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Researchers Can Now Vary the Atomic Interactions in a Bose–Einstein Condensate
Physics Today 53 (8), 17–18 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310115
Like a couple in a love‐hate relationship, atoms in a condensate can shift from attracting to repelling one another—just by the turn of an experimental knob.
An Optical Spoon Stirs Up Vortices in a Bose–Einstein Condensate
Physics Today 53 (8), 19–21 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310116
Multiple vortices form regular arrangements in a condensate in a rotating trap.
Articles
QCD Made Simple
Physics Today 53 (8), 22–28 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310117
Quantum chromodynamics is conceptually simple. Its realization in nature, however, is usually very complex. But not always.
Diffusion Waves and their Uses
Physics Today 53 (8), 29–34 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310118
Diffusion waves lack wave fronts, can't be beamed, and don't travel very far, yet they form the basis of several new and revolutionary measurement technologies.
Physicists in the New Era of Electronic Publishing
Physics Today 53 (8), 35–38 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310119
New electronic opportunities for scientific communication, and changes in how scientists use journals, are prompting a complete reevaluation of the roles of scientific journals and of scholarly societies like the APS.
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Books
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell‐Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth‐Century Physics
Physics Today 53 (8), 43–44 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310122
Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today
Physics Today 53 (8), 49–50 (2000);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1310126
