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Xiao-Zhe PangXu-Jie LinYitao YangErjian LiuXiang-Yu JiaYing-Yue LvZile GuoYang Wang and Xiao-Yong Yan

Published 2 January 2025

Citation Xiao-Zhe Pang et al 2025 EPL 149 11001

Heavy truck mobility is crucial in serving urban freight supply and demand, but it can also lead to traffic accidents, high energy consumption and pollutant emissions. Exploring the statistical characteristics of heavy truck mobility is highly important for efficiently managing cities and enhancing sustainable urban development. In this paper, we review some scaling laws of urban heavy truck mobility, including the allometry of urban heavy truck mobility and some scaling laws observed in collective mobility networks and individual mobility trajectories of urban heavy trucks. We also introduce models that explain the underlying mechanisms of these scaling laws. We further provide an outlook for future research on urban heavy truck mobility.


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Yanling ZhangYin Li and Feng Xiao

Published 2 January 2025

Citation Yanling Zhang et al 2025 EPL 149 12001

Fairness stands as a pivotal element in maintaining social stability. It is still a highly challenging issue to explain how fairness emerges in society. The ultimatum game (UG) and the dictator game (DG) have become prominent paradigms for exploring the emergence of fairness. A great number of mechanisms have been put forward to promote the emergence of fairness in these two games. In this paper, we sort out the recent relevant evolutionary game models regarding fairness and categorize them according to the mechanisms for the emergence of fairness. The main mechanisms consist of network reciprocity, role assignment, spite, empathy, stake size, and indirect reciprocity. Especially for indirect reciprocity, we make a detailed introduction of a theoretical method and some recent works that use this theoretical approach to explore how fairness evolves. Finally, we suggest several potential avenues for future research.


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Naoto Shiraishi

Published 2 January 2025

Citation Naoto Shiraishi 2025 EPL 149 18001

In this short review article, we present recent progress in quantum thermodynamics in the framework with a correlated catalyst. We examine two key properties of thermal operations, the Gibbs-preserving property and the covariant property. The state convertibility of a Gibbs-preserving operation is fully characterized by the second law of thermodynamics with the nonequilibrium free energy. The state convertibility of a covariant operation is shown to be free as long as an initial state has finite coherence. We finally show that these two findings can be combined in the enhanced thermal operation (covariant Gibbs-preserving operation).


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Mahendra K. Verma

Published 2 January 2025

Citation Mahendra K. Verma 2025 EPL 149 21001

Fundamental laws of physics are symmetric under time reversal (T) symmetry, but the T symmetry is strongly broken in the macroscopic world. In this Perspective, I review T symmetry breaking frameworks: second law of thermodynamics, multiscale energy transfer, and open systems. In driven dissipative nonequilibrium systems, including turbulence, the multiscale energy flux from large scales to small scales helps determine the arrow of time. In addition, open systems are often irreversible due to particle and energy exchanges between the system and the environment. Causality is another important factor that breaks the T symmetry.


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Pierpaolo VivoDaniel M. Katz and J. B. Ruhl

Published 2 January 2025

Citation Pierpaolo Vivo et al 2025 EPL 149 22001

While “complexity science" has achieved significant successes in several interdisciplinary fields such as economics and biology, it is only a very recent observation that legal systems —from the way legal texts are drafted and connected to the rest of the corpus, up to the level of how judges and courts reach decisions under a variety of conflicting inputs— share several features with standard Complex Adaptive Systems. This review is meant as a gentle introduction to the use of quantitative tools and techniques of complexity science to describe, analyse, and tame the complex web of human interactions that the Law is supposed to regulate. We offer an overview of the main directions of research undertaken so far as well as an outlook for future research, and we argue that statistical physicists and complexity scientists should not ignore the opportunities offered by the cross-fertilisation between legal scholarship and complex-systems modelling.


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EPL Perspectives 2025

Scaling laws of urban heavy truck mobility By Xiao-Zhe Pang, Xu-Jie Lin, Yitao Yang, Erjian Liu, Xiang-Yu Jia, Ying-Yue Lv, Zile Guo, Yang Wang and Xiao-Yong Yan

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EPL Perspectives 2024

Degradation of coral reef ecosystems: Mathematical-dynamical modeling approach By Xin Zhao, Shiyang Yu and Meng Fan

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Mobility-induced kinetic effects in multicomponent mixtures. By F. C. Thewes, M. Krüger and P. Sollich

Temporal coherences of atomic chaotic light sources: The Siegert relation and its generalisation to higher-order correlation functions. By M. Morisse, S. Joshi, J. Mika, J. C. C. Capella, R. Kaiser, R. Bachelard, L. Slodička and M. Hugbart

Dynamics of diseases spreading on networks in the forms of reaction-diffusion systems. By Gui-Quan Sun, Runzi He, Li-Feng Hou, Shupeng Gao, Xiaofeng Luo, Quanhui Liu, Yicheng Zhang and Lili Chang

Message-passing approach for percolation on the networked system: A mini-review. By Cheng Qian, Dan-Dan Zhao, Ming Zhong, Bo Zhang, Hao Peng and Wei Wang

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Complex phases in quantum mechanics. By Carl M. Bender and Daniel W. Hook

Information scrambling —A quantum thermodynamic perspective. By Akram Touil and Sebastian Deffner

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Multifactorial effects on bounded rational decision-making. By Dun Han and Xiang Li

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Ultracold atoms carrying orbital angular momentum: Engineering topological phases in lattices. By E. Nicolau, G. Pelegrí, J. Polo, A. M. Marques, A. J. Daley, J. Mompart, R. G. Dias and V. Ahufinger

Dynamic modeling of neuromodulation techniques: Towards elaboration and individual specificity. By Ying Yu, Fang Han and Qingyun Wang

Elasticity, plasticity and screening in amorphous solids: A short review. By Avanish Kumar and Itamar Procaccia

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Machine learning in physics: A short guide. By Francisco A. Rodrigues

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Quantum computing for fluids: Where do we stand?. By Sauro Succi, W. Itani, K. Sreenivasan and R. Steijl

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Continuum modeling of soft glassy materials under shear. By Roberto Benzi, Thibaut Divoux, Catherine Barentin, Sébastien Manneville, Mauro Sbragaglia and Federico Toschi

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Multi-terminal Josephson junctions: A road to topological flux networks. By Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Gonzalo Usaj and C. A. Balseiro

The nonlinear effects and applications of gain doped whispering-gallery mode cavities. By Xing-Yu Wu, Kai Wang, Heng Wang, Bo Lu, Yong-Pan Gao and Chuan Wang

Reputation evaluation and its impact on the human cooperation—A recent survey. By Juan Wang and Chengyi Xia

Artificial double-zero-index materials. By Changqing Xu, Keqiang Lyu and Ying Wu

A road toward zero-spacing photonic waveguides and circuits. By Tongtong Song, Jie Luo and Yun Lai

Supervised Hebbian learning. By Francesco Alemanno, Miriam Aquaro, Ido Kanter, Adriano Barra and Elena Agliari

EPL Perspectives 2022

Universal algorithms for quantum data learning. By Marco Fanizza, Michalis Skotiniotis, John Calsamiglia, Ramon Muñoz-Tapia and Gael Sentís

Graphene hyperbolic metamaterials: Fundamentals and applications. By Zitao Ji, Zhi-Yuan Li and Wenyao Liang

Spin-half bosons with mass dimension three-half: Evading the spin-statistics theorem. By Dharam Vir Ahluwalia and Cheng-Yang Lee

Self-accelerating solitons. By Boris A. Malomed

2D F(R) gravity and AdS2/CFT1correspondence. By S. Nojiri and S. D. Odintsov

Chiral active matter. By Benno Liebchen and Demian Levis

Understanding percolation phase transition behaviors in complex networks from the macro and meso-micro perspectives. By Gaogao Dong, Zhipeng Sun, Nannan Sun and Fan Wang

Dynamics of swarmalators: A pedagogical review. By Gourab Kumar Sar and Dibakar Ghosh

A brief history of Hawking’s information paradox. By Xavier Calmet and Stephen D. H. Hsu

Chiral oscillations. By V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, A. E. Bernardini and M. Blasone

Elusive anomalies. By L. Bonora

Continuum theories of structured dielectrics. By Ralf Blossey and Rudolf Podgornik

Future directions for active matter on ordered substrates. By C. Reichhardt, A. Libál and C. J. O. Reichhardt

Symmetry and financial markets. By Jørgen Vitting Andersen and Andrzej Nowak

Theoretical analyses of stochastic evolutionary game systems. By Yanling Zhang, Shuo Yang and Jin Guo

A decade of time crystals: Quo vadis? By Peter Hannaford and Krzysztof Sacha

Computational droplets: Where we stand and how far we can go. By Andrea Montessori, Marco Lauricella and Adriano Tiribocchi

Self-propelled motors in complex fluids and as constituents of active materials. By Snigdha Thakur, Liyan Qiao and Raymond Kapral

Tuning quantum heat transport in magnetic nanostructures by spin-phonon interaction. By Hui Pan, Zhong-Ke Ding, Yu-Jia Zeng, Qiu-Qiu Li, Li-Ming Tang and Ke-Qiu Chen

20 years of ordinal patterns: Perspectives and challenges. By Michele Buzzicotti

Dynamical Casimir effects with atoms: From the emission of photon pairs to geometric phases. By François Impens, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Guilherme C. Matos and Paulo A. Maia Neto

Can we understand the mechanisms of tumor formation by analyzing dynamics of cancer initiation? By Hamid Teimouri and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

Geometric perfect fluids from Extended Gravity. By Salvatore Capozziello, Carlo Alberto Mantica and Luca Guido Molinari

The world beyond physics: How big is it? By Sauro Succi

Dirac cones and higher-order topology in quasi-continuous media. By Zhi-Kang Lin and Jian-Hua Jiang

Universal patterns in multifrequency-driven dissipative systems. By M. L. Olivera-Atencio, L. Lamata, S. Kohler and J. Casado-Pascual

EPL Perspectives 2021

Incentive strategies for the evolution of cooperation: Analysis and optimization. By Shengxian Wang, Linjie Liu and Xiaojie Chen

Hidden order behind the cooperation. By Junjie Wei and Dun Han

Propagation of instability fronts in modulationally unstable systems. By A. M. Kamchatnov and D. V. Shaykin

Spontaneous emission mediated by graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/graphene sandwich structure. By Hong-Qian Mu, Ying Zhou, Tong-Biao Wang, De-Jian Zhang, Wen-Xing Liu, Tian-Bao Yu and Qing-Hua Liao

Metal-free SERS: Where we are now, where we are heading. By Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, Huanhuan Zhang, Xingxing Yu, Ting-Hui Xiao and Keisuke Goda

Liquid-crystal metasurfaces: Self-assembly for versatile optical functionality. By Irina V. Kasyanova, Maxim V. Gorkunov and Serguei P. Palto

Wigner’s friends, tunnelling times and Feynman’s “only mystery of quantum mechanics". By D. Sokolovski and E. Akhmatskaya

Partial synchronization patterns in brain networks. By Eckehard Schöll

A survey on advances of quantum repeater. By Pei-Shun Yan, Lan Zhou, Wei Zhong and Yu-Bo Sheng

Black-body radiation in space plasmas. By George Livadiotis and David J. McComas

Future tests of relativity, with cosmic rays or in the lab. By Brett Altschul

Orbitronics: Orbital currents in solids. By Dongwook Go, Daegeun Jo, Hyun-Woo Lee, Mathias Kläui and Yuriy Mokrousov

The exotic hadron states in quenched and unquenched quark models. By H. X. Huang, X. Jin, Y. Tan and J. L. Ping

Gel-based thermocells for low-grade heat harvesting. By Weixian Zhao, Zhaochen Wang, Run Hu and Xiaobing Luo

Present and future trends in spin ARPES. By Chiu-Yun Lin, Luca Moreschini and Alessandra Lanzara

Motional quantum metrology in a Penning trap. By Javier Cerrillo and Daniel Rodríguez

Few-body perspective on fermionic pairing in one spatial dimension. By Tomasz Sowiński

Dynamical decoupling methods in nanoscale NMR. By C. Munuera-Javaloy, R. Puebla and J. Casanova

Fast and robust particle shuttling for quantum science and technology. By L. Qi, J. Chiaverini, H. Espinós, M. Palmero and J. G. Muga

Running vacuum against the H0 and σ8 tensions. By Joan Solà Peracaula, Adrià Gómez-Valent, Javier de Cruz Pérez and Cristian Moreno-Pulido

Entropy, cross-entropy, relative entropy: Deformation theory. By J. Zhang and H. Matsuzoe

Room temperature superconductivity dome at a Fano resonance in superlattices of wires. By Maria Vittoria Mazziotti, Thomas Jarlborg, Antonio Bianconi and Antonio Valletta

Energy and wave-action flows underlying Rayleigh-Jeans thermalization of optical waves propagating in a multimode fiber. By K. Baudin, A. Fusaro, J. Garnier, N. Berti, K. Krupa, I. Carusotto, S. Rica, G. Millot and A. Picozzi

Active engines: Thermodynamics moves forward. By Étienne Fodor and Michael E. Cates

Quantum computing models for artificial neural networks. By S. Mangini, F. Tacchino, D. Gerace, D. Bajoni and C. Macchiavello

Exact classical noise master equations: Applications and connections. By Anthony Kiely

Fish scales: Primitive basis for modern metamaterials. By Hossein Ebrahimi, Hessein Ali, Jeremy Stephen and Ranajay Ghosh

How we are leading a 3-XORSAT challenge: From the energy landscape to the algorithm and its efficient implementation on GPUs. By M. Bernaschi, M. Bisson, M. Fatica, E. Marinari, V. Martin-Mayor, G. Parisi and F. Ricci-Tersenghi

Inferring multi-period optimal portfolios via detrending moving average cluster entropy. By P. Murialdo, L. Ponta and A. Carbone

Long-ranged velocity correlations in dense systems of self-propelled particles. By Grzegorz Szamel and Elijah Flenner

Collision models in open system dynamics: A versatile tool for deeper insights? By Steve Campbell and Bassano Vacchini

Self-consistent harmonic approximation in presence of non-local couplings. By Guido Giachetti, Nicolò Defenu, Stefano Ruffo and Andrea Trombettoni

On the structural heterogeneity of supercooled liquids and glasses. By Giancarlo Jug, Alois Loidl and Hajime Tanaka

An overview of generalized entropic forms. By V. M. Ilić, J. Korbel, S. Gupta and A. M. Scarfone

Quasi-two-dimensional electron gas at the oxide interfaces for topological quantum physics. By A. Barthelemy, N. Bergeal, M. Bibes, A. Caviglia, R. Citro, M. Cuoco, A. Kalaboukhov, B. Kalisky, C. A. Perroni, J. Santamaria, D. Stornaiuolo and M. Salluzzo

New power-law tailed distributions emerging in κ-statistics. By G. Kaniadakis

The hidden fluctuation-dissipation theorem for growth. By Márcio S. Gomes-Filho and Fernando A. Oliveira

EPL Perspectives 2020

Open challenges in environmental data analysis and ecological complex systems. By D. T. Hristopulos, B. Spagnolo and D. Valenti

Weakly interacting disordered Bose gases out of equilibrium: From multiple scattering to superfluidity. By T. Scoquart, P.-É. Larré, D. Delande and N. Cherroret

Hidden geometry and dynamics of complex networks: Spin reversal in nanoassemblies with pairwise and triangle-based interactions. By Bosiljka Tadić and Neelima Gupte

New trends in quantum machine learning. By Lorenzo Buffoni and Filippo Caruso

Progresses on topological phenomena, time-driven phase transitions, and unconventional superconductivity. By C. Guarcello and R. Citro

A shortcut tour of quantum control methods for modern quantum technologies. By D. Stefanatos and E. Paspalakis

Recent progress in antiferromagnetic dynamics. By H. Y. Yuan, Zhe Yuan, Rembert A. Duine and X. R. Wang

Self-organized criticality and earthquake predictability: A long-standing question in the light of natural time analysis. By P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis and E. S. Skordas

Applications of statistical physics to study climate phenomena and contribute to overall adaptation efforts. By S. Blesić

Topological magnetic excitations. By M. Malki and G. S. Uhrig

Quantum simulations of light-matter interactions in arbitrary coupling regimes. By L. Lamata

Perspective on attractive-repulsive interactions in dynamical networks: Progress and future. By Soumen Majhi, Sayantan Nag Chowdhury and Dibakar Ghosh

Critical slowing down indicators. By Fahimeh Nazarimehr, Sajad Jafari, Matjaž Perc and Julien C. Sprott

Eco-evolutionary dynamics with environmental feedback: Cooperation in a changing world. By Xin Wang and Feng Fu

Pattern formations driven by cyclic interactions: A brief review of recent developments. By A. Szolnoki, B. F. de Oliveira and D. Bazeia

Measurement-device–independent quantum secure direct communication: Direct quantum communication with imperfect measurement device and untrusted operator. By Tao Li, Zikai Gao and Zhenhua Li

Resonant nano-electromechanical systems from 2D materials. By Kai-Ming Hu, Peng Bo, Xiu-Yuan Li, Yi-Hang Xin, Xin-Ru Bai, Lei Li and Wen-Ming Zhang

Rydberg antiblockade regimes: Dynamics and applications. By S.-L. Su, F.-Q. Guo, J.-L. Wu, Z. Jin, X. Q. Shao and S. Zhang

Wigner’s friend, Feynman’s paths and material records. By A. Matzkin and D. Sokolovski

Thermodynamic control —An old paradigm with new applications. By Sebastian Deffner and Marcus V. S. Bonança

The chromium pnictide materials: A tunable platform for exploring new exciting phenomena. By Canio Noce

Quantum simulation of electron Coulomb interactions. By Da-Wei Luo, Michele Modugno, Mike Guidry, J. Q. You and Lian-Ao Wu

Aspects of axion F(R) gravity. By S. D. Odintsov and V. K. Oikonomou

EPL Perspectives 2019

A minimalist’s view of quantum mechanics. By D. Sokolovski

Unifying topological phase transitions in non-interacting, interacting, and periodically driven systems. By Paolo Molignini, R. Chitra and Wei Chen

Non-Markovian quantum dynamics: What is it good for? By C.-F. Li, G.-C. Guo and J. Piilo

Error-insensitive population transfer in a qutrit by invariant-based shortcuts with optimized drivings. By Xiao-Jing Lu and Zhi-Bo Feng

Dynamic structure function of two interacting atoms in 1D. By David Ledesma, Alejandro Romero-Ros, Artur Polls and Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Dynamical localization of interacting ultracold atomic kicked rotors. By A. Marino, G. Torre and R. Citro

Non-Markovian quantum dynamics: What does it mean? By C.-F. Li, G.-C. Guo and J. Piilo

Shortcuts to adiabaticity in optical waveguides. By H.-C. Chung, S. Martínez-Garaot, X. Chen, J. G. Muga and S.-Y. Tseng

Exceptional points in 1D arrays of quantum harmonic oscillators. By A. Cabot, G. L. Giorgi, S. Longhi and R. Zambrini

Entropic diffusion in confined soft-matter and biological systems. By J. Miguel Rubi

Ultrafast dynamics of electron-phonon coupling in a metal. By Choongyu Hwang, Wentao Zhang, Koshi Kurashima, Robert Kaindl, Tadashi Adachi, Yoji Koike and Alessandra Lanzara

Terahertz spectroscopy from air plasmas created by two-color femtosecond laser pulses: The ALTESSE project. By L. Bergé, K. Kaltenecker, S. Engelbrecht, A. Nguyen, S. Skupin, L. Merlat, B. Fischer, B. Zhou, I. Thiele and P. U. Jepsen

Thermal rectification in classical and quantum systems: Searching for efficient thermal diodes. By Emmanuel Pereira

Unitary quantum perceptron as efficient universal approximator. By E. Torrontegui and J. J. García-Ripoll

Perspective on experimental quantum causality. By G. Carvacho, R. Chaves and F. Sciarrino

Dynamical quantum phase transitions: A brief survey. By Markus Heyl

Memristive networks: From graph theory to statistical physics. By A. Zegarac and F. Caravelli

EPL Perspectives 2017

Parity-time symmetry meets photonics: A new twist in non-Hermitian optics. By Stefano Longhi

Possible Fano resonance for high-Tc multi-gap superconductivity in p-Terphenyl doped by K at the Lifshitz transition. By Maria Vittoria Mazziotti, Antonio Valletta, Gaetano Campi, Davide Innocenti, Andrea Perali and Antonio Bianconi

Symbolic dynamics techniques for complex systems: Application to share price dynamics. By Dan Xu and Christian Beck

Chimera states: Effects of different coupling topologies. By Bidesh K. Bera, Soumen Majhi, Dibakar Ghosh and Matjaž Perc

New light in nuclear physics: The extreme light infrastructure. By D. L. Balabanski, R. Popescu, D. Stutman, K. A. Tanaka, O. Tesileanu, C. A. Ur, D. Ursescu and N. V. Zamfir

EPL Perspectives 2016

Complex network analysis of time series. By Zhong-Ke Gao, Michael Small and Jürgen Kurths

Manipulating relativistic electrons with lasers. By Victor Malka

Frequency spectrum of a superconducting metadevice. By J. A. Blackburn, M. Cirillo and N. Grønbech-Jensen

Ultrafast angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of quantum materials. By Christopher L. Smallwood, Robert A. Kaindl and Alessandra Lanzara

Matter in extreme conditions produced by lasers. By Dimitri Batani

Soft wetting and the Shuttleworth effect, at the crossroads between thermodynamics and mechanics. By Bruno Andreotti and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Nitride quantum light sources. By T. Zhu and R. A. Oliver

EPL Perspectives 2015

Probing the Casimir force with optical tweezers. By D. S. Ether jr., L. B. Pires, S. Umrath, D. Martinez, Y. Ayala, B. Pontes, G. R. de S. Araújo, S. Frases, G.-L. Ingold, F. S. S. Rosa, N. B. Viana, H. M. Nussenzveig and P. A. Maia Neto

Superconductivity above the lowest Earth temperature in pressurized sulfur hydride. By Antonio Bianconi and Thomas Jarlborg

Light at the extremes: From femto- to atto-science for real-time studies of atomic and electronic motions. By Giulio Cerullo, Sandro De Silvestri and Mauro Nisoli

State-of-the-art techniques for calculating spectral functions in models for correlated materials. By K. Hallberg, D. J. García, Pablo S. Cornaglia, Jorge I. Facio and Y. Núñez-Fernández

Perspective on terahertz spectroscopy of graphene. By Ivan Ivanov, Mischa Bonn, Zoltán Mics and Dmitry Turchinovich

Interdisciplinary and physics challenges of network theory. By Ginestra Bianconi

Perspective on the Cosmic Microwave Background. By J. Dunkley

Casimir torque between nanostructured plates. By R. Guérout, C. Genet, A. Lambrecht and S. Reynaud

Using light to probe neuronal function. By Vincent R. Daria and Hans-A. Bachor

Blue-to-green single photons from InGaN/GaN dot-in-a-nanowire ordered arrays. By E. Chernysheva, Ž. Gačević, N. García-Lepetit, H. P. van der Meulen, M. Müller, F. Bertram, P. Veit, A. Torres-Pardo, J. M. González Calbet, J. Christen, E. Calleja, J. M. Calleja and S. Lazić

Cold atoms: A field enabled by light. By L. Fallani and A. Kastberg

Light and the distribution of time. By D. Calonico, M. Inguscio and F. Levi

Trapped quantum light. By M. Brune and J. M. Raimond

Optics and photonics at nanoscale: Principles and perspectives. By Zhi-Yuan Li

Goals and challenges in experimental nuclear astrophysics. By Michael Wiescher

Nano-supracrystallinity. By Marie Paule Pileni

Lattice Boltzmann 2038. By Sauro Succi

Light for controlled fusion energy: A perspective on laser-driven inertial fusion. By Stefano Atzeni

The intrinsic heterogeneity of superconductivity in the cuprates. By A. Shengelaya and K. A. Müller

Metamorphosis of the transistor into a laser. By M. Feng and N. Holonyak jr.

EPL Perspectives 2014

High-intensity laser-atom interactions. By Charles J. Joachain

Non-exponential and oscillatory decays in quantum mechanics. By Murray Peshkin, Alexander Volya and Vladimir Zelevinsky