Nuclear physics articles within Nature Physics

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• Article | 21 October 2012

  Production of spin-controlled rare isotope beams

  Enhanced control of the nuclear spin orientation of rare isotopes has now been demonstrated. This technique is considerably more efficient than traditional methods and significantly broadens the domain of accessible nuclei, promising insights in nuclear physics and applications in material science.

  • Yuichi Ichikawa
  • , Hideki Ueno
  •  & Mustafa M. Rajabali

• Thesis | 03 October 2012

  Disaster by design

  • Mark Buchanan

• Letter | 30 September 2012

  Rotational evolution of young pulsars due to superfluid decoupling

  The so-called braking index calculated for the spin-down of rotating neutron stars, or pulsars, doesn’t tally well with observations. But a model accounting for a changing moment of inertia, as an increasing fraction of the stellar core becomes superfluid, can explain the rotational evolution of young pulsars.

  • Wynn C. G. Ho
  •  & Nils Andersson