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Physics 2, 96 (2009) – Published November 16, 2009 Statistical Mechanics Soft Matter Directed percolation, a class of nonequilibrium phase transitions as prominent as the Ising model in equilibrium statistical mechanics, is realized experimentally for the first time, after more than fifty years of research. |
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Physics 2, 97 (2009) – Published November 16, 2009 Statistical Mechanics Interdisciplinary Physics The popularity of various chess openings follows a power law distribution, but the exponent depends on the depth of the opening sequence. |
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Physics 2, 93 (2009) – Published November 9, 2009 A theory of novel phase formation near quantum critical points suggests that large fluctuations lead to magnetic analogs of inhomogeneous superconductivity. |
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Physics 2, 94 (2009) – Published November 9, 2009 Two separate teams have achieved the long sought after Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium. |
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Physics 2, 91 (2009) – Published November 2, 2009 Optics Particles & Fields Metamaterials Čerenkov radiation with the emission cone reversed has been observed in a metamaterial with negative refractive index. |
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Physics 2, 92 (2009) – Published November 2, 2009 Defects—in the form of vortices in superconductors or “strings” in the fabric of the universe—can reveal the state of a system at the time it was cooled. |