Session D1: Poster Session I

TELUS Convention Center - Macleod A, 4:00pm - 6:00pm




D1.00001: ULTRACOLD MATTER I


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D1.00002: Anomalous Recombination Rates in Ultracold Plasmas
Robert Fletcher , Xianli Zhang , Steven Rolston

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D1.00003: Electron screening and ion temperature equilibration in ultracold plasmas
Adam Denning , Scott Bergeson

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D1.00004: The four body problem
Seth T. Rittenhouse , Nirav P. Mehta , J.P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

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D1.00005: 2-Dimensional Compressed Magneto-Optical Trap
Rahul Mhaskar , Varun Vaidya , Georg Raithel

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D1.00006: Characterization of a Rubidium Magneto-Optical Trap
Wei Wen Yu , Brad Crochet , Gregory Carson , Alina Gearba

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D1.00007: Simultaneous Loading of $^{87}$Rb and $^{85}$Rb into a Optical Trap from a MOT
Anthony Gorges , David French , Jacob Roberts

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D1.00008: External control of electron temperature in ultra-cold plasmas
Duncan Tate , Roy Wilson , Margaret Martei , Anders Wood

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D1.00009: Coherent Population Trapping in Quantum Gas of Fermions
Andrew Robertson , Lei Jiang , Han Pu , Weiping Zhang , Hong Ling

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D1.00010: Progress Towards a Quantum Gas Microscope
Jonathon Gillen , Peter Unterwaditzer , Edward Su , Amy Peng , Hannes Brachmann , Waseem Bakr , Markus Greiner

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D1.00011: Ac-Stark shift of the hyperfine levels of alkali-metal atoms
Bindiya Arora , M.S. Safronova , Charles W. Clark

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D1.00012: Atomic coherence engineering using controllable phase-shifts: Towards a pulsed EIT-Raman lattice clock at JILA
T. Zanon-Willette , A.D. Ludlow , S. Blatt , M.M. Boyd , T. Zelevinsky , G.K. Campbell , E. Arimondo , J. Ye

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D1.00013: Time-dependent quantum many-body theory of identical bosons in a double well
David Masiello , William Reinhardt

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D1.00014: Measurement of the temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder force
Robert Wild , John Obrecht , Mauro Antezza , Lev Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari , Eric Cornell

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D1.00015: Heating of a BEC by mechanical perturbation
Tod Wright , Rob Ballagh , Crispin Gardiner , Ashton Bradley , Blair Blakie

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D1.00016: BEC apparatus for optical lattice experiments
Rebekah Schiller , Stephan Albert , Daniel Pertot , David Sproles , Daniel Greif , Azure Hansen , Dominik Schneble

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D1.00017: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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D1.00018: A phase-space analysis of cavity assisted photoassociation of quantum degenerate molecules
Markku Jaaskelainen , Christopher Search , Jaeyoon Jeong , Ivana Djuric

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D1.00019: Studies of Ultracold Collisions in $^{86}$Sr and $^{88}$Sr
P.G. Mickelson , Y.N. Martinez , S.B. Nagel , T.C. Killian

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D1.00020: Ultracold collisions between atoms and molecules in high vibrational states: effect of the atom-atom scattering length
Goulven Qu\'em\'ener , Pascal Honvault , Jean-Michel Launay

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D1.00021: Ultracold atom-molecule and molecule-molecule collisions
Goulven Qu\'em\'ener , T.J. Dhilip Kumar , Balakrishnan Naduvalath , Teck-Ghee Lee , Roman Krems

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D1.00022: Stark mixing under full interaction in ion-Rydberg atom cold collisions
Raymond Flannery , Goutham Balaraman

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D1.00023: Cold and ultracold dipole-dipole collisions
Catherine Newell , Michael Cavagnero , Vladimir Roudnev , John Bohn

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D1.00024: Measurements of Electron Temperature and Density, in an AC Pulsed Oxygen Plasma Discharge
Farook Yousif , Horacio Martinez , Fermin Castillo

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D1.00025: Landau Paradigm and Universal Properties of Heavy-Fermion Metals
Miron Amusia , Alfred Msezane , Vasily Shaginyan

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D1.00026: Superfluidity in a three component Fermi gas in a harmonic trap
Tomi Paananen , Jani-Petri Martikainen , P\"aivi T\"orm\"a

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D1.00027: MONATOMIC, DIATOMIC, & MOLECULAR STRUCTURE


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D1.00028: Signature of Quantum Interference in Photorecombination of Ar-Like Ions
D. Nikoli\'c , T.W. Gorczyca , D.W. Savin , N.R. Badnell

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D1.00029: Dielectronic Recombination of Al-Like Sulfur
Sh. A. Abdel-Naby , D. Nikoli\'c , T.W. Gorczyca , N.R. Badnell , D.W. Savin

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D1.00030: K-shell Fluorescence Yields of Li- to F-like Ions
S.T. Manson , M.F. Hasoglu , T.W. Gorczyca , N.R. Badnell , D.W. Savin

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D1.00031: Study of dynamics of Rabi oscillation under a pulsed perturbation using hyperfine transition of trapped cesium atoms
Jai Min Choi , Gee-Na Kim , D. Cho

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D1.00032: Third-order relativistic many-body calculation of matrix elements for divalent systems
Dansha Jiang , Rupsi Pal , Marianna Safronova

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D1.00033: A DFT approach for the accurate calculation of triply excited hollow and doubly-hollow Rydberg resonances in lithium isoelectronic sequence
Amlan Kusum Roy

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D1.00034: B-splines in variational atomic structure theory
Charlotte Froese Fischer

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D1.00035: Atomic Spectra Bibliography Databases at NIST
A.E. Kramida

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D1.00036: Balmer Line Broadening in Laser Produced Hydrogen Plasma.
Lutz Huwel , Roland Volkl , Yudhishthir Kandel

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D1.00037: Relativistic many-body calculations of the energies of n=4 states for zinc-like ions
Walter Johnson , Steven Blundell , Ulyana Safronova

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D1.00038: Excitation energies, polarizabilities, multipole transition rates, and lifetimes for francium-like ions
Walter Johnson , Ulyana Safronova , Marianna Safronova

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D1.00039: Isotope Shifts and Fine Structures of $^{6,7}$Li D Lines and Determination of Relative Nuclear Charge Radius.
George Noble , William van Wijngaarden

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D1.00040: Anisotropy Dependent Circular Polarization Spectra in Cs $6p^{2}P_{3/2}$ level
Burcin Bayram , Ramesh Marhatta , Jacob Hinkle , Prakash Koirala

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D1.00041: A grid-based DFT method for the electronic structure calculation of many-electron systems
Amlan K. Roy , Shih-I. Chu

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D1.00042: Theoretical Fit fo Experimental Observations of Energy Level Structure in the Cs$_{2}$ $a ^{3}\Sigma_{u}^{+}$ State
T. Bergeman , S. Sainis , E. Tiesinga , D. DeMille

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D1.00043: Newly observed rovibrational levels of the 3 and 4$^{1}\Sigma _u^+$ states in molecular hydrogen
Aaron Marks , Joe Croman , Robert Ekey Jr. , Elizabeth McCormack

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D1.00044: A continuous molecular beam source of lead monofluoride
P. Sivakumar , C.P. McRaven , N.E. Shafer-Ray

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D1.00045: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO C6.00013


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D1.00046: First results from the CLS far-infrared beamline: the $\nu_{12}$ and $\nu_{17}$ bands of acrolein, CH$_{2}$CHCHO
Dennis Tokaryk , A. Robert McKellar , Li-Hong Xu , Dominique Appadoo , Tim May

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D1.00047: Geometric Phase for Polar Molecules in rotating Electric and Magnetic Fields
Edmund Meyer , Russell Stutz , Laura Sinclair , Aaron Leanhardt , Eric Cornell , John Bohn

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D1.00048: Dissociative Fragmentation of Polyciclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with 532 nm Laser Radiation
Carmen Cisneros , Juan Carlos Poveda , Manuel Combes , Alfonso Guerrero , Ignacio Alvarez

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D1.00049: PHOTON INTERACTIONS WITH ATOMS, IONS, AND MOLECULES; SHORT PULSE PROCESSES


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D1.00050: Theory of x-ray absorption by laser-dressed atoms
Christian Buth , Robin Santra

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D1.00051: Interpretation of black body radiation as a decay process
Clarence A. Gall

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D1.00052: Partial and Complete Transfer of Energy in Bremsstrahlung Must Include Spin and Vibrational Kinetic Energies
Stewart Brekke

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D1.00053: Compton Effect and Pair Production and Annihiliation Formulas Should Include Spin and Vibrational Energy Factors
Stewart Brekke

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D1.00054: Systematic study of zeros in bound-free matrix elements
L.A. LaJohn , R.H. Pratt , S.T. Manson

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D1.00055: Searching for exotic particle emission in the decay of trapped Rb isomers
T. Kong , R. Pitcairn , A. Gorelov , J. Fung , C. H\"ohr , M. Pearson , J. Behr

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D1.00056: Absorption measurements of alkali-metal resonance lines broadened by He and molecular hydrogen collisions
F. Shindo , J. Babb , K. Kirby

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D1.00057: Determining accurate laser intensity dependence despite the intensity-volume effect with z-scanning intensity-difference spectra
A. Max Sayler , Pengqian Wang , Nora G. Johnson , Biswanath Gaire , Kevin D. Carnes , Itzik Ben-Itzhak

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D1.00058: Phase noise to intensity noise conversion in EIT
Yanhong Xiao , Tun Wang , Michael Hohensee , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Susanne Yelin , Ronald Walsworth

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D1.00059: Photoionization and electron-impact ionization of Ar$^{5+}$
Jing Cheng Wang , M. Lu , D. Esteves , M. Habibi , G. Alna'Washi , R.A. Phaneuf , A.L.D. Kilcoyne , B.M. McLaughlin

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D1.00060: The Iron Project and the RMAX Project: Transitions in Fe~XV, Fe~XVI, and Astrophysical Applications
Maximiliano Montenegro , Sultana Nahar , Anil Pradhan , Chiranjib Sur , Justin Oelgoetz

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D1.00061: $\textit{Ab Initio}$ Theoretical Investigation of the Frequency Comb Structure in the XUV Regime via High Harmonic Generation
Juan J. Carrera , Sang-Kil Son , Shih-I. Chu

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D1.00062: A general approach to few-cycle laser interactions with complex atoms
Xiaoxu Guan , Oleg Zatsarinny , Klaus Bartschat , Johannes Feist , Barry Schneider , Cliff Noble

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D1.00063: Creating and manipulating vibrational wavepackets of the D$_{2}^{+}$ molecular ion.
Jarlath McKenna , Chris Calvert , Domhnall Murphy , Jim McCann , Ian Williams , William Bryan , Elizabeth English , Joseph Wood , Roy Newell , Edmond Turcu

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D1.00064: Wave packet dynamics in doubly excited states of He
Johannes Feist , Stefan Nagele , Emil Persson , Joachim Burgd\"orfer , Barry Schneider

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D1.00065: The dynamics of meta-stable states described with a complex scaled Hamiltonian
Eva Lindroth , Jakob Bengtsson , S{\o}lve Selst{\o}

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D1.00066: Strong-Field Double Ionization of H$_{2}$/D$_{2}$ : Wavelength Dependent Study
Igor Litvinyuk , Ali Alnaser , Daniel Comtois , Asad Hasan , David Villeneuve , Jean-Claude Kieffer

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D1.00067: Study of D$_{2}$ and H$_{2}$ nuclear dynamics in strong laser field using Coulomb Explosion Imaging
Irina Bocharova , Igor Litvinyuk , Lewis Cocke , Dipanwita Ray , Chakra Maharjan , Predrag Ranitovic

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D1.00068: Holographic Generation and 3-D Ion Imaging of Focused Ultrashort Pulses of Complex Light
James Strohaber , Chad Petersen , Cornelis Uiterwaal

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D1.00069: Ionization of N$_{2}^{+}$ and O$_{2}^{+}$ beams in femtosecond intense laser fields.
A.M. Sayler , B. Gaire , Nora G. Johnson , M. Leonard , E. Parke , K.D. Carnes , I. Ben-Itzhak , P.Q. Wang

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D1.00070: Double- Ionization of Ar and Ne in Colors
Ali S. Alnaser , D. Comtois , A.T. Hasan , D.M. Villeneuve , J.-C. Kieffer , I.V. Litvinyuk

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D1.00071: Extremely short pulses in Maxwell-Duffing model
Utpal Roy , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

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D1.00072: Time-dependent dynamics of intense laser-induced above threshold Coulomb explosion
B.D. Esry , I. Ben-Itzhak

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D1.00073: Progress report on the applications of an ultrafast electron source
Shawn Hilbert , Brett Barwick , Adam Caprez , Cornerlis Uiterwaal , Herman Batelaan

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D1.00074: Fragmentation of H$_{2}^{+}$ molecules irradiated by intense 395 nm femtosecond laser pulses: a coincidence 3D momentum imaging study.
Jarlath McKenna , A. Max Sayler , P.Q. Wang , Bishwanath Gaire , Nora G. Johnson , Eli Parke , F. Anis , Jianjun Hua , B.D. Esry , Kevin D. Carnes , Itzik Ben-Itzhak

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D1.00075: Quantitative comparison between theory and experiment for dissociation of H$_{2}^+$ in ultrashort laser pulses
Fatima Anis , Pengqian Wang , A. Max Sayler , Bishwanath Gaire , Nora Johnson , Eli Parke , Jarlath Mckenna , Kevin Carnes , Itzik Ben-Itzhak , Brett Esry

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D1.00076: Numerical explorations of above threshold Coulomb explosion for H2+ in an intense laser pulse
Jianjun Hua , Brett Esry

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D1.00077: RYDBERG AND EXOTIC ATOMS AND MOLECULES


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D1.00078: A wavelet based time-frequency analysis of wave packet fractional revivals
Suranjana Ghosh , Jagannath Banerji

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D1.00079: Electric Dipole Echoes in Rydberg Atoms
Shuhei Yoshida , Carlos Reinhold , Joachim Burgdorfer , Wei Zhao , Jeffrey Mestayer , Jim Lancaster , F. Barry Dunning

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D1.00080: Ionizing Kicked Hydrogen with Homoclinic Tangles
Korana Burke , Kevin Mitchell

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D1.00081: A study of adiabatic population transfer for the production of heavy Rydberg systems
Jeffrey Philippson , Ralph Shiell

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D1.00082: Non-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing through Rydberg States in a MOT
Jason Day , Erik Brekke , Thad Walker

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D1.00083: Rydberg Ion Fine Structure Measurements with the RESIS Method
C.W. Fehrenbach , S.R. Lundeen

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D1.00084: Rydberg tagging time-of-flight imaging to study ultracold collisions
Jonathan Tallant , K. Richard Overstreet , Arne Schwettmann , James P. Shaffer

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D1.00085: Efficient broadband de-excitation of Rydberg atoms with half-cycle pulses
Kourosh Afrousheh , Andrew Speck

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D1.00086: Angular Studies of Xenon Rydberg Atom Ionization at Au(111) Surfaces
H.R. Dunham , D.D. Neufeld , J.C. Lancaster , S. Wethekam , F.B. Dunning

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D1.00087: Ionization of xenon Rydberg atoms at oxidized Si(100) surfaces
Dennis Neufeld , Hardin Dunham , Jim Lancaster , Barry Dunning , Stephan Wethekam

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D1.00088: Resonance states with unnatural parity in the (e$^{+}$-He$^{+}$) system
Z.-C. Yan , Y.K. Ho

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D1.00089: Diode pumped continuous wave Cs vapor laser with 10W output
Randall Knize , Boris Zhdanov

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D1.00090: COLLISIONS OF ATOMS WITH ATOMS, ANTIMATTER, MOLECULES, CLUSTERS, AND SURFACES


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D1.00091: Method to compute wave function evolution from microscopic to macroscopic distances
James Sternberg

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D1.00092: Resonance structure in the dipositronium molecule
Joseph Di Rienzi , Richard Drachman

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D1.00093: Near Threshold Positron Impact Ionization of Hydrogen
Krista Jansen , S.J. Ward , J. Shertzer , J.H. Macek

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D1.00094: Generalized polarizabilities of Ps negative ion
Anand Bhatia , Richard Drachman

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D1.00095: Electron and positron scattering experiments
James Sullivan , Adric Jones , Peter Caradonna , Andrew Manning , Terrance Sak , Stephen Buckman

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D1.00096: Comparisons of Differential Double Ionization of Ar by Positron and Electron Impact
O.G. de Lucio , J. Gavin , R.D. DuBois , A.C.F. Santos

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D1.00097: A Proposed Apparatus for Efficiently Trapping and Cooling Positrons.
Jason Engbrecht , Daniel Endean

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D1.00098: Inelastic Transitions in Slow Collisions of Anti-Hydrogen with Hydrogen Atoms
Robert Harrison , Predrag Krstic

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D1.00099: Positron scattering on highly excited antihydrogen atom in strong magnetic field
D. Vrinceanu , T. Pohl , H.R. Sadeghpour

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D1.00100: Cooling by Spontaneous Decay of Highly Excited Antihydrogen Atoms in Magnetic Traps
Thomas Pohl , Hossein R. Sadeghpour , Yugo Nagata , Yasunori Yamazaki

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D1.00101: First principles study of adsorption and dissociation of H$_2$, O$_2$, and CO on Pt$_4$ and Pt$_3$Co clusters
T. J. Dhilip Kumar , Chenggang Zhou , Balakrishnan Naduvalath , Robert C. Forrey , Hansong Cheng

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D1.00102: Resonant charge transfer in H$^-$ ions scattering off Si(100) surfaces
Boyan Obreshkov , Uwe Thumm

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D1.00103: ``Step-up" vs. ``Step-sown" scattering asymmetry in the charge transfer of H$^-$ on free-electron vicinal metallic surfaces
Boyan Obreshkov , Uwe Thumm

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D1.00104: Three-state Feshbach resonances in the presence of external fields
Christopher Hemming , Roman Krems

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D1.00105: Calculation of the dispersion interaction between two atoms
J.-Y. Zhang , J. Mitroy , M.W.J. Bromley

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D1.00106: Non-adiabatic coupling in cold collisions of spin-polarized metastable hydrogen atoms
Robert C. Forrey , Alex Dalgarno , Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz , Piotr Froelich

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D1.00107: H$_2$ dissociation due to collision with He
Robert C. Forrey , N. Balakrishnan , Teck-Ghee Lee , Phillip Stancil

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D1.00108: Close-coupling study of rotational energy transfer in H$_2$O collisions with He atoms
Benhui Yang , Phillip Stancil

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D1.00109: A Two-Atom Relaxation-Theory Approach to Understanding Non-Markovian Dynamics in Dense Atomic Gases
Josh W. Dunn , Chris H. Greene

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D1.00110: SURFACE PLASMONS


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D1.00111: Single-photon nonlinear optics with nano-scale surface plasmons
Darrick Chang , Anders Sorensen , Vladimir Gritsev , Eugene Demler , Mikhail Lukin

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D1.00112: Strong coupling of single optical emitters to nano-scale surface plasmons
Aryesh Mukherjee , Alexey Akimov , Alexander Zibrov , Darrick Chang , Anders Sorensen , Chun Yu , Hongkun Park , Philip Hemmer , Mikhail Lukin

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D1.00113: Quantum Electrodynamics of Surface Plasmons
J\'er\'emie Choquette , Peter Marzlin , Ren\'e Stock , Barry Sanders

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D1.00114: ATOM MOTION/MATTER WAVE INTERFEROMETRY


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D1.00115: Monte Carlo Simulation of Spontaneous Emission from Dressed States
B. Barrett , S. Beattie , A. Kumarakrishnan

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D1.00116: Electron Coherence Length Measurement Using Nanogratings
Ben McMorran , Alex Cronin

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D1.00117: Bose-Einstein condensates and their bright solitons in circular waveguides
Martin D. Kandes , Oscar O. Salazar , Michael W.J. Bromley , Ricardo Carretero-Gonz{\'a}lez , Brett D. Esry

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D1.00118: Sensitivity and accuracy studies of an atomic gravimeter
Julien Le Gou\"et

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D1.00119: Enabling Chip-Based Atom Interferometry 1: Long Coherence Time and Number Squeezing with $^{23}$Na BECs
C.A. Christensen , G.-B. Jo , Y. Shin , S. Will , T.A. Pasquini , M. Saba , W. Ketterle , D.E. Pritchard

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D1.00120: Enabling Chip-Based Atom Interferometry II: Working with Atom-Atom Interactions and Phase Fluctuations in Dense, Elongated Gases
C.A. Christensen , G.-B. Jo , J.-H. Choi , T.A. Pasquini , Y.R. Lee , W. Ketterle , D.E. Pritchard

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D1.00121: Effects of Light Scattering and Collisions on a Single State Atom Interferometer
S. Beattie , I. Chan , A. Kumarakrishnan

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D1.00122: Measurement of Gravitational Acceleration using a Single State Atom Interferometer
C. Mok , S. Beattie , I. Chan , A. Kumarakrishnan

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D1.00123: Quantum theory of atom lasers
Tobias Kramer , Mirta Rodriguez Pinilla

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D1.00124: Coherent Slowing of a Pulsed Supersonic Beam with an Atomic Paddle
Adam Libson , Edvardas Narevicius , Max Riedel , Christian Parthey , Isaac Chavez , Uzi Even , Mark Raizen

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D1.00125: Controlling atomic motion in optical billiards
J. L{\'e}pine , G. Painchaud-April , J. Poirier , L. J. Dub{\'e}

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D1.00126: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS


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D1.00127: Photoconductivity of Yttrium Praseodymium Gadolinium Oxalate Crystals
Soosy Kuryan , Rosalin Abraham , Jayakumari Isac

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D1.00128: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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D1.00129: Optical properties of vanadium doped ZnTe thin cermet films
Khairul Alam Khan , M. Sazzad Hossain , M. Rezaul Islam

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D1.00130: Magnetic Field Noise from High Permeability Magnetic Shields for Precision Measurements
S.-K. Lee , S.J. Smullin , T.W. Kornack , M.V. Romalis

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