Daniel L. Stein

Professor Of Physics and Mathematics

Areas of Research/Interest

Disorder and randomness in condensed matter systems, noisy and nonequilibrium dynamics, biological physics, statistical physics models of social networks.

Selected Publications

"Spin Glasses, Disordered Systems, and Complexity", D.L. Stein, to appear in Foundational Papers in Complexity Science (Santa Fe Institute Press, 2022)

"Metastates and Replica Symmetry Breaking", C.M. Newman, N. Read, and D.L. Stein, to appear in Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond: Replica Symmetry Breaking After 40 Years (World Scientfic, Singapore)

"Thermal Activation Barriers for Creating and Annihilating Magnetic Droplet Solitons in the Presence of Spin-Transfer Torque", G.D. Chaves-O'Flynn and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. B 101, 184421 (2020).

"A Relation between Disorder Chaos and Incongruent States in Spin Glasses on Z^d", L.-P. Arguin, C.M. Newman, and D.L. Stein, Comm. Math. Phys. 367, 1019 -- 1043 (2019).

"Statistical Physics Models of Belief Dynamics: Theory and Empirical Tests", Mirta Galesic and D.L. Stein, Physica A 519, 275-294 (2019).

"Thermodynamic Identities and Symmetry Breaking in Short-Range Spin Glasses", L.-P. Arguin, C.M. Newman, and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 187202 (2015).

"Universal Protein Distributions in a Model of Cell Growth and Division", N. Brenner, C.M. Newman, D. Osmanovic, Y. Rabin, H. Salman, and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. E 92, 042713 (2015).

"Fluctuation Bounds for Interface Free Energies in Spin Glasses", L.-P. Arguin, C.M. Newman, D.L. Stein, and J. Wehr, J. Statist. Phys. 156, 221-238 (2014).

"Nature vs. Nurture: Predictability in Zero-Temperature Ising Dynamics", J. Ye, J. Machta, C.M. Newman, and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. E 88, 040101 (2013).

"A Nanotransistor Based on Gate-Induced Thermal Switching", J. B urki, C.A. Stafford, and D.L. Stein, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Nanotechnology 1, 30-37 (2012).

"Annular Spin-Transfer Memory Element", A.D. Kent and D.L. Stein, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 10, 129{134 (2011).

"Magnetic Reversal in Nanoscopic Ferromagnetic Rings", Kirsten Martens, D.L. Stein, and A.D. Kent, Phys. Rev. B 73, 054413 (2006).

"Theory of Metastability in Simple Metal Nanowires", J. B urki, C.A. Stafford, and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090601 (2005).

"Topical Review: Ordering and Broken Symmetry in Short-Ranged Spin Glasses", C.M. Newman and D.L. Stein, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 15, R1319-R1364 (2003).

"Droplet Nucleation and Domain Wall Motion in a Bounded Interval", R.S. Maier and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270601 (2001).

"Metastate Approach to Thermodynamic Chaos", C.M. Newman and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. E 55, 5194-5211 (1997).

"Spatial Inhomogeneity and Thermodynamic Chaos", C.M. Newman and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4821-4824 (1996).

"Spin Glass Model with Dimension-Dependent Ground State Multiplicity", C.M. Newman and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2286-2289 (1994).

"Effect of Focusing and Caustics on Exit Phenomena in Systems Lacking Detailed Balance", R.S. Maier and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1783-1786 (1993).

"Escape Problem for Irreversible Systems", R.S. Maier and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. E 48, 931-938 (1993).

"Multiple States and Thermodynamic Limits in Short-Ranged Ising Spin Glass Models", C.M. Newman and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. B 46, 973-982 (1992).

"Mean Exit Times Over Fluctuating Barriers", D.L. Stein, R.G. Palmer, J.L. van Hemmen, and C.R. Doering, Phys. Lett. A 136, 353-357 (1989).

"Dynamics on Ultrametric Spaces", A.T. Ogielski and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1634-1637 (1985).

"A Model of Protein Conformational Substates", D.L. Stein, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 82, 3670-3672 (1985).

"Models of Hierarchically Constrained Dynamics for Glassy Relaxation", R.G. Palmer, D.L. Stein, E. Abrahams and P.W. Anderson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 958-961 (1984).

"A Model for the Origin of Biological Catalysis", D.L. Stein and P.W. Anderson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81, 1751-1753 (1984).

"A One-Dimensional Spin Glass Model with Long-Range Random Interactions", G. Kotliar, P.W. Anderson, and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. B 27, 602-605 (1983).

"Magnetic Vortices in a Rotating 3P2 Neutron Superfluid", J.A. Sauls, D.L. Stein and J. Serene, Phys. Rev. D 25, 967-975 (1982).

"Are Grand Unified Theories Compatible with Standard Cosmology?", M.B. Einhorn, D.L. Stein and D. Toussaint, Phys. Rev. D 21, 3295-3298 (1980).