Session B4: Vortices and Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates

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Chair: M. Kraemer, University of Colorado
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 206


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B4.00001: Exchange of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum Between an Ultracold Bose Gas and Optical Angular Momentum Beams
Kevin C. Wright , Andrew B. Kowalik , L. Suzanne Leslie , Michael V. Pack , Nicholas P. Bigelow

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B4.00002: Persistent flow in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Pierre Clade , Changhyun Ryu , Mikkel Andersen , Vasant Natarajan , Anand Ramanathan , Kristian Helmerson , William Phillips

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B4.00003: Quantum dynamics of Raman-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with Laguerre-Gaussian beams
Rina Kanamoto , Ewan Wright , Pierre Meystre

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B4.00004: Vortex formation by merging multiple trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
Chad Weiler , Tyler Neely , David Scherer , Brian Anderson

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B4.00005: Spontaneous vortex formation during the creation of Bose-Einstein condensates
Brian Anderson , Chad Weiler , Tyler Neely , David Scherer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B4.00006: Collective Excitations of Pinned Vortex Lattice of a Rotating Condensate
Han Pu , Leslie Baksmaty , Nicholas Bigelow

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B4.00007: Signatures of Quantized Vortex States in Rotating Optical Lattices
Brandon Peden , Rajiv Bhat , Meret Kr\"{a}mer , Murray Holland

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B4.00008: Observation of Phase Defects of a quasi-2D BEC in a Single Dipole Trap
Pierre Clade , Changhyun Ryu , Anand Ramanathan , Kristian Helmerson , William Phillips

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B4.00009: Use of custom potentials to facilitate access to quantum Hall states in rotating Bose gases
Alexis Morris , David Feder

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B4.00010: Quantum phase transitions, symmetry breaking, and the Goldstone mode in metastable Bose-Einstein condensates
Rina Kanamoto , Lincoln Carr , Masahito Ueda

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B4.00011: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:42PM - 12:54PM

B4.00012: Nonlocal stabilization of nonlinear beams in a self-focusing atomic vapor
Mark Saffman , Stefan Skupin , Wieslaw Krolikowski

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