Session C1: Cold Molecules

Sponsoring Units: DAMOP TGPMFC
Chair: T. Bergeman, SUNY-Stony Brook
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod BC


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

C1.00001: Molecular collision studies with Stark-decelerated beams
Invited Speaker: Gerard Meijer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:06PM - 2:42PM

C1.00002: Experiments with Ultracold KRb and Rb$_{2}$ Molecules
Invited Speaker: Phillip Gould

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

C1.00003: New theoretical findings on cold molecules in optical lattices
Invited Speaker: Svetlana Kotochigova

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:18PM - 3:54PM

C1.00004: Creating and confining ultracold polar molecules
Invited Speaker: Nicholas Bigelow

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Session C2: Focus Session: Matter Wave Interferometry

Chair: E. Demler, Harvard University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod D


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

C2.00001: Interference and Coherence in 1-d Bose-Einstein-Condensates
Invited Speaker: Joerg Schmiedmayer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

C2.00002: On-chip Bose-Einstein condensate interferometer with 0.5 mm arm length
Stephen R. Segal , Quentin Diot , Eric A. Cornell , Mara Prentiss , Alex A. Zozulya , Dana Z. Anderson

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

C2.00003: Phase Sensitive Recombination of two Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip
G.-B. Jo , J.-H. Choi , C. Christensen , Y.R. Lee , T.A. Pasquini , W. Ketterle , D.E. Pritchard

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

C2.00004: Matter wave interferometry with phase fluctuating condensates
J.-H. Choi , G.-B. Jo , T.A. Pasquini , C.A. Christensen , Y.R. Lee , W. Ketterle , D.E. Pritchard

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

C2.00005: Two Weakly-Coupled Condensates
Invited Speaker: Markus Oberthaler

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

C2.00006: An experiment to measure the electric polarizability of $^{87}$Rb using a condensate interferometer
Benjamin Deissler , K. Jeramy Hughes , John H.T. Burke , Cass Sackett

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

C2.00007: Obtaining a high-visibility Bose-Einstein condensate interferometer
K. Jeramy Hughes , Benjamin Deissler , John H.T. Burke , Cass Sackett

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

C2.00008: Theoretical analysis of cold atom interferometers with optical control of dynamics
James Stickney , Dana Z. Anderson , Alex Zozulya

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

C2.00009: Gold coated nano gratings for atom optics
Vincent Lonij , John Perreault , Oleg Kornilov , Alex Cronin

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

C2.00010: Modifying atom-surface vdW interactions with light
Alex Cronin , Vincent Lonij , John Perreault

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

C2.00011: Electron Interferometry with Nanogratings
Ben McMorran , Alex Cronin

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Session C3: GEC Session: Nanoplasmas

Chair: R. Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 201-203


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

C3.00001: Experimental investigations of reactions in plasma etching of nanometer size structures
Invited Speaker: Vincent Donnelly

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:06PM - 2:42PM

C3.00002: Plasma-particle interactions and their role in nanocyrstal formation in plasmas
Invited Speaker: Uwe Kortshagen

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

C3.00003: Plasma Etching of Nano-Scale Features
Invited Speaker: Ying Zhang

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:18PM - 3:54PM

C3.00004: Nanoscale Challenges in Plasma-Surface Interactions
Invited Speaker: David Graves

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Session C4: Quantum Computing

Chair: E. Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 206


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

C4.00001: One-way quantum computing in optical lattices with many atom measurements.
Timothy Friesen , David Feder

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

C4.00002: Entangling operations and rapid measurement of atomic clock-state qubits for violating Bell inequalities
Ren\'e Stock , Nathan S. Babcock , Mark G. Raizen , Barry C. Sanders

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

C4.00003: Quantum Simulators, Spin Systems, and Trapped Ions
Warren Lybarger , John Chiaverini , Rolando Somma , David Lizon , W. Robert Scarlett , Malcolm Boshier , Dana Berkeland

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

C4.00004: Sympathetic cooling of a atom in a transported trap via superfluid immersion, preserving quantum information
David Hayes , Ivan Deutsch

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

C4.00005: Bright Source of Cold Ions for Surface-Electrode Traps
Marko Cetina , Andrew Grier , Jonathan Campbell , Isaac Chuang , Vladan Vuletic

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

C4.00006: Spatially imaging single atoms in a 3D optical lattice
Karl D. Nelson , Xiao Li , David S. Weiss

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

C4.00007: Efficient qubit state detection using integrated optics in ion trap quantum computation.
Jungsang Kim , Changsoon Kim , Caleb Knoernschild , Bin Liu , Kyle McKay , Felix Lu

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

C4.00008: Spin exchange in a double-well optical lattice for a $\sqrt{SWAP}$ gate
Patricia Lee , Marco Anderlini , Benjamin Brown , Jennifer Sebby-Strabley , William Phillips , Trey Porto

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

C4.00009: Excitation and interaction of Rydberg states in optical dipole traps
Erich Urban , Todd Johnson , Thomas Henage , Larry Isenhower , Marie Delaney , Deniz Yavuz , Thad Walker , Mark Saffman

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

C4.00010: Femtosecond optical excitation of trapped barium ions
N. Kurz , M.R. Dietrich , R. Bowler , G.T. Howell , V. Mirgon , J.S. Salacka , G. Shu , L. Wang , B.B. Blinov

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

C4.00011: Microfabricated surface-electrode ion traps for scalable quantum information processing
S. Seidelin , J. Britton , J. Chiaverini , R. Reichle , J.J. Bollinger , D. Leibfried , J.H. Wesenberg , R.B. Blakestad , R.J. Epstein , J.M. Amini , K.R. Brown , J.P. Home , D.B. Hume , W.M. Itano , J.D. Jost , E. Knill , C. Langer , R. Ozeri , N. Shiga , D.J. Wineland

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

C4.00012: High fidelity quantum gates for ion qubits in optical transitions
Kihwan Kim , Mark Riebe , Michael Chwalla , Thomas Monz , Philipp Schindler , Wolfgang Haensel , Piet Schmidt , Christian Roos , Hartmut Haeffner , Jan Benhelm , Gerhard Kirchmair , Timo Koerber , Rainer Blatt , Leandro Aolita

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Session C5: Anti-Matter, Ion Traps, and New Experimental Techniques

Chair: T. Walker, University of Wisconsin
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 205


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

C5.00001: Measurement of the Decay Rate of the Negative Ion of Positronium (Ps$^-$)
G. Gwinner , F. Fleischer , K. Degreif , M. Lestinsky , F. Plenge , D. Schwalm , V. Liechtenstein

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

C5.00002: Excited, Resonant, and Unnatural Parity States of Positronic Atoms and Ions
Michael W.J. Bromley , Jim Mitroy , Kalman Varga

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

C5.00003: Positron Direct Annihilation in Positron-Hydrogen Colliding Systems
Chi Yu Hu , Sergey Yakovlev

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

C5.00004: Traps for Antimatter: The ALPHA Antihydrogen Apparatus
R. Hydomako , R.I. Thompson , M.C. Fujiwara , D.R. Gill , L. Kurchaninov , K. Olchanski , A. Olin , J.W. Storey , W.N. Hardy , D.J. Jones , M.E. Hayden , H. Malik , S. Menary

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

C5.00005: A Cooler Trap for the TITAN On-line Trapping Facility at TRIUMF
G. Gwinner , Z. Ke , W. Shi , S. Toews , J. Dilling , V. Ryjkov

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

C5.00006: Photoionization loading of barium ion traps.
Adam Steele , Layne Churchill , Paul Griffin , Michael Chapman

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

C5.00007: The Development of a Passive Electrostatic Electron Recycling System (ERS).
David Tessier , Ying Niu , Dominic Seccombe , Timothy Reddish , Aaron Alderman , Ben Birdsey , Peter Hammond , Frank Read

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

C5.00008: A miniature differential atomic magnetometer based on a diverging laser beam
Eleanor Hodby , Elizabeth Donley , John Kitching

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

C5.00009: A portable ultrasensitive atomic magnetometer for biomagnetic measurements.
Robert Wyllie , Zhimin Li , Ronald Wakai , Nicholas Proite , Peter Cook , Thad Walker

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

C5.00010: Study of surface interactions of spin polarized Rb atoms in coated cells using the evanescent wave magnetometer
K.F. Zhao , M. Schaden , Z. Wu

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

C5.00011: Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of Solid Alkali Compounds
Brian Patton , Kiyoshi Ishikawa , Yuan-Yu Jau , William Happer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

C5.00012: Intracavity Optogalvanic Spectroscopy (ICOGS)
Erhan Ilkmen , Ozgur Dogru , Daniel Murnick

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Session C6: Spectroscopy of Molecules and Molecular Clusters

Chair: N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, University of Calgary
TELUS Convention Centre - Olde Scotch Room


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

C6.00001: Observation of the `missing' polar OCS dimer.
Mahin Afshari , Mehdi Dehghani , Ziad Abusara , Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi , Robert McKellar

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

C6.00002: The structure of OCS tetramer from infrared laser spectroscopy
Mehdi Dehghany , Mahin Afshari , Ziad Abusara , Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi , A.R.W. McKellar

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

C6.00003: The Pure Inversion-Tunneling Transition of Ammonia in Helium Droplets
Rudolf Lehnig , Wolfgang J\"ager

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

C6.00004: Cyanoacetylene-doped \textit{ortho}-hydrogen and \textit{para}-hydrogen clusters studied using rotational spectroscopy
Julie Michaud , Wolfgang J\"{a}ger

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

C6.00005: High resolution infrared spectra of helium clusters doped with carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide
Robert McKellar

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

C6.00006: Spectroscopic and \textit{ab initio} study of the open-shell Xe-O$_{2}$ van der Waals Complex
Qing Wen , Wolfgang J\"ager

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

C6.00007: Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Effect on the VA and VCD Spectra of Lactic Acid in Water and in Methanol: Experimental and DFT Studies
Martin Losada , Ha Tran , Yunjie Xu

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

C6.00008: Microwave spectroscopic studies of molecular recognition: Analysis of diastereomeric interactions between ethanol and oxirane derivatives
Nicole Borho , Yunjie Xu

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

C6.00009: A New VISTA on the Infrared Spectrum of Ammonia in the 1.5 $\mu $m Region: Assignment of Combination Bands of $^{14}$NH$_{3}$ and $^{15}$NH$_{3}$ by Isotopic Shift Fingerprinting
Ronald Lees , Li Li , Li-Hong Xu

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

C6.00010: A global frequency analysis of data in the four lowest vibrational states of ethane
Leila Borvayeh , Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

C6.00011: \textit{Ab initio} and Rotational Spectroscopic Study of Propylene Oxide -- (Water)$_{N=2/3}$ Complexes
Zheng Su , yunjie Xu

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

C6.00012: Experimental determination of the Herman-Wallis factor of Q-branch Raman transitions
Michele Marrocco

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

C6.00013: Off-axis cavity enhanced absorption spectrometer based on a mid-infrared continuous wave quantum cascade laser
Yunjie Xu , Raviraj Kulkarni , Waishun Tam , Zheng Su , Igor Leonov

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