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Viewpoint: Quantum Dipolar Gases in Boson or Fermion Flavor

May 21, 2012

Lanthanide atoms are offering the best opportunities to study the effects of strong dipolar interactions in a quantum gas.

Viewpoints

A Closer Connection Between Entanglement and Nonlocality

May 14, 2012

Serge Massar and Stefano Pironio

A generalization of one of the most famous experiments in quantum foundations provides a powerful new unifying concept.

The Smallest Thermal Machines

May 14, 2012

Guenter Mahler

New functionalities might arise from rethinking the essential ingredients needed to build a heat-driven machine.

Pushing Bits Through a Spin Wire

May 7, 2012

Shigeki Onoda

Short chains of iron atoms deposited on a metal surface could be used to transmit bits of magnetic information.

Wiring Up Displacement Currents

May 7, 2012

Jon Schuller

Specially designed waveguides act like conduits for high-frequency displacement currents.

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Keeping One Step Ahead of Errors

April 30, 2012

Synopses

Layering to Warm Up

May 21, 2012

Alternating layers of insulating materials form a rudimentary device that controls thermal currents.

Wave of Correlation

May 17, 2012

Theorists can now calculate the speed with which correlations travel in a chain of interacting atoms.

Two Donors Are Better Than One

May 17, 2012

Pairs of donor atoms read out the energy levels in a silicon nanowire.

U-shaped Grains Get Clingy

May 17, 2012

Piles of staples stand up to shaking better if the staple prongs have an intermediate length.

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Polarized Light in Safe Storage

May 10, 2012

Focus

Electron Spin Influences Nanotube Motion

May 18, 2012

The oscillations of a carbon nanotube can strongly affect the spin of an electron trapped on the tube, and the tube can also be affected by the spin, according to theory.

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Metallic Glass isn’t All Glassy

May 11, 2012

Proteins Hook up Where Water Allows

May 4, 2012

Trends

How Solid is Supersolid?

December 19, 2011

Anatoly B. Kuklov, Nikolay V. Prokof’ev and Boris V. Svistunov

Macroscopic quantum properties of helium-4, one of the simplest and oldest elements in the universe, continue to puzzle and amaze scientists. Supertransport in solid helium-4 is the most elusive and controversial conundrum of all.

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Viewpoint: Quantum Dipolar Gases in Boson or Fermion Flavor

Viewpoints

A Closer Connection Between Entanglement and Nonlocality

The Smallest Thermal Machines

Pushing Bits Through a Spin Wire

Wiring Up Displacement Currents

More Viewpoints

Keeping One Step Ahead of Errors

A Walk Along the Dripline

Rethinking the Neutrino

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Synopses

Layering to Warm Up

Wave of Correlation

Two Donors Are Better Than One

U-shaped Grains Get Clingy

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Thinking Inside the Box

Polarized Light in Safe Storage

Electrons Arrive By and By

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Focus

Electron Spin Influences Nanotube Motion

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Metallic Glass isn’t All Glassy

Proteins Hook up Where Water Allows

Curling Physics Unraveled

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Trends

How Solid is Supersolid?

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Dynamic Heterogeneity in Amorphous Materials

Iron Superconductivity Weathers Another Storm

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