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List of works by James P. Sethna

Abrupt buckling transition observed during the plectoneme formation of individual DNA molecules.

scientific article published on 8 April 2008

Acoustic emission from crumpling paper

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Anomalous Conductance Oscillations and Half-Metallicity in Atomic Ag-O Chains

scientific article published on 29 August 2008

Atomic tunneling from a scanning-tunneling or atomic-force microscope tip: dissipative quantum effects from phonons

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Avalanche spatial structure and multivariable scaling functions: sizes, heights, widths, and views through windows

scientific article published in December 2011

Avalanches, Barkhausen noise, and plain old criticality

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Bayesian ensemble approach to error estimation of interatomic potentials

scientific article published on 15 October 2004

Bayesian error estimation in density-functional theory

scientific article published on 15 November 2005

Bending Crystals: Emergence of Fractal Dislocation Structures

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Block copolymer self-assembly-directed synthesis of mesoporous gyroidal superconductors

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Calculation of Quantum Tunneling for a Spatially Extended Defect: The Dislocation Kink in Copper Has a Low Effective Mass

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Chebyshev Approximation and the Global Geometry of Model Predictions

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Collective Motion of Humans in Mosh and Circle Pits at Heavy Metal Concerts

scientific article published on May 29, 2013

Collective dynamics in a model of sliding charge-density waves. I. Critical behavior

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Collective dynamics in a model of sliding charge-density waves. II. Finite-size effects

scientific article published in May 1993

Comment on "Sloppy models, parameter uncertainty, and the role of experimental design"

scientific article published on 19 April 2011

Computation of a Theoretical Membrane Phase Diagram and the Role of Phase in Lipid-Raft-Mediated Protein Organization

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Constrained spin model of phason dynamics in quasicrystals

scientific article published on 01 November 1990

Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in single-atom transistors

scientific article

Crackling noise

scientific article published in Nature

Critical Casimir forces in cellular membranes

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

Critical droplet theory explains the glass formability of aqueous solutions

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Crossover behavior in interface depinning

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

DNA Y structure: a versatile, multidimensional single molecule assay

scientific article

Deformation of Crystals: Connections with Statistical Physics

Density of states in a vortex core and the zero-bias tunneling peak

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Derivation of a general three-dimensional crack-propagation law: A generalization of the principle of local symmetry

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

Dielectric breakdown and avalanches at nonequilibrium metal-insulator transitions

scientific article published on 28 December 2011

Discontinuities at the DNA supercoiling transition

scientific article published on 15 October 2009

Disorder-driven pretransitional tweed pattern in martensitic transformations

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Elastic Theory Has Zero Radius of Convergence

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Electron-energy-loss spectroscopy of H adsorbed on Rh(100): Interpretation of overtone spectra as two-phonon bound states

scientific article published on 01 November 1988

Emergent SO(3) Symmetry of the Frictionless Shear Jamming Transition

Entropy distribution of a two-level system: An asymptotic analysis

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

Entropy of glasses

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Erratum: Scaling theory for the glass transition

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

Evolving numerical enzymes: Accelerating relaxation in the Frenkel-Kontorova model

scientific article published on 01 August 1991

Exactly soluble model of fractional statistics

scientific article published on 01 September 1990

Explanation for the universal low-temperature and dynamical properties of a particular glass

scientific article published on 01 November 1985

Extracting falsifiable predictions from sloppy models

scientific article published on 9 October 2007

Fast domain growth through density-dependent diffusion in a driven lattice gas

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Fock's expansion, Kato's cusp conditions, and the exponential ansatz

scientific article published on 01 November 1991

Fracture in mode I using a conserved phase-field model

scientific article published on 13 February 2002

Fracture strength of disordered media: universality, interactions, and tail asymptotics

scientific article published on 10 February 2012

From damage percolation to crack nucleation through finite size criticality

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

Frustration, curvature, and defect lines in metallic glasses and the cholesteric blue phase

scientific article published in May 1985

Geometry of nonlinear least squares with applications to sloppy models and optimization

scientific article published on 3 March 2011

Gibbs-Thomson formula for small island sizes: Corrections for high vapor densities

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

History dependence of a two-level system

scientific article published on 01 February 1991

Hysteresis and hierarchies: Dynamics of disorder-driven first-order phase transformations

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Hysteresis loop critical exponents in 6- epsilon dimensions

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Hysteresis, avalanches, and disorder-induced critical scaling: A renormalization-group approach

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Imaging atomic rearrangements in two-dimensional silica glass: watching silica's dance.

scientific article

Infrared spectroscopic study of the dressed rotations of CN- isotopes in alkali halide crystals

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high-T(c) copper-oxide pseudogap states

scientific article

Logarithmically slow domain growth in nonrandomly frustrated systems: Ising models with competing interactions

scientific article published on 01 November 1992

Low-frequency relaxation in Ising spin-glasses

scientific article published on 01 March 1985

Low-temperature properties of a model glass

scientific article published on 01 April 1988

Low-temperature properties of a model glass. I. Elastic dipole model

scientific article published in April 1990

Low-temperature properties of a model glass. II. Specific heat and thermal transport

scientific article published on 01 April 1990

Materials science. Crackling wires

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Mean-field approaches to the totally asymmetric exclusion process with quenched disorder and large particles

scientific article published on 4 August 2004

Measuring nonlinear stresses generated by defects in 3D colloidal crystals

scientific article published in August 2016

Mechanical properties of growing melanocytic nevi and the progression to melanoma

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Mesoscale theory of grains and cells: crystal plasticity and coarsening

scientific article published on 08 March 2006

Minimal model of plasma membrane heterogeneity requires coupling cortical actin to criticality

scientific article

Morphology of renormalization-group flow for the de Almeida-Thouless-Gardner universality class

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Nonequilibrium entropy and entropy distributions

scientific article published on 01 February 1990

Nucleation at the DNA supercoiling transition

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Optimal experimental design in an epidermal growth factor receptor signalling and down-regulation model

scientific article published in May 2007

Overshoot during phenotypic switching of cancer cell populations

scientific article

Parameter space compression underlies emergent theories and predictive models

scientific article published in November 2013

Perspective: Sloppiness and emergent theories in physics, biology, and beyond

scientific article published on July 2015

Pinning Susceptibility: The Effect of Dilute, Quenched Disorder on Jamming

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Prediction of logarithmic growth in a quenched Ising model

scientific article published on 01 February 1991

Quasi-periodic events in crystal plasticity and the self-organized avalanche oscillator

scientific article published in Nature

Quasicrystalline textures of cholesteric liquid crystals: Blue phase III?

scientific article published in April 1986

Real-space renormalization group for the random-field Ising model

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Reply to ‘‘Neutral-fermion-soliton statistics in the short-range resonating-valence-bond state: A reevaluation’’

scientific article published on 01 October 1989

Resonant scattering and thermal transport in orientational glasses

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Scaling ansatz for the jamming transition

scientific article published on 10 August 2016

Scaling theory for the glass transition

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Senescent cells in growing tumors: population dynamics and cancer stem cells

scientific article

Sethna et al. reply

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Sloppiness, robustness, and evolvability in systems biology

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Sloppy-model universality class and the Vandermonde matrix

scientific article published on 12 October 2006

Spin-glass nature of tweed precursors in martensitic transformations

scientific article published on 01 December 1991

Statistical mechanical approaches to models with many poorly known parameters

scientific article published on August 12, 2003

Structural susceptibility and separation of time scales in the van der Pol oscillator

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Textures in a chiral smectic liquid-crystal film

scientific article published on 01 December 1986

The statistical mechanics of complex signaling networks: nerve growth factor signaling

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Theory of the ripple phase in hydrated phospholipid bilayers

scientific article published on 01 October 1987

Topology of the resonating valence-bond state: Solitons and high- T c superconductivity

scientific article

Universal pulse shape scaling function and exponents: critical test for avalanche models applied to Barkhausen noise

scientific article published on 10 April 2002

Universally Sloppy Parameter Sensitivities in Systems Biology Models

scholarly article by Ryan Nicholas Gutenkunst published in January 2005

Universally sloppy parameter sensitivities in systems biology models

scientific article

Variational method for estimating the rate of convergence of Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithms

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

Vibration-assisted electron tunneling in C140 transistors.

scientific article published in February 2005

Visualization, coarsening, and flow dynamics of focal conic domains in simulated smectic-A liquid crystals

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Visualizing probabilistic models and data with Intensive Principal Component Analysis

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Vortex Dynamics and Losses Due to Pinning: Dissipation from Trapped Magnetic Flux in Resonant Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities

journal article; published 2018-11-27

Weirdest Martensite: Smectic Liquid Crystal Microstructure and Weyl-Poincaré Invariance

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Why are nonlinear fits to data so challenging?

scientific article published on 10 February 2010

Yield Precursor Dislocation Avalanches in Small Crystals: The Irreversibility Transition

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

You can run, you can hide: The epidemiology and statistical mechanics of zombies

scientific article