Session H3: Ultracold Atoms: Mott Insulators

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Chair: B. DeMarco, University of Illinois
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 201-203


Thursday, June 7, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

H3.00001: Rotating bosonic ring lattice: Entanglement, Mott and Liftshitz-like Transitions
Ana Maria Rey , Keith Burnett , Indubala Satija , Charles Clark

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

H3.00002: Mott-insulator shells in the three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model with harmonic confinement
Makoto Yamashita

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H3.00003: Vortices, antivortices and superfluid shells separating Mott-insulating regions
Kaushik Mitra , C.J. Williams , C.A.R. Sa De Melo

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H3.00004: Many-Body Dynamics of Repulsively Bound Pairs of Particles in a Periodic Potential
David Petrosyan , Bernd Schmidt , James R. Anglin , Michael Fleischhauer

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

H3.00005: Cavity QED determination of atomic number statistics in optical lattices
Dominic Meiser , Wenzhou Chen , Pierre Meystre

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

H3.00006: BCS-BEC Crossover: Critical Temperature Curve and Thermodynamics
Evgeny Kozik , Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

H3.00007: Phase diagram of the two-leg Bose-Hubbard model
Ippei Danshita , James E. Williams , Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo , Charles W. Clark

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

H3.00008: Heisenberg limited sensitivity via transition from a two-component Mott insulator to a superfluid
Mirta Rodriguez , Stephen Clark , Dieter Jaksch

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

H3.00009: Preparing and probing few-atom number states with an atom interferometer
Benjamin Brown , Jennifer Sebby-Strabley , Marco Anderlini , Patricia Lee , Philip Johnson , William Phillips , Trey Porto

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

H3.00010: Transport Properties of a Mott-like State of Molecules
Stephan Duerr , Niels Syassen , Dominik Bauer , Thomas Volz , Matthias Lettner , Daniel Dietze , Gerhard Rempe

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:30PM - 12:42PM

H3.00011: Measurements of Collective Modes Spanning the 3-D Superfluid to Mott-Insulator Transition
David McKay , Matt White , Matt Pasienski , Yutaka Miyagawa , Brian DeMarco

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:42PM - 12:54PM

H3.00012: Progress Toward Realizing the Superfluid to Mott-Insulator Transition in the Presence of Fine-Grain Disorder
Matthew Pasienski , Matthew White , David McKay , Yutaka Miyagawa , Brian DeMarco

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