Session E1: Scalable Solutions for Quantum Computing with Atoms and Ions

Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:30PM - 2:06PM

E1.00001: Ion traps, quantum computing, and the measurement problem$^{\dag}$
Invited Speaker: D.J. Wineland

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:06PM - 2:42PM

E1.00002: Scaling Up Ion and Atom Traps with Silicon Based VLSI and MEMS Technologies
Invited Speaker: Richart Slusher

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:42PM - 3:18PM

E1.00003: A double well lattice for dynamically manipulating pairs of cold atoms
Invited Speaker: Jennifer Sebby-Strabley

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:18PM - 3:54PM

E1.00004: Fidelity and Scalability in Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
Invited Speaker: Jonathon Home

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Session E2: Atomic Physics for ITER and Other Next Step Fusion Experiments

Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:30PM - 2:06PM

E2.00001: Edge plasma simulation and AMO physics: A multi-scale problem.
Invited Speaker: Ralf Schneider

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:06PM - 2:42PM

E2.00002: Atomic and Surface Physics in Tokamak Edge Plasmas
Invited Speaker: Ralph Isler

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:42PM - 3:18PM

E2.00003: Computational Atomic and Molecular Physis for Transport Modelling of Fusion Plasmas
Invited Speaker: M.S. Pindzola

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:18PM - 3:54PM

E2.00004: Methane production from slow atomic and molecular D ion impact on graphite:
Invited Speaker: Fred W. Meyer

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Session E3: Ultracold Atoms II

Chair: Sergio Muniz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

E3.00001: Fermi-Bose mixtures in optical lattices: a new strongly correlated system
Silke Ospelkaus-Schwarzer , Christian Ospelkaus , Kai Bongs , Klaus Sengstock

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

E3.00002: Dynamics of a BEC colliding with a time-dependent dipole barrier
M. Siercke , C. Ellenor , R. Chang , M. Partlow , A.M. Steinberg

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

E3.00003: Atom trapping with a thin magnetic film
Patrick Medley , Micah Boyd , Gretchen Campbell , Jongchul Mun , Erik Streed , Dave Pritchard , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

E3.00004: Continuous and Pulsed Quantum Zeno Effect
Erik Streed , Jongchul Mun , Micah Boyd , Gretchen Campbell , Patrick Medley , David Pritchard , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

E3.00005: Bose-Einstein condensates in a rotating lattice
Lincoln D. Carr , Rajiv Bhat , Murray J. Holland

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

E3.00006: Two-Qubit Motional Gates in Double-Well Optical Lattices
Mark Edwards , James Porto , Charles W. Clark

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

E3.00007: Observation of Strong Quantum Depletion in a Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate
Yingmei Liu , Kaiwen Xu , Daniel Miller , JitKee Chin , Widagdo Setiawan , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

E3.00008: The role of interactions, tunneling and harmonic confinement on the adiabatic loading of bosons in an optical lattice.
Ana Maria Rey , Guido Pupillo , Trey Porto

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

E3.00009: Laser cooling and localization measurements in a Raman optical lattice
Rachel Sapiro , Rui Zhang , Natalya Morrow , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

E3.00010: Vidal’s simulation method applied to two coupled 1D lattices
Jamie Williams , Ippei Danshita , Charles Clark

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:30PM - 3:42PM

E3.00011: Parametric Amplification of Scattered Atom Pairs
Gretchen K. Campbell , Jongchul Mun , Micah Boyd , Erik W. Streed , Wolfgang Ketterle , David E. Pritchard

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:42PM - 3:54PM

E3.00012: Dispersion Management Using Betatron Resonances in an Ultracold-Atom Storage Ring
Kater Murch , Kevin Moore , Subhadeep Gupta , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Session E4: Short Pulse Processes II

Chair: Wendell Hill III, University of Maryland
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

E4.00001: Direct Measurement of Dynamic Alignment in Strong Femtosecond Fields
Kun Zhao , Lee N. Elberson , Getahun M. Menkir , Marcus Laich , Wendell T. Hill, III

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

E4.00002: Laser-Cluster Interaction: X-Ray Production by Short Laser Pulses
C. Deiss , N. Rohringer , J. Burgd\"orfer , E. Lamour , C. Prigent , J.-P. Rozet , D. Vernhet

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

E4.00003: Interaction of coherent VUV radiation with xenon clusters
Zachary Walters , Robin Santra , Chris H. Greene

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

E4.00004: Electron Momentum Distributions in Short-Pulse Double Ionization -- Agreement with a Classical Model in 3D
Stan Haan , Llian Breen , Armin Karim , J.H. Eberly

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

E4.00005: Amplitude and Phase Control of Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy by Atomic Filter
Goran Pichler , Hrvoje Skenderovi\'{c} , Damir Aumiler , Ticiana Ban , Marin Pichler

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

E4.00006: Stabilizing carrier-envelope phase of Kansas Light Source
Chengquan Li , Eric Moon , Zuoliang Duan , Jason Tackett , Kristan L. Corwin , Brian R. Washburn , Zenghu Chang

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

E4.00007: Creating inner shell vacancy by inelastic X-ray photons scattering
S.A. Novikov

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

E4.00008: Using attosecond pulses to probe ultrafast electronic motions inside atoms
L. A. Collins , S. X. Hu

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

E4.00009: Ultra-Strong Field Ionization From Ne to Xe
Barry Walker , Isaac Ghebregziabher , Anthony DiChiara , Sasi Palaniyappan

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

E4.00010: Quantum Diffusion Monte Carlo Method for strong field time dependent problems
Matt Kalinski

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Session E5: Ultracold Plasmas and Molecules

Chair: Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester
Knoxville Convention Center - 301AB


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

E5.00001: Confinement of strongly magnetized ultracold plasmas
J.-H. Choi , X. Zhang , A. P. Povilus , G. Raithel

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

E5.00002: Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms in an Ultracold Plasma
Robert Fletcher , Xianli Zhang , Steven Rolston

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

E5.00003: Observation of Collective Modes of Ultracold Plasmas
Xianli Zhang , Robert Fletcher , Steven Rolston

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

E5.00004: Gaussian expansion and electron temperature determination in ultracold Sr plasma
Sampad Laha , Priya Gupta , Clayton Simien , Sarah Nagel , Natali Martinez , Pascal Mickelson , Thomas Killian

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

E5.00005: Rydberg Atom - Rydberg Atom Dipole-Dipole Potentials
Arne Schwettmann , Jeff Crawford , K. Richard Overstreet , James P. Shaffer

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

E5.00006: Stark Slowing of Asymmetric Rotors
Arne Schwettmann , Jack Franklin , K. Richard Overstreet , Jonathan Tallant , James P. Shaffer

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

E5.00007: Collision cooling of molecules
Kevin E. Strecker , Jamie Ramirez , Dave W. Chandler

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

E5.00008: Cold Molecule Experiments and Production
Eric R. Hudson , Brian C. Sawyer , Benjamin L. Lev , Jun Ye

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

E5.00009: One-photon Assisted Formation of Ultracold LiH and NaH
Elizabeth Juarros , Kate Kirby , Robin C\^{o}t\'{e}

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

E5.00010: ``Molecule chips''
Michaela Tscherneck , Michael Holmes , Amy Wakim , Nicholas Bigelow

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Session E6: Photon Interactions With Atoms, Ions and Molecules - Experiment

Chair: Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

E6.00001: The Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect on Surfaces
L. Miaja , G. Saathoff , C. Lei , M.M. Murnane , H.C. Kapteyn , M. Aeschlimann , J.L. Gland

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

E6.00002: H$\alpha $, H$\beta $, and Ly$\alpha $ fluorescence from the photodissociation of H$_{2 }$and D$_{2}$
T.J. Gay , J.R. Machacek , J.E. Furst , A.L.D. Kilcoyne , J.D. Bozek , H. Gould , M.S. Lubell , K.W. McLaughlin

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

E6.00003: Dynamics and Fragmentation of Hydrogen Bonded and van der Waal Clusters upon 26.5 eV Soft X-ray Laser Ionization
Feng Dong , Scott Heinbuch , Elliot Bernstein , Jorge Rocca

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

E6.00004: Angle-resolved Two-Dimensional Photoelectron Spectroscopy of van-der-Waals Clusters
Daniel Rolles , Huaizhen Zhang , Antony Wills , Rene Bilodeau , Edwin Kukk , Bruce Rude , Glen Ackerman , John Bozek , Nora Berrah

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

E6.00005: Precise Double-Photoionization Data for Na and K
P.N. Jurani\'c , J.C. Nordberg , R. Wehlitz

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

E6.00006: Inner Shell Photodetachment of Atomic Negative Ions
R.C. Bilodeau , I. Dumitriu , N. Berrah , N.D. Gibson , C.W. Walter , J.D. Bozek , G.D. Ackerman

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

E6.00007: Photodetachment Spectroscopy Of Evaporatively Cooled Negative Ions
John N. Yukich , James E. Wells

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