Session L1: Interaction and Strong Lasers with Molecules and Clusters

Chair: Carlos Reinhold, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

L1.00001: Inverse Bremsstrahlung and High Harmonic Generation in Clusters and Molecules
Invited Speaker: Chris Greene

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

L1.00002: Interaction of clusters with intense soft x-ray radiation from the VUV-FEL
Invited Speaker: Christoph Bostedt

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

L1.00003: Applications of Attosecond Lasers to Atoms and Molecules in Strong Laser Fields
Invited Speaker: Marc Vrakking

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:18PM - 12:54PM

L1.00004: Rare Gas Clusters under an Intense Laser Pulse and Analytical Ion Kinetic Energy Spectra
Invited Speaker: Jan M. Rost

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Session L2: Undergraduate Research

Chair: Donald Griffin, Rollins College
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:30AM - 10:50AM

L2.00001: Experimental studies of laser light scattering in turbid media
Sawyer Campbell , Rainer Grobe , Charles Su

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:50AM - 11:10AM

L2.00002: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Entangled States in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Dimitri Dounas-Frazer , Lincoln Carr

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:10AM - 11:30AM

L2.00003: An imaging spectrometer to probe pondermotive-gradient field-ionization
Jamie Kapplinger , Eric Wells

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:30AM - 11:50AM

L2.00004: Hertz level stabilization of a 657nm diode laser
Brian Neyenhuis , Rebecca Tang , Greg Doermann , Dallin Durfee

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:50AM - 12:10PM

L2.00005: Two-stage Rydberg charge exchange in a strong magnetic field
Michael Wall , Chris Norton , Francis Robicheaux

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Session L3: BEC Vortices and Spinor Condensates

Chair: James Williams, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

L3.00001: Vortex pinning in a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Shihkuang Tung , Volker Schweikhard , Eric Cornell

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

L3.00002: Bragg Spectroscopy of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein condensates
Sergio R. Muniz , Devang S. Naik , Mishkatul Bhattacharya , Chandra Raman

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

L3.00003: Phase transitions in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates.
Oleg Vorov , Klaus Bartschat , P. Van Isacker , M. Hussein

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

L3.00004: Stability of Ring Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Mark Edwards , Lincoln Carr , Charles W. Clark

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

L3.00005: Fragmentation and Phase Manipulation Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensates using Computer-Generated Holograms
Brian Anderson , David Scherer , Chad Weiler , Tyler Neely

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

L3.00006: Normal modes of vortex sheets in a BEC - connection of Tkachenko modes with hydrodynamic excitations
Sungjong Woo , Stephen Choi , Leslie Baksmaty , Nicholas Bigelow

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

L3.00007: Single-Mode Approximation and Dynamical Localization in a Ferromagnetic Spin-1 Condensate
Q. Qin , E.M. Bookjans , P.F. Griffin , M.-S. Chang , M.S. Chapman

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

L3.00008: Nonadiabatic production of spinor condensates with a QUIC trap
Peng Zhang , Zhan Xu , Li You

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

L3.00009: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Quenched Ferromagnetic Spinor Condensate
Mukund Vengalattore , Lorraine Sadler , James Higbie , Sabrina Leslie , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

L3.00010: Magnetometry with Spinor Condensates
Sabrina Leslie , James Higbie , Mukund Vengalattore , Lorraine Sadler , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Session L4: Entanglement

Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

L4.00001: Heralded entanglement between remote atomic ensembles
Hugues de Riedmatten , Chin-Wen Chou , Daniel Felinto , Sergey Polyakov , Jeff Kimble , Steven van Enk

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

L4.00002: Quantum Chaos and Entanglement for Two Coupled Spins
Collin Trail , Ivan Deutsch , Arjendu Pattanayak , Parin Sripakdeevong

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

L4.00003: Observable entanglement measures
Florian Mintert , Stephen Walburn , Paulo Souto Ribeiro , Luiz Davidovich , Andreas Buchleitner

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

L4.00004: Towards Feedback Control of Entanglement
Jin Wang , Stefano Mancini

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

L4.00005: Experimental Atom-Photon Entanglement:
Markus Weber , Juergen Volz , Wenjamin Rosenfeld , Stefan Berner , Florian Henkel , Christian Kurtsiefer , Harald Weinfurter

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

L4.00006: Remote phase shifting of an interferometer using entangled-state correlations.
Enrique Galvez , Mehul Malik , Brad Melius

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

L4.00007: Distribution of entanglement in an ion trap array
J.D. Jost , C. Langer , R. Ozeri , R.B. Blakestad , J. Britton , J. Chiaverini , D.B. Hume , W.M. Itano , E. Knill , D. Leibfried , R. Reichle , T. Rosenband , S. Seidelin , J.H. Wesenberg , D.J. Wineland

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

L4.00008: Entanglement of remote atomic qubits
Dzmitry Matsukevich , Thierry Chaneliere , Stewart Jenkins , Shau-Yu Lan , Brian Kennedy , Alex Kuzmich

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

L4.00009: Spooky Phenomena in Two-Photon Processes
Ming-Chiang Li

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Session L5: Photoassociation Spectroscopy

Chair: Thomas Killian, Rice University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301AB


Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

L5.00001: Saturation Effects in Photoassociation Spectroscopy of $^{86}$Sr
P.G. Mickelson , Y.N. Martinez , S.B. Nagel , T.C. Killian

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

L5.00002: Photoassociation of $^{85}$Rb Atoms in $0_{u}^{+}$ States Near the 5S+5P Atomic Limits
T.H. Bergeman , Ye Huang , Hyewon K. Pechkis , Jianbing Qi , Dajun Wang , P.L. Gould , E.E. Eyler , W.C. Stwalley , R.A. Cline , J.D. Miller , D.J. Heinzen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

L5.00003: High intensity photoassociation spectroscopy of ultracold strontium atoms: nonperturbative theoretical analysis
Philippe Pellegrini , Robin C\^ot\'e , Tom Killian

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

L5.00004: Theory of Alkaline-Earth Photoassociation in a 2D Geometry
Pascal Naidon , Paul Julienne , Roman Ciurylo , Tanya Zelevinsky , Martin M. Boyd , Andrew D. Ludlow , Tetsuya Ido , Jun Ye

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

L5.00005: Narrow Line Photoassociation in an Optical Lattice
Tanya Zelevinsky , Martin M. Boyd , Andrew D. Ludlow , Tetsuya Ido , Jun Ye , Roman Ciurylo , Pascal Naidon , Paul S. Julienne

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

L5.00006: State-selective detection by two-photon ionization and magnetic trapping of ultracold Rb$_{2}$ triplet state molecules
Hyewon K. Pechkis , Ye Huang , Dajun Wang , E.E. Eyler , P.L. Gould , W.C. Stwalley

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

L5.00007: Blue Satellite Bands and Photoassociation near 7$P_{3/2}$ and 7$P_{1/2}$ Atomic Limits in Cesium
Marin Pichler , Jianbing Qi , William C. Stwalley , Robert Beuc , Goran Pichler

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

L5.00008: Direct Observation of the Difference of Scattering Phase Shifts
Russell Hart , Xinye Xu , Kurt Gibble

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

L5.00009: Measurement of the Photoassociation Rate in a BEC of $^{7}$Li
M. Junker , D. Dries , Y. Chen , C. Welford , J. Hitchcock , R. G. Hulet

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

L5.00010: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold NaCs
Christopher Haimberger , Jan Kleinert , Nicholas P. Bigelow

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Session L6: Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties I

Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

L6.00001: Two-Photon Coherent Atomic Absorption of Multiple Laser Beams
Ming-Chiang Li

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

L6.00002: Coarse-grained entropy decrease and novel phase-space focusing and cooling in Hamiltonian dynamics
Arjendu Pattanayak , Daniel W.C. Brooks , Anton de la Fuente , Lawrence Urrichio , Edward Holby , Daniel Krawisz , Jorge Silva

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

L6.00003: Non-linear Optical Rotary Dispersion of Crystalline NaClO$_{3}$ and NaBrO$_{3 }$ and Uridine Solutions
Andrew Fischer , Richard Pagni , Robert Compton , Jingguo Yang

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

L6.00004: Effects of Frequency Chirping in Electro-Magnetically Induced Transparency
Frank A. Narducci , Jon P. Davis

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

L6.00005: Coherent Molecular Vortex Generation from an Atomic Condensate
H. Ling , D. Grochowski , S. Yi , H. Pu , Weiping Zhang

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

L6.00006: Effect of optical lattice and microwave fields on the formation and confinement of ultracold molecules
Svetlana Kotochigova , Eite Tiesinga

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

L6.00007: Characterization of statistical properties of x-ray FEL radiation by means of two-photon processes
Nina Rohringer , Robin Santra

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

L6.00008: Recombination and ionization cross sections for all ion stages of argon.
Sh. A. Abdel-Naby , S.D. Loch , M.S. Pindzola , N.R. Badnell

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

L6.00009: On the Structure of the SF$_{6}^{-}$ Anion
Jeffrey Steill , Robert Compton , K. Bowen , Sarah Stokes

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