Session C1: Optical Clocks

Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

C1.00001: Femtosecond laser frequency combs and their applications in AMO physics
Invited Speaker: Scott Diddams

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

C1.00002: Laser-cooled Atomic Clocks
Invited Speaker: Kurt Gibble

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

C1.00003: TBD
Invited Speaker: Jean-Philippe Uzan

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:18PM - 12:54PM

C1.00004: Laser Technology in Commercial Atomic Clocks
Invited Speaker: R. Lutwak

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Session C2: Astrophysics

Chair: Kate Kirby, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

C2.00001: Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Spectroscopy: Revealing the Building Blocks of Complex Molecules in Space
Invited Speaker: Lucy Ziurys

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

C2.00002: X-Ray Emission Cross Sections following Charge Exchange by Multiply-Charged Ions of Astrophysical Interest
Invited Speaker: Ronald Olson

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

C2.00003: Electron-impact ionization measurements for use in astrophysics
Invited Speaker: Mark E. Bannister

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:18PM - 12:54PM

C2.00004: Pressure broadened alkali-metal resonance lines in brown dwarf and extrasolar planet spectra
Invited Speaker: James Babb

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Session C3: Ultracold Atoms I

Chair: Gil Summy, Oklahoma State University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

C3.00001: Determining $s$-wave Scattering Length Ratios from Binary Condensate Dynamics
K. M. Mertes , J. W. Merrill , D. S. Hall , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , H. E. Nistazakis

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

C3.00002: Spin noise spectroscopy to probe quantum states of ultracold fermionic atom gases
Bogdan Mihaila , Scott Crooker , Krastan Blagoev , Dwight Rickel , Darryl Smith , Peter Littlewood

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

C3.00003: High-temperature superfluidity in an ultracold Fermi gas
Andre Schirotzek , Martin Zwierlein , Christian Schunck , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

C3.00004: Suppression of inelastic collisions in atom waveguides
Vladimir Yurovsky , Yehuda Band

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

C3.00005: Optical Manipulation of BEC's using the Talbot Effect
Mark Edwards

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

C3.00006: $^{7}$Li BEC in a millimeter-scale Ioffe-Pritchard trap
Mingchang Liu , Ruquan Wang , Francesco Minardi , Mark Kasevich

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

C3.00007: Spectral and time-dependent multiple light scattering in ultracold atomic $^{85}$Rb
S. Balik , R.G. Olave , C.I. Sukenik , M.D. Havey , V.M. Datsyuk , D.V. Kupriyanov , I.M. Sokolov

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

C3.00008: Measurements on RF-dressed Bose Einstein Condensates
Matthew R. White , Hong Gao , Matthew Pasienski , Brian DeMarco

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

C3.00009: Metastable Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Linear Potential
Devang Naik , Mishkat Bhattacharya , Sergio Muniz , Chandra Raman

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

C3.00010: Measurement of the temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder force through collective excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate
John Obrecht , Robert Wild , David Harber , Colleen Gillespie , Eric Cornell

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:30PM - 12:42PM

C3.00011: Direct observation of mean-field induced phase collapse and retrieval in soft bosonic lattices
Wei Li , Ari Tuchman , Hui-chun Chien , Mark Kasevich

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Session C4: Short Pulse Processes I

Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

C4.00001: Measuring Attosecond Electron Motion in Molecules
Andre D. Bandrauk , Gennady Yudin , Paul B. Corkum

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

C4.00002: Attosecond pulse formation via harmonic generation driven by filamentation-compressed few-cycle laser pulses
Himadri Chakraborty , Mette Gaarde , Arnaud Couairon

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

C4.00003: Attosecond pulse train modulation of non-sequential ionization
B. Zimmermann , K.J. Schafer

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

C4.00004: A simple model of laser-induced molecular ionization and dissociation
B.D. Esry , P.Q. Wang , A.M. Sayler , K.D. Carnes , I. Ben-Itzhak

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

C4.00005: Experimental study of structure in enhanced ionization of H$_{2}^{+}$ in intense ultrashort laser pulses
I. Ben-Itzhak , P.Q. Wang , A.M. Sayler , K.D. Carnes , B.D. Esry , A.S. Alnaser , B. Ulrich , X.M. Tong , I.V. Litvinyuk , C.M. Maharjan , P. Ranitovic , T. Osipov , R. Ali , S. Ghimire , Z. Chang , C.D. Lin , C.L. Cocke

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

C4.00006: Carrier-envelope phase effects in molecular dissociation: practical considerations
V. Roudnev , B. D. Esry

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

C4.00007: Dynamical alignment of H$_{2}^+$ in an intense ultrashort laser pulse
Fatima Anis , R. Cabrera-Trujillo , B. D. Esry

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

C4.00008: Effect of Carrier Envelope Phase on Single Shot XUV Supercontinuum Measurements
Mahendra Man Shakya , S. Gilbertson , C. Nakamura , C.Q. Li , E. Moon , Z. Duan , J. Tackett , S. Ghimire , Zenghu Chang

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

C4.00009: Three-active-electron mechanism of intense-field multiple ionization: recollisions, Coulomb focusing and excitation
Phay Ho , Joseph Eberly

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

C4.00010: Momentum distribution of multiply charged ions ionized by intense lasers
K. I. Dimitriou , S. Yoshida , J. Burgd\"orfer , H. Shimada , Y. Yamazaki

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Session C5: Quantum Computation

Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Knoxville Convention Center - 301AB


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

C5.00001: Rapid control and measurement of clock-state qubits in Yb and Sr
Barry C. Sanders , Nathan S. Babcock , Artem M. Dudarev , Mark G. Raizen , Rene Stock

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

C5.00002: Preserving Coherence in Rydberg Quantum Bits.
Russell S. Minns , Mary R. Kutteruf , Melissa A. Comisso , Hussain Zaidi , Lung Ko , Robert R. Jones

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

C5.00003: Dipolar switching for robust quantum computation with polar molecules
Susanne Yelin , Kate Kirby , Robin Cote

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

C5.00004: Qubit Control and Entangling Collisions in an Optical Lattice
Worawarong Rakreungdet , Brian E. Mischuck , Poul S. Jessen

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

C5.00005: Fast Ground State Manipulation of Neutral Atoms in Microscopic Dipole Traps
Deniz Yavuz , Erich Urban , Todd Johnson , Pasad Kulatunga , Marie Delaney , Thomas Henage , Nick Proite , Thad Walker , Mark Saffman

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

C5.00006: Trapped ion quantum computation with transverse phonon modes
Shi-Liang Zhu , Chris Monroe , L.-M. Duan

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

C5.00007: Steps towards fault-tolerant quantum operations in trapped-ion Quantum information experiments
R. Ozeri , C. Langer , J.D. Jost , R.B. Blakestad , J. Britton , J. Chiaverini , D. Hume , W.M. Itano , E. Knill , D. Leibfried , R. Reichle , S. Seidelin , J.H. Wesenberg , D.J. Wineland

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

C5.00008: Free-Space Quantum Cryptography in a Hydrogen Fraunhofer Window
Daniel Rogers , Joshua Bienfang , Alan Mink , Barry Hershman , Anastase Nakassis , Xiao Tang , Lijun Ma , David Su , Carl Williams , Charles Clark

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

C5.00009: Implementation of Grover's search algorithm using entangled `clock state' qubits
Kathy-Anne Brickman , Mark Acton , Louis Deslauriers , Paul Haljan , Patricia Lee , Christopher Monroe

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

C5.00010: A Quantum Simulator From Trapped Ions
Kendra Vant , Dana Berkeland , Malcolm Boshier , John Chiaverini , David Lizon , Warren Lybarger , Robert Scarlett , Rolando Somma , Matthew Blain , Bernie Jokiel , Christopher Tigges

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Session C6: Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry

Chair: Jennifer Sebby-Strabley, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

C6.00001: Direct imaging of periodic sub-wavelength patterns generated by optical phase masks
Alexei Tonyushkin , Tycho Sleator

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

C6.00002: Demonstration of Long coherence Times in Guided Atom Interferometers
Saijun Wu , Edward Su , Tao Hong , Mara Prentiss

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

C6.00003: High-Order Quantum Resonances Observed in a Periodically-Kicked Bose Condensate
Changhyun Ryu , Mikkel Andersen , Alipasha Vaziri , Michael d'Arcy , Joshua Grossman , Kristian Helmerson , William Phillips

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

C6.00004: Measurement of atomic diffraction phases induced by material gratings
John Perreault , Alexander Cronin

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

C6.00005: Coherence properties of an ultracold atom beam in a circular waveguide
Kevin Moore , Subhadeep Gupta , Kater Murch , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

C6.00006: Interference of Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip
G.-B. Jo , Y. Shin , C. Sanner , T.A. Pasquini , M. Saba , S. Will , W. Ketterle , D.E. Pritchard , M. Vengalattore , M. Prentiss

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

C6.00007: Atom Quantum Interference Device.
Michele Saba , Gyuboong Jo , Tom Pasquini , Yong-Il Shin , Caleb Christiansen , Sebastian Will , Wolfgang Ketterle , David Pritchard

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

C6.00008: BEC transistor
James Stickney , Dana Anderson , Alex Zozulya

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

C6.00009: A new Michelson interferometer for Bose-Einstein condensates
G. Ofir Garcia , Kenneth Baranowski , Benjamin Deissler , K. Jeramy Hughes , Jessica Reeves , Cass Sackett

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

C6.00010: Quantum theory of atom lasers
Tobias Kramer , Mirta Rodriguez Pinilla , Christian Bracher

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