David Snoke
Complete Publication List (updated April 2009)



key publications are in red

1. D. Snoke, J.P. Wolfe, and A. Mysyrowicz, "Quantum Saturation of a Bose Gas: Excitons in Cu2O," Physical Review Letters 59, 827 (1987).

2. D.W. Snoke and J.P. Wolfe, "Population Dynamics of a Bose Gas near Saturation," Physical Review B 39, 4030 (1989).

3. D.W. Snoke and J.P. Wolfe, "Time Evolution of the Momentum Distribution of a Bose Gas near Condensation," Momentum Distributions, R.N. Silver and P.N. Sokol, ed.,  (Plenum, New York, 1989), p. 381.

4. D.W. Snoke, J.P. Wolfe, and D.P. Trauernicht, "Mechanism of the Ortho to Paraexciton Conversion in Cu2O," Physical Review B  41, 5266 (1990).

5. A. Mysyrowicz, D.W. Snoke, and J.P. Wolfe, "Progress on Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons," Physica Status Solidi (b) 169, 387 (1990).

6. D.W. Snoke, J.P. Wolfe, and A. Mysyrowicz, "Evidence for Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Two-Component Exciton Gas," Physical Review Letters 64, 2543 (1990).

7. D.W. Snoke, J.P. Wolfe, and A. Mysyrowicz, "Evidence for Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons in Cu2O," Physical Review B 41, 11171 (1990).

8. D.W. Snoke and J.P. Wolfe, "Picosecond Dynamics of Degenerate Orthoexcitons in Cu2O," Physical Review B 42, 7876 (1990).

9. D.W. Snoke, Jia-Ling Lin, and J.P. Wolfe, "Coexistence of Bose-Einstein Paraexcitons with Maxwell-Boltzmann Orthoexcitons in Cu2O," Physical Review B 43, 1226 (1991).

10. D. Snoke, J.-L. Lin, J.P. Wolfe, and A. Mysyrowicz, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of a Two-Component Exciton Gas," Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, John Joannopoulos, ed., 1959 (World, Singapore, 1991).

11. D.W. Snoke, D. Braun, and M. Cardona, "Carrier Thermalization in  Cu2O: Phonon Emission by Excitons," Physical Review B 44, 2991 (1991).

12. David Snoke, Dieter Braun, and Manuel Cardona, "Nonequilibrium Exciton Kinetics in Cu2O," Journal of Luminescence 53, 415 (1992).

13. David Snoke, Wolfgang Ruehle, and Elisabeth Bauser, "Nonequilibrium Electron Kinetics in GaAs," Journal of Luminescence 53, 419 (1992).

14. D.W. Snoke, W.W. Ruehle, Y.-C. Lu and E. Bauser, "Nonthermal Distribution of Electrons on Picosecond Timescale in GaAs," Physical Review Letters 68, 990 (1992).

15. Y.S. Raptis, D. Snoke, K. Syassen, S. Roth, P. Bernier, and A. Zahab, "Raman Study of C60 /C70 under Pressure," High Pressure Research 9, 41 (1992).

16. D.W. Snoke, W.W. Ruehle, Y.-C. Lu, and E. Bauser, "The Evolution of a Nonthermal Electron Energy Distribution in GaAs," Physical Review B 45, 10979 (1992).

17. D.W. Snoke, A. Shields, and M. Cardona, "Phonon-Absorption Recombination Luminescence of Room Temperature Excitons in  Cu2O," Physical Review B 45, 11693 (1992).

18. D.W. Snoke, W.W. Ruehle, Y.-C. Lu, and E. Bauser, "Nonthermalized Electron Distribution at Low Density in GaAs," Ultrafast Processes in Spectroscopy 1991, A. Laubereau and A. Seilmeier, eds., 309 (IOP, Bristol, 1992).

19. D.W. Snoke, Y. Raptis, and K. Syassen, "Vibrational Modes, Optical Excitations, and Phase Transition of C60 at High Pressures," Physical Review B 45, 14419 (1992).

20. D.W. Snoke and W.W. Ruehle, "Nonthermal Distribution of Electrons in GaAs," Ultrafast Phenomena VII, (Springer, Berlin, 1992).

21. D.W. Snoke, K. Syassen, and A. Mittelbach, "Optical Absorption of C60 at High Pressure," Physical Review B 47, 4146 (1993).

22. D.W. Snoke, "Theory of Electron-Electron Scattering at Low Density," Physical Review B 47, 13346 (1993).

23. D.W. Snoke and M. Cardona, "A Bond Polarizability Model of the Raman Spectrum of C60," Solid State Communications 87/2, 121 (1993).

24. D.W. Snoke, "The Density Dependence of Electron Scattering at Low Density," Physical Review B 50, 11583 (1994).

25. D.W. Snoke and G. Baym, "Unifying Themes of Bose-Einstein Condensation," Bose-Einstein Condensation, A. Griffin, D.W. Snoke and S. Stringari, eds., (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 1.

26. D.W. Snoke, "Exciton," McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1994).

27. J.P. Wolfe, J.-L. Lin, and D.W. Snoke, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of a Nearly Ideal Gas: Excitons in Cu2O," Bose-Einstein Condensation, A. Griffin, D.W. Snoke and S. Stringari, eds., (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 281.

28. D.W. Snoke, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons: I. Experimental Demonstration of Textbook Quantum Statistics," Comments on Condensed Matter Physics 17, 217 (1995).

29. D.W. Snoke and J.D. Crawford, "Hysteresis in the Mott Transition between Plasma and Insulating Gas," Physical Review E 52, 5796 (1995).

30. A. Lohner, D. Snoke, W.W. Ruehle, and K. Koehler, "Excitonic Spin-flip Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Wells," in  Proceedings of the Conference on Hot Carriers in Semiconductors IX, (Plenum, New York, 1995).

31. D.W. Snoke, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons: II. Results from Cu2O at High Density," Comments on Condensed Matter Physics 17, 325 (1996).

32. D.W. Snoke, M. Cardona, G. Benedek, and G. Onida, "Comparison of Bond Character in Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes," Physical Review B 53, 12641 (1996).

33. P. Supancic, U. Hohenester, P. Kocevar, D. Snoke, R. Hannak, and W.W. Ruehle, "Transport Analysis of the Thermalization and Energy Relaxation of Photoexcited Hot Electrons in Ge-doped GaAs," Physical Review B 53, 7785 (1996).

34. David Snoke, "Coherent Exciton Waves," Science 273, 1351 (1996).

35. D.W. Snoke, W.W. Ruehle, K. Koehler, and K. Ploog, "Spin Flip of Excitons in GaAs Quantum Wells," Physical Review B 55, 13789 (1997).

36. V. Negoita, D.W. Snoke, and K. Eberl, "Harmonic Potential Traps for Indirect Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells," Physical Review B 60, 2661 (1999).

37. V. Negoita, D.W. Snoke, and K. Eberl, "Stretching Quantum Wells: a Method for Trapping Free Carriers in GaAs Heterostructures," Applied Physics Letters 75, 2059 (1999).

38. Jean Hager, David Snoke, and Julia Thompson, "Crossover from Convex to Concave Magnetic Field near a Circular Current Loop," Siberian Journal of Physics 1, 5-11 (1999).

39. V. Negoita, D.W. Snoke, and K. Eberl, "Huge Density-Dependent Blueshift of Indirect Excitons in Biased Coupled Quantum Wells," Physical Review B 61, 2779 (2000).

40. D.W. Snoke and V. Negoita, "Pushing the Auger Limit: Excitons in Cu2O," Physical Review B 61, 2904 (2000).

41. V. Negoita, D.W. Snoke, and K. Eberl, "Strong Red Shift of Indirect Exciton Luminescence in Low Magnetic Field," Solid State Communications 113, 437 (2000).

42. D.W. Snoke, V. Negoita, and K. Eberl, "Energy Shifts of Indirect Excitons in Biased Coupled Quantum Wells," Journal of Luminescence 87/89, 157 (2000).

43. V. Negoita, D. Hackworth, D.W. Snoke, and K. Eberl, "Sub-Hz Spectral Fluctuations from High-Density Excitons in Biased Coupled Quantum Wells," Optics Letters 25, 572 (2000).

44. D.W. Snoke, V. Negoita, D. Hackworth, and K. Eberl, "Anomalous Spectral Shifts of Indirect Excitons in Coupled GaAs Quantum Wells," International Journal of Modern Physics B 15, 3606 (2001). Reprinted in Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, K. Cho and A. Matsui, eds. (World, Singapore, 2001).

45. S. Denev and D.W. Snoke, "Stress Dependence of Exciton Relaxation Processes in Cu2O," Physical Review B 65, 085211 (2002).

46. D. Snoke, S. Denev, Y. Liu, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Long-range Transport in Excitonic Dark States in Coupled Quantum Wells," Nature 418, 754 (2002).

47. D.W. Snoke, S. Denev, V. Negoita, and L. Pfieffer, "Harmonic Potential Traps for Excitons in 3D and 2D," Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, S. Chu, V. Vuletic, A.J. Kerman, and C. Chin, eds., (World Scientific, Singapore, 2002).

48. S. Denev, V. Negoita, D. Hackworth, D.W. Snoke, B. Laikhtman, K. Eberl, and L. Pfeiffer, "Optical Detection of Magnetic Field Based on Giant Magnetoresistance in Undoped Coupled Quantum Wells," Physical Review B 66, 205304 (2002).

49. David Snoke, "Spontaneous Bose Coherence of Excitons and Polaritons," Science 298, 1368 (2002).

50. S.A. Moskalenko, M.A. Liberman, D. W. Snoke, and V.V. Botan, "Polarizability, Correlation Energy and Dielectric Liquid Phase of Bose-Einstein Condensate of Two-dimensional Excitons in a Strong Perpendicular Magnetic Field," Physical Review B 66, 245316 (2002).

51. S.A. Moskalenko, M.A. Liberman, D.W. Snoke and V.V. Botan, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons in Ideal 2D System in Strong Magnetic Field," Moldavian Jornal of Physical Sciences 1, 5 (2002).

52. D.W. Snoke, S. Denev, B. Laikhtman, L. Pfeiffer and K. West, "Giant Magnetoresistance Effect and Long-Range Transport of Excitons in CQW's," Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Semiconductor Physics,  p. L1.4.

53. S. Denev, Y. Liu, and D.W. Snoke, "Spin Flip by Phonon Emission and Stress Dependence of Excitonic Relaxation Processes in Cu2O," Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Semiconductor Physics, p. H31.

54. D. Snoke, S. Denev, Y. Liu, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Luminescence Rings and Charge Separation in Quantum Well Structures," Solid State Communications 127, 187 (2003).

55. D. Snoke, "When Should We Say We Have Observed Bose Condensation of Excitons?" Phys. Stat. Solidi (c) 238, 389 (2003).

56. S.A. Moskalenko, M.A. Liberman, D.W. Snoke, V.V. Botan, and B. Johansson, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons in an Ideal Two-Dimensional System in a Strong Magnetic Field," Physica E 19, 278 (2003).

57. H. Deng, G. Weihs, D. Snoke, J. Bloch, and Y. Yamamoto, "Polariton Lasing vs. Photon Lasing in a Semiconductor Microcavity," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100, 15318 (2003).

58. R. Rapaport, Gang Chen, D. Snoke, S.H. Simon, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, Y. Liu, and S. Denev, "Mechanism of Luminescence Ring
Pattern Formation in Quantum Well Structures: Optically-Induced In-Plane Charge Separation," Physical Review Letters 92, 117405 (2004).

59. G. Weihs, H. Deng, D. Snoke, and Y. Yamamoto, "Polariton Lasing in a Microcavity," Physica Status Solidi (a) 201, 625 (2004).

60. R. Rapaport, G. Chen, D. Snoke, S. Simon, L. Pfieffer, K. West, Y. Liu, and S. Denev, "Mechanism of Exciton Emission Ring
Pattern in Doped Quantum Wells," Physica Status Solidi (a) 201, 655 (2004).

61. D. Snoke, S. Denev, Y. Liu, S. Simon, R. Rapaport, G. Chen, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, "Moving Beyond a Simple Model of
Luminescence Rings in Quantum Well Structures,'' Journal of Physics:  Condensed Matter 16, S3621 (2004).

62. M.J. Behe and D.W. Snoke, "Simulating the Evolution by Gene Duplication of Protein Features that Require Mutiple Amino Acid
Residues," Protein Science 13, 2651 (2004).

63. D.W. Snoke, J. Huebner, W.W. Ruehle, and M. Zundel, "Spin flip from dark to bright states in InP quantum dots," Physical Review B  70, 115329 (2004) .
 
64. Oleg L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik,  David W. Snoke, and Rob D. Coalson, "Collective Properties of Indirect Excitons in
Coupled Quantum Wells in Random Field,''  Physical Review B 70, 235310 (2004).

65. S.A. Moskalenko, M.A. Liberman, V.V. Botan, and D.W. Snoke, "Coexistence of two Bose-Einstein condensates of two-dimensional magnetoexcitons. Exciton-plasmon collective elementary excitations," Solid State Communications 134, 23 (2005).

66. Oleg L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik,  David W. Snoke, and Rob D. Coalson, "Superfluidity of  'Dirty' Indirect Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells,''  Solid State Communications 134, 23 (2005).

67. D.W. Snoke, Y. Liu, Z. Voros, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Trapping Long Lifetime Excitons in a Two-Dimensional Harmonic Potential,'' Solid State Communications 134, 37 (2005).

68. S. Denev, S. H. Simon, and D.W. Snoke, "Luminescence Ring Formation in Quantum Wells--a Model with Coulomb Interaction,''
Solid State Communications 134, 59 (2005).

69. Y. Liu and D.W. Snoke, "Resonant Two-Photon Creation of Paraexcitons in Cuprous Oxide,'' Solid State Communications 134, 159 (2005).

70. Z. Voros, R. Balili, D.W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Long-Distance Diffusion of Excitons in Double Quantum Well Structures,'' Physical Review Letters 94, 226401 (2005).

71. David Snoke and Carlos Tejedor, "Preface," Solid State Communications 134, 1 (2005).

72.  R. Balili, D. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Actively Tuned and Spatially Trapped Polaritons,'' Applied Physics Letters 88, 031110 (2006).

73. Oleg. L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik, David W. Snoke, and Rob D. Coalson, "Superfluidity of dirty indirect excitons and magnetoexcitons in a two-dimensional trap," Physical Review B 73, 235352 (2006).

74. G. Chen, R. Rapaport, L.N. Pfeiffer, K. West, P.M. Platzman, S. Simon, Z. Voros, and D. Snoke, "Artificial Trapping of a Stable High-Density Dipolar Exciton Fluid," Physical Review B 74, 045309 (2006).

75. O.L. Berman, Yu.E. Lozovik, D.W. Snoke, and R.D. Coalson,  "Phase Transitions of Indirect Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells: The Role of Disorder," Physica E 34, 268 (2006).

76. Z. Voros, D.W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, " Trapping Excitons in a Two-Dimensional In-Plane Harmonic Potential: Experimental Evidence for Equilibration of Indirect Excitons,'' Physical Review Letters 97, 016803 (2006).

77. Y. Liu, D. Snoke, "Temperature Dependence of Exciton Auger Decay Process in Cuprous Oxide," Solid State Communications 140, 208 (2006).

78. Z. Voros, D.W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Equillibration of Two-dimensional Excitons in an In-Plane Harmonic Potential," Physica Status Solidi (c) 3, 2461 (2006).

79. Oleg L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik, and David W. Snoke, "Evaporative Cooling and Condensation of Two-Dimensional Polaritons in an In-Plane Harmonic Potential," Physica Status Solidi (c), 3, 3373 (2006).

80. David W. Snoke, "Excitonic Circuits: New Tools for Manipulating Photons," Photonics Spectra 40, 108 (2006).

81. David Snoke, "Condensed-matter physics: Coherent questions," Nature 443, 403 (2006).

82. R.B. Balili, V. Hartwell, D. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Microcavity Polaritons in a Trap," Science 316, 1007 (2007).

83. Z. Voros, V. Hartwell, D.W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Considerations on Equillibration of Two-dimensional Excitons in Coupled Quantum Well Structures," J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 19, 295216 (2007).

84. Oleg L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik, David W. Snoke and Rob D. Coalson, "Superfluidity of dirty indirect magnetoexcitons in coupled quantum wells in high magnetic field," J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 19, 386219 (2007).

85. R.B. Balili and D.W. Snoke, "Hotter Condensates," Physics World 20, 31 (2007).

86. B. Fluegel, A. Mascarenhas, D.W. Snoke, L.N. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Plasmonic All-Optical Tunable Wavelength Shifter," Nature Photonics 1, 701 (2007).

87. David Snoke and Alexey Kavokin, "Are We There Yet? Progress in Condensation of Quasiparticles," Solid State Communications 144, 357 (2007).

88. D.W. Snoke, "Predicting the Ionization Threshold for Carriers in Excited Semiconductors," Solid State Communications 146, 73 (2008).

89. Oleg L. Berman, Yurii E. Lozovik, and David W. Snoke, "Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of two-dimensional polaritons in an in-plane harmonic potential," Physical Review B 77, 155317 (2008) (editor's selection).

90. Honglin An, Simon Fleming, Benjamin W. McMillen, Kevin P. Chen, and David Snoke, "Thermal poling induced second-order nonlinearity in femtosecond laser modified fused silica," Applied Physics Letters 93, 061115 (2008).

91. M. Combescot, D.W. Snoke, "Stability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Revisited for Composite Bosons," Physical Review B 78, 144303 (2008).

92. Z. Voros and D.W. Snoke, "Quantum Well Excitons at Low Density," Modern Physics Letters B 22, 701 (2008).

93. D.W. Snoke, "Polariton condensates: A feature rather than a bug," Nature Physics 4, 674 (2008). 

94. Ben McMillen, Kevin P. Chen, Honglin An, Simon Fleming, Vincent Hartweel and David Snoke, "Waveguiding and Electro-Optic Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Waveguides in LiTaO3 Written by High-Repetition Rate Ultrafast Laser," Applied Physics Letters 93, 111106 (2008).

95. R. Balili, B. Nelsen, D.W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "The role of the stress trap in polariton quasiequillibrium condensation in GaAs microcavities," Physical Review B 79, 075319 (2009).

 

Ph.D. theses:

Viorel Negoita, "Potential Traps for Excitons in Two and Three Dimensions," University of Pittsburgh, 2001.

Yingmei Liu, "Excitons at High Density in Cuprous Oxide and Coupled Quantum Wells," University of Pittsburgh, 2004.

Sava Denev, "Luminescence Effects in Quantum Well Structures in Magnetic and Electric Fields," University of
Pittsburgh, 2004.

Zoltan Voros, "Interactions of Excitons in Two-Dimensional Potentials," University of Pittsburgh, 2008.

Vincent Hartwell,  "Dynamics of Trapped Polaritons in Stressed GaAs Quantum Well-Microcavity Structures: Experiments and Numerical Simulations," University of Pittsburgh, 2008.


Philosophy of Science and Theology:

1. David Snoke, "Toward a Unified View of Science and Theology," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 43, 166 (September 1991).

2. David Snoke, "The Problem of the Absolute in Evidential Epistemology," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 47, 3 (March 1995).

3. David Snoke, "The Apologetic Argument," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation  50, 108 (June 1998).

4. David Snoke, "Between Science and Faith," Many-to-Many (South Africa) 24, 15 (September 1998).

5. David Snoke, "In Favor of God-of-the-Gaps Reasoning," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 53, 152 (September 2001).

6. David Snoke "Why Did God Create Dangerous Animals?" Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 56, 117 (June
2004).

7. David Snoke, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth, (Baker Books, 2006).

8. David Snoke, "Defining Undesign in a Designed Universe," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 60, 225 (2008).