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The topological insulator is a new phase of matter that holds promise for a new generation of highly energy efficient electronics and highly computationally efficient information processing devices. However, it is experimentally challenging to identify topological insulators because unlike ordinary phases of matter, their properties are not described by the familiar language of local order parameters and spontaneously broken symmetries. Because conventional experimental techniques are designed to be sensitive to local order parameters, methods of measuring topological order are ...

During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, he initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across the millennia in China, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with "the wild" in human history. These poems were hugely popular in Hsieh's own time and established him as one of the most innovative and influential poets in the history of Chinese poetry as well as a founder of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. Once again David Hinton, a recipient of fellowships from The...

The 1990s can be characterized as the decade when the Asia-Pacific Rim Nations embraced elections. How Asia Votes focuses on twelve countries and examines how their elections have been conducted, the domestic implications, and how the elections have differed from one another and from elections in the West. While elections had previously been used to justify and legitimate the selection of rulers in several Asia-Pacific countries, the broad acceptance and use of elections to select rulers is a relatively new phenomenon. The fourth in a heralded series of books on comparative elections...