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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, 90 (2009) – Published October 26, 2009 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Materials A new renormalization group approach that maps lattice problems to tensor networks may hold the key to solving seemingly intractable models of strongly correlated systems in any dimension. |
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Physics 2, 67 (2009) – Published August 10, 2009 Atomic & Molecular Physics Statistical Mechanics Soft Matter Experiments on melting of small water clusters open the door to the study of the size-dependent phase diagram of water. |
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Physics 2, 66 (2009) – Published August 3, 2009 Mesoscopics Nanophysics Statistical Mechanics Quantum states in disordered solids are characterized by wild spatial fluctuations. As a result, the behavior of a single typical wave function differs markedly from the ensemble average. |
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Physics 2, 43 (2009) – Published May 26, 2009 Statistical Mechanics Interdisciplinary Physics Small nonequilibrium systems behave quite unexpectedly when in contact with a thermal reservoir. However, all of them—from molecular machines to molecular magnets—are described by a single fluctuation theorem. |
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Physics 2, 36 (2009) – Published May 4, 2009 Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics Faster does not mean more precise—a new view of how proteins diffuse and bind to a specific site on the DNA reassesses the role noise plays in the biochemical production line that creates biomolecules from genes. |
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Physics 1, 8 (2008) – Published July 28, 2008 Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics Current technology permits tracking single molecules with exquisite precision, but the results need to be interpreted with care. Long-duration measurement of the motion of a single particle yields information that is different and complementary to that obtained from an ensemble average of many particles. |
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