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Volume 12 Issue 2, February 2016

Sunspots are transient cool regions on the Sun's photosphere where concentrated magnetic field lines suppress convection. It turns out that sunspot oscillations can map the coronal magnetic field strength with high resolution. The image was captured using the HARDcam instrument on the Dunn Solar Telescope, which is funded by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council.Letter p179IMAGE: DAVID B. JESSCOVER DESIGN: ALLEN BEATTIE

Editorial

  • Emergent phenomena are common in condensed matter. Their study now extends beyond strongly correlated electron systems, giving rise to the broader concept of quantum materials.

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  • Many-electron wavefunctions face the exponential-wall problem at large electron numbers. Formulating wavefunctions with the help of cumulants effectively avoids this problem and provides a valuable starting point for electronic-structure calculations for solids.

    • Peter Fulde
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  • Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides have already made their mark in the world of device physics. Twin studies have now found that they exhibit unconventional Ising pair superconductivity.

    • Efren Navarro-Moratalla
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  • Single-molecule techniques have long given us insight into the motion and interactions of individual molecules. But simulations now show that the dynamics inside single proteins is not as simple as we thought — and that proteins are forever changing.

    • Ralf Metzler
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  • Ab initio calculations of an atomic nucleus with 48 nucleons set a benchmark for computational nuclear physics and provide new insights into the properties of the atomic nucleus and strongly interacting matter.

    • Daniel P. Watts
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Measure for Measure

  • Despite intensified efforts, measurements of the gravitational constant continue to fail to converge, as Terry Quinn explains.

    • Terry Quinn
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