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

01 October 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             Online-only personal subscriptions now available to Nature Physics For only 49 USD/29 GBP/29 EUR  Subscribe now!               Physical Sciences               Supercurrent enhancement in Bloch domain walls ▶     J. W. A. Robinson, F. Chiodi, M. Egilmez et al.     Conventional spin-singlet Cooper pairs convert into spin-triplet pairs in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions in which the superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces (S/F) are …             Synthesis of one-molecule-thick single-crystalline nanosheets of energetic material for high-sensitive force sensor ▶     Guangcheng Yang, Hailong Hu, Yong Zhou et al.     Energetic material is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy, which is extremely sensitive to external stimuli like force. In this work, …             N-type graphene induced by dissociative H2 adsorption at room temperature ▶     Byung Hoon Kim, Sung Ju Hong, Seung Jae Baek et al.     Studies of the interaction between hydrogen and graphene have been increasingly required due to the indispensable modulation of the electronic structure of graphene for device …             Spatial Filter Based Bessel-Like Beam for Improved Penetration Depth Imaging in Fluorescence Microscopy ▶     Subhajit B. Purnapatra, Sampa Bera, Partha Pratim Mondal     Monitoring and visualizing specimens at a large penetration depth is a challenge. At depths of hundreds of microns, several physical effects (such as, scattering, PSF distortion …             Social and strategic imitation: the way to consensus ▶     Daniele Vilone, José J. Ramasco, Angel Sánchez et al.     Humans do not always make rational choices, a fact that experimental economics is putting on solid grounds. The social context plays an important role in determining our actions, …             Primary Role of the Chromophore Bond Length Alternation in Reversible Photoconversion of Red Fluorescence Proteins ▶     Mikhail Drobizhev, Thomas E. Hughes, Yuriy Stepanenko et al.     Rapid photobleaching of fluorescent proteins can limit their use in imaging applications. The underlying kinetics is multi-exponential and strongly depends on the local …             Hierarchical Nested Wrinkles on Silica−Polymer Hybrid Films: Stimuli-Responsive Micro Periodic Surface Architectures ▶     Yasuaki Tokudome, Kazumasa Suzuki, Takuya Kitanaga et al.     Stimuli-response on hierarchically-structured surface wrinkles is required for advanced filtration, catalysis and sensing applications. Although conventional processes can form …             Large-area high-throughput synthesis of monolayer graphene sheet by Hot Filament Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition ▶     Ranjit Hawaldar, P. Merino, M. R. Correia et al.     We report hot filament thermal CVD (HFTCVD) as a new hybrid of hot filament and thermal CVD and demonstrate its feasibility by producing high quality large area strictly monolayer …             Is coaching experience associated with effective use of timeouts in basketball? ▶     Serguei Saavedra, Satyam Mukherjee, James P. Bagrow     Experience is an important asset in almost any professional activity. In basketball, there is believed to be a positive association between coaching experience and effective use …             The competitiveness versus the wealth of a country ▶     Boris Podobnik, Davor Horvatić, Dror Y. Kenett et al.     Politicians world-wide frequently promise a better life for their citizens. We find that the probability that a country will increase its per capita GDP (gdp) rank within a decade …             Reconstruction of the polar interface between hexagonal LuFeO3 and intergrown Fe3O4 nanolayers ▶     A. R. Akbashev, V. V. Roddatis, A. L. Vasiliev et al.     We report the observation of an unusual phase assembly behavior during the growth of hexagonal LuFeO3 thin films which resulted in the formation of epitaxial Fe3O4 nanolayers. The …             Linear and passive silicon optical isolator ▶     Chen Wang, Xiao-Lan Zhong, Zhi-Yuan Li     On-chip optical isolation plays a key role in optical communications and computing based on silicon integrated photonic structures and has attracted great attentions for long …             Quantum Capacitance in Topological Insulators ▶     Faxian Xiu, Nicholas Meyer, Xufeng Kou et al.     Topological insulators show unique properties resulting from massless, Dirac-like surface states that are protected by time-reversal symmetry. Theory predicts that the surface …             Stability of Climate Networks with Time ▶     Y. Berezin, A. Gozolchiani, O. Guez et al.     The pattern of local daily fluctuations of climate fields such as temperatures and geopotential heights is not stable and hard to predict. Surprisingly, we find that the observed …             Constructions of two polycatenanes and one polypseudo-rotaxane by discrete tetrahedral cages and stool-like building units ▶     Long Jiang, Ping Ju, Xian-Rui Meng et al.     Mechanically Interlocked molecules, such as catenanes and rotaxanes, are of great interest due to their fascinating structures and potential applications, while such molecules …             How to suppress undesired synchronization ▶     V. H. P. Louzada, N. A. M. Araújo, J. S. Andrade et al.     Examples of synchronization can be found in a wide range of phenomena such as neurons firing, lasers cascades, chemical reactions, and opinion formation. However, in many …             Femtosecond-Pulsed Plasmonic Nanotweezers ▶     Brian J. Roxworthy, Kimani C. Toussaint     We demonstrate for the first time plasmonic nanotweezers based on Au bowtie nanoantenna arrays (BNAs) that utilize a femtosecond-pulsed input source to enhance trapping of both …             Production of Graphite Chloride and Bromide Using Microwave Sparks ▶     Jian Zheng, Hong-Tao Liu, Bin Wu et al.     Chemically modified graphite is an economical material with promising applications in its own right or as an intermediate in the synthesis of graphene. However, because of its …             A quantum phase transition in a quantum external field: Superposing two magnetic phases ▶     Marek M. Rams, Michael Zwolak, Bogdan Damski     We study an Ising chain undergoing a quantum phase transition in a quantum magnetic field. Such a field can be emulated by coupling the chain to a central spin initially in a …             The Cell Cycle Switch Computes Approximate Majority ▶     Luca Cardelli, Attila Csikász-Nagy     Both computational and biological systems have to make decisions about switching from one state to another. The ‘Approximate Majority’ computational algorithm provides the …             Active plasmonics in WDM traffic switching applications ▶     Sotirios Papaioannou, Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos et al.     With metal stripes being intrinsic components of plasmonic waveguides, plasmonics provides a “naturally” energy-efficient platform for merging broadband optical links with …             Nature of light correlations in ghost imaging ▶     Sammy Ragy, Gerardo Adesso     We investigate the nature of correlations in Gaussian light sources used for ghost imaging. We adopt methods from quantum information theory to distinguish genuinely quantum from …             Shortcuts to adiabaticity in a time-dependent box ▶     A. del Campo, M. G. Boshier     A method is proposed to drive an ultrafast non-adiabatic dynamics of an ultracold gas trapped in a time-dependent box potential. The resulting state is free from spurious …             In-situ plasmon-driven chemical reactions revealed by high vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy ▶     Mengtao Sun, Zhenglong Zhang, Hairong Zheng et al.     With strong surface plasmons excited at the metallic tip, tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) has both high spectroscopic sensitivity and high spatial resolution, and is …             Identifying States of a Financial Market ▶     Michael C. Münnix, Takashi Shimada, Rudi Schäfer et al.     The understanding of complex systems has become a central issue because such systems exist in a wide range of scientific disciplines. We here focus on financial markets as an …             Dynamical Autler-Townes control of a phase qubit ▶     Jian Li, G. S. Paraoanu, Katarina Cicak et al.     Routers, switches, and repeaters are essential components of modern information-processing systems. Similar devices will be needed in future superconducting quantum computers. In …             Evolution of cooperation driven by zealots ▶     Naoki Masuda     Recent experimental results with humans involved in social dilemma games suggest that cooperation may be a contagious phenomenon and that the selection pressure operating on …             The Fate of a Normal Human Cell Traversed by a Single Charged Particle ▶     C. Fournier, S. Zahnreich, D. Kraft et al.     The long-term “fate” of normal human cells after single hits of charged particles is one of the oldest unsolved issues in radiation protection and cellular radiobiology. Using a …             Three is a crowd in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: experimental evidence on reciprocal behavior ▶     Jelena Grujić, Burcu Eke, Antonio Cabrales et al.     Reciprocity or conditional cooperation is one of the most prominent mechanisms proposed to explain the emergence of cooperation in social dilemmas. Recent experimental findings on …             Targeting the cancer cell cycle by cold atmospheric plasma ▶     O. Volotskova, T. S. Hawley, M. A. Stepp et al.     Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), a technology based on quasi-neutral ionized gas at low temperatures, is currently being evaluated as a new highly selective alternative addition to …             How Random are Online Social Interactions? ▶     Chunyan Wang, Bernardo A. Huberman     The massive amounts of data that social media generates has facilitated the study of online human behavior on a scale unimaginable a few years ago. At the same time, the much …             Optimizing Functional Network Representation of Multivariate Time Series ▶     Massimiliano Zanin, Pedro Sousa, David Papo et al.     By combining complex network theory and data mining techniques, we provide objective criteria for optimization of the functional network representation of generic multivariate …             On the existence of a threshold for preventive behavioral responses to suppress epidemic spreading ▶     Faryad Darabi Sahneh, Fahmida N. Chowdhury, Caterina M. Scoglio     The spontaneous behavioral responses of individuals to the progress of an epidemic are recognized to have a significant impact on how the infection spreads. One observation is …             Strongly linearly polarized low threshold lasing of all organic photonic quasicrystals ▶     D. Luo, Q. G. Du, H. T. Dai et al.     Lasing is obtained from a two-dimensional (2D) Penrose photonic quasicrystal made of a low index contrast material of holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals (H-PDLCs) that …             Experimental Quantum Error Detection ▶     Xian-Min Jin, Zhen-Huan Yi, Bin Yang et al.     Faithful transmission of quantum information is a crucial ingredient in quantum communication networks. To overcome the unavoidable decoherence in a noisy channel, to date, many …             Towards coherent spin precession in pure-spin current ▶     Hiroshi Idzuchi, Yasuhiro Fukuma, YoshiChika Otani     Non-local spin injection in lateral spin valves generates a pure spin current which is a diffusive flow of spins (i.e. spin angular momentums) with no net charge flow. The …             Role of Dislocation Movement in the Electrical Conductance of Nanocontacts ▶     Tadashi Ishida, Kuniyuki Kakushima, Teruyasu Mizoguchi et al.     Dislocation is a lattice imperfection of crystalline materials. Dislocation movement is induced during plastic deformation and influences the mechanical properties. Although the …             Superconductivity in Bundles of Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Wu Shi, Zhe Wang, Qiucen Zhang et al.     We present electrical and thermal specific heat measurements that show superconductivity in double-wall carbon nanotube (DWCNT) bundles. Clear evidence, comprising a resistance …             Coupling carbon nanotube mechanics to a superconducting circuit ▶     B. H. Schneider, S. Etaki, H. S. J. van der Zant et al.     The quantum behaviour of mechanical resonators is a new and emerging field driven by recent experiments reaching the quantum ground state. The high frequency, small mass, and …             Flexible and tunable silicon photonic circuits on plastic substrates ▶     Yu Chen, Huan Li, Mo Li     Flexible microelectronics has shown tremendous promise in a broad spectrum of applications, especially those that cannot be addressed by conventional microelectronics in rigid …             Room-temperature Magnetic Ordering in Functionalized Graphene ▶     Jeongmin Hong, Elena Bekyarova, Ping Liang et al.     Despite theoretical predictions, the question of room-temperature magnetic order in graphene must be conclusively resolved before graphene can fully achieve its potential as a …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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