Viewpoints

A Closer Connection Between Entanglement and Nonlocality

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

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

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

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

A Walk Along the Dripline

April 30, 2012

Rethinking the Neutrino

April 23, 2012

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Synopses

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Thinking Inside the Box

May 10, 2012

Finding the optimal solution to filling a volume with spheres could be useful for modeling nanoparticles.

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Scaling the Heights

May 10, 2012

Researchers have found an exact solution to an equation describing growth of materials at interfaces.

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Electrons Arrive By and By

May 3, 2012

A quantum theory of electrons in mesoscopic systems reveals the intervals at which they arrive after waiting to pass through a gate.

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Catching the Electron Spin Wave

May 3, 2012

Researchers have confined and manipulated electron spin waves in hydrogen gas.

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Particle Families Come in Three

May 3, 2012

Listening to Spin Fluctuations

May 3, 2012

Force Diagrams on Skis

May 3, 2012

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Focus

Metallic Glass isn't All Glassy

Metallic Glass isn’t All Glassy

May 11, 2012

Metallic glasses, new materials that are strong and durable, are not entirely disordered on the atomic scale but can have regions of near-crystalline order.

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Proteins Hook up Where Water Allows

May 4, 2012

Curling Physics Unraveled

April 27, 2012

Asymmetric Patterns from Symmetric Forces

April 20, 2012

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Trends

How Solid is Supersolid?

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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Dynamic Heterogeneity in Amorphous Materials

May 31, 2011

Iron Superconductivity Weathers Another Storm

March 28, 2011

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