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This issue pv

doi:10.1038/nphys671


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Editorial

12.040 p437

doi:10.1038/nphys670


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Thesis

Going up...? p439

Mark Buchanan

doi:10.1038/nphys656


Looking back p439

David Goodstein

doi:10.1038/nphys657


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Books and Arts

Ode on symmetry pp441 - 442

Phillip F. Schewe reviews Why Beauty Is Truth: The History Of Symmetry by Ian Stewart

doi:10.1038/nphys647


Fountain of youth p442

reviews

doi:10.1038/nphys663


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Research Highlights

Black and white is all right p443

doi:10.1038/nphys669


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News and Views

Strongly correlated electrons: Landau theory takes a pounding pp445 - 446

Nigel E. Hussey

doi:10.1038/nphys666

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


Particle physics:  Search for the 'unparticles' p446

Alison Wright

doi:10.1038/nphys672

Subject Category: Particle physics



Supergravity: Finite after all? pp448 - 450

Kellogg Stelle

doi:10.1038/nphys665

Subject Category: Particle physics


Cosmic X-ray background: An old, yet new story pp450 - 451

Yoshihiro Ueda

doi:10.1038/nphys662

Subject Category: Astrophysics


Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: Across the divides p451

May Chiao

doi:10.1038/nphys668

Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics



Superconductivity: A different class? pp453 - 454

Gilbert G. Lonzarich

doi:10.1038/nphys667

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


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Letters

Entangled Andreev pairs and collective excitations in nanoscale superconductors pp455 - 459

A. Levy Yeyati, F. S. Bergeret, A. Martín-Rodero & T. M. Klapwijk

doi:10.1038/nphys621

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Quantum physics


Acute enhancement of the upper critical field for superconductivity approaching a quantum critical point in URhGe pp460 - 463

F. Lévy, I. Sheikin & A. Huxley

doi:10.1038/nphys608

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


Imaging magnetic focusing of coherent electron waves pp464 - 468

Katherine E. Aidala, Robert E. Parrott, Tobias Kramer, E. J. Heller, R. M. Westervelt, M. P. Hanson & A. C. Gossard

doi:10.1038/nphys628

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Techniques and instrumentation




Parallel and selective trapping in a patterned plasmonic landscape pp477 - 480

Maurizio Righini, Anna S. Zelenina, Christian Girard & Romain Quidant

doi:10.1038/nphys624

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


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Articles

Entanglement-based quantum communication over 144 km pp481 - 486

R. Ursin, F. Tiefenbacher, T. Schmitt-Manderbach, H. Weier, T. Scheidl, M. Lindenthal, B. Blauensteiner, T. Jennewein, J. Perdigues, P. Trojek, B. Ömer, M. Fürst, M. Meyenburg, J. Rarity, Z. Sodnik, C. Barbieri, H. Weinfurter & A. Zeilinger

doi:10.1038/nphys629

Subject Categories: Techniques and instrumentation | Quantum physics | Information theory and computation


Order-by-disorder and spiral spin-liquid in frustrated diamond-lattice antiferromagnets pp487 - 491

Doron Bergman, Jason Alicea, Emanuel Gull, Simon Trebst & Leon Balents

doi:10.1038/nphys622

Subject Categories: Materials physics | Condensed-matter physics


Shaped angular dependence of the spin-transfer torque and microwave generation without magnetic field pp492 - 497

O. Boulle, V. Cros, J. Grollier, L. G. Pereira, C. Deranlot, F. Petroff, G. Faini, J. Barna & A. Fert

doi:10.1038/nphys618

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


Magnetic vortex oscillator driven by d.c. spin-polarized current pp498 - 503

V. S. Pribiag, I. N. Krivorotov, G. D. Fuchs, P. M. Braganca, O. Ozatay, J. C. Sankey, D. C. Ralph & R. A. Buhrman

doi:10.1038/nphys619

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


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Futures

The sum of man p506

Jeff Crook

doi:10.1038/nphys664


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