Publications

  • Opinion and related pieces
    • Aspen’s magic, through the eyes of a physicist by Paul Goldbart, Aspen Daily News, August 15, 2024
    • An appreciation of David Sherrington’s service at Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Physics, Advances in Physics 70, 353-354 (2021)
    • Tying it all together by Paul M. Goldbart and Randall D. Kamien, Physics Today 72, 46–47 (2019), from the Reviews of Modern Physics @ 90 series, reflecting on the impact of The topological theory of defects in ordered media article by N. D. Mermin, Rev. Mod. Phys. 51, 591 (1979)
  • Books
    • Mathematics for Physics — A Guided Tour for Graduate Students by Michael Stone and Paul M. Goldbart (Cambridge University Press, 2009); pre-publication version downloadable here, published version available here or here
    • Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards edited by Paul M. Goldbart, Nigel Goldenfeld and David Sherrington (Oxford University Press, 2005); available here
  • Recent preprints and reprints (still under construction)
    • Proximity-measurement induced random localization in quantum fluids by Pushkar Mohile and Paul M. Goldbart; under review; preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2507.23085 [6 pages]
    • Statistical field theory of equilibrium amorphous solids and the intrinsic heterogeneity distributions that characterize them by Paul M. Goldbart; invited chapter, accepted for publication in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics (2026); preprint at arxiv:2505.14954 [29 pages]
    • Towards perfect quantum insulation by Rafael Hipolito and Paul M. Goldbart; under review; preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2501.14977 [5 pages]
    • Universal mesoscale heterogeneity and its spatial correlations in equilibrium amorphous solids by Boli Zhou, Ziqi Zhou and Paul M. Goldbart, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 58, 215002 (2025) [21 pages]
    • Scale-dependent elasticity as a probe of universal heterogeneity in equilibrium amorphous solids by Boli Zhou, Rafael Hipolito and Paul M. Goldbart, Journal of Statistical Physics 192, 70 (2025) [16 pages]
  • Some earlier papers that I’m fond of (also still under construction)
    • Flocking from a quantum analogy: spin-orbit coupling in an active fluid by Benjamin Loewe, Anton Souslov and Paul M. Goldbart, New Journal of Physics 20 013020 (2018) [16 pages]
    • Directed polymer systems explored via their quantum analogs: Topological constraints and their consequences by D. Z. Rocklin, Shina Tan and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review B 86, 165421 (2012) [16 pages]
    • Frustration and glassiness in spin models with cavity-mediated interactions by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin L. Lev and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review Letters 107, 277201 (2011) [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)
    • 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
    • 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 Online Material; News & Views commentary by Helmut Ritsch, Nature Physics 5, 781-782 (2009)
    • Individual topological tunnelling events of a quantum field probed via their macroscopic consequences by Mitrabhanu Sahu, Myung-Ho Bae, Andrey Rogachev, David Pekker, Nayana Shah, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin, Nature Physics 5, 503-508 (2009); Supplementary Online Material
    • 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)
    • 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), News & Views commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Nature Physics 1, 83-84 (2005)
    • Quantum interference device made by DNA templating of superconducting nanowires by David Hopkins, David Pekker, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexey Bezryadin, Science 308, 1762-65 (2005)
    • 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 (2004) 1132-34 (2004)
    • Geometric measure of entanglement and applications to bipartite and multipartite quantum states by Tzu-Chieh Wei and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review A 68 (2003) 042307 [12 pages]
    • 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 (2003) 022110 [12 pages]
    • 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 (2001)
    • Renormalization-group approach to the vulcanization transition by Weiqun Peng and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review E 61 (2000) 3339-3357
    • Randomly crosslinked macromolecular systems: vulcanisation transition to and properties of the amorphous solid state by Paul M. Goldbart and Horacio E. Castillo, Annette Zippelius, Advances in Physics 45 (1996) 393-468
    • Chaos in Andreev billiards by Ioan Kosztin, Dmitrii L. Maslov and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review Letters 75 (1995) 1735-38
    • Isotropic-nematic transition in shear flow: state selection, coexistence, phase transitions and critical behavior by Peter D. Olmsted and Paul M. Goldbart, Physical Review A 46 (1992) 4966-4993
    • Berry’s phase and persistent charge and spin currents in textured mesoscopic rings by Daniel Loss, Paul M. Goldbart and Alexander V. Balatsky, Physical Review Letters 65 (1990) 1655-1658