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Physics, a free online publication from APS, announces a new layout for the website and welcomes Physical Review Focus (now simply Focus) into its weekly content. Both changes enhance Physics as a venue for learning about emerging fields and keeping up with the fast pace of research. Since launching in 2008, Physics has offered in-depth coverage (Viewpoints) and concise editor summaries (Synopses) of important and compelling papers in the Physical Review journals. Focus stories, which have been published at focus.aps.org since 1998, are already familiar to many readers. Written by professional science writers in a journalistic style, these stories emphasize basic physics concepts to make results accessible to students and non-experts. Bringing Focus into Physics makes it easier for readers to discover the content they enjoy on a single website. As with all of the articles in Physics, the full archive of Focus stories will be freely available at physics.aps.org . Preexisting links to the old Focus website will redirect to their new pages in Physics; the Physical Review Focus ISSN (1539-0748:online) has been retired.

October New Physics Books

Classical mechanics / Gary Gladding, Mats Selen, Tim Stelzer.
QA805 .G53 2011

Crafting the quantum : Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926 / Suman Seth.
QC16.S76 S48 2010

Electric fields of the brain : the neurophysics of EEG / Paul L. Nunez, Ramesh Srinivasan.
QP376.5 .N86 2006

Electricity and magnetism / Gary Gladding, Mats Selen, Tim Stelzer.
QC760 .G53 2011

Engineering quantum mechanics / Doyeol Ahn, Seoung-Hwan Park.
QC174.12 .A393 2011

Handbook of MRI pulse sequences / Matt A. Bernstein, Kevin F. King, Xiaohong Joe Zhou.
RC78.7.N83 B476 2004

A life of Erwin Schrödinger / Walter Moore.
QC16.S265 M65 1994

Quantum engineering : theory and design of quantum coherent structures / A. M. Zagoskin.
QC174.12 .Z34 2011

Statistical mechanics in a nutshell / Luca Peliti ; translated by Mark Epstein.
QC174.8 .P4513 2011

Thanksgiving Break

The Physics Library will be closed November 24-25, 2011 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

iTeach

The Fall 2011 edition of Teaching and Technology, the ITeach newsletter, is now available online at http://iteach.wustl.edu/newsletter/fall-2011-newsletter.

Recently Published Papers in Physics

• Title: Microscopic self-energy calculations and dispersive optical-model potentials
  Author(s): Waldecker S.J.; Barbieri C.; Dickhoff W.H.
  Source: Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) Volume: 84 Issue: 3 Pages: 034616 (11 pp.) Published: Sept. 2011
  
  
• Title: Tev and Multi-wavelength Observations of mrk 421 in 2006-2008
  Author(s): Acciari, V.A.; Aliu, E.; Arlen, T.; Aune, T.; Beilicke, M.; Benbow, W.; Boltuch, D.; Bradbury, S.M.; Buckley, J.H.; Bugaev, V.; Byrum, K.; Cannon, A.; Cesarini, A.; Ciupik, L.; Cui, W.; Dickherber, R.; Duke, C.; Falcone, A.; Finley, J.P.; Finnegan, G.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Galante, N.; Gall, D.; Gillanders, G.H.; Godambe, S.; Grube, J.; Guenette, R.; Gyuk, G.; Hanna, D.; Holder, J.; Hui, C.M.; Humensky, T.B.; Imran, A.; Kaaret, P.; Karlsson, N.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Konopelko, A.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M.J.; Maier, G.; McArthur, S.; McCutcheon, M.; Moriarty, P.; Ong, R.A.; Otte, A.N.; Ouellette, M.; Pandel, D.; Perkins, J.S.; Pichel, A.; Pohl, M.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Reyes, L.C.; Reynolds, P.T.; Roache, E.; Rose, H.J.; Rovero, A.C.; Schroedter, M.; Sembroski, G.H.; Demet Senturk, G.; Steele, D.; Swordy, S.P.; Theiling, M.; Thibadeau, S.; Varlotta, A.; Vassiliev, V.V.; Vincent, S.; Wagner, R.G.; Wakely, S.P.; Ward, J.E.; Weekes, T.C.; Weinstein, A.; Weisgarber, T.; Williams, D.A.; Wissel, S.; Wood, M.; Zitzer, B.; Garson, A.; Lee, K.; Barnaby, D.; Cook, K.; Maune, J.; Pease, A.; Smith, S.; Walters, R.; Lindfors, E.; Nilsson, K.; Pasanen, M.; Sainio, J.; Sillanpaa, A.; Takalo, L.O.; Villforth, C.; Montaruli, W.T.; Baker, M.; Lahteenmaki, M.A.; Tornikoski, M.; Hovatta, T.; Nieppola, E.; Aller, U.H.D.; Aller, M.F.
  Source: Astrophysical Journal Volume: 738 Issue: 1 Pages: 25 (19 pp.) Published: 1 Sept. 2011
  
  
• Title: Adaptation of the Landau-Migdal quasiparticle pattern to strongly correlated Fermi systems
  Author(s): Khodel V.A.; Clark J.W.; Zverev M.V.
  Source: Physics of Atomic Nuclei Volume: 74 Issue: 9 Pages: 1237-66 Published: Sept. 2011
  
  
• Title: Gapless excitations in the Haldane-Rezayi state: The thin-torus limit
  Author(s): Seidel A.; Kun Yang
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) Volume: 84 Issue: 8 Pages: 085122 (13 pp.) Published: 15 Aug. 2011
  
  
• Title: Stellar dynamics of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
  Author(s): Merritt, D.; Alexander, T.; Mikkola, S.; Will, C.M.
  Source: Physical Review D Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Pages: 044024 (21 pp.) Published: 15 Aug. 2011
  
  
• Title: PT-symmetric representations of fermionic algebras
  Author(s): Bender C.M.; Klevansky S.P.
  Source: Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics) Volume: 84 Issue: 2 Pages: 024102 (5 pp.) Published: Aug. 2011
  
  
• Title: High-temperature correlation functions: Universality, extraction of exchange interactions, divergent correlation lengths, and generalized Debye length scales
  Author(s): Chakrabarty S.; Nussinov Z.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) Volume: 84 Issue: 6 Pages: 064124 (10 pp.) Published: 1 Aug. 2011
  
  
• Title: The Glassy Response of Double Torsion Oscillators in Solid ⁴He
  Author(s): Graf, M.J.; Jung-Jung Su; Dahal, H.P.; Grigorenko, I.; Nussinov, Z.
  Source: Journal of Low Temperature Physics Volume: 162 Issue: 5-6 Pages: 500-8 Published: March 2011
  
  
• Title: A highly modular beamline electrostatic levitation facility, optimized for in situ high-energy x-ray scattering studies of equilibrium and supercooled liquids
  Author(s): Mauro N.A.; Kelton K.F.
  Source: Review of Scientific Instruments Volume: 82 Issue: 3 Pages: 035114 (6 pp.) Published: March 2011
  
  
• Title: PNJL Model for Adjoint Fermions
  Author(s): Nishimura H.; Ogilvie M.C.
  Source: Journal of Physics: Conference Series Volume: 312 Issue: 1 Pages: 012011 (6 pp.) Published: 01 2011
  
  
• Title: PT-symmetric Quantum Field Theory
  Author(s): Bender C.M.
  Source: AIP Conference Proceedings Volume: 1389 Pages: 642-5 Published: 01 2011

2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded on October 4 "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter, The Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt, The High-z Supernova Search Team, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia and Adam G. Riess, The High-z Supernova Search Team, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.