Research Interests-Anthony Roy Day

The physics of random materials and disordered systems. Applications of percolation theory to the mechanical and electrical properties of composite materials.  Current research focuses on the the relation between microstructure and effective properties of composite materials.  I have also worked on problems at the interface of physics and biology, including protein-ligand docking.   

Recent Publications

Modeling Correlated Main-Chain Motions in Proteins for Flexible Molecular Recognition. Maria I. Zavodszky, Ming Lei,  M. F. Thorpe, Anthony R. Day, and Leslie A. Kuhn. PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics  57: 243-261 (2004) View Article Here

Spectral Representation of the Electrical Properties of Layered Materials. A. R. Day, A. R. McGurn, D. J. Bergman, M. F. Thorpe, Physica B 338, 124-30 (2003).  View Article Here

The Spectral Function of a Composite From Reflectivity Measurements. A. R. Day, A. R. Grant, A. J. Sievers and M. F. Thorpe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1978-1982 (2000).  View Article Here

The Spectral Function of a Composite From Reflectance Data. A. R. Day, M. F. Thorpe, A. R. Grant and A. J. Sievers, Physica B 279, 17-20 (2000).  View Article Here

The Spectral Function of Composites: The Inverse Problem. A. R. Day and M. F. Thorpe, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 11, 2551-2568 (1999).  View Article Here

Resistivity of Boron-doped Diamond Microcrystals. M. D. Jaeger, S. Hyun, A. R. Day, M. F. Thorpe and B. Golding, Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 2445-2447 (1998).  View Article Here

Resistivity Determination from Small Crystallites. S. Hyun, M. F. Thorpe, M. D. Jaeger, B. Golding and A. R. Day, Phys. Rev. B 57, 6697-6705 (1998).  View Article Here

Small Scale Electronic Transport in Diamond Microcrystals. M. D. Jaeger, S. Hyun, A. R. Day, M. F. Thorpe and B. Golding, Diamond and Related Materials 6, 325-328 (1997).  View Article Here

The Spectral Function of Random Resistor Networks. A. R. Day and M. F. Thorpe, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 8, 4389-4409 (1996).  View Article Here

Other Significant Publications

The Rigid Backbone: A New Geometry for Percolation. A. R. Day, R. R. Tremblay and A.-M. S. Tremblay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 2501-2504 (1986).  View Article Here

Gauge Invariant de Gennes Model. A. R. Day and T. C. Lubensky, Phys. Rev. A 30, 481-487 (1984). View Article Here

Dislocations and the Nematic to Smectic-A Transition for Arbitrary Values of K1. A. R. Day, T. C. Lubensky and A. J. McKane, Phys. Rev. A 27, 1461-1467 (1983).  View Article Here