{"id":4908,"date":"2010-08-01T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/01\/links-for-2010-08-01\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T08:06:38","slug":"links-for-2010-08-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/01\/links-for-2010-08-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-08-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.physics.illinois.edu\/qi\/photonics\/kwiatmovie09.html\">Kwiat Quantum Information Group<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The quantum physics version of &#8220;24.&#8221; Can Professor Paul Kwiat save his research group from striking grad students, visiting sponsors, broken lasers and a missing password without violating the University of Illinois ethics regulations?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/best-a-worst-job-prospects-in-the-urban-fantasy-economy-for-2011\">Tor.com \/ Science fiction and fantasy \/ Blog posts \/ Best &amp; Worst Job Prospects in the Urban Fantasy Economy for 2011<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;WORST PROSPECTS<br \/>\nWe do not recommend the following fields for 2011:<\/p>\n<p>1. Physicist<br \/>\nThis profession has abnormally high levels of insanity in the urban fantasy world.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/fantasy\">fantasy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/tor\">tor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/43371\">Mobile electrons spotted on topological insulator &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The team placed such a sample in a configuration called a Hall bar, whereby four contact electrodes measure the conductivity in the X and Y directions while a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the surface along Z. The team then used two independent techniques to measure the surface electron mobility &#8211; a quantity related directly to the conductivity. In both techniques the presence of the magnetic field was exploited to confirm that the measured conductivity was on the surface rather than in the bulk<\/p>\n<p>Both measurements put the surface mobility at about 10,000 cm2\/Vs, which is about 12 times higher than that measured in the bulk of the crystals. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/condensed-matter\">condensed-matter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/topological-insulators\">topological-insulators<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/materials\">materials<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-world\">physics-world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwiat Quantum Information Group The quantum physics version of &#8220;24.&#8221; Can Professor Paul Kwiat save his research group from striking grad students, visiting sponsors, broken lasers and a missing password without violating the University of Illinois ethics regulations? 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