Physics, sponsored by the American Physical Society, aims to "spotlight exceptional research." Viewpoints are longer pieces putting a new journal article in context, analogous to Nature's "News and Views" or Science's "Perspectives." They are written by scientific experts, and I help with their editing.
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Two Photons into One | October 22, 2014 | Researchers track the conversion of two isolated photons into a new one. |
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Hiking Trails in Attosecond Landscapes | May 19, 2014 | Researchers improved the attosecond radiation from a liberated and recapture electron by shaping the electric-field variation of the ionizing laser within a cycle. |
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Remote Controlled Entanglement | April 28, 2014 | Two distant qubits are entangled by making a microwave-based measurement of their combined state. |
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“Snowflake Crystal” Traps Light and Sound | April 14, 2014 | A two-dimensional structure enhances the interactions of light and mechanical vibrations by trapping them in the same place. |
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A Particle Accelerator in the Radiation Belts | December 2, 2013 | Satellites detect layers of charge that could provide the key first step in accerating electrons trapped in the earth's magentic field to surprisingly high energies. |
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Localize and Conquer! | September 11, 2013 | By using two competing light beams, researchers select for excitation only those atoms with a region much smaller than the wavelenght of light. |
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Stellar Abundances: Better Measured Than Predicted | August 5, 2013 | New measurements of the masses of neutron-rich nuclei show current theoretical values are not good enough to test how heavy elements came to be. |
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Shedding Light on a Quantum Black Box | March 25, 2013 | Mapping out a quantum transformation even though it is irreversible and probabilistic. |
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Not Every Exit is an Entrance | July 16, 2012 | Experiments confirm a way to prevent light from retracing its steps that doesn't need magnets. |
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Unifying liquid and Granular Flow | October 24, 2011 | Experiments support a conceptual framework that encompasses both granular materials and suspensions |
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Light control takes wing | September 26, 2011 | Metamaterials derived from insect wings show the best-yet control of optical properties. |
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Quantum simulation hits the open road | September 12, 2011 | Breaking a simulation up into pieces emulates quantum systems that interact with the wider world, not just "closed," isolated systems. |
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Cosmic smoothness | June 13, 2011 | On the largest observable length scales, the clumpiness of the universe is less than expected. |