Friday Features:
Spring 2003
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Measurement of the Casimir Force between Parallel Metallic Surfaces
G. Bressi, G. Carugno, R. Onofrio, and G. Ruoso
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 041804 (2002)
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Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Effects by Electron Holograpy,
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 48, 1443 (1982).
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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 )
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Precision Measurement of the Fine-Structure Constant,
Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 87, 173002 (2001)
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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
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Massive neutrinos and neutrino oscillations: first results
from Kamland PRL January 17, 2003
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CMBR temperature at redshift 2.34 demonstrates that the universe
was hotter at earlier times. Nature, vol 408, 21/28 Dec 2000.
Fall 2002
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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Bouncing Neutrons-- quantum states of neutrons in a gravitational potential.
Nature, January 17, 2002.
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precision Planck's constant.Physical Review Letters, v.81, p. 2404,1998
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He-3 tomography, Cern Courier, 2001.
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NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging, cond-mat/0004346 1 Aug 2000.
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Quantum zeno effect, Phys Rev A 41, 1 March 1990.
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recent Bell's inequality experiments: PRL 91, 7 Dec. 1998; Nature vol 409,
15 Feb 2001.
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Interference of large molecules (Bucky Balls) PRL 88, 11 March 2001.
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experiments with the quantum harmonic oscillator-- coherent states and
Schrodinger cat states of a trapped Be-9+ ion. quant-ph/9702038 19 Feb
1997.
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Destroying interference by determining which path the electron takes using
an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Nature Vol 391 (871) Feb. 26, 1998
Michael Gold
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