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
K. Gibble, "Decoherence and Collisional Frequency Shifts of Trapped Bosons and Fermions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113202 (2009)
H. Li, K. Pussi, K. Hanna, L. Wang, D. D. Johnson, H. Cheng, H. Shin, S. Curtarolo, W. Moritz, J. Smerdon, R. McGrath and R. D. Diehl, "The surface geometry of C60 on Ag(111)," Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 056101 (2009) Abstract/Comments
R. Abbasi, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Limits on a Muon Flux from Neutralino Annihilations in the Sun with the IceCube 22-String Detector," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201302 (2009)
C. Nisoli, N. Gabor, P. E. Lammert, J. D. Maynard and V. H. Crespi, "Static and Dynamical Phyllotaxis in a Magnetic Cactus," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186103 (2009) Abstract/Comments
J. West, X. Lin, Z. Cheng and M. H. W. Chan, "Supersolid Behavior in Confined Geometry," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185302 (2009)
F. Zhang, V. H. Crespi and P. Zhang, "Prediction that Uniaxial Tension along 111 Produces a Direct Band Gap in Germanium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156401 (2009) Abstract/Comments
C. P. Moca, B. Sheu, N. Samarth, P. Schiffer, B. Janko and G. Zarand, "Scaling Theory of Magnetoresistance and Carrier Localization in GaMnAs," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137203 (2009)
J. Li, R. Chu, J. K. Jain and S. Shen, "Topological Anderson Insulator," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136806 (2009) Abstract/Comments
X. Hong, A. Posadas, K. Zou, C. H. Ahn and J. Zhu, "High-Mobility Few-Layer Graphene Field Effect Transistors Fabricated on Epitaxial Ferroelectric Gate Oxides," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136308 (2009)
X. Lin, A. Clark, Z. Cheng and M. H. W. Chan, "Heat Capacity Peak in Solid He-4: Effects of Disorder and He-3 Impurities," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125302 (2009)
S. Jolad and J. K. Jain, "Testing the Topological Nature of the Fractional Quantum Hall Edge," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116801 (2009) Abstract/Comments
W. Setyawan, R. D. Diehl and S. Curtarolo, "Structures and Topological Transitions of Hydrocarbon Films on Quasicrystalline Surfaces," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055501 (2009) Abstract/Comments
S. Heppelmann, D. L. Adams, et al., "Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for Di-," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 24915 – 24919 (2008)
M. Bojowald, "Comment on ``Quantum bounce and cosmic recall''," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 209001 (2008) Abstract/Comments
N. Mulders, J. West, M. H. W. Chan, C. N. Kodituwakku, C. A. Burns and L. B. Lurio, "Torsional Oscillator and Synchrotron x-ray experiments on solid He-4 in aerogel," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165303 (2008)
J. Abraham, et al. (Auger Collaboration), "Evidence for suppression of the flux of the cosmic rays above 4x10(19) eV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 1 – 7 (2008)
X. Ke, J. Li, C. Nisoli, P. E. Lammert, W. McConville, R. Wang, V. H. Crespi and P. Schiffer, "Energy Minimization and ac Demagnetization in a Nanomagnet Array," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037205 (2008) Abstract/Comments
M. Bojowald, "How Quantum is the Big Bang?," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221301 (2008) Abstract/Comments
A. V. Ashtekar, V. M. Taveras and M. Varadarajan, "Information is not lost in the evaporation of 2D black holes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211302 (2008)
J. Abraham, et al. (Auger Collaboration), "Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 1 – 7 (2008) Abstract/Comments
F. Seno, A. Trovato, J. R. Banavar and A. Maritan, "Maximum entropy approach for deducing amino acid interactions in proteins," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 078102 (2008)
E. Kim, J. S. Xia, J. West, X. Lin and M. H. W. Chan, "Effect of He-3 impurities on the nonclassical response to oscillations of solid He-4," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 065301 (2008)
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
J. S. Kurtz, R. R. Johnson, M. Tian, N. Kumar, Z. G. Ma, S. Xu and M. H. W. Chan, "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)
U. Kim, X. Liu, C. A. Furtado, G. Chen, R. Saito, J. Jiang, M. S. Dresselhaus and P. C. Eklund, "Infrared-active Vibrational Modes of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157402 (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. Tian, N. Kumar, S. Xu, J. Wang, J. S. Kurtz and M. H. W. Chan, "Suppression of superconductivity in nanowires by bulk superconductors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076802 (2005)
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
J. Taniguchi, A. Yamaguchi, H. Ishimoto, H. Ikegami, T. Matsushita, N. Wada, S. M. Gatica, M. W. Cole, F. Ancilotto, S. Inagaki and Y. Fukushima, "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)
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