theory and experiment by S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, Y. Lyanda-Geller, P. M. Goldbart and P. D. Han,Physical Review Letters 84, 757-760 (2000); PostScript version 

  Magnetotransport in manganites and the role of quantal phases
  I: Theory by Y. Lyanda-Geller, P. M. Goldbart, S. H. Chun and M. B. Salamon, cond-mat/9904331;
  II: Experiment by S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, P. D. Han, Y. Lyanda-Geller and P. M. Goldbart, cond-mat/9904332 
   

• Statistical mechanics of permanent random atomic and molecular networks: Structure and heterogeneity of the amorphous solid state by Konstantin A. Shakhnovich and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B  60, 3862-3884 (1999), cond-mat/9901185 
   
• Resonant states and order-parameter suppression near point-like impurities in d-wave superconductors by Alexander Shnirman, Inanc Adagideli, Paul M. Goldbart and Ali Yazdani, Physical Review B 60, 7517-7522 (1999), cond-mat/9903252 
   
• Mesoscopic phenomena in Bose-Einstein systems: Persistent currents, population oscillations and quantal phases by Yuli Lyanda-Geller and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review A 61, 43609-43617 (2000); cond-mat/9812159 
   
• Topological defects and the short-distance behavior of the structure factor in nematic liquid crystals by Martin Zapotocky and Paul M. Goldbart, submitted to Physical Review E, cond-mat/9812235 
   
• Observing the Berry phase in diffusive conductors: Necessary conditions for adiabaticity by Daniel Loss, Herbert Schoeller, Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 59, 13328-13337 (1999), cond-mat/9805128 
   
• Rigidity as an emergent property of random networks: A statistical mechanical view by Paul M. Goldbart, in Rigidity: Theory and Applications, pp. 95-124, edited by M. F. Thorpe and P. M. Duxbury (Plenum, 1999), PostScript version 
   
• Conductivity of mesoscopic ferromagnets by Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Igor L. Aleiner and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review Letters 81, 3215-3218 (1998), cond-mat/9801113 
   
• Elasticity near the vulcanization transition by Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 58, R24-27 (1998), cond-mat/9712050 
   
• Quasi-Andreev reflection in inhomogeneous Luttinger liquids by Dmitrii L. Maslov and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 57, 9879-9882 (1998), cond-mat/9711070 
   
• Intrinsic dissipation and the SO(5) theory of high-temperature superconductivity by Daniel E. Sheehy and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 57, R8131-8134 (1998),cond-mat/9711193 
   
• Multiply-connected Bose-Einstein condensed alkali gases: Current- carrying states and their decay by Erich J. Mueller, Paul M. Goldbart and Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Physical Review A 57, R1505-1508 (1998), cond-mat/9711106 
   
• Antiferromagnetic hedgehogs with superconducting cores by Paul M. Goldbart and Daniel E. Sheehy, Physical Review B 58, 5731-5735 (1998), cond-mat/9711088 
   
• Universality and its origins at the amorphous solidification transition by Weiqun Peng, Horacio E. Castillo, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius, Physical Review B 57, 839-47 (1998), 9 pages; cond-mat/9709250 
   
• Dynamical signatures of the vulcanization transition by Kurt Broderix, Paul M. Goldbart and Annette Zippelius; Physical Review Letters 79, 3688-3691 (1997), cond-mat/9706226 
   
• Exact calculation of multifractal exponents of the critical wave function of Dirac fermions in a random magnetic field by Horacio E. Castillo, Claudio de C. Chamon, Eduardo Fradkin, Paul M. Goldbart and Christopher Mudry; Physical Review B 56, 10668-10677 (1997); cond-mat/9706084 
   
• Vulcanised matter: A model glass? by Annette Zippelius, Paul M. Goldbart; in Spin Glasses and Random Fields, pp. 357-386, edited by A. P. Young (World Scientific, Singapore, 1997) 
   
• Continuous random alloy networks: Glass transition and elasticity by Oliver Theissen, Annette Zippelius and Paul M. Goldbart; International Journal of Modern Physics B11, 1945-1957 (1996) 
   
• Random networks of crosslinked manifolds by Christian Roos, Annette Zippelius and Paul M. Goldbart; Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 30, 1967-1977 (1997) 
   
• Induction of non-d-wave order- parameter components by currents in d-wave superconductors by Martin Zapotocky, Dmitrii L. Maslov and Paul M. Goldbart;  Physical Review B 55, 6599-6604 (1997); cond-mat/9610063 
   
• Randomly crosslinked macromolecular systems: Vulcanisation transition to and properties of the amorphous solid state by Paul M. Goldbart, Horacio E. Castillo and Annette Zippelius; Advances in Physics 45, 393-468 (1996); Preprint version, 81 pages 

• Seeking simplicity in complexity: a physicist's view of vulcanized media (in PDF)
  Aspen Center for Physics Colloquium, July 7, 2017 and elsewhere


• Torn polymer liquids: using tricks from the quantum world to understand them (in PDF)
  Washington University in St. Louis Physics Department Colloquium, December 7, 2016 and elsewhere


• Strange and subtle states of matter: the topological ideas behind the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics (YouTube video)
  Georgia Tech College of Sciences Frontiers in Science Public Lecture, November 14, 2016


• Strands of superconductivity at the nanoscale (in PowerPoint)
  University of Victoria (Canada) Colloquium, November 2013


• Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of helium-4 through arrays of nano-apertures (in PDF)
  U.C. Berkeley; Washington University in St. Louis; UIUC; and PASI-06, Argentina; Autumn 2006


• Superconductivity at the nanoscale (in PDF)
  Oxford University seminar and elsewhere (November 2004), and elsewhere


• Quantal Andreev billiards and their spectral geometry (in PDF)
  Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics seminar (Kyoto, Japan, October 2000), and elsewhere


• Games for Judges: An approach to the design of legal liability rules (in PowerPoint)
  Understanding Complex Sytems symposium (Urbana, Illinois 2002);
  Michael Wortis Retirement Celebration (Burnaby, Canada 2002), and elsewhere