سال جهانی فیزیک
سال 2005 از سوی سازمان ملل به عنوان
سال جهانی فیزیک نام گذاری شد. امسال صدمین سال تولد نظریه
فوتوالکتریک است. انیشتین در سال 1905 با ارائه نظریه فوتوالکتریک
که منجر به دریافت جایزه نوبل شد و البته ارائه دو نظریه دیگر، از
جمله نسبیت خاص، پایه گذارانقلاب بزرگی در علم فیزیک و برآمدن نسل
جدیدی از دانشمندان و فیزیک دانان شد. در محافل علمی ایران نیز
قرار است سال 84 به عنوان سال فیزیک شناخته شود.
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فیزیک روی همرفته مثبت تلقی نشده است
این گزارش که در یکی از سایتهای
اینترنتی آمده
است نشان می دهد نه تنها ما بلکه کشورهای مختلف از عملکردشان امسال
راضی نبوده اند البته شاید این برآورد به خاطر نشانهای بارزی از
نبوغ وتاثیر فرضیات اینشتین در دنیای فیزیک باشد که هنوز پس از صد
سال هنوز متکی به نظریات علمی اوهستیم ومنتظر آرا وافکار نویی در
فیزیک ....
اما آنچه که امسال انتظارش راداشتیم اثر فیزیک در هرچه نزدیک تر
کردن فهم عوام به دریافت قوانین حاکم بر طبیعت وآشتی کردن با علم
بود ...حال تا چه حد در این زمینه موفق بوده ایم جای فکر دارد
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Review of the year
22 December 2005
It was the International Year of Physics, when physicists around
the globe celebrated the centenary of Einstein's famous papers
on relativity, Brownian motion and the quantum theory of light.
The year saw a vast range of events, conferences and exhibitions
to commemorate the top physicist of all time and enthuse the
public about physics. But was 2005 an annus
mirabilis for
physics research? It is probably too soon to give a definitive
answer, but as the year draws to a close the likely answer seems
to be "no".
1. January:
All-silicon laser makes its debut
2. February:
Saturn and Titan reveal their secrets
3. March:
The passing of a legend
4. April:
Negative refraction goes optical
5. May:
Particle physicists discover new meson
6. June:
Europe beats Japan to fusion prize
7. July:
Quantum boost for optical clocks
8. August:
Fibres control the speed of light
9. September:
Comet reveals its secrets
10. October:
New look for Hall effect
11. November:
Electrons lose their mass in carbon sheets
12. December:
Entanglement reaches new levels
1. January:
All-silicon laser makes its debut
The year got off to a good start for solid-state physicists when
researchers at Intel announced that they had made the first
all-silicon laser. The laser was manufactured using standard
semiconductor processing techniques and was heralded as bringing
cheap, high-speed optical circuits one step closer. Integrating
lasers and electronic devices on the same silicon chip is one of
the holy grails of microelectronics. But most existing optical
devices -- such as the lasers inside DVD players -- use exotic
and expensive semiconductors like gallium arsenide or indium
phosphide.
All-silicon laser makes its debut
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2. February:
Saturn and Titan reveal their secrets
February saw the first flood of results from the
Cassini--Huygens mission to Saturn. The Cassini mothership had
started orbiting Saturn in June 2004 and eight new papers
revealed evidence from that mission for new moons and ring
structures. Later in the year, the European Space Agency's
Huygens probe, which landed on Saturn's largest moon Titan in
January, revealed fascinating new information about Titan's
nitrogen-rich atmosphere.
Cassini reveals Saturn's secrets
Saturn's moon reveals its secrets
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3. March:
The passing of a legend
It was a sad month for physics when Hans Bethe -- one of the
giants of 20th-century physics -- died on 6 March. Bethe was
awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics for his theory of
nuclear reaction inside stars and was one of the key figures in
the Manhattan atomic-bomb project during the Second World War.
The year also saw the death of Joseph Rotblat, who was the only
physicist to resign from the Manhattan project and who later
worked tirelessly for a world free from nuclear weapons as
founder and secretary-general of the Pugwash peace movement.
Rotblat and Pugwash shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. Other
deaths during the year included Philip Morrison, Jack Kilby,
Hermann Bondi and John Bahcall.
Atom
bomb designer dies
Bomb
builder turned critic passes away
Jack
Kilby: 1923--2005
John
Bahcall dies
Joseph
Rotblat dies
Sir
Hermann Bondi: 1919--2005
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4. April:
Negative refraction goes optical
Physicists at Purdue University in the US announced in April
that they had demonstrated "negative refraction" at optical
wavelengths for the first time. The researchers obtained the
result in a material consisting of an array of pairs of parallel
gold nanorods, and said the structure could lead to optical "superlenses"
that reflect no light and operate with sub-wavelength
resolution. Negative refraction continued to be a hot topic
throughout the year, with other papers describing an optical
superlens from a thin layer of silver and the discovery of a new
type of negative-index material made from layers of
superconducting and ferromagnetic thin films.
Negative refraction goes optical
Superlens breakthrough
Ferromagnets and superconductors make negative-index materials
April also saw a rather over-hyped announcement by researchers
at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US that they had
found strong evidence for a "quark--gluon" plasma -- the state
of matter that is thought to have existed in the first millionth
of a second after the Big Bang. The researchers stopped short of
saying they had actually discovered the elusive state of matter,
which consists of quarks, antiquarks and gluons. But they did
find evidence suggesting the quark-gluon plasma behaves more
like a liquid than a gas as was previously thought.
Quark-gluon plasma goes liquid
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5. May:
Particle physicists discover new meson
With the Large Hadron Collider still being built at the CERN lab
in Geneva, it was a quiet year for much of particle physics.
However, in May members of the Belle collaboration at the KEK
laboratory in Japan discovered the first "hybrid meson". The
particle, first predicted over 25 years ago, appears to contain
a gluon in addition to the quark and antiquark that are usually
found in mesons. The new meson, which decays into two well-known
particles called the Omega and J/psi, adds to a string of other
hadrons with mysterious properties that have turned up at KEK
and other laboratories in the last year or so. However, 2005
also saw the final chapter of the "pentaquark" story, with
dedicated searches at the Jefferson Laboratory in the US ruling
out the existence of the five-quark state that had been
tantalizing experimentalists since 2003.
Particle physicists discover new meson
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6. June:
Europe beats Japan to fusion prize
After long, drawn-out and frankly rather dull negotiations, it
was finally announced at the end of June that France had won the
prize to host the €10bn International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor (ITER). The decision to build the reactor at Cadarache
in southern France came after an 18-month battle between the
European Union (EU) and Japan. Two of the project's six partners
-- Russia and China -- had backed the EU bid, while South Korea
and the US supported the site in Japan. As a sop, Japan was
allowed to pick Kaname Ikeda as boss. It will also be given more
than its fair share of industrial contracts when construction
begins. ITER will be the next step before a prototype commercial
fusion reactor dubbed DEMO is built, and could be ready by 2016
Europe beats Japan to ITER prize
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7. July:
Quantum boost for optical clocks
This year saw physicists celebrate the golden jubilee of atomic
clocks, which were invented in pioneering experiments at the
National Physical Laboratory in the UK in 1955. Atomic clocks
rely on microwave transitions in caesium atoms, but a new
generation of devices based on much faster optical transitions
could be even more accurate. Work on these "optical clocks"
moved forward in July when physicists at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US demonstrated a new
form of laser spectroscopy that could lead to more accurate
devices. Such clocks could lead to the second being redefined
and could also be used to check if the fundamental physical
constants are truly constant.
Quantum boost for optical clocks
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8. August:
Fibres control the speed of light
Work on "slow light" led to a flurry of papers this year,
including the demonstration by physicists in Switzerland that
the speed of an optical pulse can be reduced in an optical fibre
based on off-the-shelf technology. Over the past decade
physicists have had to use exotic media such as ultracold atomic
gases and various crystals to make "slow" or "fast" light.
Although some of these techniques work at room temperature, they
have never before been suitable for use in a fibre-optic
network. The result could therefore lead to practical
applications in optical delay lines, optical memories and,
ultimately, the development of an all-optical router that speed
up the flow of data over the Internet.
Later in the year, scientists at IBM built a silicon chip that
combines miniature heaters and photonic crystals to control the
speed of light pulses. The silicon waveguide circuit reduces the
"group velocity" of light by a factor of up to 300.
Fibres control the speed of light
Silicon chip puts the brakes on light
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9. September:
Comet reveals its secrets
It was a good month for astronomers when the first results from
the Deep Impact mission to the comet Tempel 1 were released. The
NASA probe -- roughly the size of a washing machine -- had
crashed into the comet on 4 July after leaving its mothership a
few hours earlier. The data showed clouds of dust and ice being
ejected from the impact site. The impact was designed to disturb
material inside the comet that were then analysed by the
instruments on board the flyby spacecraft as well as various
ground and space-based observatories.
Comet
reveals its secrets
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10. October:
New look for Hall effect
October saw physicists in France demonstrate the Hall effect
with phonons -- vibrations of a crystal lattice -- for the first
time. The classic Hall effect occurs when an electric current
flows through a conductor in a magnetic field. If the current
and magnetic field are at right angles to each other, electrons
deflect to one side and a Hall voltage builds up in a direction
that is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic
field. It had been assumed that the Hall effect could not exist
for phonons because they have no charge. But a team at the
Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory proved otherwise. When a
heat current was passed in one direction down a crystal of
terbium gallium garnet and a magnetic field was applied at right
angles to it, the Hall effect was observed as a temperature
difference normal to both directions.
New
look for Hall effect
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11. November:
Electrons lose their mass in carbon sheets
Exotic behaviour was discovered in two-dimensional sheets of
carbon atoms by two teams of physicists from the UK, Russia and
the Netherlands in November. The researchers found that the
electrons in graphene behave like relativistic particles that
have no rest mass and travel at about 106 metres
per second. Although this is a factor of 300 slower than the
speed of light in vacuum, it is still much faster than the speed
of electrons in an ordinary conductor. Both teams also observed
a new "half-integer" quantum Hall effect, which is the
relativistic analogue to the conventional integer quantum Hall
effect that is seen for free electrons in semiconducting
systems.
Electrons lose their mass in carbon sheets
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12. December:
Entanglement reaches new levels
Work on entanglement went from strength to strength in 2005 as
physicists managed to entangle the largest number of particles
ever. Two rival teams, one from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology in the US and the other at Innsbruck
University in Austria, entangled up to eight calcium ions. The
results were the latest steps on the long road to large-scale
quantum computers. Later in the month, physicists took another
big step towards this goal with the creation of an ion trap on a
semiconductor chip.
Entanglement reaches new levels
Ions
trapped on a chip
And finally: The physics of everything
2005 saw a steady stream of papers on some unconventional
topics. These include: fluids that "unmix", a theory for
exploding "dark matter balls", and how sound can move faster
than the speed of light. Other unusual papers described how
physics can be used to analyse works of abstract art, explain
how spaghetti breaks and how animals find things. A back-pack
that generates electricity while you walk and a recipe for
making "superstrings" in the lab were among the other less
conventional results of the year (see below for a full list).
Devices controlled by thought move closer
How to make
a blockbuster
A recipe for
making strings in the lab
How
animals find things
The
physics of pasta
Power
walking
Physics goes abstract
Could
sound move at the speed of light?
Fluids mix in reverse
Exploding dark-matter balls predicted
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About the author
Matin Durrani is Acting Editor of Physics
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