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Quantum Blurring

16 January 2009
The quantum jiggling that molecules experience even at the lowest temperatures--motion associated with the uncertainty principle--is not as tiny as researchers assumed and may be detected in the scattering of light through a liquid.
article link PRL (to be published)
snorkeler above Maldives coral

Molecule in a Cage

8 January 2009
A hydrogen molecule trapped in a carbon cage is restricted to discrete energies of linear and rotational motion, an unusually clean demonstration of the wave nature of molecules.
article link PRL (9 January 2009)
H molecule in buckyball

One-Way Waves

22 December 2008
With an array of water-activated levers, researchers demonstrate the first mechanical medium where waves travel in only one direction.
article link PRE (December 2008)
article link videos
water-coupled levers
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