Outreach and research results featured in the news

The press is communicating some of our results (as well as their importance and significance) to the general public. This is a role that professional societies (e.g., the American Physical Society) are strongly urging scientists to fill.

Outreach efforts to the general public have been repeatedly described by policymakers as crucial for the support for science.

Work by our group has been featured in:

• 2012: The Nature Publishing Index featured our team's work (local PDF) including our two 2011 papers published in Nature.

• 2012: Our paper Sudden vanishing and reappearance of nonclassical effects: General occurrence of finite-time decays and periodic vanishings of nonclassicality and entanglement witnesses, Phys. Rev. A 83, 053814 (2011) (local PDF) is prominently featured and discussed (in Spanish) in the blog: Misterios de la Astrofísica.

• 2012: A recent preprint Chirality and angular momentum in optical radiation writes about our work in their introduction: Originally termed the “Lipkin zilch”, the optical chirality measures were found to be distinct from stress-energy and were initially dismissed as having no ready physical interpretation, but were later associated with conservation of polarization of the electromagnetic field [1, 2]. Recent work by Bliokh and Nori has uncovered close connections between the optical chirality density and such measures as polarization helicity and energy density [3].

• 2012, February: Riken Research, Emerging from the vortex, (local PDF).

• 2012: Our review paper, Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits, Review of Modern Physics 84, 1 (2012), is prominently displayed in page 7 of the February 2012 issue of APS News, of the American Physical Society (APS), distributed to over 50,000 physicists around the world (local PDF).

• 2012: "News and Views", Nature Physics, (22 January 2012), Optomechanical systems: Hot electrons but cool vibrations (local PDF), refers to our work on photo-thermal cooling (local PDF)which was also referred to in an experiment on Optical cavity cooling of mechanical modes of a semiconductor nanomembrane (local PDF).

• 2012, January: Our paper, Quantum spin squeezing, Physics Reports 509, 89 (2011), is the most downloaded article of Physics Reports in the last 90 days (link, local PDF, data from Elsevier, January 2012).

• 2012: Two of our papers, Electronic properties of mesoscopic graphene structures: Charge confinement and control of spin and charge transport(local PDF), Phys. Reports 503, 77 (2011) and Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg interferometry (local PDF), Phys. Reports 492, 1 (2010), are listed (as #3 and #18) in the "Top 25 Hottest Articles" of Physics Reports, (local PDF, data from July to September 2011 of ScienceDirect). According to this URL, "The Top25 allows you to see which articles have been downloaded the most, either from any of the 24 subject areas and/or from any of the 2,500 journals on ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect has nearly 11 million regular users which means that the Top25 lists provide an authoritative reflection of readership habits. These reports are generated quarterly, in order to truly reflect usage patterns. The Top25 is based on usage behaviour from the prior three months. So the Top25 lists published in September represent results of ScienceDirect usage during April, May and June of that year."




• 2011: Our work on the Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit [Nature 479, 376 (2011)] was selected as one of the top ten physics breakthroughs in 2011 by Physics World (5th place), Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 (local PDF).

  • Press release by RIKEN, Research by Team Leader Franco Nori is selected as Physics World 2011 Breakthrough of the Year (local PDF).

  • Press release by the University of Michigan, Physicists' 'light from darkness' breakthrough named a top 2011 discovery (local PDF).

• 2011: The article Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit, Nature 479, 376 (2011) (local PDF), which is the experimental realization of our theoretical proposals (PRL 2009, PRA 2010, reviewed in RMP 2012), was featured in

  • Nature Editor's summary: Casimir on the move
    Two mirrors held parallel to each other in a vacuum experience an attractive force, known as the Casimir effect, which combines aspects of quantum vacuum behaviour with relativity. The force arises when vacuum fluctuations - virtual particles flitting in and out of existence - reduce the radiation pressure between the plates and generate an inward force. The static effect has been well studied, but theory also predicts a dynamical Casimir effect arising from a mismatch of vacuum modes in time rather than space. This paper presents the first observation of this phenomenon in a superconducting circuit.

  • Nature News and Views: Quantum physics: Shaking photons out of the vacuum, Nature 479, 303 (2011) by Diego A. R. Dalvit (17 November 2011) (local PDF).

  • Nature News Moving mirrors make light from nothing (local PDF).

  • According to Nature, coverage of our work on Nature News was The most read news story of 2011 (local PDF).

  • MIT's Technology Review (local PDF).

  • New Scientist Light pulled out of empty space (local PDF).

  • physorg.com Researchers create light from 'almost nothing' (local PDF).

  • physicsworld.com How to turn darkness into light (local PDF).

  • Chalmers press release (local PDF). Also available in Swedish (local PDF).

  • The "All that matters" blog by Joerg Heber, Plucking light out of space (local PDF).

  • Forbes Physicists Create Light From Nothingness (local PDF).

  • Cover story of the French daily "Le Monde" Des physiciens créent de la lumière à partir du vide (local PDF).

  • Financial Times Let nothing be light (local PDF).

  • One full page coverage (in French) in the popular science magazine "Sciences et Avenir" (February 2012) (local PDF).

  • Other news sites:
    The Register, ABC Australia, International Business Times, Deutsche Welle, Straits Times, TG Daily, Science Alert, The Times of India, The Epoch Times, The Hindu, Digital Journal, Science Centric, Labmate Online, AZO Optics, Crazy Engineers, Hindustan Times, E! Science News, Daily Mail, and American Scientist.




• 2011: Our PRL article Relativistic electron vortex beams: Angular momentum and spin-orbit interaction, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 174802 (2011) describes the exact vortex Bessel-beam states of Dirac electrons. This provides a significant extension of the vortex-beam theory, including: (i) relativistic, (ii) spin, and (iii) nonparaxial effects. Our study demonstrates, for the first time, spin-orbit interaction phenomena inside free electrons. It also provides the general theory of angular and magnetic momenta of relativistic electrons including nonparaxial Berry-phase corrections.

• 2011: Our feature article in Physics Today (PT), Superconducting circuits and quantum information, Physics Today 58 (11), 42-47 (2005), is the most cited PT article since 2004, and the third most cited PT article in the past decade. Moreover, a 2011 analysis of quantum computing research over the past decade performed by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) indicates that this PT article has made a significant contribution to this field. This paper is also listed in "Superconducting quantum computing" of Wikipedia.

• 2011, September: Our article Natural and artificial atoms for quantum computation, Reports on Progress in Physics 74, 104401 (2011) (local PDF), which is a review of recent progress towards realizing quantum computation using natural and artificial atoms as qubits, was featured in IOP Asia-Pacific (local PDF) and Quantum Bayesian Networks blog. The blog wrote "This excellent paper describes the current state of the art of QC hardware for implementing the gate-circuit model."

• 2011, July: Dr. Franco Nori is interviewed in "Chemistry World" (link, local PDF) regarding quantum simulations of chemical reactions and chemical dynamics. Some of our work related to this area can be found in these works (1.Modelling chemical reactions using semiconductor quantum dots, 2.Density functional theory and quantum computation, 3.Efficient quantum algorithm for preparing molecular-system-like states on a quantum computer, 4.Measurement-based quantum phase estimation algorithm for finding eigenvalues of non-unitary matrices, 5.Quantum simulators).

• 2011, July: Our article Atomic physics and quantum optics using superconducting circuits, Nature 474, 589 (2011) (local PDF) was featured in BioPortfolio, pubget.com, and Mendeley.

• 2011, June: Our article, "Quantum effects in energy and charge transfer in an artificial photosynthetic complex," published in J. Chem. Phys. 134, 244103 (2011) has been selected for the June 2011 issue of JCP: BioChemical Physics (which features biophysical content from J. Chem. Phys., compiled to bring these articles to an even broader audience in the biophysical community).
  

• 2011: Our work on "Control-free control: Manipulating a quantum system using only a limited set of measurements" (local PDF, and also in this link ) was featured in a "News and Views" article in Nature, on "Quantum Control". This is available online Nature PDF, Nature HTML, and (local PDF). It was also featured in Quantum News (local PDF, in Japanese).
  

• 2010, December: Our work on distinguishing quantum and classical transport in nanostructures (PRL 2010) was featured in Riken Research, in the article Quantum or not? (local PDF).

  • The arxiv version was featured in Physics arXiv Blog of MIT's Technology Review

  • Our article was also featured on page 51 of "Asia Research News 2011" (local PDF). This News reports on research activities from institutes in Asia in 2010 and is available online here.

  • It was also featured in a variety of physics and nanotechnology websites: physnews.com, azonano.com, nanowerk.com, esciencenews.com, physorg.com, and tipspad.com.

• 2010: Our prediction on the production of electron vortex beams (PRL 2007) has been implemented experimentally by three groups, published in two papers in Nature in 2010 and one in Science in 2011.

  • These results (our theory PRL and the subsequent two experiments in Nature) have been featured in Nature Nanotechnology: ( "Electron microscopy: A new spin on electron beams" (local PDF).

  • Non-technical summaries are available online here:
    2008: Riken Research News, Quantum corkscrews from twisting electron waves (local PDF) .

  • The first experiment is described here: Electrons spiral to a new future
    and they wrote this in their Nature paper:
    "Recently, it has been shown [13] that electron wave packets can carry a well-defined OAM, using the semi-classical paraxial solutions of the Schrödinger equation with phase singularities. The present experiment confirms the prediction [13] of quantum electron waves carrying OAM."
    Ref. 13 is our 2007 PRL (the one listed above). (local PDF) .

  • Afterwards, a group in Antwerp did an improved experiment [Nature (2010)].

  • Physics World interviewed us on this topic: Holography puts electrons in a twist.

  • 2011 experiments appeared in Science: Electron Vortex Beams with High Quanta of Orbital Angular Momentum. A Perspective on this is here: A New Twist for Electron Beams.

• 2010, May: APS's Physics featured our paper on the Surface Josephson Plasma Waves in Layered Superconductors above the Plasma Frequency: Evidence for a Negative Index of Refraction in a synopsis: Superconductor optics (local PDF).

• 2010, Experiments (local PDF ) (by Dr. Uchida and Dr. Tonomura) published in Nature confirmed our 2007 theoretical prediction on Quantum corkscrews from twisting electron waves published in 2007 in Physical Review Letters (local PDF).

• 2010, May: Nature publishes a "Milestones" issue devoted to photons. F. Nori is one of the 18 "Milestones advisors" for this special issue (this list is only in the printed version ).

• 2010, April: Our exact spinor wave function (local file) for an electron on a graphene triangular quantum dot was displayed on the front page of the Physical Review B journal web site. It is available in PRB Kaleidoscope (for April 2010).

• 2010, March: Riken Research, The geometry of randomness (local PDF).

• 2010, January: Riken Research, Emulation for understanding (local PDF).

• 2009, October: Our article "Quantum Simulators," Science 326, 108 (2009) (local PDF) is an overview of different quantum systems than can be used to emulate other quantum systems - quantum simulators. It was featured in RIKEN Research as "Controllable quantum systems that allow us to better understand complex physical processes are now within reach,"and also in Nanowerk, Nextbigfuture, SMarticle and RIKEN press release.

• 2009, October: Riken Research News, Forecasting solar-energy harvests (local PDF).

• 2009, September: APS's Physics featured our paper on the Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide in a synopsis: How to accelerate the wall of an optical waveguide (local PDF).

• 2009, July: Our article "Modeling light-driven proton pumps in artificial photosynthetic reaction centers" (local PDF) was selected as the only current "Research Highlight" (local PDF) of the Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP). JCP was ranked #1 in Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Physics, according to the ISI, 2008.

• 2009: Riken Research News, Dilating time with superconductors (local PDF, also featured on the cover page).

• 2009: Riken Research News, Warming up to the Casimir force (local PDF).

• 2009: Riken Research News, The single photon switch (local PDF).

• 2008, July 28: Superconductor Week (page 6), RIKEN Proposes Method to Improve Quantum Coherence. Featured our paper on "Simultaneous Cooling of an Artificial Atom and Its Neighboring Quantum System", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047001 (2008) (local PDF).

• 2008, May: Interview on "Sound Producing Sand". Published in "Lake" Magazine, May 2008. Page 29 (local PDF).

• 2008, April 2: Superconductor Week prominently featured (about one page out of eight for the entire issue) our theory-experiment collaboration on novel ways to control the motion of flux quanta in superconductors ("Nonlinear Nanodevices Using Magnetic Flux Quanta", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207003 (2007), local PDF).

• 2008: Riken Research News, Quantum corkscrews from twisting electron waves. (local PDF).

• 2008: Riken Research News, Magnetic flux quanta get a dance lesson. (local PDF).

• 2008: Optical Society of America (OSA) workshop on Entanglement and Quantum Decoherence (EQD). Nara, Japan. January 2008. F. Nori was a co-organizer and its USA-Japan liason. Six collaborators presented results here. (local PDF).

• 2008: The research done in the group of Prof. Nori is prominently featured in an article (published January 31, 2008) in "Il Sole 24 Ore", the most important economic/financial newspaper in Italy. (local PDF).

• 2007: Prof. F. Nori elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ten from University (of Michigan) chosen as AAAS Fellows (local PDF), AAAS Members Elected as Fellows (local PDF), Honors to physicists at RIKEN (local PDF).

• 2007: Nature Nanotechnology, November 2007. Magnetic devices: New look for flux diodes (local PDF)

• 2007: Daily Telegraph, UK. November 2007. Quantum theory.

• 2007: New Scientist, UK. October 2007. Quantum theory.

• 2007: News coverage on our research, in Russian. Inauka (local PDF). Another news item in Russian: GPU (local PDF).

• 2007: News coverage on our research, in Russian. Lenta (december 2007) (local PDF). English translation (local PDF).

• 2007: "Artificial atoms made of small circuits", University of Michigan, Physics Department, Annual Newsletter 2007. (local PDF).

• 2007: Physics Today, August 2007, page 29. Stakeholders weight costs of open-access publishing, by Paul Guinnessy (local PDF).
  Also, Prof. Franco Nori was quoted in the pamphlet on the "Free to Read" initiative by the American Physical Society (local PDF).

• 2007: Prof. Franco Nori comments in Science on results on "acoustic emissions produced by sand avalanches" Looking Inside a Dune for its Boom (local PDF).

• 2007: Riken Research News, Profile of Prof. Franco Nori, Taming Quantum Fluxes (local PDF).

• 2007: Riken Research News, Superconductors' dripping faucet (local PDF).

• 2007: Riken Research News, Left-handed waves for perfect two-dimensional imaging (local PDF).

• 2007: Riken Research News, Driving for smaller engines (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken Research News, Using defects to improve quantum bits (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken Research News, New ways to control terahertz waves (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken News, Interview with Prof. Franco Nori (in Japanese) (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken Research News, All shook up - Brazil nut effect explained by quantum analogy (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken Research News, Superconducting circuit to test quantum theories (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken Research News, The shifting currents of superconductors (local PDF).

• 2006: Riken Research News, Noisy whirlpools ousted to improve magnetic sensitivity (local PDF).

• 2005: News coverage (local PDF) on our work on superconducting qubits (Y.X. Liu, et al., Controllable coupling between flux qubits, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067003 (2006), local PDF). This describes a new method to control the coupling and de-coupling of qubits, by tuning the frequencies of the applied fields.

• 2005: On our publication "Using Josephson Vortex Lattices to Control THz Radiation: Tunable Transparency and THz Photonic Crystals":

  • PhysicsOrg.com: The latest Physics and Technology News.
    http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=3767
    

  • Daily Science News, http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/story-3767.html

    Also at SciCentral ("Gateway to the best scientific research news sources"),

    Air Force News (http://afpet.ft-belvoir.af.mil/topnews.asp),
    Broad Education (http://broad-education.com/news-18670.html),
    and PhysicsNews.com.

    PhysicsLink.com. Physics and Astronomy online. http://www.physlink.com/index.cfm
    http://www.physlink.com/News/042205ThzPhotonicCrystal.cfm
    

  • The UM press release is in
    http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Apr05/r041805a

• 2005: Our work on mechanical qubits (by S. Savel'ev, X. Hu, and F. Nori) has been featured in several venues including:

  • Scientific American, April 2005, page 28.
    Qubit Twist: Bending Nanotubes as Mechanical Quantum Bits.
    http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/%7Enori/Sci-am-mechanical-qubits.pdf

  • United Press International."Nano World: Nano for quantum computers".
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050317-124226-2271r

• 2003: Our publication "Reversible Rectifier that Controls the Motion of Magnetic Flux Quanta in Superconductors", (2003) has been featured in several venues including:

  • an "Enhanced Perspectives" in Science 302 1159 (2003). It is available on-line at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5648/1159. This is the only "Enhanced Perspectives" of that issue of Science, with dozens of links with further information on the subject, and one of three "Enhanced Perspectives" covering all of physics for 2003.

  • prominently featured in the page "This week in Science" of that issue of Science (Nov. 14, 2003).

  • Newspapers in Europe (e.g., El Pais, Madrid), Japan, and the USA.

  • Spain Nano-technology Network: http://www.nanospain.net/nanospainpapersg.htm/

  • Nanopic site:
    http://www.nanopicoftheday.org/2005Pics/January2005/25MagFluxRectifier.htm

• 2003: Our publication "Controlling Transport in Mixtures of Interacting Particles using Brownian Motors", by S. Savel'ev, F. Marchesoni, and F. Nori, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 10601 (2003), available on-line at http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v91/e010601, has been featured in:

  • For several weeks as the top-listed research news in the front page of the University of Michigan web site (www.umich.edu). This web site gets a lot of traffic everyday. The actual press release is in http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/Jun03/r061903.html.

  • A very nontechnical and brief graphical summary is in
    http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/May03/img/ratchets.jpg

  • Newswise/Science News also appeared in Small Times magazine (presenting technological advances in nano-science). http://www.smalltimes.com/

  • Le Scienze, the Italian version of Scientific American, among other science news outlets.

  • Conveyor Belt on a nanometer scale, Machine Design, No. 19. Vol. 75, Pg. 35; October 9, 2003.

• 2003: Our work on vortex dynamics in superconductors was featured in part of a television program, prepared by the Danish Broadcast Corporation, about the study of superconducting materials.

• 2003: Our work Observing Brownian motion in vibro-fluidized granular matter, by G. D'Anna, et al. has been featured in (the list below is very incomplete):

  • Cover Story of Nature (August 21st 2003 issue of Nature). The text accompanying the cover photo was: "Against the Grain. Brownian motion in a non-equilibrium system".

  • News coverage in French include: L`Hebdo, Le Temps, 24 Heures.

  • University of Michigan News Service (local PDF)

  • The Resource for Science Information (BrightSurf.com). One of the few ``Today's Science News" for August, 25, 2003.

  • Innovations Report (Forum fur Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft, Germany). August, 25, 2003.

  • Global Technology Market Place (GlobalTechnoScan.com). Weekly Magazine on New Technology. Issue 27th Aug to 2nd Sept. 2003.

  • EurekAlert! Public News. A Service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with support from the US Department of Energy and the US National Institutes of Health. Eurekalert.org is described as the premier web site for science news since 1996. Public release date: 22-Aug-2003.

  • Science News. 8/22/2003. http://sciguy.com/News/Article.asp?ArticleID=5410

  • Headline News. NewsHub.com. 22-Aug-2003.

  • Knowledge Science. http://www.kenkyu40.net/index.php

  • World Wide News Headliner.

• 2002: Our 1999 work on "Biologically-inspired solid-state devices for the control of the motion of quanta" is nicely highlighted in the Molecular Motors first feature article of the November, 2002, Physics Today, page 38. 442571

• 2002: Our publication "Experimentally-realizable devices for controlling the motion of magnetic flux quanta in anisotropic superconductors", S. Savelev and F. Nori, published in Nature Materials, 1, 179 (November 2002), has been:

  • Listed on the cover of the November issue of Nature Materials.

  • Featured in a pedagogical two-pages "News and Views", Nature Materials 1, 143 (2002), titled: "Controlling the Motion of Quanta".

  • Nikkei (this newspaper is the Japanese version of the "Wall Street Journal"), Monday, January 6, 2003. An article on Page 23 describing these results.

  • November 6, 2002. Stories of modern science, from UPI, By Ellen Beck. (UPI = United Press International).

  • November 13, 2002. Electronics Weekly, Pg. 6. "US and Japanese scientists control magnetic flux quanta".

  • The UM press release in http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2002/Nov02/chr110402c.html was covered by news agencies and newswire services, including: (*) Innovations Report, Forum für Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft, a technical news site in Germany); (*) AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire; (*) NewsWise, that covers new science and technology developments.

• 2002: Our publication on novel quantum nano-circuitry: "Scalable Quantum Computing with Josephson junction Qubits", J.Q. You, J.S. Tsai, and F. Nori, in Physical Review Letters, 89, 179 (November 2002) (available on line from http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/e197902) has been featured in several places, including:

  • The December 11 to 18, 2002, issue of the Technology Review News, Page 1. Available at http://www.trnmag.com/. It features our results, and also four other stories for that week. The article, titled "Design links quantum bits", is relatively long (for a news piece).

  • November 22, 2002: United Business Media's Electrical Engineering Times, described as "The Industry Source for Engineers and Technical Managers Worldwide", has an article describing our results (titled: ``Superconducting junctions eyed for quantum computing" and available at http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021122S0013).

  • Electronics Weekly, November 06, 2002, News; Pg. 5, on our results on "Quantum qubits".

  • October 23, 2002. "Paper Discusses Circuitry for Quantum Computing", in Supercomputing online. Available at http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=2756

  • Our work motivated the long article "Thoughtful about uploading", Bill Tammeus, Kansas City Star, November 2, 2002.

  • October 2002: Featured in Innovations Report, Forum für Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft, a technical news site in Germany.

  • October 23, 2002: Featured in AScribe - The Public Interest Newswire. October 24, 2002, featured in NewsWise, that covers new science and technology developments.

  • The December 2002 issue of Science and Technology Trends (number 21, Dec. 2002) has a one-page article featuring our November 2002 PRL results. This is a publication of the ``Science and Technology Foresight Center" of the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). The latter is part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Japan.

    Newspaper articles overseas include the following ones:

  • Japan Industry News of the "Japan Industrial Journal", page 2, Thursday, October 24, 2002.

  • Daily Industrial Newspaper (the Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun), page 4, Thursday, October 24, 2002.

  • Nikkei (this important newspaper is the Japanese version of the "Wall Street Journal"), Friday, October 25, 2002.

  • Science News (in Japan), November 8, 2002.

• 2000: The Discovery Channel: Television program first broadcasted in the summer of 2000, and rebroadcasted many times since then.

• 1999: 10-minutes Television program broadcasted by The Learning Channel (part of the Discovery Channel Network). It was first broadcasted on February 15, 16, and 17 of 1999, and replayed many times later.

• 1999: Michigan Daily (2-12-1999). Ann Arbor News (2000). Both on sand avalanches.

• 1998: Several of our results are very prominently featured and described in some detail in Chapter 2 of the book: Self-organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems, by H. Jensen (Cambridge, 1998).

• 1998: Featured in the book Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998).

• Science Magazines abroad. For instance, the December 1997 issue of the European science magazine Focus (with a circulation of over 300,000 copies per issue) devoted five pages (p. 32-36), including an interview, and also in the cover; the weekly Panorama (page 165; May 14, 1994) also featured our work.

• Newspapers abroad (e.g., Swiss Die Weltwoche, Oct. 2 1997, Science Section, Full page article; and also in Germany).

• Newspapers in the US (e.g., Dallas Morning News, Oct. 20, 1997, Discovery Section, Cover Story); also in newspapers in Michigan and Colorado.
  

• Featured in the book How Nature Works, by Per Bak (Springer-Verlag, 1996). A full page with color photos and text, plus additional mentions elsewhere in the book.

• 1999 American Physical Society: Centennial Exhibit celebrating the 100 years of the APS.
  Very large posters and also videos on our theory work on vortex dynamics were featured right next to the ``history of superconductivity" exhibit. Only another group, Argonne National Laboratory, was featured (experiments on vortex dynamics).

• Physics World, 12, No. 4, p. 24 (April 1999); coverstory.

• New Scientist, Vol. 161, No. 2179, P. 40 (27 March 1999). Also listed in the cover.

• Science News, No. 155 (October 31, 1998). Coverstory, and the only featured long article of the issue.

• Science News 154, 285 (Oct. 98)

• New Scientist, No. 2140, p. 16 (June 27, 1998).

• American Physical Society: Division of Materials Physics' Webpage (1996-present).

• American Institute of Physics: Science Report Radio (Physics News broadcasted by Radio Stations) (1998). (Note: For over 25 years, Science Report Radio has been played regularly on 181 stations nationwide. It is the nation's longest running radio science feature. Each program reaches approximately four million listeners. At least one radio station in 19 of the top 20 markets broadcasts the show. In 1997, Science Report also became available via the Public Radio Satellite System).

• Scientific American (August, 1997)
  1998: translations into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Polish, Arabic, etc. of our Scientific American article.

• American Institute of Physics: Physics News 331 (July 24, 97)

• Science On-Line: Science Now (July 17, 1997)

• Science News 152, No. 3, 37 (July 97)

• Physics Today ("Search and Discovery" section) 50, No. 6, 19 (June 97)

• American Physical Society News 5, 9 (June 96)

• Science 271, 1373 (March 8, 96)

• American Institute of Physics: Physics News 261 (March 6, 96)

• American Physical Society News 4, 8 (June 95)

• Science News 147, 198 (April 95)

• New Scientist, p. 36 (12 March 1994)

• Science 264, 200 (April 94)

• Physics World 6, 42 (Dec. 93)

• Science News 144, 261 (Oct. 93)

• Science News 142, 231 (Oct. 92)