Friday Features:

• Measurement of the Casimir Force between Parallel Metallic Surfaces G. Bressi, G. Carugno, R. Onofrio, and G. Ruoso Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 041804 (2002)

 
• Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Effects by Electron Holograpy, Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 48, 1443 (1982).

 
• Evidence for a Bose-Einstein condensate in liquid He-4, Nature, Vol 391, 56, 1/1/1998.

 
• Lamb Shift in Hydrogenlike Uranium, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 85, 3109, (2000) ( or doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3109 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/p3109 )

 
• Precision Measurement of the Fine-Structure Constant, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 87, 173002 (2001)

 
• Superheavy Hydrogen-- the H-5 resonance PRL vol 87 092501 (2001)

 
• What determines nuclear size? Shrinking a nucleus in the laboratory PRL vol 86, 1982 (2001)

 
• production of anti-hydrogen. Nature vol 419, 456 (2002); Nature AOP, published online 18 September 2002

 
• Massive neutrinos and neutrino oscillations: first results from Kamland PRL January 17, 2003

 
• CMBR temperature at redshift 2.34 demonstrates that the universe was hotter at earlier times. Nature, vol 408, 21/28 Dec 2000.

Fall 2002

• Is the fine structure constant a constant? Recent evidence suggests that it might not be on cosmological timescales. astro-ph/207390, PRL vol 87, 091301 (2000)

 
• The muon's anomalous magnetic moment has recently been measured to high precision. The measurement is also sensitive to an electric dipole moment, implying a bound of < 3x10^-19. hep-ph/0208106

 
• The behavior of electrons confined to 1D motion in a circle and subject to a magnetic field has recently been studied experimentally. Nature, October 25, 2001.

 
• Tunnelling of magnetic domain walls-- a unique system behaving analogous to the tunneling of a particle with an experimentally tunable mass. Nature, October 11, 2001.

 
• Bouncing Neutrons-- quantum states of neutrons in a gravitational potential. Nature, January 17, 2002.

 
• precision Planck's constant.Physical Review Letters, v.81, p. 2404,1998

 
• He-3 tomography, Cern Courier, 2001.

 
• NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging, cond-mat/0004346 1 Aug 2000.

 
• Quantum zeno effect, Phys Rev A 41, 1 March 1990.

 
• recent Bell's inequality experiments: PRL 91, 7 Dec. 1998; Nature vol 409, 15 Feb 2001.

 
• Interference of large molecules (Bucky Balls) PRL 88, 11 March 2001.

 
• experiments with the quantum harmonic oscillator-- coherent states and Schrodinger cat states of a trapped Be-9+ ion. quant-ph/9702038 19 Feb 1997.

 
• Destroying interference by determining which path the electron takes using an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Nature Vol 391 (871) Feb. 26, 1998