Physics 492 Friday Feature^TM Topics:

• Is the fine structure constant a constant? 
  
• evolution of the temperature of the universe
  
• applications of spherical harmonics
•  hypernuclei-and-neutron-stars
  
• LIGO-discovery
• muon-g-2.pdf  The muon's anomalous magnetic moment has recently been measured to high precision. Muon E821 Experimental Results  Theoretically, the measurement is also sensitive to an electric dipole moment, implying a bound of < 3x10^-19. hep-ph/0208106
• Lamb-shift.pdf
• bose-condensate.pdf
• QM-of-photosynthesis.pdf   recent experiment and theory
  
• hydrogen-stark.pdf  imaging the wave function
  
• quarks-are-spin-half-fermions.pdf
• proton-form-factor.pdf
• water-dielectric-neutron-scattering.pdf
• vector-resonances-in-electron-positron-annihilation.pdf
  
• casimir.pdf
  
• Is the ratio of electron to proton mass constant?  http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4080
• atomic simulation of spin orbit coupling nature news physic world
• solar neutrino puzzle solar-neutrino.pdf
  
• trapped antimatter 2010, from 2002
• Is the universe cooling?(feature)   Time evolution of the CMB temperature (paper)
• The World of Quantum Chaos
• What makes the Stars Shine?
• Watching Atoms Move
• The Quantum Dimension of Photosynthesis
• Don't Let Them Know You're Watching
• Sudden death of entanglement at finite temperature
• Complementarity in the Einstein–Bohr photon box  American Journal of Physics -- September 2008 -- Volume 76, Issue 9, pp. 838-842
• An entangled web of crime: Bell's theorem as a short story  American Journal of Physics -- October 2005 -- Volume 73, Issue 10, pp. 932-937 
• A precision test of decoherence
• Path integrals and the WKB approximation
• Probing the limits of the quantum world
• 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. 
• Aharonov-Bohm Effects (Physics Today, Sept. 2009)
• Destroying interference by determining which path the electron takes using an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Nature Vol 391 (871) Feb. 26, 1998 
• 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. (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0502081) 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. 
• Hunds Paradox resolved and decohenrence theory
• New Experimental Limit on the Photon Rest Mass with a Rotating Torsion Balance
• half-life of doubly magic Ni-78  http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2965
• muon catalyzed fusion http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/eng/frontline/5976