This issue - pv

doi:10.1038/nphys759

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Future returns - p745

doi:10.1038/nphys760

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Conference registration: how people react to a deadline - p746

Valentina Alfi, Giorgio Parisi & Luciano Pietronero

doi:10.1038/nphys761

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Physics for development - pp747 - 749

Nithaya Chetty, Simon Connell & Ahmed C. Bawa

doi:10.1038/nphys773

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Expect the unexpected - p750

Mark Buchanan

doi:10.1038/nphys762

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OPEC accepts no substitute - p750

David Goodstein

doi:10.1038/nphys763

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Tinkering with time - p751

J. Richard Gott reviews The New Time Travelers: A Journey To The Frontiers Of Physics by David Toomey

doi:10.1038/nphys764

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Spinning, rotating, losing - p753

doi:10.1038/nphys765

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Nobel Prize 2007: Fert and Grünberg - p754

Ed Gerstner

doi:10.1038/nphys779

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Nano-optics: Quantum light switch - pp755 - 756

Michel Orrit

doi:10.1038/nphys766

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Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Optical physics

Quantum many-body physics: 2D or not 2D? - pp756 - 758

Ross H. McKenzie

doi:10.1038/nphys768

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

Social dynamics: Emergence of language - pp758 - 760

Vittorio Loreto & Luc Steels

doi:10.1038/nphys770

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Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Other physics

Wolfgang Panofsky: Man and machine - p760

Richard Webb

doi:10.1038/nphys771

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Subject Category: Particle physics

Quantum dots: An optical point of view - pp761 - 762

Dan Gammon

doi:10.1038/nphys769

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Optical physics | Atomic and molecular physics

Aerodynamics: Four wings good - p762

May Chiao

doi:10.1038/nphys782

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Subject Category: Fluid dynamics

Fractional exchange statistics: A home for anyon? - p763

Kirill Shtengel

doi:10.1038/nphys767

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Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Condensed-matter physics

Single-photon bus connecting spin-wave quantum memories - pp765 - 769

Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh & Vladan Vuleti

doi:10.1038/nphys726

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Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Information theory and computation

Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot - pp770 - 773

M. H. Mikkelsen, J. Berezovsky, N. G. Stoltz, L. A. Coldren & D. D. Awschalom

doi:10.1038/nphys736

First paragraph - Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot | Full Text - Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot | PDF (758 KB) - Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot

Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Condensed-matter physics | Nanotechnology | Optical physics | Quantum physics

Peculiar many-body effects revealed in the spectroscopy of highly charged quantum dots - pp774 - 779

M. Ediger, G. Bester, A. Badolato, P. M. Petroff, K. Karrai, A. Zunger & R. J. Warburton

doi:10.1038/nphys748

First paragraph - Peculiar many-body effects revealed in the spectroscopy of highly charged quantum dots | Full Text - Peculiar many-body effects revealed in the spectroscopy of highly charged quantum dots | PDF (684 KB) - Peculiar many-body effects revealed in the spectroscopy of highly charged quantum dots | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Quantum physics

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Spin dynamics in the pseudogap state of a high-temperature superconductor - pp780 - 785

V. Hinkov, P. Bourges, S. Pailhès, Y. Sidis, A. Ivanov, C. D. Frost, T. G. Perring, C. T. Lin, D. P. Chen & B. Keimer

doi:10.1038/nphys720

First paragraph - Spin dynamics in the pseudogap state of a high-temperature superconductor | Full Text - Spin dynamics in the pseudogap state of a high-temperature superconductor | PDF (769 KB) - Spin dynamics in the pseudogap state of a high-temperature superconductor | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Quantum physics

Impurity-stabilized solid ⁴He below the solidification pressure of pure helium - pp786 - 789

P. Moroshkin, A. Hofer, S. Ulzega & A. Weis

doi:10.1038/nphys727

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Techniques and instrumentation | Quantum physics

Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets - pp790 - 795

Masanori Kohno, Oleg A. Starykh & Leon Balents

doi:10.1038/nphys749

Abstract - Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets | Full Text - Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets | PDF (716 KB) - Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

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Anyons in a weakly interacting system - pp796 - 801

C. Weeks, G. Rosenberg, B. Seradjeh & M. Franz

doi:10.1038/nphys730

Abstract - Anyons in a weakly interacting system | Full Text - Anyons in a weakly interacting system | PDF (1,029 KB) - Anyons in a weakly interacting system

Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Condensed-matter physics

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Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi₂Sr₂CuO_6+x - pp802 - 806

M. C. Boyer, W. D. Wise, Kamalesh Chatterjee, Ming Yi, Takeshi Kondo, T. Takeuchi, H. Ikuta & E. W. Hudson

doi:10.1038/nphys725

Abstract - Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi: 2: Sr: 2: CuO: 6+: x | Full Text - Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CuO6+x | PDF (792 KB) - Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CuO6+x

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons - pp807 - 812

Darrick E. Chang, Anders S. Sørensen, Eugene A. Demler & Mikhail D. Lukin

doi:10.1038/nphys708

Abstract - A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons | Full Text - A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons | PDF (464 KB) - A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Optical physics

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Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics - pp813 - 817

Diego Garlaschelli, Andrea Capocci & Guido Caldarelli

doi:10.1038/nphys729

Abstract - Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics | Full Text - Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics | PDF (939 KB) - Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics | Supplementary information

Subject Category: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

Science lost - p822

Neil Mathur

doi:10.1038/nphys772

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