Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: March 2012

01 March 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Nature Immunology presents a webcast series on Current Controversies Webcasts now available free on demand on the following topics: Lineage Differentiation HIV Vaccines Human Immunology Sponsored by:                 Physical Sciences               A measure of individual role in collective dynamics ▶     Konstantin Klemm, M. Ángeles Serrano, Víctor M. Eguíluz et al.     Identifying key players in collective dynamics remains a challenge in several research fields, from the efficient dissemination of ideas to drug target discovery in biomedical …             Quantum phase slip phenomenon in ultra-narrow superconducting nanorings ▶     Konstantin Yu. Arutyunov, Terhi T. Hongisto, Janne S. Lehtinen et al.     The smaller the system, typically - the higher is the impact of fluctuations. In narrow superconducting wires sufficiently close to the critical temperature Tc thermal …             Optoelectronic Reservoir Computing ▶     Y. Paquot, F. Duport, A. Smerieri et al.     Reservoir computing is a recently introduced, highly efficient bio-inspired approach for processing time dependent data. The basic scheme of reservoir computing consists of a non …             Cell-Sized confinement in microspheres accelerates the reaction of gene expression ▶     Ayako Kato, Miho Yanagisawa, Yuko T. Sato et al.     Cell-sized water-in-oil droplet covered by a lipid layer was used to understand how lipid membranes affect biochemical systems in living cells. Here, we report a remarkable …             Growth dynamics and the evolution of cooperation in microbial populations ▶     Jonas Cremer, Anna Melbinger, Erwin Frey     Microbes providing public goods are widespread in nature despite running the risk of being exploited by free-riders. However, the precise ecological factors supporting cooperation …             Strongly hyperpolarized gas from parahydrogen by rational design of ligand-capped nanoparticles ▶     Ramesh Sharma, Louis-S Bouchard     The production of hyperpolarized fluids in continuous mode would broaden substantially the range of applications in chemistry, materials science, and biomedicine. Here we show …             Josephson junction microwave amplifier in self-organized noise compression mode ▶     Pasi Lähteenmäki, Visa Vesterinen, Juha Hassel et al.     The fundamental noise limit of a phase-preserving amplifier at frequency is the standard quantum limit . In the microwave range, the best candidates have been amplifiers based on …             An extraterrestrial trigger for the Early Cretaceous massive volcanism? Evidence from the paleo-Tethys Ocean ▶     M. L. G. Tejada, G. Ravizza, K. Suzuki et al.     The Early Cretaceous Greater Ontong Java Event in the Pacific Ocean may have covered ca. 1% of the Earth’s surface with volcanism. It has puzzled scientists trying to explain its …             The interplay of mutations and electronic properties in disease-related genes ▶     Chi-Tin Shih, Stephen A. Wells, Ching-Ling Hsu et al.     Electronic properties of DNA are believed to play a crucial role in many phenomena in living organisms, for example the location of DNA lesions by base excision repair (BER) …             The ineluctable requirement for the trans-iron elements molybdenum and/or tungsten in the origin of life ▶     Barbara Schoepp-Cothenet, Robert van Lis, Pascal Philippot et al.     An evolutionary tree of key enzymes from the Complex-Iron-Sulfur-Molybdoenzyme (CISM) superfamily distinguishes “ancient” members, i.e. enzymes present already in the last …             Electric-field control of magnetic domain wall motion and local magnetization reversal ▶     Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen, Kévin J. A. Franke, Sebastiaan van Dijken     Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of …             An Efficient Exact Quantum Algorithm for the Integer Square-free Decomposition Problem ▶     Jun Li, Xinhua Peng, Jiangfeng Du et al.     Quantum computers are known to be qualitatively more powerful than classical computers, but so far only a small number of different algorithms have been discovered that actually …             Broadband polygonal invisibility cloak for visible light ▶     Hongsheng Chen, Bin Zheng     Invisibility cloaks have recently become a topic of considerable interest thanks to the theoretical works of transformation optics and conformal mapping. The design of the cloak …             Direct observation of crystal defects in an organic molecular crystals of copper hexachlorophthalocyanine by STEM-EELS ▶     Mitsutaka Haruta, Hiroki Kurata     The structural analysis of crystal defects in organic thin films provides fundamental insights into their electronic properties for applications such as field effect transistors. …             Energy gaps in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ cuprate superconductors ▶     J. K. Ren, X. B. Zhu, H. F. Yu et al.     The relationship between the cuprate pseudogap (Δp) and superconducting gap (Δs) remains an unsolved mystery. Here, we present a temperature- and doping-dependent tunneling study …             Localization and Glassy Dynamics Of Many-Body Quantum Systems ▶     Giuseppe Carleo, Federico Becca, Marco Schiró et al.     When classical systems fail to explore their entire configurational space, intriguing macroscopic phenomena like aging and glass formation may emerge. Also closed …             Ultrahigh-rate supercapacitors based on eletrochemically reduced graphene oxide for ac line-filtering ▶     Kaixuan Sheng, Yiqing Sun, Chun Li et al.     The recent boom in multifunction portable electronic equipments requires the development of compact and miniaturized electronic circuits with high efficiencies, low costs and long …             Self-assembled photosystem-I biophotovoltaics on nanostructured TiO2 and ZnO ▶     Andreas Mershin, Kazuya Matsumoto, Liselotte Kaiser et al.     The abundant pigment-protein membrane complex photosystem-I (PS-I) is at the heart of the Earth’s energy cycle. It is the central molecule in the “Z-scheme” of photosynthesis, …             Single Mode Lasing from Hybrid Hemispherical Microresonators ▶     Rui Chen, Van Duong Ta, Han Dong Sun     Enormous attention has been paid to optical microresonators which hold a great promise for microlasers as well as fundamental studies in cavity quantum electrodynamics. 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