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Co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, New Journal of Physics is an open-access, electronic-only research journal covering the whole of physics. The editorial scope encompasses pure, applied, theoretical and experimental research, as well as interdisciplinary topics related to the subject.
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Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of superconductors, SmFeAsO1−xFx

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Yoichi Kamihara, Takatoshi Nomura, Masahiro Hirano, Jung Eun Kim, Kenichi Kato, Masaki Takata, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Shinji Kitao, Satoshi Higashitaniguchi, Yoshitaka Yoda, Makoto Seto and Hideo Hosono
Affiliation(s): JST, TRiP, Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Mail Box S2-13, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; JST, ERATO SORST, Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Mail Box S2-13, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Mail Box R3-1, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Mail Box S2-13, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan; Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Koto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan; RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan; Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori-cho, Sennan-gun, Osaka 590-0494, Japan; CREST, JST, Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan; Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 1-1-1 Koto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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Non-classical response from quench-cooled solid helium confined in porous gold

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): D Y Kim, S Kwon, H Choi, H C Kim and E Kim
Affiliation(s): Center for Supersolid and Quantum Matter Research and Department of Physics, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea; National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
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Spectral evolution in an insulator exhibiting linear specific heat

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): R Bindu, Ganesh Adhikary, Sudhir K Pandey and Kalobaran Maiti
Affiliation(s): Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, India
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Efficient production of polar molecular Bose–Einstein condensates via an all-optical R-type atom–molecule adiabatic passage

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Jing Qian, Lu Zhou, Keye Zhang and Weiping Zhang
Affiliation(s): State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
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Lattice coupling and Franck–Condon effects in K-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): J N Hancock, G Chabot-Couture and M Greven
Affiliation(s): Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford, CA 94309, USA; Departement de Physique de la Matiere Condensee, 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, CH-1211, Switzerland; Department of Applied Physics, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Entanglement in a spin system with inverse square statistical interaction

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): D Giuliano, A Sindona, G Falcone, F Plastina and L Amico
Affiliation(s): Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita della Calabria and INFN, Gruppo collegato di Cosenza, Arcavacata di Rende I-87036, Cosenza, Italy; MATIS-INFM and Dipartimento di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche (DMFCI), Universita di Catania, viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
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Quantum kinetic Ising models

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): R Augusiak, F M Cucchietti, F Haake and M Lewenstein
Affiliation(s): ICFO--Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Parc Mediterani de la Tecnologia, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain; Fachbereich Physics, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany; ICREA--Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Local renormalization method for random systems

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): O Gittsovich, R Hubener, E Rico and H J Briegel
Affiliation(s): Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Institut fur Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Technikerstrasse 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Fakultat fur Physik, Universitat Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Long-distance entanglement in many-body atomic and optical systems

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Salvatore M Giampaolo and Fabrizio Illuminati
Affiliation(s): Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, I-84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy; CNR-INFM Coherentia, Napoli, Italy; CNISM Unita di Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy; INFN Sezione di Napoli, Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy; ISI Foundation for Scientific Interchange, Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 65, I-10133 Torino, Italy
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Topological color codes and two-body quantum lattice Hamiltonians

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): M Kargarian, H Bombin and M A Martin-Delgado
Affiliation(s): Physics Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9161, Iran; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Departamento de Fisica Teorica I, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Entanglement at the quantum phase transition in a harmonic lattice

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Elisabeth Rieper, Janet Anders and Vlatko Vedral
Affiliation(s): Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Atomic and Laser Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX13PU, UK; Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
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Exact solution of Markovian master equations for quadratic Fermi systems: thermal baths, open XY spin chains and non-equilibrium phase transition

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Tomaz Prosen and Bojan Zunkovic
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, FMF, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Multipartite entanglement and frustration

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): P Facchi, G Florio, U Marzolino, G Parisi and S Pascazio
Affiliation(s): Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trieste, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, I-34014 Trieste, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity (SMC), CNR-INFM, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy
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Time-dependent currents of one-dimensional bosons in an optical lattice

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): J Schachenmayer, G Pupillo and A J Daley
Affiliation(s): Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Thermodynamic stability criteria for a quantum memory based on stabilizer and subsystem codes

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Stefano Chesi, Daniel Loss, Sergey Bravyi and Barbara M Terhal
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland; IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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Matrix product operator representations

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): B Pirvu, V Murg, J I Cirac and F Verstraete
Affiliation(s): Fakultat fur Physik, Universitat Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria; Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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Macroscopic bound entanglement in thermal graph states

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): D Cavalcanti, L Aolita, A Ferraro, A Garcia-Saez and A Acin
Affiliation(s): ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain; ICREA-Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Characterizing symmetries in a projected entangled pair state

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): D Perez-Garcia, M Sanz, C E Gonzalez-Guillen, M M Wolf and J I Cirac
Affiliation(s): Departamento Analisis Matematico and IMI, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany; Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Entropic uncertainty relations—a survey

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Stephanie Wehner and Andreas Winter
Affiliation(s): Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TW, UK; Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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Finite-size geometric entanglement from tensor network algorithms

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Qian-Qian Shi, Roman Orus, John Ove Fjaerestad and Huan-Qiang Zhou
Affiliation(s): Centre for Modern Physics and Department of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, The People's Republic of China; The University of Queensland, Department of Physics, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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