Session P1: Neutral Atom Entanglement (Co-Sponsored by GQI)

Chair: Rene Stock, University of Toronto
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

P1.00001: Controlled Interaction Between Pairs of Atoms in a Double-Well Optical Lattice
Invited Speaker: Trey Porto

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

P1.00002: Single atoms in optical tweezers for quantum computing
Invited Speaker: Antoine Browaeys

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

P1.00003: Quantum Information Processing with Alkaline-Earth-Like Atoms
Invited Speaker: Ivan Deutsch

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

P1.00004: Controlling interaction of ultracold atoms in an optical superlattice
Invited Speaker: Luming Duan

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Session P2: Controlling Electron and Nuclear Spins

Chair: Lilian Childress, Bates College
Kern Building - 112


Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

P2.00001: Manipulating single electron spins and coherence in quantum dots
Invited Speaker: David Awschalom

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

P2.00002: Coupled Electronic and Nuclear Spin Quantum Registers in Diamond
Invited Speaker: Gurudev Dutt

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

P2.00003: High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution
Invited Speaker: Paola Cappellaro

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

P2.00004: Controlling electron and nuclear spins in double quantum dots
Invited Speaker: Jason Petta

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Session P3: Focus Session: Atomic Polarization and Dispersion

Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP, Harvard University
Keller Building - 104


Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

P3.00001: Calculation of the dispersion interaction between two atoms
Invited Speaker: Jim Mitroy

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

P3.00002: Polarizability of Mg$^{+}$ from fine structure measurements of high-L Rydberg states of magnesium.
Erica L. Snow , Stephen R. Lundeen

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

P3.00003: Relativistic many-body calculation of energies, lifetimes, hyperfine constants, and polarizabilities in $^{7}$Li
W.R. Johnson , U.I. Safronova , A. Derevianko , M.S. Safronova

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

P3.00004: Single ion measurement of the branching ratios of the 6P$_{3/2}$ decay in BaII
N. Kurz , M.R. Dietrich , G. Shu , J.S. Salacka , R. Bowler , B.B. Blinov

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

P3.00005: Polarizabilities, Atomic Clocks, and Magic Wavelengths
Invited Speaker: Marianna Safronova

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

P3.00006: Precision Measurement of the Rb D2 Transition Linewidth at Ultralow Temperature
Brad Schultz , George Noble , He Ming , William van Wijngaarden

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

P3.00007: Lifetime measurements of the rubidium 5D states
Dong Sheng , Adrian Perez Galvan , Luis Orozco

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

P3.00008: Theoretical study of the K, Rb, and Fr lifetimes
Eugeniya Iskrenova Tchoukova , Marianna Safronova

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Session P4: Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

P4.00001: Generation of effective magnetic fields in Raman-dressed states
I.B. Spielman , Y.-J. Lin , W.D. Phillips , J.V. Porto

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

P4.00002: Quantum quench in a spinor BEC
Sabrina Leslie , Jennie Guzman , Mukund Vengalattore , Christopher Smallwood , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

P4.00003: Weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a disordered optical potential
T.A. Corcovilos , D. Dries , J. Hitchcock , M. Junker , Y.P. Chen , R.G. Hulet

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

P4.00004: Linewidth broadening in a $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate
J.H.T. Burke , B. Deissler , K.J. Hughes , C.A. Sackett

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

P4.00005: Bose-Einstein condensate inside a Bragg-reflecting atom cavity
Rui Zhang , Rachel Sapiro , Natalya Morrow , Rahul Mhaskar , Georg Raithel

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

P4.00006: The a.c. and d.c. Josephson effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Jeff Steinhauer , Shahar Levy , Elias Lahoud , Itay Shomroni

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

P4.00007: Mean-field Stationary State of a Bose Gas at a Feshbach Resonance
Andrew Carmichael , Juha Javanainen

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

P4.00008: The nonlinear enhancement of fractal structure in the escape dynamics of Bose condensates
Kevin Mitchell , Boaz Ilan

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

P4.00009: Bose Condensates with Small $s$-wave Scattering Lengths: Effect of Dipolar Interaction
Yong Chen , D. Dries , J. Hitchcock , R.G. Hulet

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

P4.00010: Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark-State Polaritons
Michael Fleischhauer , Johannes Otterbach , Razmik Unanyan

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

P4.00011: Slow Collisions of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Bo Sun , Michael S. Pindzola , John A. Ludlow

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

P4.00012: Cross-Molecular Coupling in Combined Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonances
Matt Mackie , Jake Kesselman

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Session P5: Coherent Control/Slow and Stopped Light

Chair: Marin Pichler, Goucher College
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

P5.00001: Population transfer between two quantum states by piecewise chirping of femtosecond pulses
Sergey Zhdanovich , Evgeny Shapiro , Moshe Shapiro , John Hepburn , Valery Milner

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

P5.00002: Robust control by two chirped pulse trains in the presence of decoherence
Svetlana Malinovskaya

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

P5.00003: Quantum state control of a Raman-coupled spinor BEC
K.C. Wright , L.S. Leslie , N.P. Bigelow

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

P5.00004: Strong Field Coherent Control of Atomic Population Transfer
Stephen Clow , Uvo Holscher , Carlos Trallero , Thomas Weinacht

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

P5.00005: Orientation of ``asymmetric-top'' water molecules with shaped terahertz fields
Catherine Herne , Philip Bucksbaum

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

P5.00006: Continuous Measurement Quantum State Reconstruction in an Almost Decoherence-Free Protocol
Carlos Riofrio , Seth Merkel , Ivan Deutsch

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

P5.00007: Optimal control of light pulse storage and retrieval
Irina Novikova , Nathaniel Phillips , Alexey Gorshkov

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

P5.00008: Stored light optimization and optical depth
Mason Klein , Yanhong Xiao , Rita Kalra , Michael Hohensee , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

P5.00009: Image Storage in Hot Vapors
L. Zhao , T. Wang , Y. Xiao , S.F. Yelin

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

P5.00010: Observation of Refractive Index Enhancement with Vanishing Absorption.
Nicholas Proite , Brett Unks , Deniz Yavuz

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

P5.00011: Demostration of Double Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a Hot Atomic Vapor
Andrew MacRae , Geoff Campbell , Alexander Lvovsky

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

P5.00012: Dynamical Evolution in the Propagation of Light in a Four-Level Medium
Frank A. Narducci , Jon P. Davis

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:24PM - 1:36PM

P5.00013: Observation of Raman self-focusing in an alkali-metal vapor cell
Brett Unks , Nicholas Proite , Jonathan Green , Deniz Yavuz

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Session P6: Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas

Chair: Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

P6.00001: Van der Waals interaction in the cold Rydberg gas
Jianing Han , Thomas Gallagher

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

P6.00002: Transform-limited Rydberg-Rydberg Collisions in a Thermal Atomic Beam
M.R. Kutteruf , R.R. Jones

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

P6.00003: Electric field effects on cold Rydberg atom pair excitation
Arne Schwettmann , James P. Shaffer , Valter A. Nascimento , Lucas L. Caliri , Luis G. Marcassa

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

P6.00004: Long-Range Wells in Rydberg-Rydberg Potential Curves
Nolan Samboy , Jovica Stanojevic , Robin C\^ot\'e

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

P6.00005: Long Range, Cold Cs Rydberg Atom-Rydberg Atom Molecules
K. Richard Overstreet , Arne Schwettmann , Jonathan Tallant , James P. Shaffer

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

P6.00006: Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Cold Cs Rydberg Gas
Jonathan Tallant , K. Richard Overstreet , Arne Schwettmann , James P. Shaffer

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

P6.00007: Rydberg Atom Population Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas
Robert Fletcher , Xianli Zhang , Steven Rolston

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

P6.00008: Using projection imaging to study ultracold plasmas
Xianli Zhang , Robert Fletcher , Steven Rolston

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

P6.00009: Highly excited state Rydberg recombination and consequences for ultracold neutral plasmas
Hossein Sadeghpour , Thomas Pohl , Daniel Vrinceanu

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

P6.00010: Adiabatic Cooling and Electron-Ion Collisions during Self-Similar Expansion in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Jose Castro , Hong Gao , Thomas Killian

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

P6.00011: Rydberg atom interactions in high density samples
Kelly Younge , Aaron Reinhard , Thomas Pohl , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

P6.00012: Many-Body Ionization in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Edward Shuman , Paul Tanner , Jianing Han , Tom Gallagher

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