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Readings from the Physics Today Archive

We are proud to present a collection of readings from our archives related to this month's issue. Last update: 21 May 2001.

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Articles

Layered Magnetic Structures: History, Highlights, Applications (click here)

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
Part 1 Part 2

Serge Haroche and Daniel Kleppner
January 1989, page 24

Metallic Magnetic Superlattices
Part 1 Part 2

L.M. Falicov
October 1992, page 46

Special Issue: Magnetoelectronics
Gary Prinz, Kristl Hathaway
April 1995, pages 24

Magnetoelectronics Today and Tomorrow
Part 1 Part 2

John L. Simonds
April 1995, page 26

Micromagnetic Microscopy and Modeling
Part 1 Part 2

E. Dan Dahlberg and Jian-Gang Zhu
April 1995, page 34

Complex Dynamics of Mesoscopic Magnets
Part 1 Part 2

David D. Awschalom and David P. DiVincenzo
April 1995, page 43

Electronic Structure Calculations for Magnetically Ordered Systems
Part 1 Part 2

Henri J. F Jansen
April 1995, page 50

Spin-Polarized Transport
Gary A. Prinz
April 1995, page 58


Half Metallic Magnets (click here)

Electron Spin and Optical Coherence in Semiconductors
Part 1 Part 2

David D. Awshalom and James M. Kikkawa
June 1999, page 33


Epitaxially Self-Assembled Quantum Dots (click here)

Kondo Physics Seen in a Quantum Dot
Barbara Goss Levi
January 1998, page 17

Artificial Atoms
Part 1 Part 2

Marc A. Kastner
January 1993, page 24

The Spectroscopy of Quantum Dot Arrays
Part 1 Part 2

Detlef Heitmann and Jorg P. Kotthaus
June 1993, page 56

Optical Processes in Microcavities
Part 1 Part 2

Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Richart E. Slusher
June 1993, page 66

Experiment Signals a New Phase of Quantum Dot Measurements
Barbara Goss Levi
January 1997, page 17

Adiabatic Quantum Electron Pump Produces DC Current
Gloria B. Lubkin
June 1999, page 19

Semiconductor Quantum Heterostructures
Part 1 Part 2

Leroy L. Chang and Leo Esaki
October 1992, page 36


Search and Discovery

Helium Joins Family of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates (click here)

Experimental Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensation
Wolfgang Ketterle
December 1999, page 30

The Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dilute Gases
Keith Burnett, Mark Edwards, and Charles W. Clark
December 1999, page 37

Experimenters Cool Helium below Single-Photon Recoil Limit in Three Dimensions
Gloria B. Lubkin
January 1996, page 22

Researchers Can Now Vary the Atomic Interactions in a Bose­Einstein Condensate
Barbara Goss Levi
August 2000, page 17


Dramatic Evidence Seen for Collective Behavior among Electrons in Closely Separated Layers (click here)

Spin and Isospin: Exotic Order in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
Steven M. Girvin
June 2000, page 39


Novel B Factories Close in on the Violation of CP Symmetry (click here)

At Last We Have an Undisputed Observation of 'Direct' CP Violation in Kaon Decay
Bertram Schwarzchild
May 1999, page 17


Issues and Events

First Light for Keck Interferometer (click here)

Stellar Optical Interferometry in the 1990s
Part 1 Part 2

J. Thomas Armstrong, Donald J. Hutter, Kenneth J. Johnston and David Mozurkewich
May 1995, page 42


Letters

Renormalized Relations in Condensed Matter (click here)

Brainwashed by Feynman?
Philip W. Anderson
February 2000, page 11


Mystery Error in Gamow's Tompkins Reappears (click here)

A Revised Mr. Tompkins ... Worthy of the Original
Daniel Greenberger
June 2000, page 57


Palimpsest Teaches History, Geography (click here)

The Origins of Mathematical Physics: New Light on an Old Question
Reviel Netz
June 2000, page 32