Soft matter’s charismatic pioneer
A biography of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, now available in English translation, reviewed by Tom McLeish
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Physicists see hints of Majorana fermions
Evidence spotted in a novel kind of Josephson junction
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Space–time crystals on the horizon
How to build a crystal that is ordered in time as well as space
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‘Magnetic Josephson effect’ seen for the first time
Magnetic flux tunnels through superconductor
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First hint of Majorana fermions spotted in nanowires
Elusive particle emerges from topological superconductor
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Introducing the ‘orbiton’
New quasiparticle emerges from 1D lattice
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Temperatures set to plummet thanks to new cooling scheme
Frigid lattices could lead to new insights in superconductivity
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Our top videos of the year
From superconductivity to classical music
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Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011
Work on the fundamentals of quantum mechanics take the top gong
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How to turn darkness into light
Physicists convert virtual photons into real ones
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