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This issue pv

doi:10.1038/nphys642


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Editorial

Take the lead p363

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Thesis

In a different vein p365

Mark Buchanan

doi:10.1038/nphys633


Fair trial by one's peers? p365

David Goodstein

doi:10.1038/nphys634


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Books and Arts

The electrical grid p367

Jack Harris reviews The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World by Phillip F. Schewe

doi:10.1038/nphys631


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Research Highlights

Measure for measure p368

doi:10.1038/nphys643


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News and Views

Plasma physics: Cleaner petawatts with plasma optics pp369 - 370

Paul Gibbon

doi:10.1038/nphys639

Subject Categories: Plasma physics | Optical physics


Metal–insulator transition: A plane mystery pp370 - 372

Jurgen H. Smet

doi:10.1038/nphys636

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


Slow light: Dynamic photon storage pp372 - 374

Mehmet Fatih Yanik & Shanhui Fan

doi:10.1038/nphys630

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


Carl von Weizsäcker: A man for all seasons p374

Richard Webb

doi:10.1038/nphys640

Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Nuclear physics | Other physics


Quantum chromodynamics: Lifestyles of the small and simple pp375 - 376

Frank Wilczek

doi:10.1038/nphys635

Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Particle physics



Microphotonics: Toroid of many colours pp378 - 379

Steven C. Hill & Dipakbin Q. Chowdhury

doi:10.1038/nphys638

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


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Review

Attosecond science pp381 - 387

P. B. Corkum & Ferenc Krausz

doi:10.1038/nphys620

Subject Categories: Optical physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Techniques and instrumentation


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Letters

Spin–valley phase diagram of the two-dimensional metal–insulator transition pp388 - 391

O. Gunawan, T. Gokmen, K. Vakili, M. Padmanabhan, E. P. De Poortere & M. Shayegan

doi:10.1038/nphys596

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


Microscopic manifestation of the spin phase transition at filling factor 2/3 pp392 - 396

Basile Verdene, Jens Martin, Gerardo Gamez, Jurgen Smet, Klaus von Klitzing, Diana Mahalu, Dieter Schuh, Gerhard Abstreiter & Amir Yacoby

doi:10.1038/nphys588

Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics


Spin–lattice instability to a fractional magnetization state in the spinel HgCr2O4 pp397 - 400

M. Matsuda, H. Ueda, A. Kikkawa, Y. Tanaka, K. Katsumata, Y. Narumi, T. Inami, Y. Ueda & S.-H. Lee

doi:10.1038/nphys586

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


Ultrafast evolution of photonic eigenstates in k-space pp401 - 405

Rob J. P. Engelen, Yoshimasa Sugimoto, Henkjan Gersen, Naoki Ikeda, Kiyoshi Asakawa & L. (Kobus) Kuipers

doi:10.1038/nphys576

Subject Categories: Optical physics | Techniques and instrumentation


Breaking the delay-bandwidth limit in a photonic structure pp406 - 410

Qianfan Xu, Po Dong & Michal Lipson

doi:10.1038/nphys600

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


Achievement of robust high-efficiency 1 MW oscillation in the hard-self-excitation region by a 170 GHz continuous-wave gyrotron pp411 - 414

Keishi Sakamoto, Atsushi Kasugai, Koji Takahashi, Ryutaro Minami, Noriyuki Kobayashi & Ken Kajiwara

doi:10.1038/nphys599

Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Optical physics | Plasma physics | Techniques and instrumentation




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Articles

Plasma mirrors for ultrahigh-intensity optics pp424 - 429

C. Thaury, F. Quéré, J.-P. Geindre, A. Levy, T. Ceccotti, P. Monot, M. Bougeard, F. Réau, P. d'Oliveira, P. Audebert, R. Marjoribanks & Ph. Martin

doi:10.1038/nphys595

Subject Categories: Plasma physics | Optical physics



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Futures

Warez p436

David Langford

doi:10.1038/nphys623


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