Session B9: Phase Transitions, Dynamics, and Excitations

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Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Alberto Pimpinelli, Université Blaise Pascal
Baltimore Convention Center - 301


Monday, March 13, 2006
11:15AM - 11:27AM

B9.00001: Competing periodicities in fractionally filled quasi-1D bands
P.C. Snijders , S. Rogge , H.H. Weitering

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Monday, March 13, 2006
11:27AM - 11:39AM

B9.00002: Order-disorder phase transitions: a DFT - (Wang-Landau) MC study
Mira Todorova , Mikael Borg , Catherine Stampfl , Matthias Scheffler

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Monday, March 13, 2006
11:39AM - 11:51AM

B9.00003: Bose Einstein condensation of magnons in mesoscopic ferromagnets.
L.H. Bennett , E. Della Torre , R.E. Watson

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Monday, March 13, 2006
11:51AM - 12:03PM

B9.00004: Bose-Einstein Condensation of Ni spin degrees of freedom observed from susceptibility measurements at high magnetic field in NiCl$_{2}$-4SC(NH$_2$)$_2$
Catalin Martin , Kenneth Purcell , Timothy Murphy , Eric Palm , Stan Tozer , Vivien Zapf , Alex Lacerda , Armando Paduan-Filho

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Monday, March 13, 2006
12:03PM - 12:15PM

B9.00005: Spin Density Wave Suppression in Thin Films of Cr.
Daniel Queen , Zoe Boekelheide , David Cooke , Frances Hellman

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Monday, March 13, 2006
12:15PM - 12:27PM

B9.00006: Phase transitions in metal-oxide particulate-surface interactions: insights through ab initio study
Daniel Freedman , Tomas Arias

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Monday, March 13, 2006
12:27PM - 12:39PM

B9.00007: Optical Measurements of Grain Boundary Melting
Erik Thomson , John Wettlaufer , Larry Wilen

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Monday, March 13, 2006
12:39PM - 12:51PM

B9.00008: Photoelectron Emission Microscopy at the Manganese L-edge of Thin La$_{1-x}$ Sr$_{x}$ Mn O$_{3}$ Films through the Phase Transition
M.A. DeLeon , T. Tyson , C. Dubourdieu , A. Scholl , A. Doran

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Monday, March 13, 2006
12:51PM - 1:03PM

B9.00009: Thermodynamic Investigation of n-Hexane and Cyclohexane on MgO (100) Surfaces
Peter N. Yaron , John Z. Larese

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Monday, March 13, 2006
1:03PM - 1:15PM

B9.00010: Complex Conductance Measurements of Ultra-thin MoGe films near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Lukas Urban , Michael Callahan , Ali Yazdani

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Monday, March 13, 2006
1:15PM - 1:27PM

B9.00011: Crystallization behaviors of $n$-nonadecane in confined space: observation of metastable phase induced by surface freezing
Dujin Wang , Baoquan Xie , Haifeng Shi , Xia Dong , Ying Zhao , Charles C. Han , Duanfu Xu

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Monday, March 13, 2006
1:27PM - 1:39PM

B9.00012: Ordering and Dynamics of CN$^{-}$/Cu(001) Surfaces
Erkan Ciftlikli , Ian Shuttleworth , Alexei Ermakov , Jane Hinch

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Monday, March 13, 2006
1:39PM - 1:51PM

B9.00013: Theoretical treatment of non-vibrationally-relaxed electron transfer in organic solar cells
Kuo Kan Liang , Chih-Kai Lin , Huan-Cheng Chang , Michitoshi Hayashi , Sheng Hsien Lin

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Monday, March 13, 2006
1:51PM - 2:03PM

B9.00014: Investigating chemicurrent production from hyperthermal-energy ion impacts
S.A. Moody , M.P. Ray , C.E. Sosolik

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