Session H1: Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes, Clusters, and Aggregates

Chair: Y. Xu, University of Alberta
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod BC


Thursday, June 7, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

H1.00001: Spectroscopy of molecular clusters in He droplets
Invited Speaker: Andrey Vilesov

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

H1.00002: Interplay between rotational dynamics, quantum solvation and superfluid response in doped helium clusters
Invited Speaker: Nikolay Blinov

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

H1.00003: Spectroscopy of Hydrogen clusters : Non-rigidity of large parahydrogen clusters at low temperatures
Invited Speaker: Takamasa Momose

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:18PM - 12:54PM

H1.00004: Vibrational evidence for chiral recognition phenomena \textit{in vacuo}
Invited Speaker: Martin A. Suhm

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Session H2: Undergraduate Research Session

Chair: A. Landers, Auburn University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod D


Thursday, June 7, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

H2.00001: New Active Feedback Scheme for Minimization of Instrumental Asymmetries
Invited Speaker: Maya Fabrikant

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

H2.00002: Photodetachment Spectroscopy of Ce$^{-\ast }$
Invited Speaker: Corey Janczak

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

H2.00003: Determination of the Ps-He Momentum-transfer Cross-section Using Time Resolve Doppler Broadening
Invited Speaker: Anna Legard

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:18PM - 12:54PM

H2.00004: Trapping Single Krypton Atoms for Radioactive Background Measurements
Invited Speaker: Michael Mastroianni

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:54PM - 1:30PM

H2.00005: Isotopic effects in bond rearrangement caused by sudden ionization of ammonia and methane molecules
Invited Speaker: Eli Parke

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Session H3: Ultracold Atoms: Mott Insulators

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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Session H4: Two and Few-body Collisions of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules

Chair: R. Cote, University of Connecticut
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 206


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

H4.00001: A new method for calculation of Efimov resonances
Francoise Masnou-Seeuws , Juan Blandon , Viatcheslav Kokoouline

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

H4.00002: Signatures of Efimov's effect in ultracold gases
Thorsten Koehler , Mark Lee , Paul Julienne

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

H4.00003: Weakly bound tetra-atomic molecules: attaching neutral atoms to Efimov states
Yujun Wang , B.D. Esry

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

H4.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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

H4.00005: Trimer formation in ultracold gases of bosonic and fermionic molecules
Bout Marcelis , Dmitry Petrov , Servaas Kokkelmans , Gora Shlyapnikov

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

H4.00006: Ultracold four-body collisions of two-spin fermionic atoms
Jose P. D'Incao , Nirav P. Mehta , Seth T. Rittenhouse , Chris H. Greene

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

H4.00007: Ultracold Feshbach molecules: energy structure and scattering length
Cheng Chin

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

H4.00008: Effects of nonintegrability on stabilization of Feshbach molecules in atom waveguides
Vladimir Yurovsky

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

H4.00009: Calculation of the two-body scattering T-matrix in Configuration Space
George Rawitscher

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

H4.00010: A Measurement of the s-Wave Scattering Length in a $^7$Li Bose-Einstein Condensate
D. Dries , M. Junker , J. Hitchcock , C. Welford , Y.P. Chen , R.G. Hulet

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

H4.00011: Isotopic tuning of scattering lengths of ultracold Yb atoms
Paul Julienne , R. Ciurylo , M. Kitagawa , K. Enomoto , K. Kasa , Y. Takahashi

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

H4.00012: High Intensity 2-Photon Photoassociation Spectroscopy of Strontium
S.B. Nagel , Y.N. Martinez , P.G. Mickelson , T.C. Killian

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
12:54PM - 1:06PM

H4.00013: Three-body physics with multichannel two-body interactions
Nirav Mehta , Seth Rittenhouse , Jose D'Incao , Chris Greene

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Session H5: Decoherence, Entanglement, and Chaos

Chair: P. Turner, University of Calgary
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 205


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

H5.00001: Coherent control and entanglement in a decoherence-free subspace of two multi-level atoms
Martin Kiffner , J\"{o}rg Evers , Christoph H. Keitel

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

H5.00002: Neutral atoms with cavity-assisted interaction for robust long distant quantum communication
Peng Xue

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

H5.00003: Decoherence of the two-level atom in the Jaynes-Cummings model
Hoofar Daneshvar , Gordon W.F. Drake

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

H5.00004: Criteria for dynamically stable decoherence-free subspaces
R. Karasik , K.-P. Marzlin , B.C. Sanders , K.B. Whaley

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

H5.00005: Robust transmission of non-Gaussian entanglement over optical fibers
Asoka Biswas , Daniel A. Lidar

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

H5.00006: Decoherence-induced geometric phase in an open multilevel atomic system
Shubhrangshu Dasgupta , Daniel A. Lidar

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

H5.00007: Studying chaos, entanglement and decoherence in the quantum kicked top with cold atoms
Shohini Ghose , Rene Stock , Roshan Lal , Andrew Silberfarb

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

H5.00008: Chaos and Entanglement with Two Coupled Spins
Leigh Norris , Parin Sripakdeevong , Arjendu Pattanayak , Collin Trail , Ivan Deutsch , Shohini Ghose

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

H5.00009: Chaotic Escape of Particles from a Vase-Shaped Billiard
Jaison Novick , John Delos , Kevin Mitchell

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

H5.00010: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO R1.00096


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

H5.00011: Dynamically Invariant Entanglement in Particle Collisions
Nathan Harshman

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

H5.00012: Entanglement of mixed states in systems of n qubits
Renan Cabrera , William Baylis

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Session H6: Atomic Structure and Spectroscopy

Chair: J. Delos, College of William and Mary
TELUS Convention Centre - Olde Scotch Room


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

H6.00001: Spectroscopy of Atomic Systems under Plasma Environment
Amar Nath Sil , S. Fritzsche , P. K. Mukherjee

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

H6.00002: Relativistic coupled-cluster single-double method applied to alkali-metal atoms
Rupsi Pal , M.S. Safronova , W.R. Johnson , Andrei Derevianko , Sergey G. Porsev

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

H6.00003: Excitation energies, hyperfine constants, transition rates, and lifetimes of $5s^2nl$ states in In~I and Sn~II
U.I. Safronova , M.S. Safronova , M.G. Kozlov

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

H6.00004: Spectroscopy of $^1$S$_0 \leftrightarrow ^3$P$_0$ transition in In$^+$
William Trimble , Warren Nagourney

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

H6.00005: 2p$_{3/2}^{-1}$3x$^{-1}$-3x$^{-1}$3d$^{-1}$ X-Ray satellites in the L$\alpha_{1}$ spectra of 4d transition elements
Surendra Poonia

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

H6.00006: Relativistic nuclear recoil, electron correlation and QED effects in highly charged Ar ions
Z. Harman , R. Soria Orts , A. Lapierre , J.R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia , A.N. Artemyev , I.I. Tupitsyn , U.D. Jentschura , C.H. Keitel , H. Tawara , J. Ullrich , V.M. Shabaev , A.V. Volotka

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

H6.00007: Modeling and Spectroscopic Analysis of non-LTE Krypton Plasmas
Arati Dasgupta , R.W. Clark , Y.K. Chong , J. Davis

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

H6.00008: Absorption Lineshape Modeling of Neutral Xenon in a Magnetized Optogalvanic Cell.
Bailo Ngom , Tim Smith , Alec Gallimore

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

H6.00009: Fast-ion-beam laser-induced-fluorescence measurements of oscillator strengths in doubly ionized lanthanides
Ruohong Li , Richard A. Holt , S. David Rosner

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

H6.00010: DAVLL with Frequency Markers
Frank A. Narducci , Ethan R. Elliott , Christopher J. Lehman

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

H6.00011: Planetary multi-electron atoms as fully controled Wigner crystal clusters
Matt Kalinski

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

H6.00012: Monodromy and the Structure of the Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom in Near Perpendicular Electric and Magnetic Fields
Christopher Schleif , John Delos

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