At the Frontiers of Physics and Chemistry
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Ketchup on the Grid with Joysticks
Detection and Tracking of Defects in Liquid Crystals
Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University
Peter V. Coveney, University College London
Electronic Nirvana
Calculating High-Tc Superconductivity with the Dynamical Cluster Approximation
Mark Jarrell and Thomas Maier, University of Cincinatti
PHOTONICS
Healing Light
Wavelength-scalable hollow optical fibres with large photonic bandgaps for CO2 laser transmission
Yoel Fink & J.D. Joannopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bringing Light to Heel
Stopping Light All Optically
Shanhui Fan & Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Stanford University
Guiding Light
Polarization-Independent Linear Waveguides in 3D Photonic Crystals
E. Lidorikis, M. L. Povinelli, S. G. Johnson, & J.D. Joannopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MYSTERIES OF MAGNETISM
Thanks for the Memory
Quantum Mechanical Simulation of Nanocomposite Magnets
Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National
Laboratories
Yang Wang, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Magnetic Moments
High Performance First Principles Method for
Complex Magnetic Properties
Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National
Laboratories
Yang Wang, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
ADVANCES IN SOLAR PHYSICS
Seeing Spots
Simulations of Near-Surface Solar Magnetoconvection
Juri Toomre, University of Colorado
Marc DeRosa, Neal Hurlburt, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research
ADVANCES IN ATOMIC PHYSICS
A Taste of Quark Soup
Simulating Heavy Ion Collisions for the
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Mortan Kaplan, Carnegie Mellon
University
Well Dressed Electrons
Atomic Stabilization by Super-Intense
Lasers
Joseph H. Eberly, University of
Rochester
ADVANCES IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS
The Strange Flavor of Quarks
Lattice-Gauge Simulations of Quantum Chromodynamics
The MILC QCD Collaboration.
QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
Water, Water Everywhere
Spectral Signatures in Water Clusters
Ken Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Getting the Jump on Superacids
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of the
Superacids
Michael Klein, University of Pennsylvania
Wobbly Atoms
Simulation of Quadrupole Moments in
Solid-State NMR
Alan J. Benesi, Pennsylvania State
University
Wet Electrons
The Nature of a Wet Electron
John D. Joannopoulos, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
The Inner Life of Rust
Solvent Free Energies for Electron Transfer
at the Water-Metal Interface
Gregory Voth, University of
Pennsylvania
Changing States
Quantum and Classical Simulations of
Molecular Aggregates
Michael Klein, University of
Pennsylvania
Mysteries of Water
Theoretical Study of Small Water
Clusters
Ken Jordan, University of
Pittsburgh
TURBULENCE AND CONVECTION
Taming the Whirlwind
Fluid Turbulence and Mixing at High Reynolds Numbers
P. K. Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology
Big Mixups
Pair Dispersion Over an Inertial Range
Spanning Many Decades
Frank W. Elliott, Jr. & Andrew
Majda, New York University
Spiral Chaos
Simulating Rayleigh-Benard
Convection
James D. Gunton, Lehigh
University
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