미국 물리학회 최근 기사정보

1.A stellar superfluid

Nicolas Chamel, Physics 4, 14 (2011) – Pub. February 22, 2011 Astrophysics Nuclear Physics The rapid cooling of a neutron star signals a superfluid at its core.

2. Clues from a rare decay

Gino Isidori, Physics 4, 15 (2011) – Pub. February 22, 2011 Particles & Fields An ideal place to look for new physics beyond the standard model is a rare particle decay, and new calculations are providing a highly accurate picture of what to expect.

3. Freeze frame

Pub. February 18, 2011 Interdisciplinary Physics Images reveal some of the factors that determine the shapes of icicles.

4. Chemical manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Pub. February 15, 2011 Quantum Information Spintronics Surface termination is used to chemically control the state of nitroge n-vacancy centers in diamond.

5. Picking the cuprates’ Fermi pockets  

Matthias Vojta, Physics 4, 12 (2011) – Pub.February 14, 2011 Superconductivity Transport and quantum oscillations measurements in the cuprate superconductor YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{y} point to density-wave order as an explanation for the peculiar doping evolution of the Fermi surface.

6. Maxwell’s demon in the quantum world  

Juan M. R. Parrondo and Jordan M. Horowitz, Physics 4, 13 (2011) – Published February 14, 2011 Quantum Information Statistical Mechanics Extraction of work from a heat bath using the Szilard engine depends crucially on the statistics of indistinguishable particles.

7. Quantum simulation of an old paradox

Pub. February 11, 2011 Atomic & Molecular Physics Quantum Mechanics Experiments on trapped ions simulate the unusual quantum mechanics of relativistic particles.

8. A landmark proof

Frank Wilczek, Physics 4, 10 (2011) – Pub. February 7, 2011 Quantum Mechanics Researchers finally prove the conjecture that the low-energy excitations of some quantum Hall states are non-Abelian anyons.

9. Touching from a distance

Sean D. Barrett, Physics 4, 11 (2011) – Pub. February 7, 2011 Quantum Information Photons stored in spatially separated superconducting resonators have now been entangled in a way that might be scalable to larger quantum networks.

10. Magnetic order in a “hot” material 

Published February 7, 2011 Magnetism Materials Science A strontium-based metal oxide with radioactive technetium exhibits the highest antiferromagnetic ordering temperature in a material without a third-row transition metal

11. X-raying the skin

Published February 3, 2011 Materials Science A new form of x-ray spectroscopy uses total external reflection to reveal the chemical evolution of a surface into a bulk material.