Session J1: New Physics with Strongly Interacting Fermions

Chair: Ana Maria Rey, ITAMP, Harvard University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

J1.00001: Mixtures of Ultracold Fermions with Unequal Masses
Invited Speaker: Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

J1.00002: Exploring an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture of $^{6}$Li and $^{40}$K atoms
Invited Speaker: Rudolf Grimm

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

J1.00003: Small Mass- and Trap-Imbalanced Two-Component Fermi Gases
Invited Speaker: Doerte Blume

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

J1.00004: Measurements of the Paired Fraction in the BEC-BCS Crossover
Invited Speaker: Wenhui Li

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Session J2: Atomic Clocks and Searches for Variations in Fundamental Constants (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)

Chair: Eric Burt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kern Building - 112


Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

J2.00001: Variation of fundamental constants: theory
Invited Speaker: Victor Flambaum

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

J2.00002: Search for Temporal Variation of Fundamental Constants With Hg+ and Al+ Optical Clocks
Invited Speaker: Till Rosenband

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

J2.00003: Search for Temporal Variations in Alpha Using a Yb$^+$ Optical Frequency Standard
Invited Speaker: Ekkehard Peik

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

J2.00004: Search for Temporal Variations in Fundamental Constants Using Hyperfine Transitions in Primary Atomic Clocks
Invited Speaker: Sebastien Bize

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Session J3: Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules

Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
Keller Building - 104


Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

J3.00001: One-dimensional Rydberg gas in a Magneto-Electric Trap
Invited Speaker: Peter Schmelcher

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

J3.00002: High-gradient Magnetic Guide for Rydberg Atoms
R. Mhaskar , C. Hempel , M. Traxler , V. Vaidya , G. Raithel

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

J3.00003: Laser Spectroscopy of Rydberg Atoms in Strong Magnetic Fields
B. Knuffman , C. Hempel , R. Mhaskar , E. Paradis , M. Shah , G. Raithel

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

J3.00004: High-resolution studies of strongly magnetized, cold Rydberg atoms near the photo-ionization threshold
Mudessar Shah , Brenton Knuffman , Eric Paradis , Cornelius Hampel , Rahul Mhaskar , Georg Raithel

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

J3.00005: Coherent Population Transfer in Rydberg Atoms by Multiphoton Adiabatic Rapid Passage
Invited Speaker: Thomas Gallagher

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

J3.00006: One to five photon microwave ionization of Li Rydberg atoms
Joshua Gurian , Haruka Maeda , Thomas Gallagher

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

J3.00007: Multiphoton adiabatic population transfer in Rydberg atoms: Classical versus Quantum picture
Turker Topcu , Francis Robicheaux

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

J3.00008: Microwave Spectroscopy of High-L n=10 Rydberg Levels of Argon
Mark E. Hanni , Julie A. Keele , S.R. Lundeen , W.G. Sturrus

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Session J4: Dynamic and Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms

Chair: Dan Gauthier, Duke University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

J4.00001: Thermalization and its mechanism for generic quantum isolated systems
Maxim Olshanii , Vanja Dunjko , Marcos Rigol

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

J4.00002: Chaos Criterion in Bose-Hubbard Model
Amy Cassidy , Vanja Dunjko , Maxim Olshanii

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

J4.00003: Controlled transition to complete multiparticle quantum dynamics from classical field simulations of interacting bosons
Piotr Deuar

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

J4.00004: Resonances of a quanrum delta kicked accelerator
Vijayashankar Ramareddy , I. Talukdar , Gil Summy , G. Behinaein , P. Ahmadi

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

J4.00005: Quantum resonance ratchet using a delta kicked rotor
Vijayashankar Ramareddy , Itzhack Dana , Ishan Talukdar , Gil Summy

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

J4.00006: Two-body transients in coupled atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein Condentates
Eite Tiesinga , Pascal Naidon , Paul Julienne

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

J4.00007: Stochastic phenomena in parametrically driven magneto-optically trapped atomic system
Yonghee Kim , Myoung-Sun Heo , Wonho Jhe , Heung-Ryoul Noh

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

J4.00008: Pulsating Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice
Uttam Shrestha , Juha Javanainen

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

J4.00009: Microwave Controlled Transport and Collisions of Cs Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Jae Hoon Lee , Worawarong Rakreungdet , Enrique Montano , Brian Mischuck , Ivan Deutsch , Poul Jessen

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

J4.00010: Interaction-controlled transport of an ultracold Fermi gas
Robert Jordens , Niels Strohmaier , Yosuke Takasu , Kenneth Gunter , Michael Kohl , Henning Moritz , Tilman Esslinger

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

J4.00011: Damped motion of one-dimensional Bose gases in an optical lattice
Ippei Danshita , Charles W. Clark

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Session J5: Matter Wave Interferometry

Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

J5.00001: Influence of Spontaneous Emission on a Single-State Atom Interferometer
S. Beattie , B. Barrett , M. Weel , I. Chan , C. Mok , S.B. Cahn , A. Kumarakrishnan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

J5.00002: Decoherence Due to Light Scattering and Collisions on a Single State Atom Interferometer
S. Beattie , I. Chan , A. Kumarakrishnan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

J5.00003: Monte Carlo Wavefunction Simulation of a Matter Wave Interferometer
Brynle Barrett , Carson Mok , Scott Beattie , A. Kumarakrishnan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

J5.00004: Measuring Relative Atom Number Fluctuations in Coherently Split Quantum Degenerate Gases
Marcius H.T. Extavour , Jason McKeever , Lindsay J. LeBlanc , Dylan Jervis , Alan Stummer , Thorsten Schumm , Joseph H. Thywissen

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

J5.00005: Study the Effect of an Atom-Optics Kicked Rotor on a de Broglie Wave Atom Interferometer
Alexey Tonyushkin , Saijun Wu , Mara Prentiss

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

J5.00006: Selective Manipulation of Degenerate Interferometer Loops by an Atom-Optics Kicked Rotor
Alexey Tonyushkin , Mara Prentiss

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

J5.00007: Simultaneous conjugate large area atom interferometers for a precision photon recoil measurement
Sheng-wey Chiow , Sven Herrmann , Holger Mueller , Steven Chu

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

J5.00008: Compact gravity gradiometry with a Bose-Einstein condensate interferometer
K. Jeramy Hughes , Benjamin Deissler , John H.T. Burke , Cass Sackett

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

J5.00009: Bloch oscillations as a probe of the local gravitational field during optical lattice clock operation
Brandon Peden , Dominic Meiser , Marilu Chiofalo , Murray Holland

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

J5.00010: Cold Atom Cloud Evolution in Optical Tunnels
N. Chattrapiban , I.V. Arakelyan , S. Mitra , W.T. Hill, III

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

J5.00011: Conservation of momentum and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
Adam Caprez , Herman Batelaan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

J5.00012: Searching for Massive Photons with Ion Interferometry
Dallin Durfee , Brian Neyenhuis , Dan Christensen

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Session J6: Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) I

Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Kansas State University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

J6.00001: Evidence of H$_2^+$ dynamical alignment in short laser pulses
Fatima Anis , B.D. Esry

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

J6.00002: Numerical simulations of double optical gating for controlling attosecond pulse generation
Zenghu Chang

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

J6.00003: Controlled stopping of nuclear vibrational wave packets in $D_2^+$
Uwe Thumm , Thomas Niederhausen

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

J6.00004: Accurate retrieval of atomic and molecular structure from high-order harmonic spectra
Anh-Thu Le , Toru Morishita , Chii-Dong Lin

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

J6.00005: Effect of Nuclear Motion on Molecular High Order Harmonic Generation
Andre D. Bandrauk , Sczepan Chelkowski , Shinosuke Kawai , Huizhong Lu

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

J6.00006: Scaling of high harmonic generation efficiency with wavelength
Carlos Trallero-Herrero , Andrew Shiner , Nathaniel Kajumba , Heidi Christine Bandulet , Daniel Comtois , Francois L\'egar\'e , Jean-Claude Kieffer , Paul Corkum , David Villeneuve

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

J6.00007: Wavelength Scaling of High-Harmonic Yield: Threshold Phenomena and Bound State Symmetry Dependence
Anthony F. Starace , M.V. Frolov , N.L. Manakov

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

J6.00008: Molecular Recollision Interferometry in High Harmonic Generation
Xibin Zhou , Robynne Lock , Nick Wagner , Wen Li , Margaret Murnane , Henry Kapteyn

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

J6.00009: Intensity Dependent Interference Structures in High Harmonic Generation
Brian McFarland , Joseph Farrell , Philip Bucksbaum , Markus Guehr

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

J6.00010: HOMO-1 Contribution in High Harmonic Generation
Joseph Farrell , Brian McFarland , Markus Guehr , Philip Bucksbaum

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

J6.00011: EUV-Driven Attosecond Processes
Predrag Ranitovic , B. Gramkow , D. Ray , M. Magrakvelidze , I. Bocharova , S. De , H. Mashiko , I. Litvinyuk , C.L. Cocke , H. Kapteyn , M. Murnane , A. Lytle , E. Gagnon , A. Paul , A. Sandhu , G.G. Paulus , X.M. Tong , A. Alnaser

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

J6.00012: Output Coupling Techniques for Intracavity High-Harmonic Generation
Dylan Yost , Thomas Schibli , Jun Ye

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