Session C1: 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters

Chair: George Basbas, American Physical Society
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

C1.00001: Physical Review Letters, DAMOP, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Invited Speaker: Daniel Kleppner

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

C1.00002: 50 Years of PRL: Physical Review Letters or Prestige and Recognition in Letter-Format
Invited Speaker: Deniz van Heijnsbergen

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Session C2: Focus Session: Vortices and Solitons

Chair: Zachary Dutton, BBN Technologies
Kern Building - 112


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

C2.00001: Soliton formation during the cooling, merging and splitting of BECs
Invited Speaker: Peter Engels

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

C2.00002: Spontaneous vortices in Bose-Einstein condensate formation: comparison of experiment and theory
Tyler Neely , Chad Weiler , David Scherer , Ashton Bradley , Matthew Davis , Brian P. Anderson

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

C2.00003: Thermal melting of two dimensional finite vortex lattice
Leslie Baksmaty , Uzi Landman , Han Pu

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

C2.00004: Inducing vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate using light beams with orbital angular momentum
Waseem Bakr , Jonathon Gillen , Amy Peng , Johannes Brachmann , Markus Greiner

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

C2.00005: Vortices in Rotating Optical Lattices
Invited Speaker: Murray Holland

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

C2.00006: Vortex lattices of bosons in deep rotating lattices
Daniel Goldbaum , Erich Mueller

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

C2.00007: Generation of complex spin textures in a Raman-coupled spinor BEC
K.C. Wright , L.S. Leslie , N.P. Bigelow

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

C2.00008: Engineering of Quantum Entangled Dark Solitons on One-Dimensional Optical Lattices
R.V. Mishmash , I. Danshita , C. W. Clark , L.D. Carr

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:24PM - 4:36PM

C2.00009: Density engineering of an oscillating soliton/vortex ring in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Shahar Levy , Itay Shomroni , Elias Lahoud , Jeff Steinhauer

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Session C3: Ion and Electron Collisions

Chair: Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt
Keller Building - 104


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

C3.00001: Experiments with Reaction Microscopes in ion storage rings - first results and prospects
Invited Speaker: Daniel Fischer

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

C3.00002: Polarization and Angular Correlation of X-Rays Emitted in Relativistic Ion-Atom Collisions
Invited Speaker: Thomas Stoehlker

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

C3.00003: Contemporary Methods and New Phenomena in Atomic Collisions
Invited Speaker: Teck-Ghee Lee

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:48PM - 4:24PM

C3.00004: Correlated Electronic Dynamics in Ion-Atom Collisions
Invited Speaker: Matthew Foster

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Session C4: Ultracold Molecules

Chair: Phil Gould, University of Connecticut
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

C4.00001: A quantum defect theory of near-threshold molecular Feshbach resonance states
Paul Julienne , Cheng Chin , Eite Tiesinga

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

C4.00002: Energy structure of weakly bound molecules near Feshbach resonances
Cheng Chin , Paul Julienne , Eite Tiesinga

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

C4.00003: Quantum dynamics of F + HCl and F + DCl reactions at ultralow energies
Balakrishnan Naduvalath , Goulven Qu{\'e}m{\'e}ner

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

C4.00004: Weakly bound molecules. Analysis by the Lu-Fano method coupled to the LeRoy-Bernstein model.
Laurence Pruvost , Haikel Jelassi , Bruno Viaris de Lesegno

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

C4.00005: Vibrational energy transfer in ultracold molecule-molecule collisions
Goulven Qu{\'e}m{\'e}ner , Balakrishnan Naduvalath , Roman Krems

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

C4.00006: Vibrationally dependent interactions of cold molecules
Svetlana Kotochigova

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

C4.00007: Electric field control of chemical reactions
Timur Tscherbul , Roman Krems

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

C4.00008: Interactions between Dipolar Molecules and Rubidium
L Paul Parazzoli , Noah Fitch , Daniel Lobser , Heather Lewandowski

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

C4.00009: Trapping of Stark-decelerated neutral molecules
Steven Hoekstra , J.J. Gilijamse , S.Y.T. van de Meerakker , G. Meijer

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

C4.00010: Collision experiments utilizing trapped neutral OH molecules
Brian Sawyer , Benjamin Stuhl , Mark Yeo , Dajun Wang , Benjamin Lev , Jun Ye

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

C4.00011: Toward trapping cold molecules produced via ``kinematic'' cooling
Jeffrey J. Kay , Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker , Kevin E. Strecker , David W. Chandler

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

C4.00012: Kinematic cooling of molecules in a magneto-optical trap
Ken Takase , David W. Chandler , Kevin E. Strecker

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Session C5: Fundamental Symmetries (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)

Chair: Protik Majumder, Williams College
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

C5.00001: Progress Towards a New Measurement of the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of $^{199}$Hg
T.H. Loftus , M.D. Swallows , B.R. Heckel , E.N. Fortson , W.C. Griffith , M.V. Romalis

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

C5.00002: Recent Results from the PbO Electron EDM Experiment
Paul Hamilton , Sarah Bickman , Yong Jiang , Hunter Smith , Amar Vutha , David DeMille

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

C5.00003: Construction of a low-T$_{c}$ SQUID-based liquid $^{129}$Xe NMR probe for search for a permanent atomic EDM
Seung-Kyun Lee , M.V. Romalis

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

C5.00004: Status of the Radon EDM Experiment
Eric Tardiff , Timothy Chupp , Wolfgang Lorenzon , Sarah Nuss-Warren , John Behr , Matthew Pearson , Kerim Gulyuz , Richard Lefferts , Norbert Pietralla , Georgi Rainovski , Jerry Sell , Gene Sprouse

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

C5.00005: Prospects for using Gd$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ ferrite ceramics in searches for the electron permanent electric dipole moment and violation of local Lorentz invariance
Alexander Sushkov , Stephen Eckel , Steve Lamoreaux

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

C5.00006: Search for the electron's electric dipole moment with a cold molecular beam of ThO
Amar C. Vutha , O. Keith Baker , Wesley C. Campbell , David DeMille , John M. Doyle , Gerald Gabrielse , Yulia V. Gurevich , Maarten A.H.M. Jansen

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

C5.00007: On the possibility of an eEDM experiment in ThO
Edmund Meyer , John Bohn

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

C5.00008: Search for long-range anomalous spin dependent forces using a K-$^{3}$He co-magnetometer
Georgios Vasilakis , Justin M. Brown , Thomas W. Kornack , Michael V. Romalis

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

C5.00009: Bounds on New Spin Dependent Forces Between Neutrons Using a $^3$He / $^{129}$Xe Zeeman Maser
Alex Glenday , Claire Cramer , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

C5.00010: Measurement of the Beta-Neutrino Correlation of $^{21}$Na Using Shakeoff Electrons
P. Vetter , J.R. Abo-Shaeer , S.J. Freedman , R. Maruyama

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

C5.00011: Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Nonconservation in Diatomic Molecules
David Rahmlow , Dennis Murphree , Sidney Cahn , David Demille , Edward Deveney , Richard Paolino , Misha Kozlov

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

C5.00012: Development of the CI + all-order method for atomic calculations
Marianna Safronova , Mikhail Kozlov , Walter Johnson

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Session C6: Quantum Computation

Chair: Junsang Kim, Duke University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

C6.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

C6.00002: Design of a many qubit quantum computer by ensemble encoding in Ho atoms
Mark Saffman , Klaus Molmer

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

C6.00003: Robust manipulation of atomic qubits using composite pulses
Thomas Henage , Erich Urban , Todd Johnson , Larry Isenhower , Thad Walker , Mark Saffman

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

C6.00004: Fast Quantum Gates Using Chirped Pulses
Vladimir Malinovsky

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

C6.00005: Rapid measurement of ions for one-way quantum-computing architectures
Rene Stock , Daniel F.V. James

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

C6.00006: Quantum computation schemes based on polar molecules
Elena Kuznetsova , Robin Cote , Kate Kirby , Susanne Yelin

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

C6.00007: Scalable Quantum Information Processing Based on Two Ultracold Atomic Species in Optical Lattices with Single Site Addressability
Kathy-Anne Brickman , Arjun Sharma , Scott Waitukaitis , Daniel Rivas , Nathan Gemelke , Cheng Chin

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

C6.00008: Experiments with single site addressable 3D optical lattice.
Xiao Li , Karl D. Nelson , David S. Weiss

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

C6.00009: Ytterbium Ion Qubits for Quantum Information Processing
Steven Olmschenk , Dzmitry Matsukevich , Peter Maunz , David Moehring , Kelly Younge , Chris Monroe

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

C6.00010: Preparation and detection of a $^{137}$Ba$^{+}$ hyperfine qubit
M.R. Dietrich , R. Bowler , N. Kurz , V. Mirgon , J. Pirtle , J.S. Salacka , G. Shu , B.B. Blinov

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

C6.00011: Four-electron quantum dot molecule in a magnetic field
Shalva Tsiklauri , Roman Kezerashvili

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

C6.00012: Geometric phases and Bloch sphere constructions for SU(N), with a complete description of SU(4)
Dmitry Uskov , Ravi Rau

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