Physics Today - January, 2009
Physics Today - January, 2009
American Institute of Physics | 2009-01-01 | 70 pages | PDF | 4,95 MB
American Institute of Physics | 2009-01-01 | 70 pages | PDF | 4,95 MB
Articles
Solving quantum field theories via curved spacetimes
Strongly interacting quantum field theories are notoriously difficult to work with, but new information about some of them is emerging from their surprising correspondence with gravitational theories.
Igor R. Klebanov and Juan M. Maldacena
Carbon nanotube electronics and photonics
Their geometry, mechanical flexibility, and unique charge-transport properties make carbon nanotubes ideally suited to supplant silicon in the next generation of FETs.
Phaedon Avouris
Panofsky agonistes: The 1950 loyalty oath at Berkeley
In 1949–51 the University of California was seriously damaged by a loyalty-oath controversy. Wolfgang Panofsky, a promising young physics professor at Berkeley, was caught up in the turmoil.
John David Jackson
Only RS mirrors, please