Table of contents
August 2007, Volume 3 No 8 pp507-580
About the coverEditorial
What's in a name? - p507
doi:10.1038/nphys696
Full Text - What's in a name? | PDF (184 KB) - What's in a name?
Thesis
Gone, but not forgotten - p509
Mark Buchanan
doi:10.1038/nphys688
Full Text - Gone, but not forgotten | PDF (132 KB) - Gone, but not forgotten
The method of science - p509
David Goodstein
doi:10.1038/nphys689
Full Text - The method of science | PDF (132 KB) - The method of science
Books and Arts
A complex mind - p511
Hubert Goenner reviews Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb by David E. Rowe & Robert Schulmann
doi:10.1038/nphys687
Research Highlights
A strip revealed...and more - p513
doi:10.1038/nphys694
Full Text - A strip revealed...and more | PDF (169 KB) - A strip revealed...and more
News and Views
Stellar astronomy: Phenomenal weather - pp515 - 516
George W. Preston
doi:10.1038/nphys677
Full Text - Stellar astronomyPhenomenal weather | PDF (316 KB) - Stellar astronomyPhenomenal weather
Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Fluid dynamics
Cosmic rays: Try this at home - p516
Alison Wright
doi:10.1038/nphys692
Full Text - Cosmic raysTry this at home | PDF (181 KB) - Cosmic raysTry this at home
Fractional quantum Hall effect: A game of five halves - pp517 - 518
Vladimir J. Goldman
doi:10.1038/nphys681
Full Text - Fractional quantum Hall effectA game of five halves | PDF (173 KB) - Fractional quantum Hall effectA game of five halves
Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics
Statistical mechanics: Crackling crossover - pp518 - 519
James P. Sethna
doi:10.1038/nphys682
Full Text - Statistical mechanicsCrackling crossover | PDF (312 KB) - Statistical mechanicsCrackling crossover
Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Condensed-matter physics
Quantum gravity: Beyond the screen of time - pp520 - 521
Carlo Rovelli
doi:10.1038/nphys690
Full Text - Quantum gravityBeyond the screen of time | PDF (160 KB) - Quantum gravityBeyond the screen of time
Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Quantum physics
Spintronics: Silicon takes a spin - pp521 - 522
Ron Jansen
doi:10.1038/nphys686
Full Text - SpintronicsSilicon takes a spin | PDF (357 KB) - SpintronicsSilicon takes a spin
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics
Single-molecule detection: Identification without labels - p522
Andreas Trabesinger
doi:10.1038/nphys691
Full Text - Single-molecule detectionIdentification without labels | PDF (295 KB) - Single-molecule detectionIdentification without labels
Letters
What happened before the Big Bang? - pp523 - 525
Martin Bojowald
doi:10.1038/nphys654
First paragraph - | Full Text - What happened before the Big Bang? | PDF (247 KB) - What happened before the Big Bang?
Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Quantum physics
Weather in stellar atmosphere revealed by the dynamics of mercury clouds in 
Andromedae - pp526 - 529
Oleg Kochukhov, Saul J. Adelman, Austin F. Gulliver & Nikolai Piskunov
doi:10.1038/nphys648
First paragraph - | Full Text - Weather in stellar atmosphere revealed by the dynamics of mercury clouds in 
Andromedae | PDF (330 KB) - Weather in stellar atmosphere revealed by the dynamics of mercury clouds in Andromedae | Supplementary information
Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Fluid dynamics
Violation of the London law and Onsager–Feynman quantization in multicomponent superconductors - pp530 - 533
Egor Babaev & N. W. Ashcroft
doi:10.1038/nphys646
First paragraph - | Full Text - Violation of the London law and Onsager–Feynman quantization in multicomponent superconductors | PDF (408 KB) - Violation of the London law and Onsager–Feynman quantization in multicomponent superconductors
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Quantum physics
Controlled dephasing of electrons by non-gaussian shot noise - pp534 - 537
Izhar Neder, Florian Marquardt, Moty Heiblum, Diana Mahalu & Vladimir Umansky
doi:10.1038/nphys627
First paragraph - | Full Text - Controlled dephasing of electrons by non-gaussian shot noise | PDF (347 KB) - Controlled dephasing of electrons by non-gaussian shot noise
Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics
Quantum interference of photon pairs from two remote trapped atomic ions - pp538 - 541
P. Maunz, D. L. Moehring, S. Olmschenk, K. C. Younge, D. N. Matsukevich & C. Monroe
doi:10.1038/nphys644
First paragraph - | Full Text - Quantum interference of photon pairs from two remote trapped atomic ions | PDF (272 KB) - Quantum interference of photon pairs from two remote trapped atomic ions
Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Quantum physics
Electrical spin-injection into silicon from a ferromagnetic metal/tunnel barrier contact - pp542 - 546
Berend T. Jonker, George Kioseoglou, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Connie H. Li & Phillip E. Thompson
doi:10.1038/nphys673
First paragraph - | Full Text - Electrical spin-injection into silicon from a ferromagnetic metal/tunnel barrier contact | PDF (493 KB) - Electrical spin-injection into silicon from a ferromagnetic metal/tunnel barrier contact
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics
Tunable scaling behaviour observed in Barkhausen criticality of a ferromagnetic film - pp547 - 550
Kwang-Su Ryu, Hiro Akinaga & Sung-Chul Shin
doi:10.1038/nphys659
First paragraph - | Full Text - Tunable scaling behaviour observed in Barkhausen criticality of a ferromagnetic film | PDF (424 KB) - Tunable scaling behaviour observed in Barkhausen criticality of a ferromagnetic film
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Materials physics
Colossal magnetocapacitance and scale-invariant dielectric response in phase-separated manganites - pp551 - 555
Ryan P. Rairigh, Guneeta Singh-Bhalla, Sefaatin Tongay, Tara Dhakal, Amlan Biswas & Arthur F. Hebard
doi:10.1038/nphys626
First paragraph - | Full Text - Colossal magnetocapacitance and scale-invariant dielectric response in phase-separated manganites | PDF (669 KB) - Colossal magnetocapacitance and scale-invariant dielectric response in phase-separated manganites | Supplementary information
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics
Imaging single atoms in a three-dimensional array - pp556 - 560
Karl D. Nelson, Xiao Li & David S. Weiss
doi:10.1038/nphys645
First paragraph - | Full Text - Imaging single atoms in a three-dimensional array | PDF (501 KB) - Imaging single atoms in a three-dimensional array | Supplementary information
Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Quantum physics | Optical physics | Information theory and computation
Articles
Fractional quantum Hall effect in a quantum point contact at filling fraction 5/2 - pp561 - 565
Jeffrey B. Miller, Iuliana P. Radu, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Eli M. Levenson-Falk, Marc A. Kastner, Charles M. Marcus, Loren N. Pfeiffer & Ken W. West
doi:10.1038/nphys658
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Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics
Pinch points and Kasteleyn transitions in kagome ice - pp566 - 572
T. Fennell, S. T. Bramwell, D. F. McMorrow, P. Manuel & A. R. Wildes
doi:10.1038/nphys632
Abstract - | Full Text - Pinch points and Kasteleyn transitions in kagome ice | PDF (789 KB) - Pinch points and Kasteleyn transitions in kagome ice
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics
A non-volatile-memory device on the basis of engineered anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As - pp573 - 578
Katrin Pappert, Silvia Hümpfner, Charles Gould, Jan Wenisch, Karl Brunner, Georg Schmidt & Laurens W. Molenkamp
doi:10.1038/nphys652
Abstract - | Full Text - A non-volatile-memory device on the basis of engineered anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As | PDF (2,479 KB) - A non-volatile-memory device on the basis of engineered anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As | Supplementary information
Subject Category: Electronics, photonics and device physics
