October 2014 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the October 2014 Issue
How to Deal with Climate Change
Climate change is a complex and contentious public issue, but the risk-management options available to us are straightforward and have well-characterized strengths and weaknesses — Paul A. T. Higgins
Atom-like Crystal Defects: From Quantum Computers to Biological Sensors
Impurities in a crystal lattice are the key ingredient in recent efforts to control and apply the coherence and entanglement of spins in condensed-matter systems — Lilian Childress, Ronald Walsworth, and Mikhail Lukin
Quantum Darwinism, Classical Reality, and the Randomness of Quantum Jumps
The core principles that underlie quantum weirdness also explain why only selected quantum states survive monitoring by the environment and, as a result, why we experience our world as classical — Wojciech H. Zurek
...and much more!