Selected scientific papers

• "Novel temporal behaviour of a nonlinear dynamical system - the completely inelastic bouncing ball", Anita Mehta and J M Luck, Physical Review Letters 65, 393 (1990)
• "Vibrated powders - a microscopic approach", Anita Mehta and G C Barker, Physical Review Letters 67, 394 (1991)
• "Vibrated powders - structure, correlations and dynamics", G C Barker and Anita Mehta, Physical Review A45, 3435 (1992)
• "Transient phenomena, self-diffusion and orientational effects in vibrated powders", G C Barker and Anita Mehta, Physical Review E47, 184 (1993)
• "The bouncing ball with finite restitution: chattering, locking and chaos", J M Luck and Anita Mehta, Physical Review E48, 3988 (1993)
• "Comment on `A three-dimensional model for particle size segregation by shaking'", G C Barker, Anita Mehta and M J Grimson, Physical Review Letters 70, 2194 (1993)
• "Dynamics of sandpiles: physical mechanisms, coupled stochastic equations and alternative universality classes", Anita Mehta, J M Luck and R J Needs, Physical Review E53, 92 (1996)
• "Rotated sandpiles: the role of grain reorganisation and inertia", G C Barker and Anita Mehta. Physical Review E53, 5704 (1996)
• "Smoothing of sandpiles surfaces after intermittent and continuous avalanches - three models in search of an experiment", P. Biswas, A. Majumdar, Anita Mehta, and J K Bhattacharjee, Physical Review E58, 1266 (1998)
• "Models of competitive learning: complex dynamics, intermittent conversions and oscillatory coarsening", Anita Mehta and Jean-Marc Luck, Physical Review E 60, 5218-5230 (1999)
• "A two-species model for aeolian sand ripples" Rebecca Hoyle and Anita Mehta, Physical Review Letters 83, 5170 (1999)
• "A new class of coupled continuum equations for atomic growth on surfaces", B Sanyal, Anita Mehta and Abhijit Mookerjee, J. Phys - Condensed Matter 11, 4367-4380 (1999)
• "Glassy dynamics of granular compaction", Anita Mehta and G C Barker, J. Phys - Cond. Mat., 12, 6619-6628, (2000)
• "Avalanches at rough surfaces", G C Barker and Anita Mehta, Phys. Rev. E, 61, 6765-6772, (2000)
• "Bistability and hysteresis in tilted sandpiles", Anita Mehta and G C Barker, Europhys. Lett. 56 (5), 626-632 (2001)
• "Anomalous aging phenomena caused by drift velocities", J. M. Luck and Anita Mehta, Europhysics Letters, 54, 573-580, (2001)
• "On random graphs and the statistical mechanics of granular matter", Johannes Berg and Anita Mehta, cond-mat/0012416, Europhysics Letters, 56, 784-791, (2001)
• "Inhomogeneous relaxation in vibrated granular media: consolidation waves", G C Barker and Anita Mehta, Phase Transitions, 75, 519-528 (2002)
• " Glassy dynamics in granular compaction: sand on random graphs", Johannes Berg and Anita Mehta, cond-mat/0108225, Physical Review E, 65, 031305, (2002)
• "Shaking a Box of Sand", Peter F. Stadler, Jean-Marc Luck,  and Anita Mehta,Europhysics Letters, 57, 46-53 (2002)
• "Epitaxial growth of thin films - a Statistical Mechanical Model", Anita Mehta and R. A. Cowley, J. Phys. - Cond. Mat. (2002) 14, 17, 4385-92 (2002)
• " Why shape matters in granular compaction", Anita Mehta and J. M. Luck, J. Phys. A. - Math. Gen. 36, L365-372 (2003)
• "A column of grains in the jamming limit - glassy dynamics in the compaction process:, J. M. Luck and Anita Mehta, European Journal of Physics B, 35, 399-411 (2003).
• "Cooperativity in sandpiles: statistics of bridge geometries", Anita Mehta, G. C. Barker and J. M. Luck, JSTAT P10014, (2004).
• "Dynamics at the angle of repose: jamming, bistability, and collapse", J. M. Luck and Anita Mehta, JSTAT P10015, (2004).
• "Interacting black holes on the brane: the seeding of binaries", A. S. Majumdar, A. Mehta and J. M. Luck, Physics Letters B 607, 219-224(2005)
• "A deterministic model of competitive cluster growth : glassy dynamics, metastability and pattern formation", J.M. Luck and A. Mehta, European Physics Journal B, 44, 79-92 (2005)
• "How the rich get richer", Anita Mehta, A. S. Majumdar and J. M. Luck, pp. 199-204 in 'Econophysics of Wealth Distributions' edited by A. Chatterjee et al, Springer-Verlag Italia (2005)
• "Granular Physics", Anita Mehta, Cambridge University Press (2007)
• "Heterogeneities in Granular Dynamics", Anita Mehta, G C Barker and J M Luck, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 8244-8249 (2008)