Session T5: Rydberg Atoms and Wave Packets

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Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301 AB


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

T5.00001: High-Resolution Rydberg-spectroscopy on ultracold Rubidium atoms
Tilman Pfau , Rolf Heidemann , Axel Grabowski , Vera Bendkowsky , Eva Kuhnle , Juergen Stuhler

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

T5.00002: Superradiance in ultracold Rydberg atoms
Tun Wang , Robin Cote , Edward Eyler , S. Farooqi , Philip Gould , Marijan Kostrun , David Tong , Daniel Vrinceanu , Susanne Yelin

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

T5.00003: Quadrupole Transitions to Rydberg States in an Ultracold $^{85}$Rb Gas
D. Tong , S.M. Farooqi , E.G.M van Kempen , E.E. Eyler , P.L. Gould

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

T5.00004: Van-der-Waals shifts of rubidium Rydberg states
Tara Cubel Liebisch , Aaron Reinhard , Brenton Knuffman , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

T5.00005: Ionization of an Highly Excited Hydrogen atom in parallel Electric and Magnetic fields
T\"urker Top\c cu , Francis Robicheaux

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

T5.00006: Microwave Ionization of Sodium at High Scaled Frequency
Xiaodong Zhang , Thomas Gallagher

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

T5.00007: Probing Time-Dependent Electron Interactions in Double-Rydberg Wavepackets
X. Zhang , R.R. Jones

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

T5.00008: Orbital dynamics of two-electron atoms in a static electric field probed by scaled energy spectroscopy
J. Murray-Krezan , J. Kelly , M.R. Kutteruf , R.R. Jones

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

T5.00009: Coherent population transfer by multiphoton adiabatic rapid pasasage
H. Maeda , J.H. Gurian , D.V.L. Norum , T.F. Gallagher

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

T5.00010: Observing angular precession of a Rydberg wave packet due to spin-orbit coupling by orthogonal polarized half-cycle pulses
Haidan Wen , Santosh Pisharody , Joel Murray , Philip Bucksbaum

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