REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS

Hybrid nanophotonics

S I Lepeshov, A E Krasnok, P A Belov, A E Miroshnichenko

1035

Nonequilibrium kinetics of the electron-phonon subsystem can give rise to electric- and magnetic-plasticity effects in crystals in alternating electric and/or magnetic fields

V I Karas, V I Sokolenko

1051

INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATIONS

Lasers and fiber optics for astrophysics

P G Kryukov

1072

METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

On an estimate of turbulent transport in a magnetized plasma (on the 90th anniversary of the birth of B B Kadomtsev)

A V Nedospasov

1079

Can we refer to Hamilton's equations for an oscillator with friction?

A G Shalashov

1082

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Theory of condensed matter (in memory of Yurii Vasil'evich Kopaev) (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 13 December 2017)

1089

Equilibrium shape of crystal surfaces near critical orientations

A F Andreev, L A Melnikovsky

1090

New effects in and control of exciton systems in quasi-two-dimensional structures

Yu E Lozovik

1094

Quantum logic gates

A A Gorbatsevich, N M Shubin

1100

Understanding surface states of topological insulators

O A Pankratov

1116

Ultrafast spin dynamics and inverse spin Hall effect in nanostructures with giant spin-orbit coupling

A K Zvezdin, M D Davydova, K A Zvezdin

1127

Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints)

Yu N Eroshenko

1137