in the Eberly College of Science

AMO

Quantum degenerate gases, laser-cooled atomic clocks, optical lattices, etc.

Biological Physics

Interactions across scales from intracellular signalling to ecosystems.

Condensed Matter

Quantum coherent ground states, spintronics, magnetism, materials physics, and nanoscience.

Gravitational Physics

Quantum gravity and general relativity.

Particle Astrophysics

Ultrahigh energy cosmic-rays, cosmological neutrinos, cosmic antimatter, etc.
 in the past  years
S. Heppelmann and D. L. Adams, "Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for Di-," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 24915 – 24919 (2008)
M. Bojowald, "How Quantum is the Big Bang?," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221301 (2008) Abstract/Comments
B. Sheu, R. C. Myers, N. Samarth, D. D. Awschalom, P. Schiffer and M. Flatte, "Onset of ferromagnetism in low-doped Ga1-xMnxAs," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, art. no. 227205 (2007)
A. Clark, J. West and M. H. W. Chan, "Nonclassical Rotational Inertia in Helium Crystals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 135302 (2007)
D. Stojkovic, P. E. Lammert and V. H. Crespi, "Electronic Bisection of a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube by Controlled Chemisorption," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026802 (2007) Abstract/Comments
C. Nisoli, P. E. Lammert, E. Mockensturm and V. H. Crespi, "Carbon Nanostructures as an Electromechanical Bicontinuum," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 045501 (2007) Abstract/Comments
M. H. W. Chan, J. S. Kurtz, M. Tian, N. Kumar and S. Xu, "Specific Heat of Superconducting Zn Nanowires," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, art.247001 (2007)
C. Nisoli, R. Wang, W. McConville, P. E. Lammert, P. Schiffer and V. H. Crespi, "Ground state lost but degeneracy found: the effective thermodynamics of artificial spin ice," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 217203 (2007) Abstract/Comments
T. H. Hansson, C. C. Chang, J. K. Jain and S. Viefers, "Conformal Field Theory of Composite Fermions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076801 (2007)
J. R. Banavar, J. Damuth, A. Maritan and A. Rinaldo, "Scaling in Ecosystems and the Linkage of Macroecological Laws," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 068104 (2007)
C. Toke, N. Regnault and J. K. Jain, "Nature of Excitations of the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 036806 (2007) Abstract/Comments
M. Bojowald, H. H. Hernandez, M. Kagan, P. Singh and A. Skirzewski, "Formation and Evolution of Structure in Loop Cosmology," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 031301 (2007) Abstract/Comments
S. U. Nanayakkara, E. Sykes, L. C. Fernandez-Torres, M. Blake and P. S. Weiss, "Long-Range Electronic Interactions at High Temperature: Bromine Adatom Islands on Cu{111}," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206108 (2007)
S. H. S. Alexander, "Leptogenesis from gravity waves in models of inflation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 081301 (2007) Abstract/Comments
F. Ancilotto, S. Curtarolo, F. Toigo and M. W. Cole, "Evidence Concerning Drying Behavior of Ne at the Cs Surface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 206103 (2007)
N. Yunes and S. H. S. Alexander, "A New PPN parameter to test Chern-Simons gravity," to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett., (2007) Abstract/Comments
N. Stern, S. Ghosh, G. Xiang, M. Zhu, N. Samarth and D. D. Awschalom, "Current-induced Polarization and the Spin Hall Effect at Room Temperature," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, art. no. 926603 (2006)
K. S. Burch, D. B. Shrekenhamer, E. J. Singley, J. Stephens, B. Sheu, R. K. Kawakami, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth, D. D. Awschalom and D. N. Basov, "Impurity band conduction in a high temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, art. no. 087208 (2006)
A. Clark, X. Lin and M. H. W. Chan, "Search for Superfluidity in Solid Hydrogen," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245301 (2006)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of December 27th, 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221101 (2006)
A. Olariu, P. Mendels, F. Bert, B. G. Ueland, P. Schiffer, R. F. Berger and R. J. Cava, "Unconventional Dynamics in Triangular Heisenberg Antiferromagnet NaCrO2," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 167203 (2006) Abstract/Comments
M. Strikman, "Evidence for Strong Dominance of Proton-Neutron Correlations in Nuclei," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162504 (2006) Abstract/Comments
K. Gibble, "Difference between a Photon’s Momentum and an Atom’s Recoil," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 073002 (2006)
E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan, "Supersolid Helium at High Pressure," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115302 (2006)
A. m. Ganshyn, S. E. Scheidemantel, R. Garcia and M. H. W. Chan, "Critical Casimir Force in 4He Films: Confirmation of Finite-Size Scaling," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 075301 (2006)
J. Cumings, L. S. Moore, H. T. Chou, K. Ku, G. Xiang, S. A. Crooker, N. Samarth and D. Goldhaber-Gordon, "A Tunable Anomalous Hall Effect in a Non-ferromagnetic System," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, art. no. 196404 (2006)
C. Toke and J. K. Jain, "Understanding the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect without the Pfaffian Wave Function," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246805 (2006)
E. R. Margine and V. H. Crespi, "Universal behavior of nearly free electron states in carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196803 (2006) Abstract/Comments
S. Barwick, et al. (ANITA Collaboration), "Constraints on Cosmic Neutrino Fluxes from the ANITA Experiment," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171101 (2006)
J. K. Jain and C. Shi, "Resonant Tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Superperiods and Braiding Statistics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136802 (2006) Abstract/Comments
M. Cieplak, J. Koplik and J. R. Banavar, "Nanoscale fluid flows in the vicinity of patterned surfaces," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114502 (2006)
J. Koplik and J. R. Banavar, "Slip, immiscibility, and boundary conditions at the liquid-liquid interface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044505 (2006)
B. G. Ueland, G. C. Lau, R. J. Cava, J. R. O'Brien and P. Schiffer, "Slow Spin Relaxation in a Highly Polarized Cooperative Paramagnet," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027216 (2006)
R. Atkins, et al. (Milagro Collaboration), "Evidence for TeV gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 251103 (2005)
B. J. Owen, "Maximum elastic deformations of compact stars with exotic equations of state," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211101 (2005)
T. Kinoshita, T. R. Wenger and D. S. Weiss, "Local Pair Correlations in 1D Bose gases," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190406 (2005)
S. Curtarolo, W. Setyawan, N. Ferralis, R. D. Diehl and M. W. Cole, "Evolution of Topological Order in Xe Films on a Quasicrystal Surface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136104 (2005) Abstract/Comments
M. Bojowald, R. Goswami, R. Maartens and P. Singh, "A black hole mass threshold from non-singular quantum gravitational collapse," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091302 (2005) Abstract/Comments
M. Bojowald, "Nonsingular Black Holes and Degrees of Freedom in Quantum Gravity," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 061301 (2005) Abstract/Comments
T. Zillio, I. Volkov, J. R. Banavar, S. P. Hubbell and A. Maritan, "Spatial scaling in model plant communities," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098101.1 – 098101.4 (2005)
M. Tian, N. Kumar, S. Xu, J. Wang, J. S. Kurtz and M. H. W. Chan, "Suppression of superconductivity in Zn nanowires by bulk superconductors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076802 (2005)
J. K. Jain and M. R. Peterson, "Reconstructing the Electron in a Fractionalized Quantum Fluid," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 186808 (2005) Abstract/Comments
B. Abbott, et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), "Limits on gravitational wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 181103 (2005)
R. Roiban, M. Spradlin and A. Volovich, "Dissolving N = 4 Loop Amplitudes into WCD Tree Amplitudes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 102002 (2005) Abstract/Comments
M. W. Cole, A. Yamaguchi, S. M. Gatica and F. Ancilotto, "Possible one-dimensional 3He quantum fluid formed in nanopores," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 065301 (2005) Abstract/Comments
C. C. Chang, G. S. Jeon and J. K. Jain, "Microscopic verification of topological electron-vortex binding in the lowest Landau-level crystal state," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 016809 (2005)
Y. Tan, J. Zhu, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin and K. W. West, "Measurements of the density-dependent many-body electron mass in 2D GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 016405 (2005)
C. Fertig, K. M. O'Hara, J. Huckans, S. L. Rolston, W. D. Phillips and J. V. Porto, "Strongly inhibited transport of a degenerate 1D Bose gas in a lattice," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 120403 (2005)
S. P. Jordan and V. H. Crespi, "Mechanical manipulation of carbon nanocones: Chiral inversion of a micron-scale three-dimensional object," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255504 (2004) Abstract/Comments
S. Coutu, J. J. Beatty, et al. (HEAT Collaboration), "A New Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction from 5 to 15 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 241102 (2004)
J. R. Banavar, M. Cieplak and A. Maritan, "Lattice tube model of proteins," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 238101 (2004)
A. S. Goldhaber, J. K. Jain and G. S. Jeon, "Fraying of Fractional Statistics at the Edge," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 169705 (2004)
A. Pogrebnyakov, J. M. Redwing, S. Raghavan, V. Vaithyanathan, D. G. Schlom, S. Xu, Q. Li, D. A. Tenne, A. Sukiasyan, X. Xi, M. D. Johannes, D. Kasinathan, W. E. Pickett, J. S. Wu and J. C. H. Spence, "Enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature of MgB2 by strain-induced bond-streching mode softening," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 147006 (2004)
R. Roiban and A. Volovich, "All Googly Amplitude from the B-model in Twistor Space," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131602 (2004) Abstract/Comments
M. R. Peterson and J. K. Jain, "Flavor Altering Excitations of Composite Fermions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 046402 (2004) Abstract/Comments
J. C. Collins and A. Metz, "Universality of soft and collinear factors in hard-scattering factorization," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 252001 (2004) Abstract/Comments
J. C. Collins, A. Perez, D. Sudarsky, L. Urrutia and H. Vuctich, "Lorentz invariance: an additional fine-tuning problem," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 191301 (2004) Abstract/Comments
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "Azimuthally Sensitive Hanbury Brown-Twiss Interferometry in Au + Au Collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 012301 (2004)
I. Volkov, J. R. Banavar and A. Maritan, "Organization of ecosystems in the vicinity of a novel phase transition," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 218703 (2004)
V. Colizza, J. R. Banavar, A. Maritan and A. Rinaldo, "Network structures from selection principles," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 198701 (2004)
C. C. Chang and J. K. Jain, "Microscopic origin of the next generation fractional quantum Hall effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 196806 (2004) Abstract/Comments
B. L. Tolra, K. M. O'Hara, J. Huckans, J. V. Porto, S. L. Rolston and W. D. Phillips, "Observation of Reduced Three-Body Recombination in a Correlated 1D Degenerate Bose Gas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 190401 (2004)
J. Ledieu, J. Hoeft, D. E. Reid, J. Smerdon, R. D. Diehl, T. A. Lograsso, A. R. Ross and R. McGrath, "Pseudomorphic growth of a single element quasiperiodic ultrathin film on a quasicrystal substrate," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 135507 (2004) Abstract/Comments
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "Identified Particle Distributions in pp and Au + Au Collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 112301 (2004)
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "ρ0 Production and Possible Modification in Au + Au and p + p Collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 092301 (2004)
M. Bojowald and G. Date, "Quantum suppression of the generic chaotic behavior close to cosmological singularities," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 071302 (2004) Abstract/Comments
J. Ahrens, et al. (AMANDA Collaboration), "Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 071102 (2004)
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "Azimuthal Anisotropy at RHIC: The First and Fourth Harmonics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 062301 (2004)
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "Particle Type Dependence of Azimuthal Anisotropy and Nuclear Modification of Particle Production in Au + Au Collisions at √SNN = 130 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 052302 (2004)
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "Multistrange Baryon Production in Au-Au Collisions at √SNN = 130 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 182301 (2004)
J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), "Cross-Sections and Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries in Forward Neutral Pion Production from Proton Collisions at √s = 200 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 171801 (2004)
A. Kolmogorov, V. H. Crespi, M. H. Schleier-Smith and J. C. Ellenbogen, "Nanotube-Substrate Interactions: Distinguishing Carbon Nanotubes by the Helical Angle," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085503 (2004) Abstract/Comments
J. D. Fuhr, A. G. Saúl and J. O. Sofo, "STM chemical signature of point defects on the MoS2(0001) surface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 026802 (2004)
G. Sumanasekera, B. K. Pradhan, H. Romero, K. W. Adu and P. Eklund, "Giant Thermopower Effects from Molecular Physisorption of Carbon Nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 166801 (2004)
S. R. Brandt, R. R. Correll, R. Gomez, M. Huq, P. Laguna, L. Lehner, D. Neilsen, R. A. Matzner, J. Pullin, E. Schnetter, D. Shoemaker and J. Winicour, "Grazing Collisions of Black holes via the Excision of Singularies," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5496 – 5499 (2004)
R. Gleiser, P. Laguna, O. Nicasio, H. P. Nollert, R. Price and J. Pullin, "Inspiralling Balck Holes: The Close-Limit," Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3581 – 3584 (2004)
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