Session J1: Thesis Prize Session

Chair: J. Shertzer, College of the Holy Cross
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod BC


Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

J1.00001: Real-time Manipulation of Entanglement between Remote Atomic Ensembles for a Scalable Quantum Network
Invited Speaker: James Chin-wen Chou

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:06PM - 2:42PM

J1.00002: Quantum Networking with Atomic Ensembles
Invited Speaker: Dzmitry Matsukevich

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

J1.00003: Experimental realization of BCS-BEC crossover physics with a Fermi gas of atoms
Invited Speaker: Cindy Regal

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:54PM

J1.00004: Quantum Information Processing in Artificial Molecules
Invited Speaker: Jacob Taylor

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:54PM - 4:30PM

J1.00005: High-temperature superfluidity in an ultracold Fermi gas
Invited Speaker: Martin Zwierlein

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Session J2: Focus Session: Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations and Other Numerical Simulations of Cold Gases

Chair: D. Blume, Washington State University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod D


Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

J2.00001: Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) Methods for strongly correlated Bose and Fermi Systems
Invited Speaker: Nandini Trivedi

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J2.00002: Variance minimization variational Monte Carlo method
Bo Gao , Imran Khan

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J2.00003: Thermodynamic properties of the three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model
Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone , Evgeny Kozik , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

J2.00004: 2D Self-Assembled Crystals with Polar Molecules
Invited Speaker: Guido Pupillo

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

J2.00005: A Parallel Time-Propagation Solver for the Non-Linear Schroedinger Equation.
Nicolai Nygaard , Tapio Simula , Barry I. Schneider

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

J2.00006: Two-component Fermi gases with unequal masses in a harmonic trap.
Javier von Stecher , Doerte Blume , Chris H. Greene

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Session J3: Focus Session: Electron-Atom Collisions

Chair: A. Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 201-203


Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

J3.00001: High-Precision Calculations for Electron-Impact Excitation and Ionization of Complex Atoms
Invited Speaker: Klaus Bartschat

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J3.00002: Correlated R-matrix theory of electron scattering: A coupled-cluster approach
Chiranjib Sur , Anil Pradhan , P. Sadayappan

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J3.00003: Hybrid Theory of Electron-Hydrogen Scattering
Anand Bhatia

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J3.00004: Electron-impact ionization of atomic ions in the B isonuclear sequence
Julian Berengut , Stuart Loch , Michael Pindzola , Connor Ballance , Don Griffin

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

J3.00005: Recent Progress in Electron-Atom Scattering
Invited Speaker: Julian Lower

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

J3.00006: Multi-Dimensional Momentum Images of Electron-Impact Induced Ionization of Atoms and Molecules
J. Ullrich , A. Dorn , M. Duerr , N. Haag , Ch. Dimopoulou

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

J3.00007: Out-of-plane ($e,2e$) experiments on an autoionizing resonance using 488 eV incident energy electrons.
B.A. deHarak , N.L.S. Martin

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

J3.00008: Electron Scattering From Laser Excited Ba and Yb Atoms
Peter Zetner , Jeff Hein

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Session J4: Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices and Double-Well Potentials

Chair: I. Danshita, National Institute of Standards and Technology
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 206


Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J4.00001: Quantum Noise Interferometry: Phase transitions and entanglement in cold atoms in optical lattices
Indubala Satija , Ana Maria Rey , Charles Clark

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J4.00002: Stability of two-component and spinor condensates in optical lattices
Zachary Dutton , Janne Ruostekoski

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J4.00003: Phase diagrams of the Bose-Fermi-Hubbard-Model: Analytical and numerical studies
Alexander Mering , Michael Fleischhauer

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J4.00004: Turning back time in the optical lattice: using the Loschmidt echo as a sensor
Fernando Cucchietti

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J4.00005: Thermally activated defects in a two-dimensional lattice of Bose-Einstein condensates
Volker Schweikhard , Shihkuang Tung , Eric Cornell

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J4.00006: Breakdown of superfluid flow in a moving lattice
Jongchul Mun , Patrick M. Medley , David A. Hucul , David M. Weld , David E. Pritchard , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J4.00007: Superfluidity of Feshbach resonant atoms in an optical lattice
Juha Javanainen , Tun Wang , Susanne Yelin

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J4.00008: Preparing Fermions in an Optical Lattice at Ultra-Low Temperature
J.R. Williams , R. Stites , J.H. Huckans , E.L. Hazlett , K.M. O'Hara

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

J4.00009: Correlated tunneling dynamics of atom pairs in double well potentials
Simon F\"olling , Patrick Cheinet , Stefan Trotzky , Artur Widera , Michael Feld , Torben M\"uller , Immanuel Bloch

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

J4.00010: Phase Coherence of Schr\"{o}dinger Cat Sates in Gaseous BECs
William Reinhardt

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

J4.00011: Exploring the phase diagram of a double-well optical lattice
N. Lundblad , P. Lee , B. Brown , J. Sebby-Strabley , J.V. Porto , I.B. Spielman , W.D. Philliips

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

J4.00012: Probing atomic state coherence with a double-well optical lattice
Philip Johnson , Jennifer Sebby-Strabley , Eite Tiesinga , Trey Porto , Carl Williams

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Session J5: Cavity QED and Quantum Control

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


Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J5.00001: Blue trapping and dispersive observation of single atoms.
T. Puppe , I. Schuster , A. Grothe , A. Kubanek , K. Murr , P.W.H. Pinkse , G. Rempe

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J5.00002: Deterministic Loading of Single Atoms in an Optical Cavity
Soo Kim , Kevin Fortier , Michael Gibbons , Michael Chapman

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J5.00003: An atom chip for studying interactions between atoms and metal surfaces
J.D. Carter , O. Cherry , J.D.D. Martin

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J5.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J5.00005: Nonlinear Optics of Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Cavity.
Kater Murch , Kevin Moore , Subhadeep Gupta , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J5.00006: Dipole potential in a cavity: Bistable or not?
Dominic Meiser

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J5.00007: Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy in a microcavity
Michele Marrocco

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J5.00008: Coherent Control of Molecular Ion Production in Cold Rb Vapor
M.L. Trachy , G. Veshapidze , M.H. Shah , H.U. Jang , B.D. DePaola

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

J5.00009: Circuit QED transducers for quantum electromechanical systems
Gerard Milburn , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Louise Kettle , Matthew Wooley

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

J5.00010: Synthesis of Arbitrary States of Large Atomic Spins by Quantum Control
Souma Chaudhury , Seth Merkel , Tobias Herr , Ivan Deutsch , Poul Jessen

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

J5.00011: Long-range interactions and many-body effects in a cold Rydberg gas
Robin C\^ot\'e , Jovica Stanojevic

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

J5.00012: Quantum electrodynamics of qubits
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Tomasz Sowinski

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Session J6: Short Pulse Interactions with Molecules

Chair: B. Esry, Kansas State University
TELUS Convention Centre - Olde Scotch Room


Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J6.00001: Intense field ionization of diatomic molecules in the tunneling region.
Zi Jian Long , Wing-Ki Liu

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J6.00002: Direct time-resolved observation of molecular dynamics induced by extreme- ultraviolet photoionization
Arvinder Sandhu , Etienne Gagnon , Ariel Paul , Margaret Murnane , Henry Kapteyn , Predrag Ranitovic , C. Lewis Cocke

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J6.00003: Electron Momentum Distributions from Strong-Field Ionization of Aligned Molecules
Daniel Comtois , Heidi Bandulet , Domagoj Pavicic , Moritz Meckel , Andr\'e Staudte , Dirk Zeidler , Reinhard D\"orner , Henri P\'epin , Jean-Claude Kieffer , David Villeneuve , Paul Corkum

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J6.00004: Mapping the rapid time evolution of impulsively aligned deuterium molecules using intense few-cycle infrared laser pulses.
Jarlath McKenna , Chris Calvert , Ian Williams , William Bryan , Elizabeth English , Joseph Wood , Roy Newell , Ricardo Torres , Edmond Turcu

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J6.00005: Energy and angular structure in momentum space images of electrons ionized from aligned O$_{2}$ and CO$_{2}$ molecules by short, intense laser pulses
Chakra Maharjan , Predrag Ranitovic , Irina Bocharova , Dipanwita Ray , Ben Gramkow , Igor Litvinyuk , Charles Cocke

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J6.00006: Few cycle ($<$10fs) intense laser-induced ionization and dissociation of simple diatomic molecules probed by coincidence 3D momentum imaging
A. Max Sayler , Pengqian Wang , Jarlath McKenna , Fatima Anis , Bishwanath Gaire , Nora G. Johnson , Eli Parke , Mat Leonard , Kevin D. Carnes , B.D. Esry , Itzik Ben-Itzhak

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J6.00007: Phase-Sensitive Coulomb Explosion of CO Prepared by a 2-Color Pump Field
Daniel Pinkham , Robert R. Jones

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J6.00008: Vibrational Quantum Beats and High Harmonic Generation in SF$_{6}$
Zachary B. Walters , Stefano Tonzani , Chris H. Greene

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

J6.00009: Rotation of H$_{2}^+$ driven by 10fs laser pulse
Fatima Anis , Brett Esry

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

J6.00010: Rotational wave packets probed by high harmonic generation
Brian K. McFarland , Markus Guehr , Joe P. Farrell , Philip H. Bucksbaum

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

J6.00011: High Harmonic Imaging of Conical Intersections
Markus Guehr , Brian K. McFarland , Joe P. Farrell , Philip H. Bucksbaum

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

J6.00012: Investigating Excited Electronic States of I$_{2}^{+}$ and I$_{2}^{2+}$ Produced by Strong Field Ionization Using Vibrational Wave Packets
Li Fang , George Gibson

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