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Focus on bimetric theory
It goes without saying that finding answers to questions raised by the Standard Model and General Relativity remains a huge part of theoretical physics. Recent developments in bimetric theory, a topical review published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is the second most most highly cited article in the journal from 2016. Here we talk to one of the authors of the review, Angnis Schmidt-May, from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, to discover why this field is so active and what discoveries she’d like to see.
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Peer Review Week: updates since 2016!
Here at IOP Publishing it’s been a busy year since the last Peer Review Week!
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Progress on the separability problem of Quantum Mechanics: A Lab Talk
In their recent paper in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical researchers from China and South Korea investigate a Separability criterion for three-qubit states with a four dimensional norm. Kyung Hoon Han spoke to JPhys+ to explain more about their… Read More ›
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Focus on quantum thermodynamics
The interface between quantum information and thermodynamics is currently a very active area. The topical review The role of quantum information in thermodynamics — a topical review, published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is the most highly cited 2016 article in the journal. Here we talk to one of the authors of the review, Marcus Huber, from Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna, to discover why this field is so active and where he thinks it’s heading.
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Image of the Week: Convergent chaos
For our image this week we’ve taken an image from Covergent chaos, a recent paper published in Journal of Physics A. Marc Pradas, Alain Pumir, Greg Huber and Michael Wilkinson study the instabilities and convergence of trajectories revealing and commenting… Read More ›
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Electronic response of a plasma-facing dielectric solid
Towards a microscopic understanding of the transfer of the plasma’s electronic non-equilibrium to a solid.
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Image of the week: Polarization conversion using an all-dielectric metasurface.
This week’s Image of the Week is taken from JPhysD article Polarization conversion based on an all-dielectric metasurface for optical fiber applications,Tongming Liu et al 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 334001. In this paper the authors propose polarization conversion… Read More ›
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Dynamical phase transitions: an Emerging Talents Lab Talk with Alexandre Lazarescu
In a newly published Emerging Talents paper in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Alexandre Lazarescu investigates a Generic dynamical phase transition in one-dimensional bulk-driven lattice gases with exclusion. Alexandre spoke to JPhys+ to explain more about dynamical phase… Read More ›
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Scanning Probe Microscopy provides new perspectives for chemistry on surfaces and beyond
In today’s blog, we asked Professor Pavel Jelinek from Nanosurf Lab and Palacky University Olomouc to talk about the focus of his recent Topical Review published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, which details the remarkable recent progress made in the… Read More ›
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Image of the Week: Electron-phonon relaxation on the Fermi surface of Pb
This week’s image comes from a recent paper by Rittweger et al., published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, in which they investigate the electronic transport properties of face-centred cubic (fcc) bulk Pb in the presence of electron-phonon interaction. Using ab initio methods, Rittweger et… Read More ›
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New data on self-organisation in magnetised plasmas
We thought we understood magnetron plasmas, but the discovery of spokes shows that we did not!
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Image of the week: photoionization of hydrogen
In a recent paper published in JPhysB, researchers collaborating from Greece, France, Germany, The Netherlands and the United States observe a checkerboard interference pattern in the transverse momentum distribution for single-photon ionization of hydrogen atoms in a DC electric field…. Read More ›
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Does ink drying on a functional surface remain still?
Chalmers et al. explain why watching ink (or paint) dry turns out to be rather interesting.
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Happy birthday Dr. Dirac: A look at our recent papers inspired by his work
![By Nobel Foundation [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jphysplus.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/dirac_4.jpg?w=105&h=85&crop=1)
Here at IOP Publishing we would like to celebrate the birthday of Paul Dirac by highlighting some of the recent papers in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical that were influenced by his work across many areas of theoretical… Read More ›
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Super-resolving cell biology problems
How can we investigate the small structures inside our cells using super-resolution microscopy?
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Planar borophene functionalized by transition metals
Can the adsorption of transition metals functionalize the novel 2D material borophene for nanoelectronic applications? In a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper, Alvarez-Quiceno et al. perform a systematic first-principles investigation aimed at answering this question. They discuss their findings… Read More ›
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Manipulating Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects
Tetragonally strained interstitial Fe-Co-B alloys: beyond large magnetocrystalline anisotropy
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