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Random Roads Less Travelled

5 August 2011
A uniform city street plan may produce heavy traffic everywhere, whereas a random network of road connections leaves some roads open, according to a mathematical model.

PRL (5 August 2011)

Electric Field from a Built-In Flex

29 July 2011
Researchers fabricated a material that generates an electric field due to a stretched atomic structure, and they modified its properties by changing its growth conditions. Similar materials may be useful in nanotechnology.

PRL (29 July 2011)

Landmarks: Ghostly Influence of Distant Magnetic Field

22 July 2011
In the Aharonov-Bohm effect, proposed in 1959, quantum particles are affected in measurable ways by the classical electromagnetic potential, previously regarded as a purely mathematical construct. The electromagnetic field is too far from the particles to have any direct influence.

PR (August 1959)

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