Physics Today - January, 2009 (American Institute of Physics )

Articles

Solving quantum field theories via curved spacetimes Strongly interacting quantum field theories are notoriously difficult to work with, but new information about some of them is emerging from their surprising correspondence with gravitational theories. Igor R. Klebanov and Juan M. Maldacena.

Carbon nanotube electronics and photonics Their geometry, mechanical flexibility, and unique charge-transport properties make carbon nanotubes ideally suited to supplant silicon in the next generation of FETs. Phaedon Avouris.

Panofsky agonistes: The 1950 loyalty oath at Berkeley In 1949–51 the University of California was seriously damaged by a loyalty-oath controversy. Wolfgang Panofsky, a promising young physics professor at Berkeley, was caught up in the turmoil. John David Jackson.

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