Session Q1: Strongly Correlated Fermions

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


Friday, June 8, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

Q1.00001: Thermodynamic Measurements in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
Invited Speaker: John Thomas

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:06PM - 2:42PM

Q1.00002: Universality and novel phases in the BCS-BEC crossover
Invited Speaker: Wilhelm Zwerger

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

Q1.00003: Pairing of Fermions with Unequal Spin Populations
Invited Speaker: Randall G. Hulet

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:18PM - 3:54PM

Q1.00004: An atomic Fermi gas near a p-wave Feshbach resonance
Invited Speaker: Deborah Jin

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

Q1.00005: Pairing of Strongly Interacting Fermions without Superfluidity
Christian Schunck , Yong-Il Shin , Andre Schirotzek , Martin Zwierlein , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Friday, June 8, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

Q1.00006: Observation of Phase Separation in a Strongly-Interacting Imbalanced Fermi Gas
Andre Schirotzek , Yong-Il Shin , Martin Zwierlein , Christian Schunck , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Session Q2: Focus Session: The Ultra Intense Laser Frontier

Chair: L. DiMauro, Ohio State University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod C


Friday, June 8, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

Q2.00001: High Energy Density Physics with the Texas Petawatt Laser and a Look Toward Exawatt Lasers
Invited Speaker: Todd Ditmire

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

Q2.00002: Classical Ensemble Studies of Double Ionization at 390 nm
S.L. Haan , Z.S. Smith

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

Q2.00003: Intense field ionization of methane, butane, and octane: transition from molecular to atomic response
Sasikumar Palaniyappan , Robert Mitchell , Robert Sauer , Barry Walker

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

Q2.00004: Quantum Interference Effects In Radiation From Atomic Ionization In Ultrahigh Fields
Isaac Ghebregziabher , B.C. Walker

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

Q2.00005: First light from the Diocles laser: Relativistic laser-plasmas and beams
Invited Speaker: Donald Umstadter

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

Q2.00006: Measurements of ultraintense ultrafast laser pulse electron acceleration through analysis of radioactive products
D.R. Schultz , C.R. Vane , J.R. Beene , S. Reed , A. Maksimchuk , V. Yanovsky , V. Chvykov , G. Kalintchenko , S. Banerjee , D. Umstadter

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

Q2.00007: Photoelectron Angular Distributions from an Ultrastrong Field Atom Interaction
Anthony DiChiara , Isaac Ghebregziabher , Robert Sauer , Barry Walker

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

Q2.00008: Elongation of plasma channel for electron acceleration
Liming Chen

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

Q2.00009: High harmonics and sub-attosecond pulses in the relativistic regime
Teodora Baeva , Sergey Gordienko , Alexander Pukhov

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Session Q3: Focus Session: Electron-Molecule Collisions

Chair: T. Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod B


Friday, June 8, 2007
1:30PM - 2:06PM

Q3.00001: Low Energy Electron Molecule Collisions
Invited Speaker: Stephen Buckman

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

Q3.00002: Theoretical and Experimental Study of Out-of-Plane Cross Sections for Electron Impact Ionization of He and H2
Ola Al-Hagan , D.H. Madison , Christian Kaiser , Andrew Murray

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

Q3.00003: Elastic Differential Cross sections for Electron Scattering from Polyatomic Molecules -- An Accurate, but Novel Application of the Relative Flow Technique, Using a Moveable Aperture Source of Gas Atoms
Kyle Keane , Shayne Cairns , Colin Campbell , Murtadha A. Khakoo

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

Q3.00004: Electron Impact Induced VUV Emissions from Nitrous Oxide
C.P. Malone , P.V. Johnson , J.W. McConkey , J.M. Ajello , I. Kanik

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:42PM - 3:18PM

Q3.00005: Intrinsically Polyatomic Phenomena in Electron-Molecule Scattering
Invited Speaker: C. William McCurdy

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

Q3.00006: Resonances and threshold effects in low-energy electron collisions with methyl halides
Ilya Fabrikant , Gordon Gallup

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

Q3.00007: The Role of Nuclear Motion in the Photo-Double Ionization of Molecular Hydrogen
Thomas Rescigno , Daniel Horner , Wim Vanroose , Fernando Martin , C. William McCurdy

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

Q3.00008: The role of nuclear dynamics in molecular ionization processes produced by synchrotron radiation and ultrashort pulses
Fernando Martin

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Session Q4: Laser Cooling and Trapping

Chair: C. Monroe, University of Michigan
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod A1-A2


Friday, June 8, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

Q4.00001: A diode laser system for sideband cooling of Sr$^+$
Kenneth Brown , Jaroslaw Labaziewicz , Philip Richerme , Isaac Chuang

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Friday, June 8, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

Q4.00002: Sideband cooling while preserving the nuclear spin state of alkaline-earth-like atoms
Iris Reichenbach , Ivan Deutsch

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Friday, June 8, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

Q4.00003: Cooling in a Bistable Optical Cavity
Ilya Averbukh , Mark Vilensky , Yehiam Prior

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

Q4.00004: Prospects for cavity-assisted laser cooling of OH
Benjamin Lev , Brian Sawyer , Josh Dunn , Chris Greene , Jun Ye

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

Q4.00005: Optical Stark deceleration of cold molecules
P.F. Barker

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

Q4.00006: Loading Dynamics and Characteristics of a Far Off-Resonance Optical Dipole Trap
Y.N. Martinez , P.G. Mickelson , S.B. Nagel , T.C. Killian

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

Q4.00007: Realization of a Magneto-Optical Trap for Cadmium Atoms
Mark Acton , Kathy-Anne Brickman , Ming-Shien Chang , Dzimitry Matsukevich , Paul Haljan , Vanderlei Bagnato , Christopher Monroe

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

Q4.00008: Measurement of Population Dynamics in STIRAP
M.A. Gearba , M.L. Trachy , G. Veshapidze , M.H. Shah , H.A. Camp , H.U. Jang , B.D. DePaola

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

Q4.00009: Zeeman Slower for Fermionic Potassium Atoms with Natural Abundance Sample
Ye-ryoung Lee , Peter Zarth , Martin Weitz , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

Q4.00010: Design and performance of an optimized dual-species Zeeman slower
Ryan Olf , G. Edward Marti , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

Q4.00011: Velocity-selective two-photon resonances in a cold atomic sample with large one-photon blue detunings
Matthew Terraciano , Spencer Olson , Mark Bashkansky , Zachary Dutton , Fredrik Fatemi

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

Q4.00012: Subnatural linewidth spectroscopy using a suppression and recovery of trapped Cs atoms
Chin-Chun Tsai , Ray-Yuan Chang , Min-Da Tsai , Wei-Chia Fang , Yi-Chih Lee

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Session Q5: Quantum Cryptography and Communication

Chair: G. Weihs, University of Waterloo
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod A3-A4


Friday, June 8, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

Q5.00001: Experimental techniques to enhance the performance of quantum key distribution systems
Yi Zhao , Bing Qi , Xiongfeng Ma , Hoi-Kwong Lo

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Friday, June 8, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

Q5.00002: Quantum key distribution with entangled sources
Xiongfeng Ma , Chi-Hang Fred Fung , Hoi-Kwong Lo

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Friday, June 8, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

Q5.00003: Eavesdropping of quantum communication from a non-inertial frame.
Kamil Bradler

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

Q5.00004: Towards Hybrid Quantum Communication Networks
Wolfgang Tittel , Olivier Alibart , Pascal Baldi , Nicolas Gisin , Matthaeus Halder , Ivan Marcikic , Hugues De Riedmatten , Sebastien Tanzilli , Hugo Zbinden

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

Q5.00005: Experimental Raman adiabatic transfer of optical states in rubidium
J\"urgen Appel , Eden Figueroa , Frank Vewinger , Karl-Peter Marzlin , Alexander Lvovsky

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

Q5.00006: Hybrid Entanglement for Optical Quantum Networks
F\'elix Bussi\`eres , Nicolas Godbout , Wolfgang Tittel

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

Q5.00007: Multiplexed Memory-Insensitive Quantum Repeaters
Odell Collins , Stewart Jenkins , T.A. Brian Kennedy , Alex Kuzmich

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

Q5.00008: Towards Quantum Memory
Wolfgang Tittel , Mikael Afzelius , Nicolas Gisin , Sara Hastings-Simon , Matthias Staudt

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

Q5.00009: Remote Preparation of an Atomic Quantum Memory
M. Weber , W. Rosenfeld , J. Volz , S. Berner , H. Weinfurter

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

Q5.00010: Dual Species Matter Qubit Entangled with Light
S.-Y. Lan , S.D. Jenkins , T. Chaneliere , D.N. Matsukevich , C.J. Campbell , R. Zhao , T.A.B. Kennedy , A. Kuzmich

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

Q5.00011: Quantum interference of two photons emitted by two trapped Yb ions
Kelly C. Younge , David L. Moehring , Steven Olmschenk , Dzmitry Matsukevich , Peter Maunz , Martin J. Madsen , Luming Duan , Chris Monroe

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

Q5.00012: Quantum Interference of Electromagnetic Fields from Remote Quantum Memories
R. Zhao , T. Chaneliere , D.N. Matsukevich , S.D. Jenkins , S.-Y. Lan , T.A.B. Kennedy , A. Kuzmich

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Session Q6: Quantum States of Light

Chair: A. Lvovsky, University of Calgary
TELUS Convention Centre - Olde Scotch Room


Friday, June 8, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

Q6.00001: Deterministic Single Photons via Conditional Quantum Evolution
C.J. Campbell , D.N. Matsukevich , T. Chaneliere , S.D. Jenkins , S.-Y. Lan , T.A.B. Kennedy , A. Kuzmich

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Friday, June 8, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

Q6.00002: Polarization Squeezing in Atomic Rubidium Vapour
Geoff Campbell , Chris Healey , Jurgen Appel , Karl-Peter Marzlin , Alex Lvovsky

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Friday, June 8, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

Q6.00003: A General Linear-Optical Quantum State Generator
Dmitry Uskov , Nickolas VanMeter , Pavel Lougovski , Jonathan Dowling

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

Q6.00004: Semiconductor Waveguides for Correlated Photon Generation
Daniel Rogers , Joshua Bienfang , Julius Goldhar , Christopher Richardson , Carl Williams , Charles Clark

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

Q6.00005: Optical entanglement by frequency upconversion
Mark Saffman , Oo-Kaw Lim

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

Q6.00006: Electronic Noise in Optical homodyne Tomography
Dallas Hoffman , Jurgen Appel , Eden Figueroa , Alex Lvovsky

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

Q6.00007: Quantum states for Heisenberg limited interferometry
Hermann Uys , Pierre Meystre

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Friday, June 8, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

Q6.00008: Multipartite squeezed states as SU(1, 1) coherent states
Zahra Shaterzadeh Yazdi , Peter S. Turner , Barry C. Sanders

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

Q6.00009: Quantum analysis of a Nonlinear Beam splitter: third-order nonlinearity.
Hari Prakash , Devendra Kumar Mishra

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Friday, June 8, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

Q6.00010: Detecting hidden differences via permutation symmetries
Peter Turner , Rob Adamson , Morgan Mitchell , Aephraim Steinberg

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