Session N3: Atoms in Optical Lattices

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Chair: Sabrina Leslie, University of California, Berkeley
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

N3.00001: A lattice of double wells for manipulating pairs of cold atoms.
Jennifer Sebby-Strabley , Marco Anderlini , Ben Brown , Johnny Huckans , Jens Kruse , Patricia Lee , Ian Spielman , Steve Rolston , James Porto , William Phillips

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

N3.00002: Experiments with Ultra-cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice with Dynamically Variable Lattice Constant
John Huckans , Ian Spielman , Bruno Laburthe Tolra , J.V. Porto , W.D. Phillips

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

N3.00003: Probing Localization Physics with a Bose-Einstein Condensate Subject to Optical Random Potential: Interplay of Interaction and Disorder
Yong P. Chen , M. Junker , D. Dries , C. Welford , J. Hitchcock , R. G. Hulet

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

N3.00004: Quantum coherence of Hard-Core-Bosons and Fermions: Extended, Glassy and Mott Phases
Ana Maria Rey , Indubala I. Satija , Charles W. Clark

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

N3.00005: Metal-insulator transition revisited for cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials
Daniel Dakin , Indubala Satija

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

N3.00006: Quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates from nano-pillars
T.A. Pasquini , M. Saba , Y. Shin , G. Jo , C. Christensen , S. Will , D.E. Pritchard , W. Ketterle

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

N3.00007: Interaction-induced localization of an impurity in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
Ryan Kalas , D. Blume

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

N3.00008: Coherent collisional spin-dynamics in an optical lattice
Artur Widera , Simon F\"olling , Fabrice Gerbier , Torben M\"uller , Immanuel Bloch

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

N3.00009: Bragg spectroscopy of Bose-condensed atoms in an optical lattice
Xu Du , Shoupu Wan , Emek Yesilada , Changyun Ryu , Daniel Heinzen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

N3.00010: Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Number Statistics in a Degenerate Bose Gas.
Chih-Sung Chuu , Florian Schreck , Todd P. Meyrath , Gabriel N. Price , Mark G. Raizen

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