Session W2: Focus Session: Slowing and Stopping Light

Chair: D. Tokaryk, University of New Brunswick
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod D


Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:00AM - 8:36AM

W2.00001: Towards single photon nonlinear optics with confined photons and atoms
Invited Speaker: Mikhail Lukin

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:36AM - 9:12AM

W2.00002: Observation of Quantum Destructive Interference in Inelastic Two-Wave Mixing.
Invited Speaker: L. Deng

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

W2.00003: Towards storage of squeezed light by electromagnetically induced transparency
J\"{u}rgen Appel , Eden Figueroa , Frank Vewinger , Dmitry Korystov , Georg G\"{u}nter , Alexander Lvovsky

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

W2.00004: Slow and stored light in paraffin-coated Rb vapor cells
Mason Klein , Michael Hohensee , Yanhong Xiao , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

W2.00005: Slow and Stored light optimization procedure.
Irina Novikova , Alexey V. Gorshkov , David F. Phillips , Anders S. Sorensen , Mikhail D. Lukin , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

W2.00006: Stored light optimization and optical depth
Mason Klein , Yanhong Xiao , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

W2.00007: Electromagnetically Induced Transparency with Broadband Laser Pulses
Deniz Yavuz

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

W2.00008: Slow photons as charged quasi-particles, and photonic Aharonov-Bohm effect
Karl-Peter Marzlin , Juergen Appel , Alexander Lvovsky

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
10:24AM - 10:36AM

W2.00009: Phase Dynamics in Electro-magnetically Induced Transparency
Frank A. Narducci , Jon P. Davis

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Session W4: Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chair: J. Bohn, University of Colorado
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod A1-A2


Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

W4.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

W4.00002: Evolution of Spin Textures in a Spinor Bose Einstein Condensate
Jennie Guzman , Mukund Vengalattore , Sabrina Leslie , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

W4.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

W4.00004: Soliton-soliton interaction in F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Takahiko Miyakawa , Hiroyuki Abe , Yuko Fukuyo

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

W4.00005: Observation of phase-fluctuating one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates
Nicolaas van Druten , Aaldert van Amerongen , Jan-Joris van Es , Philipp Wicke

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

W4.00006: Critical behavior of a trapped interacting Bose gas
Stephan Ritter , Tobias Donner , Thomas Bourdel , Ferdinand Brennecke , Anton \"Ottl , Michael K\"ohl , Tilman Esslinger

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

W4.00007: Observation of Faraday Waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Peter Engels , Collin Atherton , Mark Hoefer

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

W4.00008: Chaotic escape dynamics of ultracold and Bose-condensed atoms
Kevin Mitchell , Daniel A. Steck

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

W4.00009: Modeling the Expansion of Bose--Einstein Condensate Mixtures in the Thomas--Fermi Limit
Mark Edwards , Laura Halmo , Charles Holcombe

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

W4.00010: A Bose-Einstein Condensate Level
Satyan Bhongale , Eddy Timmermans

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

W4.00011: Calculation of $g_2$ for a Finite Temperature Gas
Alice Bezett , Emese Toth , Blair Blakie

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

W4.00012: Radial and angular rotons in trapped dipolar gases
Shai Ronen , Daniele Bortolotti , John Bohn

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Session W5: Quantum Measurement and Quantum Information

Chair: D. Uskov, Louisiana State University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod A3-A4


Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

W5.00001: Measuring an unknown phase with quantum-limited precision using nonlinear beamsplitters
Yuping Huang , Michael Moore

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

W5.00002: Interaction- and measurement-free quantum information processing with single-atom and/or single-photon qubits
Michael Moore , Yuping Huang

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

W5.00003: Adaptive Quantum State Detection through Repetitive Mapping
David Hume , Till Rosenband , David Wineland , Jim Bergquist

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

W5.00004: Atom interferometry, microscopy, complementarity, and the perfect lens
Barry Sanders , Karl-Peter Marzlin , Peter Knight

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

W5.00005: Distinguishability of a Tripartite Unextendible Product Basis using Local Operations and Classical Communication
Michael Durocher , Barry C. Sanders , Jonathan Walgate

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

W5.00006: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO J5.00012


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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

W5.00007: Three Undistinguished Quantum Radiators in Quantified Cavity Field
Nicolae Enaki , Tudor Rosca

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

W5.00008: Fundamental physics issues of multilevel logic in developing a parallel processor.
Anirban Bandyopadhyay , Kazushi Miki

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

W5.00009: Spherical Geometry of Two Qubit Unitary Operators.
Dmitry Uskov , Ravi Rau

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

W5.00010: The Spekkens Toy Model Revisited
Michael Skotiniotis , Aidan Roy , Barry C. Sanders

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

W5.00011: De Broglie waves as a manifestation of clock desynchronization
William Baylis

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Session W6: Optical Diagnostics and Characterization

Chair: F. Robicheaux, Auburn University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod BC


Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

W6.00001: Optical Absorption in Artificial Atoms
Yiming Mi , Suichi Iwata

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

W6.00002: Energy relaxation and dephasing in CARS
Svetlana Malinovskaya

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

W6.00003: Continuous Bremsstrahlung in Trojan atoms and molecules
Matt Kalinski

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

W6.00004: \textit{Escherichia coli} identification and strain discrimination using nanosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Steven Rehse , Jonathan Diedrich , Sunil Palchaudhuri

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

W6.00005: Recombination fluorescence in ultracold plasmas
Scott Bergeson , Francis Robicheaux

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

W6.00006: Ion Temperature and Expansion Velocity Measurements Through Fluorescence Imaging in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Jose Castro , Hong Gao , Priya Gupta , Sampad Laha , Clayton Simien , Thomas Killian

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Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

W6.00007: Trace Detection of Metastable He$_2$ Molecules in Superfluid Helium
W.G. Rellergert , S.B. Cahn , A. Garvan , J.C. Hanson , J.A. Nikkel , D.N. McKinsey

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