Session K1: Recent Developments in Ultracold Spinor Systems

Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

K1.00001: Phases and phase transitions in a dipolar ferromagnetic spinor gas
Invited Speaker: Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

K1.00002: What we know and have yet to learn about spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Invited Speaker: Masahito Ueda

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

K1.00003: Spin Dynamics of Spin-1 Bose Gas.
Invited Speaker: Michael Chapman

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:48PM - 4:24PM

K1.00004: Spin dynamics of spin-1 and spin-2 Bose gases
Invited Speaker: Klaus Sengstock

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Session K2: Focus Session: Ultracold Dipolar Gases

Chair: Ed Eyler, University of Connecticut
Kern Building - 112


Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

K2.00001: Ultracold dense gas of heteronuclear deeply bound molecules
Invited Speaker: Silke Ospelkaus

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

K2.00002: Universal Dipolar Scattering
Christopher Ticknor

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

K2.00003: Fermionic stabilization and density-wave ground state of a polar condensate.
Omjyoti Dutta , Rina Kanamoto , Pierre Meystre

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

K2.00004: Role of exchange energy in a trapped dipolar Fermi gas
Takahiko Miyakawa , Takaaki Sogo , Han Pu

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

K2.00005: Expansion and Dipolar Collapse of a Quantum Ferrofluid
Invited Speaker: Axel Griesmaier

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

K2.00006: Ultra-cold polar molecules in an optical trap
Eric Hudson , Nathan Gilfoy , Stephan Falke , David DeMille

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

K2.00007: Single photon nonlinearities using arrays of cold polar molecules
Renuka Rajapakse , Timothy Bragdon , Ana Maria Rey , Susanne Yelin

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

K2.00008: Bound-bound Spectroscopy of Ultracold K40-Rb87 Molecules
Kang-Kuen Ni , Silke Ospelkaus , Avi Pe'er , Josh Zirbel , Brian Neyenhuis , Marcio Miranda , Svetlana Kotochigova , Paul Julienne , Jun Ye , Deborah Jin

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Session K3: Undergraduate Research Session

Chair: Eric Wells, Augustana College, Sioux Falls
Keller Building - 104


Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:00PM - 2:20PM

K3.00001: Precise measurement of the hyperfine splittings within the 6p$_{3/2}$ level of atomic indium using two-color diode laser spectroscopy
Invited Speaker: P.W. Hess

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:20PM - 2:40PM

K3.00002: Stabilized 1762 nm Laser for Barium Ion Qubit Readout via Adiabatic Passage
Invited Speaker: Joanna Salacka

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:40PM - 3:00PM

K3.00003: A Novel Short Extended Cavity Diode Laser for Red Wavelengths
Invited Speaker: Aaron Dunn

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:00PM - 3:20PM

K3.00004: Beam Production and Stabilization via Frequency Up-conversion in Rubidium Vapor
Invited Speaker: Justin T. Schultz

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:20PM - 3:40PM

K3.00005: Theoretical study of half-cycle pulse assisted ionization and recombination in Rydberg atoms
Invited Speaker: J. Rau

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Session K4: Experiments with Cold and Ultracold Atoms

Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

K4.00001: Atom-molecule oscillations in a Bose-Fermi mixture.
M.L. Olsen , J.D. Perreault , T.D. Cumby , D.S. Jin

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

K4.00002: Stable mixtures of $^6$Li fermions in the three lowest energy spin states
J.R. Williams , J.H. Huckans , R.W. Stites , E.L. Hazlett , K.M. O'Hara

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

K4.00003: Progress Towards a Quantum Gas Microscope
Jonathon Gillen , Waseem Bakr , Amy Peng , Simon Foelling , Markus Greiner

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

K4.00004: Progress Towards a Dual BEC of Na Rb.
Gustavo Telles , Matthew Gibbs , Andrew Seltzman , Chandra Raman

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

K4.00005: A Pumped Atom Laser
John Close , Nick Robins , Cristina Figl , Matthew Jeppesen , Graham Dennis

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

K4.00006: Properties of Magnetic Sublevel Coherences for Precision Measurements
Iain Chan , A. Kumarakrishnan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

K4.00007: Studying decoherence of cold atoms in optical lattices through 2D pump-probe spectroscopy
Samansa Maneshi , Chao Zhuang , XiaoXian Liu , Luciano Cruz , Aephraim Steinberg

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

K4.00008: Using Spin Echo Techniques to Measure and Null Background Magnetic Fields in Cold Atom Experiments
Aaron Smith

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

K4.00009: Faraday Spectroscopy of Atoms Confined in a Dark Optical Trap
Matthew Terraciano , Spencer Olson , Mark Bashkansky , Fredrik Fatemi

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

K4.00010: Imaging velocity selective resonances in a magnetic field
Fredrik Fatemi , Matthew Terraciano , Mark Bashkansky , Zachary Dutton

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

K4.00011: Study of size-dependent interaction in driven cold atomic system
Myoung-Sun Heo , Yonghee Kim , Wonho Jhe , Heung-Ryoul Noh

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

K4.00012: ATTA-3: The Next-Generation Instrument for $^{81}$Kr-Dating
Yun Ding , Z.-T. Lu , K. Bailey , P. Mueller , T.P. O'Connor , R.W. Dunford , L. Young , A.M. Davis , N.C. Sturchio , W. Jiang , S.-M. Hu

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Session K5: Entanglement and Decoherence

Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

K5.00001: Generation of Entanglement Outside of the Light Cone
James Franson

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

K5.00002: The memory loophole
Daniel Shanahan

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

K5.00003: Entanglement versus nonlocality in 3-qubit states
Shohini Ghose , Neil Sinclair

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

K5.00004: Entanglement Mechanisms in One-Dimensional Potential Scattering
Nathan Harshman , Pavneet Singh

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

K5.00005: Bell inequality violation with two remote atomic qubits
Dzmitry Matsukevich , Peter Maunz , David Moehring , Steven Olmschenk , Chris Monroe

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

K5.00006: Robust creation of arbitrary-sized Dicke states of trapped ions by global addressing
Ian Linington , Nikolay Vitanov

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

K5.00007: Compact Source of Entangled Images and Squeezed Light Using Four-Wave Mixing in Rubidium Vapor
Raphael Pooser , Alberto Marino , Vincent Boyer , Paul Lett

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

K5.00008: Incoherently generated coherence and immunity to decoherence
Barry Sanders , Raisa Karasik , Karl-Peter Marzlin , K. Birgitta Whaley

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

K5.00009: Multi-particle decoherence free subspaces in extended systems
Raisa Karasik , Karl-Peter Marzlin , Barry C. Sanders , K. Birgitta Whaley

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

K5.00010: Light-Atoms-Mirror Entanglement in an Optical Cavity
Claudiu Genes , David Vitali , Paolo Tombesi

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Session K6: Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) II

Chair: Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

K6.00001: Charge asymmetric breakup of diatomic molecular ions in an intense ultrashort laser field
B. Gaire , J. McKenna , A.M. Sayler , Nora G. Johnson , E. Parke , K.D. Carnes , B.D. Esry , I. Ben-Itzhak

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

K6.00002: Controlling electron-ion-recollision dynamics with attosecond precision.
Fran\c{c}ois L\'egar\'e

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

K6.00003: Phase-matching of attosecond XUV supercontinuum
Steve Gilbertson , Hiroki Mashiko , Chengquan Li , Sabih Khan , Mahendra Shakya , Eric Moon , Zenghu Chang

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

K6.00004: Strong field impulsive alignment in the presence of high temperatures and large centrifugal distortion
Douglas Broege , Ryan Coffee , Philip Bucksbaum

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

K6.00005: Stimulated predissociation of CO$^{2+}$ using intense ultrashort laser pulses
J. McKenna , A.M. Sayler , B. Gaire , Nora G. Johnson , K.D. Carnes , B.D. Esry , I. Ben-Itzhak

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

K6.00006: Extracting the polarizability anisotropy from transient alignment of HBr
Daniel Pinkham , Thibault Vogt , Robert Jones

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

K6.00007: Attosecond Pulse Carrier-Envelope Phase Effects: Roles of Frequency, Intensity and an Additional IR Pulse
Evgeny A. Pronin , Liang-You Peng , Anthony F. Starace

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

K6.00008: Theory of x-ray diffraction from laser-aligned molecules
Phay Ho , Robin Santra

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

K6.00009: Isotopic Pulse Length Scaling of $\rm H_2^+$ Dissociation in an Intense Laser Field
Jianjun Hua , Brett Esry

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

K6.00010: Fragmenting multi-electron atoms: from single photons to attosecond pulses
Agapi Emmanouilidou

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

K6.00011: Attosecond dissociation of the HT molecule from the He united-atom limit
Charles W. Clark , Alan K. Thompson , Michael A. Coplan , John W. Cooper , Patrick Hughes , Robert E. Vest

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