PUBLICATIONS
Recent and selected publications
Nanosecond High-Power Dense Microplasma Switch for Visible Light
A. Bataller, J. Koulakis, S. Pree, and S. Putterman
Applied Physics Letters 105, 223501 (2014)
Blackbody Emission from Laser Breakdown in High-Pressure Gases
A. Bataller, G. R. Plateau, B. Kappus, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 113, 075001 (2014)
Collision Time Measurements in a Sonoluminescing Microplasma with a Large Plasma Parameter
A. Bataller, B. Kappus, C. Camara, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 113, 024301 (2014)
Highlighted Article! See Physics Focus story, “Focus: Plasma Extremes Seen through Gas Bubble”, by Michael Schirber, Physics 7, 72 (2014)
Energy Balance for a Sonoluminescence Bubble Yields a Measure of Ionization Potential Lowering
B. Kappus, A. Bataller, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 111, 234301 (2013)
Charge Localization on a Polymer Surface by Triboelectrically Induced X-Ray Emission
Collins, A., Camara, C., Naranjo, B., Putterman, S., and Hird, J.
Physical Review B 88, 064202 (2013)
Stable Charged-Particle Acceleration and Focusing in a Laser Accelerator Using Spatial Harmonics
B. Naranjo, A. Valloni, S. Putterman, and J. B. Rosenzweig
Physical Review Letters 109, 164803, (2012)
Opacity and Transport Measurements Reveal That Dilute Plasma Models of Sonoluminescence Are Not Valid
S. Khalid, B. Kappus, K. Weninger, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 108, 104302 (2012)
Highlighted Article! See News Story Physics Today “Inside a Sonoluminescing Microbubble Hints of a Dense Plasma”, by Ashley Smart
Physics Today April 2012
Phase Transition to an Opaque Plasma in a Sonoluminescing Bubble
B. Kappus, A. Chakravarty, S. Khalid, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 106, 234302 (2011)
Pyroelectric Fusion Using a Tritiated Target
B. Naranjo, S. Putterman, and T. Venhaus
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 632, 43 (2011)
A Triboelectric X-Ray Source
J. R. Hird, C. G. Camara, and S. Putterman
Applied Physics Letters 98, 133501 (2011)
Highlighted Article! See news story in Nature, “A Stroke of X-Ray”, by Stefan Kneip
Nature 473, 455(2011)
Mechanically Driven Millimeter Source of Nanosecond X-Ray Pulses
C. G. Camara, J. V. Escobar, J. R. Hird, and S. Putterman
Applied Physics B 99, 613 (2010)
2-Photon Ionization for Efficient Seeding and Trapping of Strontium Ions
E. Kirilov and S. Puterman
The European Physical Journal D 54, 683 (2009)
Correlation between Nanosecond X-Ray Flashes and Stick-Slip Friction in Peeling Tape
C. G. Camara, J. V. Escobar, J. R. Hird, and S. Putterman
Nature 455, 1089 (2008)
Molecular Dynamics of Extreme Mass Segregation in a Rapidly Collapsing Bubble
Bass, S. J. Ruuth, C. Camara, B. Merriman, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 101, 234301 (2008)
Symmetry Reduction for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of an Imploding Bubble
A. Bass, S. Putterman, B. Merriman, and S. J. Ruuth
Journal of Computational Physics 227, 2118 (2008)
Observation of Nuclear Fusion Driven by a Pyroelectric Crystal
B. Naranjo, J. K. Gimzewski, and S. Putterman
Nature 434, 1115 (2005)
Time Scales for Cold Welding and the Origins of Stick-Slip Friction
R. Budakian and S. Putterman
Physical Review B 65, 235429 (2002)
Highlighted Article! See news story in Nature, “Spot-Welds Stick Sliding Metals”, by Phill Ball
Nature News, 15 March (2002)
Force Detection Using a Fiber-Optic Cantilever
R. Budakian and S. Putterman
Applied Physics Letters 81, 2100 (2002)
Correlation Between Charge Transfer and Stick-Slip Friction at a Metal Insulator Interface
R. Budakian and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 85, 1000 (2000)
Observation of Bubble Dynamics within Luminescent Cavitation Clouds: Sonoluminescence at the Nanoscale
K. R. Weninger, C. G. Camara, and S. Putterman
Physical Review E 63, 016310 (2000)
Sonoluminescence: Nature’s Smallest Blackbody
G. Vazquez, C. Camara, S. Putterman, and K. Weninger
Optics Letters 26, 575 (2001)
Real Time Imaging of Two-Dimensional Charge on Dielectric Surfaces
R. Budakian and S. Putterman
Review Scientific Instruments 71, 444 (2000)
Picosecond Discharges and Stick-Slip Friction at a Moving Meniscus of Mercury on Glass
R. Budakian, K. Weninger, R. A. Hiller, and S. Putterman
Nature 391, 266 (1998)
Sonoluminescence: Sound into Light
S. Putterman
Scientific American, February 1995
On Sonoluminescing Bubbles and Mass Diffusion
R. Lofstedt, K. Weninger, S. Putterman, and B. Barber
Physical Review E 51, 4400 (1995)
Highlighted Article! See news story in ScienceNews, “Inferno in a Bubble”
Science News, April 29, 1995, p. 266
Observation of a New Phase of Sonoluminescence at Low Partial Pressure
B. Barber, K. Weninger, R. Lofstedt, and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 74, 5276 (1995)
Effect of Noble Gas Doping in Single Bubble Sonoluminescence
R. Hiller, K. Weninger, S. Putterman, and B. Barber
Science 266, 248 (1994)
Light Scattering Measurements of the Repetitive Supersonic Implosion of a Sonoluminescing Bubble
B. Barber and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 69, 3839 (1992)
Highlighted Article! See news story in Nature, “Sonoluminescence in from the dark”, by John Maddox
Nature 361, 397 (1993)
and in Scientific American, “The Color of Sound: Shedding light on Sonoluminescence”, by Philip Yam,
Scientific American, December (1993), pg. 24
Observation of Synchronous Picosecond Sonoluminescence
B. Barber and S. Putterman
Nature 352, 318 (1991)
Imaging of Intermittency in Ripple-Wave Turbulence
W. Wright, R. Budakian, D. Pine, and S. Putterman
Science 278, 1609, (1997)
Towards a Hydrodynamic Theory of Sonoluminescence
R. Lofstedt, B. Barber, and S. Putterman
Physics of Fluids A 5, 2911 (1993)
Wave Function Collapse due to Null measurement: The Origin of Intermittent Atomic Fluorescence
M. Porrati and S. Putterman
Physical Review A 36, 929 (1987)
Randomness in Quantum Mechanics: Nature’s Ultimate Cryptogram?
T. Erber and S. Putterman
Nature 318, 41 (1985)
Highlighted Article! See news story in Nature, “Uniting Mechanics and Statistics”, by John Maddox
Nature 316, 11 (1985)
Observation of a Kink Soliton on the Surface of a Liquid
B. Denardo, W. Wright, S. Putterman, and A. Larraza
Physical Review Letters 64, 1518 (1990)
Observation of Envelope Solitons in Solids
J. Wu, J. Wheatley, S. Putterman, and I. Rudnick
Physical Review Letters 59, 2744 (1987)
Nonlinear Theory of Localized Standing Waves
B. Denardo, A. Larraza, S. Putterman, and P. Roberts
Physical Review Letters 69, 597 (1992)
Nonlinear Theory of Modulated Standing Waves; Domain Walls, Kinks and Breathers
S. Putterman and P. Roberts
Proceedings A of the Royal Society 440 (1993)
Theory of Non-Propagating Surface Wave Solitons
A. Larraza and S. Putterman
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 148, 443 (1984)
Fokker-Planck Equation for Interacting Waves: Dispersion Law Renormalization and Wave Turbulence
P. Roberts and S. Putterman
Physics Reports, 168 209 (1988)
Second Sound in Wave Turbulence: A Clue to the Cause of Anomalous Plasma Diffusivity
A. Larraza and S. Putterman
Physical Review Letters 57, 2810 (1986)
Non-Linear Hydrodynamics and a One Fluid Theory of Superfluid He4
S. Putterman and P. Roberts
Physics Letters A 89, 444 (1982)
Highlighted Article! See news story in Nature, “A Classical Derivation of the Meissner Effect?”, by J. B. Taylor
Nature 299, 681 (1982)
Superfluid Two Phase Sound
S. Putterman, D. Heckerman, R. Rosenbaum, and G. Williams
Physical Review Letters 42, 580 (1979)
Superfluid Fifth Sound
I. Rudnick, J. Maynard, G. Williams, and S. Putterman
Physical Review B 20, 1934 (1979)
Superfluid Hydrodynamics
S. Putterman
North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1974, Russian edition 1978.