Bose-Einstein Condensation home page at GSUMuch of the world is waking up to the economic promise of technology. The United States should be both vigilant and proactive in this high-stakes arena -- Mary Lowe Good
A minute amount of appropriately placed impurity has fascinating effects on the nature of the superfluid transitions in helium-4 and helium-3, and on the ordering of helium-3/helium-4 mixtures -- Moses Chan, Norbert Mulders and John Reppy
Physicists, considering the heart as an excitable medium driven by limit-cycle oscillators, can help cardiologists gain important insights into the prevention and control of deadly arrhythmias -- Leon Glass
How a misfiled brochure led to the rediscovery of a long-forgotten exhibition and the museum that housed it -- Leo M. Hurvich
Recent experiments have deepened our insight into the wonderfully counterintuitive quantum theory. But are they really harbingers of quantum computing? We doubt it -- Serge Haroche and Jean-Michel Raimond
The fuss about Bose-Einstein condensation -- Daniel Kleppner
Bose-Einstein Condensation home page at GSU
New measurements of ancient deuterium boost the baryon density of the universe. A new search for primordial deuterium finds less than others had reported previously. The new results give some comfort to those who favor a closed universe.
Quantitative BEC results reported at DAMOP meeting. A new trap, larger condensates, collective oscillations, interaction effects and nondestructive observations: A few groups have achieved a lot of results a year after the creation of dilute gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates.
Bose-Einstein Condensation home page at GSU
Quantum cascade laser makes progress.
Attacks on IPCC report heat controversy over global warming. A statement by scientists that the "balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" has stirred up a political controversy that seems to be about everything except the science.
Bryn Mawr physics is going strong.
Eastman succeeds Schriesheim as Argonne director.
PNAS opens its doors.
There's still an energy crisis, warns APS.
Background paper
APS establishes prize in honor of Bethe.
Brief: AGU career guide
Top university researchers do teach -- Thomas J. Devlin
Lectures on Non-linear Plasma Kinetics, V. N. Tsytovich, translated from the Russian by D. ter Haar (reviewed by D. B. Melrose)
Wavelets: An Analysis Tool, M. Holschneider (reviewed by M. A. Kon)
Lectures on Quantum Theory: Mathematical and Structural Foundations, C. J. Isham (reviewed by M. Mayer)
Relativistic Atomic Collisions, J. Eichler and W. Meyerhof (reviewed by J. F. Reading)
Excitations in Liquid and Solid Helium, H. R. Glyde (reviewed by R. Hallock)
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder (reviewed by E. Martinec)
Plasma Astrophysics, J. G. Kirk, D. B. Melrose and E. R. Priest (reviewed by E. C. Ostriker)
Our regular sections: Physics Update, Letters, New Products, We Hear That, and Information Exchange.
In addition there are two articles:
Recommended values of the basic constants and conversion values from the 1986 adjustment -- E. Richard Cohen and Barry N. Taylor
Internationally recognized conventions for standard usage of SI units -- Robert A. Nelson
Information on SI units available on-line at NIST
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