Chinese Physics

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Department of Physics

Conventional electronic devices rely on the transport of electrical charge carriers in metals and semiconductors. The possibility to exploit the 'spin' of the electron rather than its charge has paved the way for the creation of a remarkable new generation of 'spintronic' devices. The discovery of the giant magnetoresistive (GMR) effect [1] in 1988 has had a huge impact on the data storage mark...

Mainland Chinese Students’ Shifting Perceptions of Chinese-English Code-Mixing in Macao

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

B Physics B Physics

A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings, lifetimes, B-B0 oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |Vtd|, |Vcb|, |Vub| and implication for |Vts| are di...

Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN