Session D1: Induced Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, University of California, Riverside
Colorado Convention Center - Four Seasons 2-3


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D1.00001: Induced Superconductivity in Nanowires and Nanotubes
Invited Speaker: Leo Kouwenhoven

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D1.00002: Andreev reflection in graphene
Invited Speaker: Carlo Beenakker

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D1.00003: Superconducting Nanotube Dots
Invited Speaker: Christian Sch\"onenberger

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D1.00004: Josephson junctions with tuneable single wall carbon nanotubes as barriers
Invited Speaker: P.E. Lindelof

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:30PM

D1.00005: Gate-controlled superconductivity in diffusive multiwalled carbon nanotube
Invited Speaker: Pertti Hakonen

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Session D2: Ion Traps for Scalable Quantum Computation

Sponsoring Units: GQI
Chair: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College
Colorado Convention Center - Four Seasons 4


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D2.00001: Architectural Design Issues for Reliable Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Invited Speaker: Isaac Chuang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D2.00002: Quantum information processing and quantum-limited metrology using trapped ions at NIST.
Invited Speaker: David Wineland

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D2.00003: Ion Trap Quantum Networks
Invited Speaker: Christopher Monroe

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D2.00004: Scalable Designs for Planar Ion Trap Arrays
Invited Speaker: R.E. Slusher

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:30PM

D2.00005: Quantum Simulations in Ion Traps
Invited Speaker: Dana Berkeland

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Session D3: DMP Prize Symposium

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 2A-3A


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D3.00001: Organic-based Magnets - New Materials for New Physics
Invited Speaker: Joel S. Miller

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D3.00002: Predictable and New Physics and Potential for Applications of Organic-based Magnets
Invited Speaker: Arthur J. Epstein

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D3.00003: A Brief History of the Harris Criterion
Invited Speaker: A. Brooks Harris

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D3.00004: Opportunities in Nanomagnetism
Invited Speaker: Samuel D. Bader

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Session D4: Polymer Crystallization: 50 years of Chain Folding

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Buck Crist, Northwestern University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 2B-3B


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D4.00001: Fifty (Plus) Years of Polymer Nano-Science (Art)
Invited Speaker: Phillip Geil

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D4.00002: The Morphology of Crystallizable Polymers: Past and Present.
Invited Speaker: Freddy Khoury

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D4.00003: Insights provided by the build-up, structure and morphology of polymer single crystals
Invited Speaker: Bernard Lotz

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D4.00004: Laws controlling crystallization and melting in bulk polymers
Invited Speaker: Gert Strobl

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:30PM

D4.00005: Growth kinetics and morphology of polymer crystals
Invited Speaker: Akihiko Toda

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Session D5: Pake Prize Symposium: Magnetic Storage and Applications

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 1A-1B


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D5.00001: Seventy Years of Magnetic Disk Drive Technology.
Invited Speaker: Mark H. Kryder

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D5.00002: New Developments in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media
Invited Speaker: Gerardo Bertero

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D5.00003: New Developments in MRAM
Invited Speaker: Saied Tehrani

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D5.00004: High Anisotropy Magnetic Recording Media
Invited Speaker: James Wittig

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:30PM

D5.00005: Automotive Applications of Physics and Materials Research: Permanent Magnets, Thermoelectrics, and Hydrogen Storage
Invited Speaker: Gregory Meisner

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Session D6: Computational Challenges in Describing Mechanical Phenomena at the Nanoscale

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley
Colorado Convention Center - 207


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D6.00001: Energy Transfer and Resonance Enhancement at the Nanoscale.
Invited Speaker: Alex Greaney

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D6.00002: Interfacial proximity effects on nanostructure thermal transport
Invited Speaker: Jennifer Lukes

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D6.00003: Heat flow at solid-liquid interfaces: confrontation between experiment and simulation
Invited Speaker: David Cahill

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D6.00004: First-principles simulations of failure mechanisms, mechanical strength and electromechanical response
Invited Speaker: J. Bernholc

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:30PM

D6.00005: Lattice thermal transport through atomically defined systems in a quantum mechanical description.
Invited Speaker: Natalio Mingo

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Session D7: Signatures of Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Steven Simon, Lucent Technologies
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 4A-4B


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D7.00001: Non-Abelian quantum Hall states of fermions and bosons
Invited Speaker: Nicholas Read

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D7.00002: Edge states and tunneling of non-Abelian quasiparticles in the nu=5/2 quantum Hall state and p+ip superconductors
Invited Speaker: Chetan Nayak

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D7.00003: Current noise and AC conductivity as probes of non-abelian quasi-particles
Invited Speaker: Eytan Grosfeld

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:54PM

D7.00004: Toplogical Quantum Compiling
Invited Speaker: Layla Hormozi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:30PM

D7.00005: Detecting fractional statistics with anyonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Invited Speaker: Dima Feldman

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Session D8: Superconductivity: STM of Cuprates

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 1C


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D8.00001: Tunneling Spectroscopy on $c$-axis Y$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ Thin Films: Evidence for Multiband Superconductivity
J.H. Ngai , W.A. Atkinson , J.Y.T. Wei

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D8.00002: Direct evidence for predominantly phonon-mediated pairing in high-temperature superconductors
Guo-meng Zhao

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D8.00003: Inelastic tunneling spectroscopic imaging study of electron-lattice interactions in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta }$.
Kazuhiro Fujita , J. Lee , K. McElroy , J. Slezak , M. Wang , Y. Aiura , H. Bando , M. Ishikado , T. Masui , J. -X. Zhu , A. Balatsky , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , J. C. Davis

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D8.00004: Atomic Scale Investigation of the Effects of Pb doping in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CuO$_{6+x}$
W. D. Wise , Kamalesh Chatterjee , M. C. Boyer , Ming Yi , Takeshi Kondo , E. W. Hudson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D8.00005: Spectroscopic imaging STM study of Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2-x}$Ln$_{x}$CuO$_{6+\delta }$
Jhinhwan Lee , K. Fujita , K. McElroy , Jinho Lee , J.W. Alldredge , M. Wang , S. Illani , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , J.C. Davis

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D8.00006: $d^2I/dV^2$-STS measurements of isotope effect on the electron-lattice interaction(ELI) energy and the gap energy in Bi-2212.
Jinho Lee , K. Fujita , M. Wang , K. McElroy , J. Slezak , J. -X. Zhu , A. V. Balatsky , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , J. C. Davis

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D8.00007: Local pairing and the origin of pseudogaps in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$Ca$_{2}$CuO$_{8+\delta }$ probed with high-resolution STM measurements
Kenjiro K. Gomes , Abhay Pasupathy , Aakash Pushp , Shimpei Ono , Yoichi Ando , Ali Yazdani

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D8.00008: Spatially Inhomogeneous Collapse of Superconducting Gaps on the Nanoscale: Connection to Macroscopic Measurements on Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$
Ali Yazdani , Abhay Pasupathy , Kenjiro Gomes , Aakash Pushp , Shimpei Ono , Yoichi Ando

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D8.00009: Atomic-Position Tracking and Spectroscopy of Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$ across T$_{c}$
Abhay Pasupathy , Kenjiro Gomes , Aakash Pushp , Genda Gu , Shimpei Ono , Yoichi Ando , Ali Yazdani

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D8.00010: Real Space Mapping of Electronic States in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2-y}$La$_{y}$CuO$_{6}$ as a function of Temperature.
Aakash Pushp , Abhay Pasupathy , Kenjiro K. Gomes , Shimpei Ono , Yoichi Ando , Ali Yazdani

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D8.00011: Superconducting Scanning Tunneling Microscope -- Josephson effect and High-T$_{C}$ superconducting cuprate
Hikari Kimura , Robert Dynes , Shimpei Ono , Yoichi Ando

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D8.00012: STM Spectroscopy of Electron Doped Pr$_{1-x}$LaCe$_{x}$CuO$_{4-\delta }$
Francis Niestemski , Shankar Kunwar , Vidya Madhavan

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D8.00013: Atomic Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Electron-Doped Pr$_{1-x}$LaCe$_{x}$CuO$_{4-\delta }$
Shankar Kunwar , Francis Niestemski , Vidya Madhavan

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D8.00014: Tunneling spectroscopy of e-doped cuprates
Lei Shan , Yan Huang , Yong-Lei Wang , Shi-Liang Li , Jun Zhao , Peng-Cheng Dai , Hai-Hu Wen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D8.00015: Competing Orders: Origin of the Non-Universal Low-Energy Pseudogap Phenomena in Cuprate Superconductors
Ching-Tzu Chen , A. D. Beyer , N.-C. Yeh

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Session D9: Superconductivity: Charge Order and Inhomogeneity

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Steve Kivelson, Stanford University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 1D


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D9.00001: What does charge order have to do with the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity?
Steven Kivelson , Eduardo Fradkin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D9.00002: How optimal inhomogeneity produces high temperature superconductivity
Eduardo Fradkin , Steven Kivelson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D9.00003: Thermodynamic properties of inhomogeneous superconductors near their transition temperature
Srinivas Raghu , Reza Jamei , Steven Kivelson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D9.00004: Global phase diagram of the checkerboard Hubbard model
Hong Yao , Wei-Feng Tsai , Steven Kivelson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D9.00005: Superconductivity in zigzag CuO chains
Erez Berg , Steve Kivelson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D9.00006: Stripes near a Quantum Critical Point
Erica W. Carlson , Daoxin Yao , David K. Campbell

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D9.00007: s-Wave Superconductivity Phase Diagram for the Two Dimensional Inhomogeneous Attractive Hubbard Model
Karan Aryanpour , Thereza C. Paiva , Warren E. Pickett , Richard T. Scalettar

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D9.00008: Competition between charge order and superconductivity in La$_{7/8}$Ba$_{1/8}$CuO$_{4}$
Jungho Kim , A. Kageda , G.D. Gu , C.S. Nelson , T. Gog , D. Casa , Young-June Kim

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D9.00009: On the dimensionality of spin and charge modulations in 1/8 doped lanthanum cuprates
Boris Fine

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D9.00010: Fluctuating Cu-O-Cu Bond model of high temperature superconductivity in cuprates
D.M. Newns , C.C. Tsuei

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D9.00011: Pair Binding in Small Hubbard Clusters
W.-F. Tsai , H. Yao , S. Kivelson , A. Lauchli

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D9.00012: Searching for orbital currents in the pseudo-gap state of $\mathrm{La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4}}$
G.J. MacDougall , G.M. Luke , A.A. Aczel , J. Rodriguez , Y.J. Uemura , J.P. Carlo , T. Ito , P.L. Russo , S. Wakimoto

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D9.00013: The effect of inhomogeneous pairing amplitude on superfluid stiffness in a $d$-wave superconductor
Ming Cheng , Wu-Pei Su

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D9.00014: The Ground State of the Pseudogap in Cuprates
T. Valla , A. V. Fedorov , Jinho Lee , J. C. Davis , G. D. Gu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D9.00015: The effects of local inhomogeneities on the phonon modulated DOS in Bi2212
Steven Johnston , Thomas Devereaux

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Session D10: Theory and Simulations of Systems with Disorder

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Vadim Oganesyan, Yale University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 1E


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D10.00001: Percolation transition and dissipation in quantum Ising magnets
Jose Hoyos , Thomas Vojta

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D10.00002: Nature of triplet excitations in the diluted 2D Heisenberg model
Ling Wang , Anders Sandvik

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D10.00003: Monte Carlo Study of Entanglement Scaling in Random S=1/2 Heisenberg Chains
Huan Tran , Nicholas Bonesteel

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D10.00004: Quantum Monte Carlo Study of a Magnetic-Field-Driven 2D Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Kwangmoo Kim , David Stroud

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D10.00005: On the role of inhomogeneities for correlated d-wave superconductors.
Rastko Sknepnek , Jun Liu , Joerg Schmalian

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D10.00006: The geometrically-averaged density of states as a measure of localization
Rachel Wortis , Yun Song , William Atkinson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D10.00007: Mott and Band Insulator Transitions in the Binary Alloy Hubbard Model
Andrew Baldwin , Richard Scalettar , Norman Paris

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D10.00008: Quantum critical behaviour of the cluster glass phase
Matthew Case , Vladimir Dobrosavljevic

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D10.00009: Local defect in a magnet with long-range interactions
Thomas Vojta , Jose Hoyos

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D10.00010: ``Exact'' algorithm for random-bond Ising models in 2D
Yen Lee Loh , Erica W. Carlson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D10.00011: Quenched disorder and structure of short-range spin correlations
Igor Zaliznyak

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D10.00012: Simulation on depinning of a magnetic domain wall based on Heisenberg spin model
Katsuyoshi Matsushita , Xiao Hu

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Session D11: Focus Session: Correlated Electron Superlattices

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 1F


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D11.00001: A tight-binding LDA+DMFT study of manganite superlattices
Claude Ederer , Chungwei Lin , Andrew Millis

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D11.00002: A Realistic Model Calculation on Manganite Superlattice
Chungwei Lin , Claude Ederer , Andrew Millis

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D11.00003: Two-Dimensional Spin-Polarized Electron Gas at the Perovskite Manganite Interface : SrMnO$_3$/LaMnO$_3$
Birabar Nanda , Sashi Satpathy

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D11.00004: First-principles study of LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ thin films
Kristopher Andersen , C. Stephen Hellberg

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D11.00005: Theory of band alignment at the LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ interface
Jaekwang Lee , Alex Demkov

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 4:06PM

D11.00006: Correlation driven charge order at LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ and LaTiO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ Interfaces
Invited Speaker: Rossitza Pentcheva

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D11.00007: Origin of the charge carriers at LaAlO$_{3}$-on-SrTiO$_{3 }$ hetero-interfaces; possibility of intrinsic doping
Gertjan Koster , Wolter Siemons , Hideki Yamamoto , Walter Harrison , Gerald Lucovsky , Theodore Geballe , Dave Blank , Malcolm Beasley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D11.00008: Kondo effect and ferromagnetic ordering at the $n$-type SrTiO$_3$ - LaAlO$_3$ conducting interface
Alexander Brinkman , Mark Huijben , Maarten van Zalk , Jeroen Huijben , Wilfred van der Wiel , Guus Rijnders , Dave Blank , Hans Hilgenkamp

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D11.00009: Optical Conductivity of LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ Superlattices
C.L.S. Kantner , M. Huijben , J. Seidel , M. Warusawithana , D.G. Schlom , R. Ramesh , J. Orenstein

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D11.00010: Properties of epitaxial LaMnO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ interfaces.
Hans M. Christen , Dae Ho Kim , Ho Nyung Lee , Maria Varela , Leon Petit , Thomas Schulthess

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D11.00011: Interface effect on the positive magnetoresistence in a heterostructure composed of two perovskite oxides
Kui-juan Jin , Hui-bin Lu , Qing-li Zhou , Guo-zhen Yang , Meng He , Kun Zhao

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D11.00012: Band structure engineering of LaMnO3:SrTiO3 superlattices at the molecular level
Xiaofang Zhai , Chandra Mohapatra , Anand Bhattacharya , Amish Shah , Bin Jiang , Jianguo Wen , Jian-Min Zuo , James Eckstein

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D11.00013: Potential profiling of the nanometer-scale charge-depletion layer in $n$-ZnO/$p$-NiO junction using photoemission spectroscopy
Yukiaki Ishida , Hiromichi Ohta , Masahiro Hirano , Atsushi Fujimori , Hideo Hosono

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Session D12: Focus Session: Spin Dynamics and Magnetism in Quantum Dots

Sponsoring Units: GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 3C


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D12.00001: Trion spectroscopy and electrical control of a Single Mn Atom in a Quantum Dot
J. Fern\'andez-Rossier

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D12.00002: Tailoring Magnetism in Quantum Dots
Igor Zutic , Ramin Abolfath , Pawel Hawrylak

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D12.00003: The influence of quantum confinement on magnetism in quantum dots.
Ramin Abolfath , Igor Zutic , Pawel Hawrylak

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D12.00004: Theory of phonon-induced spin relaxation in coupled lateral quantum dots
Invited Speaker: Jaroslav Fabian

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D12.00005: Control of electron spin and orbital resonance in quantum dots through spin-orbit interactions
Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D12.00006: Electron Spin Decoherence via Optical Phonons in Quantum Dots
Yuriy Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D12.00007: Towards Electrical Spin Injection into a Single InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot
C. H. Li , G. Kioseoglou , A. T. Hanbicki , O. M. J. van 't Erve , B. T. Jonker

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D12.00008: Quantum Point Contacts as Spin Injectors and Detectors for Studying Rasha Spin Precession in Semiconductor Quantum Wires
Philippe Debray , Ivan Shorubalko , Hongqi Xu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D12.00009: Spin Dynamics of InAs Quantum Dots with Uniform Height.
T.A. Kennedy , J. Whitaker , A.S. Bracker , D. Gammon , S.E. Economou , T.L. Reinecke

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D12.00010: Gating a ferromagnetic semiconductor
A. Bove , F. Altomare , N. Kundtz , A.M. Chang , Y.J. Cho , X. Liu , J. Furdyna

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D12.00011: Non-equilibrium Kondo effect in a quantum dot: Real-time density matrix formulation with non-crossing approximation
Changxue Deng , Xuedong Hu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D12.00012: Nuclear Polarisation in Quantum Wires
Anson Cheung , V. Tripathi

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Session D13: Focus Session: Electronic Structures of Transition-Metal Oxides

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Silke Biermann, Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 4C


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D13.00001: Probing the Electronic Structure of Metal Oxides using Resonant Inelastic Soft X-Ray Scattering and Soft X-ray Emission Spectroscopy.
Invited Speaker: Kevin E. Smith

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D13.00002: Hybridization of local Frenkel excitons in strongly interacting NiO
Wei Ku , Chi-Cheng Lee , Hung-Chung J. Hsueh

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D13.00003: Unusual magnetic ground state in MnO under pressure.
Klaus Koepernik , Deepa Kasinathan , Warren E. Pickett

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D13.00004: Evolution of MnO under Pressure from Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Warren E. Pickett , Kwan-woo Lee , Richard T. Scalettar , Jan Kune\v{s} , A.V. Lukoyanov , V.I. Anisimov

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D13.00005: Structural and Electronic Properties of Monoclinic TiO$_2$ (B) Polymorph
Michel Posternak , Alfonso Baldereschi , Bernard Delley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D13.00006: Photoinduced charge and spin dynamics in strongly correlated electron systems
Hiroaki Matsueda , Sumio Ishihara

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D13.00007: Novel electronic and magnetic properties of a new class of cupper oxides
Xiao Hu , Xiangang Wan , Masanori Kohno

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D13.00008: Theory of thermopower in strongly correlated electron systems
Wataru Koshibae , Sadamichi Maekawa

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D13.00009: Hybrid density functional study of Mott transition in MnO
Cristian V. Diaconu , Richard L. Martin , Ionut D. Prodan , Gustavo E. Scuseria

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D13.00010: Disorder driven quantum phase transitions in transition metal oxides
Kohjiro Kobayashi , Nandini Trivedi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D13.00011: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Session D14: Focus Session: MRAM and Magnetic Devices

Sponsoring Units: GMAG FIAP
Chair: Steve Russek, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 4D


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D14.00001: Microstrip phase shifter using Fe as the active element
Andrew Hutchison , Yuri Khivintsev , Bijoy Kuanar , Ian Harward , Zbigniew Celinski , Robert Camley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D14.00002: Nonlinear effects in iron based microstrip structures.
Zbigniew Celinski , Bijoy K. Kuanr , Yuri V. Khivintsev , Andrew Hutchison , Robert E. Camley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D14.00003: Injection and Propagation of Magnetic Domain Walls in Thin Film Nanowires
Carl Knutson , Geoffrey Beach , James Erskine , Maxim Tsoi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D14.00004: Switching of magnetic domain structure in permalloy microstructures using 2D electron gas.
Andrey Belkin , Jan Fedor , Piotr Pankowski , Valentyn Novosad , Goran Karapetrov , Vladimir Cambel , Dagmar Gregusova , Robert Kudela

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D14.00005: Systematic tuning of magnetization reversal properties in Permalloy nanowires using sloped ends
Oleg Petracic , Dan Read , Russell Cowburn

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D14.00006: First principles Modeling of Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Memory devices
Kurt Stokbro , Morten Stilling , Karsten Flensberg

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D14.00007: Nanomagnetic Bit Cells for MRAM Applications
Invited Speaker: Brad Engel

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D14.00008: Permanent-Magnet Free Biasing of MR Sensors with Tunable Sensitivity
Sean Halloran , Fabio daSilva , David Pappas

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D14.00009: Effect of Interfacial Disorder on 1/f Noise in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Stephen Russek , Justin Shaw , Juan Francisco Sierra

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D14.00010: IrMn pinning rings to suppress closure domains in the sense layer of magnetic tunnel junctions
William Egelhoff , Cindi Dennis , John Unguris , Casey Uhlig , Robert McMichael , Mark Stiles , Cedric Powell

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D14.00011: Position dependence of thin layer notch filter waveguides
Tim Fal , Bijoy K. Kuanr , Robert E. Camley , Zbigniew Celinski

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D14.00012: Subwavelength Magnetic Plasmon Waveguides
Dentcho Genov , Hui Liu , Dongmin Wu , Yongmin Liu , Jennifer Steele , Cheng Sun , Shining Zhu , Xiang Zhang

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Session D15: Focus Session: Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnetism

Sponsoring Units: GMAG
Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, The Johns Hopkins University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 4E


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D15.00001: Spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice
Invited Speaker: Oleg Starykh

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D15.00002: Effective field theory with a $\theta$-vacua structure for 2d spin systems
Akihiro Tanaka , Xiao Hu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D15.00003: Spin Waves in Stacked Triangular Antiferromagnetic Thin Films
E. Meloche , M. L. Plumer , C. M. Pinciuc

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D15.00004: Octupolar order in the multiple spin exchange model on a triangular lattice
Tsutomu Momoi , Philippe Sindzingre , Nic Shannon

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D15.00005: Quadrupolar phases of the S=1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice
Andreas L\"auchli , Fr\'ed\'eric Mila , Karlo Penc

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D15.00006: Flat spin wave dispersion in a triangular antiferromagnet
Oleg Starykh , Andrey Chubukov , Alexander Abanov

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D15.00007: Frustrated antiferromagnet on generalized partial line graphs of a honeycomb lattice
Shin Miyahara , Chisa Hotta , Kenn Kubo , Nobuo Furukawa

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D15.00008: Excitation spectra of the spin-$1/2$ triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet
Rajiv R. P. Singh , Weihong Zheng , John Fj{\ae}restad , Ross McKenzie , Radu Coldea

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D15.00009: Excitation spectrum of an ordered Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice
Sasha Chernyshev , Michael Zhitomirsky

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D15.00010: Spinon excitation in spatially anisotropic frustrated Heisenberg models
Masanori Kohno , Leon Balents , Oleg Starykh

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D15.00011: Competition between charge and spin orders on a frustrated system: The triangular lattice.
B. Davoudi , S.R. Hassan , A.-M.S. Tremblay

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D15.00012: Anisotropic interactions in a Quantum Antiferromagnet Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$ as revealed by NMR.
Marc-Andre Vachon , Georgios Koutroulakis , Vesna F. Mitrovic , Arneil P. Reyes , Philip L. Kuhns , Radu Coldea

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D15.00013: Spin Order by Frustration in Triangular Lattice NaCrO$_2$ : A Neutron Scattering Study
D. Hsieh , D. Qian , R.F. Berger , B. Ueland , P. Schiffer , R.J. Cava , J.W. Lynn , Q. Huang , M.Z. Hasan

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Session D16: Focus Session: Multiferroics II

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Gavin Lawes, Wayne State University
Colorado Convention Center - Korbel 4F


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D16.00001: Manipulation of the ferromagnetic domains of a manganite using an electric field.
Tara Dhakal , Sinan Selcuk , Arthur F. Hebard , Amlan Biswas

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D16.00002: Controlling the magnetic phase of a hole-doped manganite with an out-of-plane electric field.
Sung Hee Yun , Rajiv Misra , A. F. Hebard , Amlan Biswas

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D16.00003: Colossal piezoresistance in manganites.
Jacob Tosado , Josymir Lopez , Tara Dhakal , Amlan Biswas

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D16.00004: Spin filtering with magnetic oxide tunnel barriers
Invited Speaker: Manuel Bibes

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D16.00005: Ferroelectricity in a Collinear Magnetic Phase of Orthorhombic Perovskites
Ivan Sergienko , Cengiz Sen , Elbio Dagotto

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D16.00006: Ferroelectricity in perovskite HoMnO$_{3}$ and YMnO$_{3}$ induced by magnetic order.
B. Lorenz , Y. Q. Wang , C. W. Chu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D16.00007: Ferroelectricity driven by zig-zag magnetic chains: orthorhombic HoMnO3 as a multiferroic?
Silvia Picozzi , Kunihiko Yamauchi , Biplab Sanyal

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D16.00008: Multiferroicity induced by phase modulated spin-density waves
Jeroen Vandenbrink , Joseph Betouras , Gianluca Giovannetti

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D16.00009: High Magnetic Tunability of Dielectric Properties in Magnetically-Driven Ferroelectricity
Sang-Wook Cheong , S. Park , Y. J. Choi , C. L. Zhang , S. Guha

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D16.00010: A Microscopic Model of Multiferroics RMn$_2$O$_5$
Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D16.00011: Direct evidence of spin-phonon coupling in multiferroic DyMn$_2$O$_5$ via magneto-infrared measurements
J. Cao , J. L. Musfeldt , Y. J. Wang , S. Park , S.-W. Cheong

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D16.00012: Magnetic-field-induced quantum phase transition in multiferroic BiMn$_{2}$O$_{5}$
J.W. Kim , S.Y. Ham , Y.S. Oh , Kee Hoon Kim , S. Park , S.-W. Cheong , P. Sharma , M. Jaime , N. Harrison

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D16.00013: Local Structure of the Multiferroic System RMn$_{2}$O$_{5}$
T. A. Tyson , M. DeLeon , Q. Qian , A. Ignatov , S. Park , S.-W. Cheong

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Session D19: Focus Session: New Frontiers in Imaging III

Sponsoring Units: DCP
Chair: Mark Conradi, Washington University in St. Louis
Colorado Convention Center - 104


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D19.00001: Tissue Imaging and Multidimensional Spectroscopy Using Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Invited Speaker: Warren Warren

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D19.00002: Laser-detected Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Shoujun Xu , Marcus Donaldson , Charles Crawford , Simon Rochester , Valeriy Yashchuk , Dmitry Budker , Alexander Pines

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:54PM

D19.00003: New Techniques for Signal Optimization in Harmonic and Multiphoton Absorption Fluorescence Microscopy
Invited Speaker: Jeff Squier

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D19.00004: Research Applications of Photoelectron Emission Microscopy
Wayne Hess , Gang Xiong , Alan Joly , Kenneth Beck , Wei Wei , J. Mike White , Mingdong Cai , J. Thomas Dickinson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D19.00005: Medical Applications of X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging
Christoph Rose-Petruck , Christopher Laperle , Theron Hamilton , Guohua Cao , Philip Wintermeyer , Gerald Diebold , Jack Wands

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D19.00006: Optical/MRI Multimodality Molecular Imaging
Lixin Ma , Charles Smith , Ping Yu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D19.00007: Compressed Sensing for Multispectral and Confocal Microscopy
Kevin Kelly , Dharmpal Takhar , Ting Sun , Jason Laska , Marco Duarte , Richard Baraniuk

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D19.00008: Source localization of auditory evoked responses from a human brain with an atomic magnetometer
K. Kim , H. Xia , A. Ben-Amar Baranga , D. Hoffman , M. V. Romalis

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Session D20: Focus Session: Ferroelectric and Other Oxides

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: C. Stephen Hellberg, Naval Research Laboratory
Colorado Convention Center - 105


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D20.00001: Electric Field Gradient Comparisons in Perovskites
Dandan Mao , Eric J. Walter , Henry Krakauer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D20.00002: Comparative study of the properties of BaTiO$_3$ and PbTiO$_3$ using DFT (LDA, GGA), HF and hybrid (B3LYP) functionals
D. I. Bilc , P. Hermet , Ph. Ghosez , J. Iniguez

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D20.00003: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shielding Calculations of Bulk Oxides
Daniel Pechkis , Eric J. Walter , Henry Krakauer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D20.00004: Structure and Antiferroelectric Properties of Cesium Niobate, Cs$_{2}$Nb$_{4}$O$_{11}$
Jianjun Liu , Wai-Ning Mei , Robert W. Smith , Chunhua Hu , Kuan-Jiuh Lin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D20.00005: First-principles study of polarization and piezoelectric properties of Zn$_{1-x}$Mg$_x$O
Andrei Malashevich , David Vanderbilt

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D20.00006: Ferroelectricity in CsPbF$_3$
Marco Fornari

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D20.00007: Enhanced Piezoelectricity from Polarization Rotation in Perovskites
Invited Speaker: R.E. Cohen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D20.00008: Theoretical study of ferroelectric KNO$_3$
Oswaldo Dieguez , David Vanderbilt

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D20.00009: Distortions in charge-ordered LuFe$_2$O$_4$
Takeshi Nishimatsu , David Vanderbilt , Karin M. Rabe , Yoichi Horibe , Sang-Wook Cheong , Claude Ederer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D20.00010: High-pressure x-ray diffraction of PbTiO$_{3 }$at low temperature
Muhtar Ahart , Maddury Somayazulu , Ronald Cohen , Russell Hemley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D20.00011: Phase diagram of PZT solid solutions near the morphotropic phase boundary from first principles
I. Kornev , L. Bellaiche , P.-E. Janolin , B. Dkhil , E. Suard

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D20.00012: Dynamic fluctuations and static speckle in critical X-ray scattering from SrTiO$_{3}$
Martin Holt , Mark Sutton , Paul Zschack , Hawoong Hong , T.-C. Chiang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D20.00013: Theoretical investigation of phase transitions in hafnia
Xuhui Luo , Alexander A. Demkov

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Session D21: Undergraduate Physics Education

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: David Haase, North Carolina State University
Colorado Convention Center - 106


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D21.00001: Five Inexpensive Ways to Involve More Women in Undergraduate Physics
Hillary Smith

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D21.00002: NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program as an Effective Educational Outreach Platform for Native Americans
T.M. Ritter , M.L. Grimsley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D21.00003: Polymer-Based Nanocomposites: An Internship Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Peggy Cebe , Daniel Cherdack , B. Seyhan Ince-Gunduz , Robert Guertin , Terry Haas , Regina Valluzzi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D21.00004: An ``Unknown'' Magnetic Moment Measured Five Independent Ways
Jonathan F. Reichert

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D21.00005: Teaching Laboratory and Research Skills as Preparation for Careers in Science and Education
Brian Thoms

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D21.00006: Implementing a New Undergraduate Course: Biophysics
Mitra Shojania Feizabadi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D21.00007: NanoLab: a Hands-On Introduction to Nanoscience for Scientists and Engineers
Matthew Johnson , Lloyd Bumm

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D21.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D21.00009: Physics Problems Based on Up-to-Date Science and Technology.
Lorcan M. Folan , Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D21.00010: Computational Physics in a Classical Mechanics Text
Javier Hasbun

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Session D22: Focus Session: Fracture

Sponsoring Units: GSNP DMP
Chair: Elisabeth Bouchaud, CEA-SACLAY
Colorado Convention Center - 108


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D22.00001: Failure of heterogeneous materials: Scaling properties of fracture surfaces and implications on models of cracks in disordered media.
Invited Speaker: Daniel Bonamy

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D22.00002: Low self-affine exponents of fractured glass ceramics surfaces
Laurent Ponson , Harold Auradou , Daniel Bonamy , Elisabeth Bouchaud , Jean-Pierre Hulin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D22.00003: Rapid and slow self-affine fracture in glass
Moises Hinojosa , Claudia Guerra , Leonardo Chavez , Edgar Reyes-Melo , Virgilio Gonzalez

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D22.00004: Roughness Exponent Measurements for the Central Force Model
Jan {\O}. H. Bakke , Alex Hansen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D22.00005: Local waiting time fluctuations along a randomly pinned crack front
Stephane Santucci , Knut Jorgen Maloy , Renaud Toussaint , Jean Schmittbulh

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D22.00006: A Dissipative Particle Dynamics Model of Fracture
Da Gao , Paul Meakin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D22.00007: Sub-critical crack growth in a sheet of paper
L. Vanel , S. Santucci , N. Mallick , P.-P. Cortet , S.G. Roux , S. Ciliberto

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D22.00008: Stability and roughness of crack paths in 2D heterogeneous brittle materials
Eytan Katzav , Mokhtar Adda-Bedia , Bernard Derrida

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D22.00009: Statistical properties of microcracking in polyurethane foams under tensile and creep tests: influence of temperature and density.
Stephanie Deschanel , Gerard Vigier , Nathalie Godin , Loic Vanel , Sergio Ciliberto

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D22.00010: Do Plastic Zones form at Crack Tips in Silicate Glasses?
Sheldon Wiederhorn , Theo Fett , Jean-Pierre Guin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D22.00011: Fragmentation in brittle rods
Nicolas Vandenberghe , Romain Vermorel , Emmanuel Villermaux

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D22.00012: Mechanisms for Fragment Formation in Brittle Solids
Artem Levandovsky , Anna Balazs

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D22.00013: Competition between Diffusion and Fragmentation: Evolution of polycrystalline materials under stress
Joachim Mathiesen , Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg , Mogens H. Jensen , Poul Olesen

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Session D23: Focus Session: High Pressure III - Earth and Planetary Materials

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCOMP
Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Colorado Convention Center - 110


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D23.00001: First principles investigation of the ice VII-VIII (order-disorder) phase boundary
Renata Wentzcovitch , Koichiro Umemoto , Stefano de Gironcoli , Stefano Baroni

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D23.00002: Freezing kinetics in overcompressed water
Marina Bastea , S. Bastea , J. Reaugh , D. Reisman

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D23.00003: The effect of dynamic compression on phase transformation: Solidification of water and crystal growth of ice VI using dynamic diamond anvil cell
Geun Woo Lee , William Evans , Choong-Shik Yoo

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D23.00004: Laser-driven shock studies on planetary ices
Invited Speaker: Kanani Lee

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D23.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D23.00006: High pressure-temperature Raman spectroscopy of H$_{2}$-H$_{2}$O clathrate.
Maddury Somayazulu , Alexander Levedahl , Alexander Goncharov , Ho-Kwang Mao , Russell Hemley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D23.00007: Computational analysis of methane occupation within gas hydrates
Phillip Mendonca , Philip Shemella , Saroj Nayak , Anurag Sharma

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D23.00008: Theoretical Tools for the Analysis and Prediction of Multi-component Systems at High Pressures and Densities
J. F. Kenney

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D23.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D23.00010: Chemical Dissociation of Cyclohexane under Shock Loading
Ricky Chau , Neil C. Holmes

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Session D26: Focus Session: Protein Folding: Theory and Simulations III

Sponsoring Units: DCP DBP
Chair: Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland
Colorado Convention Center - 205


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D26.00001: Mechanisms of Protein Assembly and Folding: Lessons from Minimalist Models
Invited Speaker: Jose Onuchic

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D26.00002: Direct application of a simple model to the quantitative analysis of experiments on an ultrafast folding protein
Invited Speaker: Eric Henry

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D26.00003: Desolvation effects and topology-dependent protein folding
Allison Ferguson , Zhirong Liu , Hue Sun Chan

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D26.00004: Networks in Protein Folding
Erzs\'ebet Ravasz Regan , Zolt\'an Toroczkai , G. Gnanakaran

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D26.00005: Intramolecular Vibrational Preparation of the Unfolding Transition State of Zn$^{\rm II}$-substituted Cytochrome \emph{c}: Picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Dynamic Stokes Shift Studies
Warren F. Beck , Sanela Lampa-Pastirk

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D26.00006: Single Mutation Effect on Lysozyme Stability and Misfolding
Ruhong Zhou

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D26.00007: On the Mechanism of Protein Unfolding by Pressure A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
J. Raul Grigera , Andres McCarthy , Carlos Ferrara

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D26.00008: Free Energy Landscape - Settlements of Key Residues.
Svetlana Aroutiounian

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D26.00009: Interplay between secondary and tertiary structure formation in a lattice model alpha helical hairpin peptide
Prem Chapagain , Bernard Gerstman

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D26.00010: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO P35.00002


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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D26.00011: First Principles Study of the Reaction Mechanism for Intein C-terminal Cleavage
Philip Shemella , Saroj Nayak , Brian Pereira , Shekhar Garde , Georges Belfort

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Session D27: Fullerenes, Nano-membranes, and Quasicrystals

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Yayu Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Colorado Convention Center - 301


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D27.00001: The equilibrium and electronic structure of large icosahedral fullerenes using an all-electron fully analytic density functional theory
Rajendra Zope , Brett Dunlap

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D27.00002: Fullerene in a Metal-Organic Matrix: Design of the Electronic Structure
Michel Cote , Sebastien Hamel , Vladimir Timochevski

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D27.00003: The Smoluchowski Effect and Step-Edge Behavior of Nanocars and Azofullerenes
Andrew Osgood , Yasuhiro Shirai , Takashi Sasaki , J.M. Tour , K.F. Kelly

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D27.00004: Cage-Core Interactions in Fullerenes Enclosing Metal Clusters with Multiple Scandium and Yttrium Atoms.
Liu Dan , Frank Hagelberg

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D27.00005: Hydrogen Storage in Novel Carbon-based Nanostructured Materials
Erin Whitney , Calvin Curtis , Chaiwat Engtrakul , Mark Davis , Kim Jones , Philip Parilla , Lin Simpson , Anne Dillon

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D27.00006: Microscopic ESR study of N@C$_{60}$ using a Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope
P. Banerjee , D. V. Pelekhov , K. C. Fong , I. H. Lee , P. C. Hammel , W. Harneit

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D27.00007: Dimensional evolution of the electronic and structural properties of K$_{x}$C$_{60}$ multilayers studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Yayu Wang , Ryan Yamachika , Andre Wachowiak , Mike Grobis , Mike Crommie

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D27.00008: Crystal structure of Rb$_{4}$C$_{60}$ under pressure
Ashfia Huq , Peter W. Stephens

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D27.00009: Structural characterization and molecular dynamics of fullerene or fullerene-derivative nanowhiskers
Hironori Ogata , Satoru Motohashi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D27.00010: Formation of SiC Clusters with Bucky Diamond Structures
M. Yu , C. Ghosh , C.S. Jayanthi , S.Y. Wu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D27.00011: In-situ microscopic investigations of the nucleation and growth of C$_{60}$ films on Bi(0001)/Si(111)
Jerzy T. Sadowski , T. Nishihara , A. Al-Mahboob , Y. Fujikawa , K. Nakajima , T. Sakurai , T. Nagao

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D27.00012: Elastic strain-sharing as a means of fabricating strained-Si(110) nanomembranes
Shelley Scott , Arrielle Opotowsky , Donald Savage , Michelle Roberts , Max Lagally

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D27.00013: Dislocation-free, uniformly strained Si fabricated by Si nano-membrane (SiNM) technology
Chanan Euaruksakul , Zhiwei Li , Donald E. Savage , Max G. Lagally

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D27.00014: Mechanism of quasicrystal nucleation and growth
Sharon Glotzer , Aaron Keys

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D27.00015: Specific heat of rhombohedral C60 polymer in the temperature range of 2-300K
Min Gu , Guanglei Cui , Lihang Wang , Xiao Chen

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Session D28: Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Optics II

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM Watson
Colorado Convention Center - 302


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D28.00001: Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Plasmons in Carbon Nanotubes
M.H. Upton , R.F. Klie , J.P. Hill , T. Gog , D. Casa , W. Ku , Y. Zhu , M.Y. Sfeir , J. Misewich , G. Eres , D. Lowndes

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D28.00002: Ab-inito study of metallic and semi-conducting carbon nanotubes .
Sumit Saxena , Trevor A. Tyson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D28.00003: Raman Study of Phonon Softening in Individual Metallic Single Wall Nanotubes
Hootan Farhat , Hyungbin Son , Jing Kong

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D28.00004: Controlled Screening of Excitons in Single, Suspended Carbon Nanotubes.
Andrew Walsh , A. Nickolas Vamivakas , Yan Yin , Stephen Cronin , Bennett Goldberg , M. Selim Unlu , Anna Swan

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D28.00005: Direct Measurement of Strain-induced Changes in Carbon Nanotube Bandstructure
Mingyuan Huang , Yang Wu , Bhupesh Chandra , Yuyao Shan , Tony Heinz , James Hone

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D28.00006: Raman Spectroscopy of Axially Strain Carbon Nanotubes
Rajay Kumar , Stephen Cronin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 4:18PM

D28.00007: Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Carbon Nanotubes
Invited Speaker: Feng Wang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D28.00008: Direct Measurement of the Quantum Yield of Isolated Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Lisa Carlson , Todd Krauss

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D28.00009: Low Temperature Micro-photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Ajit Srivastava , Erik Haroz , Yoichi Murakami , Junichiro Kono

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D28.00010: Photoluminescence from inter-tube carrier migration in single-walled carbon nanotube bundles
O. N. Torrens , D. E. Milkie , M. Zheng , J. M. Kikkawa

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D28.00011: Unique Optical and Electrical Properties of Almost-Isolated Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Shigeo Maruyama , Erik Einarsson , Masayuki Kadowaki , Zhengyi Zhang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D28.00012: Absolute potential of the Fermi level of single-walled carbon nanotubes via hydrogenase complex formation.
Timothy McDonald , Drazenka Svedruzic , Yong-Hyun Kim , Jeffrey Blackburn , Shengbai Zhang , Paul King , Michael Heben

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D28.00013: $\iota -$Carrageenan as a Matrix for Carbon Nanotube Spectroscopy
William Rice , Yoichi Murakami , Junichiro Kono

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Session D29: Focus Session: Colloids II

Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Mark Bowick, Syracuse University
Colorado Convention Center - 303


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D29.00001: Imaging the Dynamics of Freezing and Sublimation of Colloidal Crystals
Invited Speaker: Anthony D. Dinsmore

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D29.00002: Dynamics and Instabilities of Defects in Curved Two-Dimensional Crystals
Mark Bowick , Homin Shin , Alex Travesset

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D29.00003: Two-Dimensional Melting of Microgel Colloidal Crystals
Yilong Han , Na Young Ha , Ahmed Alsayed , Arjun Yodh

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D29.00004: Angular rheology study of colloidal nanocrystals using Coherent X-ray Diffraction
Mengning Liang , Ross Harder , Ian Robinson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D29.00005: Correlated Motion of Rods Diffusing in 3D
Kenneth Desmond , Eric R. Weeks

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D29.00006: Two-Dimensional Phase Behavior of Colloidal Peanuts
Sharon Gerbode , Angie Wolfgang , Stephanie Lee , Bettina John , Chekesha Liddell , Fernando Escobedo , Itai Cohen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D29.00007: Cage Trapping and Melting of Colloidal Suspensions under Confinement and Shear Excitation
Prasad Sarangapani , Y. Elaine Zhu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D29.00008: Phase transitions in charged colloidal suspensions
Gregg Lois , Corey O'Hern

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D29.00009: Coulomb Interactions of Colloidal Particles in Oil
Sunil Sainis , Eric Dufresne

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D29.00010: Computer Simulation of Colloidal Electrophoresis
Burkhard Duenweg , Vladimir Lobaskin , Krishnan Seethalakshmy-Hariharan , Christian Holm

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D29.00011: Structure of highly packed microgel particles
Alberto Fernandez-Nieves , Johan Mattson , Hans Wyss , Lidia Rodriguez-Maldonado , Manuel Marquez , Enrique Lopez-Cabarcos , Antonio Fernandez-Barbero , David A. Weitz

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D29.00012: Effective Interactions Between Like-Charged Colloids: The Role of Colloid Charge
Stephen Barr , Erik Luijten

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D29.00013: Diffusion of charged colloidal particles at aqueous interfaces
Penger Tong , Wei Chen

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Session D30: Fluid Structure and Properties

Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: David Vaknin, Affiliation: Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
Colorado Convention Center - 304


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D30.00001: Crystallization-induced fluid flow in polymer melts undergoing solidification
Zhigang Wang , Donghua Xu , Jack F. Douglas

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D30.00002: The reversible freezing and melting of colloidal crystal and glass
Hua Guo , Gerard Wegdam , Peter Schall , T. Narayanan , Michael Sztucki

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D30.00003: The riddle of nanoconfined liquids -solid or liquid?
Peter Hoffmann , George Matei , Mircea Pantea , Shiva Patil , Ashis Mukhopadhyay

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D30.00004: Phonons in a One-Dimensional Microfluidic Crystal at Very Low Re
Tsevi Beatus , Tsvi Tlusty , Roy Bar-Ziv

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D30.00005: Synchrotron x-ray ultrafast x-ray imaging on dynamic multiphase flow studies
Yujie Wang , Kamel Fezzaa , Jin Wang , Kyoung-Su Im

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D30.00006: Circular polarization memory effect in low-coherence enhanced backscattering of light
Young L. Kim , Prabhakar Pradhan , Min H. Kim , Vadim Backman

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D30.00007: Penetration depth of low-coherence enhanced backscattering photons in the sub-diffusion regime
Hariharan Subramanian , Prabhakar Pradhan , Young Kim , Vadim Backman

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D30.00008: Dynamics of Single Polymer Chain in Colloidal Suspensions in Narrow Channels
Amir Amini , Marc Robert

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D30.00009: In Situ Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy for the Analysis of the Adsorption and Desorption Process of Au nanoparticles on the SiO2/Si Surface
D. Enders , T. Nagao , T. Nakayama

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D30.00010: Opening the Pandora's box to understand flow behavior of polymeric fluids.
Sham Ravindranath , Pouyan Boukany , Yangyang Wang , Shi-Qing Wang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D30.00011: Critical stresses and cracking in thin films of colloidal dispersions
Weining Man , William Russel

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D30.00012: A Novel Approach to Extracting the Pair Distribution Function of Bulk Liquids and Liquid Surfaces
David Vaknin , Wei Bu , Alex Travesset

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D30.00013: Femtosecond movies of water at sub-nanometer lengthscales
Robert H. Coridan , Ghee Hwee Lai , Nathan S. Schmidt , Michael Krisch , Peter Abbamonte , Gerard C. L. Wong

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D30.00014: Fluctuation dynamics of water-hydrophobic interface
Sung Chul Bae , Adele Poynor , Steve Granick

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D30.00015: Anisotropic polarizability of single wall carbon nanotubes measured via the electro-optical effect
Jeffrey A. Fagan , Barry J. Bauer , Erik K. Hobbie

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Session D31: Novel Properties in Nanomaterials

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Guangyu Chai, University of Central Florida
Colorado Convention Center - 401


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D31.00001: In Situ Measurement of Noise and Resistance Reductions During the High Temperature Anneal of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Alexander Kane , Brett Goldsmith , Philip Collins

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D31.00002: Characterization and Reduction of 1/f Noise in Carbon Nanotube Devices
Yu-Ming Lin , Phaedon Avouris

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D31.00003: Tunneling spectroscopy in carbon nanotubes
Yung-Fu Chen , Gassem Al-Zoubi , Norman Birge , Nadya Mason

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D31.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D31.00005: Experimental and Theoretical studies on Synthesis of Massively Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Transistor Applications.
Koungmin Ryu , Chongwu Zhou

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D31.00006: Extreme Thermal Stability of Carbon Nanotubes
Gavi Begtrup , Keith G. Ray , Brian M. Kessler , Thomas D. Yuzvinsky , Henry Garcia , Alex Zettl

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D31.00007: High Current All-Semiconductor Carbon Nanotube Electronics
Guangyu Zhang , Pengfei Qi , Xinran Wang , Yuerui Lu , Xiaolin Li , Ryan Tu , Sarunya Bangsaruntip , David Mann , Li Zhang , Hongjie Dai

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D31.00008: Chemoresistance of carbon nanotube circuits incorporating electrochemically-decorated defects
Vaikunth Khalap , Alexander Kane , Phillip Collins

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D31.00009: Electron channeling through an individual multiwall carbon nanotube
Guangyu Chai , Helge Heinrich , Lee Chow , Thomas Schenkel

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D31.00010: Test for superconductivity in individual end-bonded MWNTs
Y. Sun , S. Chen , J.Y. Huang , Z.F. Ren , J.I. Oh , M.J. Naughton , M. Vaziri

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D31.00011: Electron-phonon scattering in suspended carbon nanotubes
Vikram Deshpande , Adam Bushmaker , Steve Cronin , Marc Bockrath

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D31.00012: Ge/Si nanowire mesoscopic Josephson junctions
Jie Xiang , Andy Vidan , Michael Tinkham , Robert M. Westervelt , Charles M. Lieber

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D31.00013: One-dimensional electron behavior in semiconducting carbon nanotubes studied using random telegraph signal
David Tobias , A. Tselev , P. Barbara , C.J. Lobb , M.S. Fuhrer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D31.00014: Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes
Ernesto Joselevich , Tzahi Cohen-Karni , Lior Segev , Onit Srur-Lavi , Sidney R. Cohen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D31.00015: Effects of Torsional Strain in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Hyungbin Son , Xiaojie Duan , Yingying Zhang , Georgii Samsonidze , Mildred Dresselhaus , Jing Kong , Jin Zhang

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Session D32: Focus Session: Fermi Gases with Unequal Spin Populations or Masses

Sponsoring Units: DAMOP
Chair: Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado
Colorado Convention Center - 402


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D32.00001: Polarized Fermi gases in an axially symmetric trap: A Bogoliubov-deGennes analysis
William Schneider , Rajdeep Sensarma , Mohit Randeria

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D32.00002: Single-plane-wave Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell state in BCS--Bose-Einstein condensation crossover
Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien , Qijin Chen , Kathy Levin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D32.00003: Pairing and superfluid properties of dilute fermions with unequal masses
Chien-Hua Pao , Shin-Tza Wu , Sungkit Yip

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D32.00004: Universal phase diagram of a strongly interacting polarized Fermi gas
Invited Speaker: Frederic Chevy

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D32.00005: Finite Temperature Effects in Trapped Unitary Fermi Gases with Population Imbalance
Chih-Chun Chien , Qijin Chen , Yan He , Katheryn Levin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D32.00006: Unconventional interaction between vortices in a polarized Fermi gas
Vladimir M. Stojanovic , W. Vincent Liu , Yong Baek Kim

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D32.00007: Two-component Fermi gas with unequal masses at unitarity: A diffusion Monte Carlo study
D. Blume , G.E. Astrakharchik , S. Giorgini

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D32.00008: The effective Bose-Fermi scattering length in spin-polarized Fermi superfluids
Edward Taylor , Allan Griffin , Yoji Ohashi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D32.00009: Pairing in Asymmetrical Fermi Systems with Intra- and Inter-Species Correlations
Renyuan Liao , Khandker Quader

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D32.00010: FFLO phase in one-dimensional polarized Fermi gases
Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu , Peter Drummond

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D32.00011: Nonuniform mixed-parity superfluid state in Fermi gases
M. S. Mar'enko , K. V. Samokhin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D32.00012: Polarised Fermi condensates with equal and unequal masses
Francesca Maria Marchetti , Meera Parish , Austen Lamacraft , Ben Simons

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Session D33: Focus Session: Quantum Foundations II

Sponsoring Units: GQI
Chair: Steven Flammia, University of New Mexico
Colorado Convention Center - 403


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D33.00001: Adiabaticity in Open Quantum Systems
Daniel Lidar , Marcelo Sarandy

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D33.00002: Quantum Erasure and Nonlocality in Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers
Kicheon Kang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D33.00003: Lyapunov Generation of Entanglement and the Correspondence Principle
Cyril Petitjean , Philippe Jacquod

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D33.00004: Time-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
K.B. Wharton

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D33.00005: Decoherence and the Uncertainty Principle: Theory
David Craig , Adam Lemke

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D33.00006: Decoherence and the Uncertainty Principle: Numerics
Adam Lemke , David Craig

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D33.00007: Quantum Young's experiment, nonlocality and trajectories
Edward R. Floyd

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D33.00008: Phase-Covariant Cloning and EPR Correlations in Entangled Macroscopic Quantum Systems
Francesco De Martini , Fabio Sciarrino

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D33.00009: A Local de-Broglie Bohm interpretation of entanglement
Michael Clover

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D33.00010: The Fabrication of de Broglie Wave
J.X. Zheng-Johansson , P.-I. Johansson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D33.00011: Replacing The General Covariance In the SM Dirac Equation Gauge Derivatives With An Equivalent General Covariance In The Metric That This Dirac Equation is Derived From
Joel Maker

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D33.00012: Purple bacteria and quantum Fourier transform
Samir Lipovaca

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D33.00013: The Mystery of Genetic Tape
Shantilal Goradia

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D33.00014: Do Particles have Barcodes?
Shantilal Goradia

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D33.00015: More on Atonic Mechanics
Alfred Phillips

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Session D34: Cell Level Patterning During Embryonic Development

Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: James Glazier, Indiana University
Colorado Convention Center - 404


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D34.00001: The \textit{de novo} formation of a vascular network, in warm-blooded embryos, occurs via a self-assembly process that spans multiple length and time scales
Invited Speaker: Charles D. Little

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D34.00002: Physical Mechanisms of Patterning Instabilities in the Formation of Vascular Network
Abbas Shirinifard , James Glazier , Shantia Yarahmadian

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D34.00003: Physical Mechanisms of Pattern Formation in the Early Chick Embryo
Ariel Balter , James Glazier , Benji Zaitlen , Mark Chaplain , Cornelis Weijer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D34.00004: Interface Instabilities and Fingering in a Simulated Growing Tumor
Nikodem Poplawski , Maciej Swat , James Glazier , Alexander Anderson

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D34.00005: Pattern formation of glioma cells: effects of adhesion
Evgeniy Khain , Michal O. Nowicki , E. Antonio Chiocca , Sean E. Lawler , Leonard M. Sander

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D34.00006: Role of viscosity and surface tension of zebrafish embryonic tissues in tissue flows during gastrulation.
E.M. Schoetz , T. Bacarian , M.S. Steinberg , R.D. Burdine , W. Bialek , C.P. Heisenberg , R.A. Foty , F. Julicher

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D34.00007: Stochastic model of cell rearrangements in convergent extension of ascidian notochord
Sharon Lubkin , Tracy Backes , Russell Latterman , Stephen Small

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D34.00008: Time markers for Drosophila morphogenesis based on cell-pattern topology.
Richard Zallen , Jennifer A. Zallen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D34.00009: Different Strategies for Aggregation in Social Amoeba Colonies
Carl Franck , Ryan Monaghan , Albert Bae , Duane Loh , Eberhard Bodenschatz

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D34.00010: Optimal Foraging by Zooplankton
Ricardo Garcia , Frank Moss

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D34.00011: Precision and Reproducibility in Biological Patterning
Thomas Gregor , Eric F. Wieschaus , William Bialek , David W. Tank

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D34.00012: A lattice model of parasite-host population dynamics
Brian Skinner , Beate Schmittmann , Royce Zia

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D34.00013: Cell Assisted Cell Growth Experiments with Dictyostelium discoideum
Albert Bae , Wui Ip , Carl Franck

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Session D35: Focus Session: Biological Networks

Sponsoring Units: DBP GSNP
Chair: Eivind Almaas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Colorado Convention Center - 405


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D35.00001: Synthetic Gene Networks: \textit{De novo constructs -- in numero} descriptions
Invited Speaker: Jeff Hasty

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D35.00002: Origin of Modularity in Recombination Evolution
Jun Sun , Michael Deem

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D35.00003: Dynamic network analysis of protein interactions
Eivind Almaas , Joya Deri

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D35.00004: Growth induced instability in metabolic networks
Sidhartha Goyal , Ned S. WIngreen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D35.00005: Emergent Criticality from Co-evolution in Random Boolean Networks
Min Liu , Kevin E. Bassler

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D35.00006: Protein-Protein interaction networks: why static MpK model works and preferential attachment does not
Jingshan Zhang , Eugene Shakhnovich

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D35.00007: A closer look at activity in metabolic networks
Natali Gulbahce , Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D35.00008: Stochastic Chemical Kinetics in Biochemical Reaction Networks.
Garegin Papoian , Yueheng Lan

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D35.00009: Noise propagation in combined cellular control motifs
Cheol-Min Ghim , Eivind Almaas

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D35.00010: Stochastic effects in reaction networks
Aryeh Warmflash , Aaron Dinner

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D35.00011: Universal patterns in the behavior of complex systems: from relaxation in fractal networks to distribution of income
Valerica Raicu , Michael Stoneman , Russell Fung

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D35.00012: Understanding Dynamic Patterns of NF-$\kappa $B Signaling: Derivation and Analysis of a Minimal Model through Sensitivity Analysis
Jaewook Joo , Steve Plimpton , Shawn Martin , Laura Swiler , Jean-Loup Faulon

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D35.00013: Sloppy systems biology: tight predictions with loose parameters
James Sethna , Ryan Gutenkunst , Joshua Waterfall , Fergal Casey , Kevin Brown , Christopher Myers

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:30PM - 5:42PM

D35.00014: A Physical Theory of the Competition that Allows HIV to Escape from the Immune System
Michael Deem

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Session D38: Nanoinstrumentation for Biological and Other Applications

Sponsoring Units: GIMS
Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Laboratories
Colorado Convention Center - 501


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D38.00001: Assembly of a minimal protocell
Steen Rasmussen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D38.00002: High throughput electronic cell identification techniques for microfluidic systems
David Wood , Gary Braun , Jean-Luc Fraikin , Loren Swenson , Norbert Reich , Andrew Cleland

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D38.00003: Dynamic Detection of a Single Bacterium: Nonlinear Rotation Rate Shifts of Driven Magnetic Microspheres
Brandon H. McNaughton , Rodney R. Agayan , Raoul Kopelman

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D38.00004: Nanolaser spectroscopy of Normal and Genetically Defective Mitochondria: New Biostatistical Tool for Studying Disease
Paul Gourley , Judy Hendricks , Robert Naviaux , Michael Yaffe

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D38.00005: Gas sensing behavior of individual carbon nanotube field effect transistors
Michael Stadermann , Alexander Artyukhin , Olgica Bakajin , Aleksandr Noy

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D38.00006: Large-scale assembly of CNT based DNA sensor array on SiO2 substrate
Joohyung Lee , Byung Yang Lee , Dong Joon Lee , Kyungeun Byun , Seunghun Hong

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D38.00007: Calcium Induced Voltage Gating and Negative Incremental Resistance in Single Conical Nanopores.
Zuzanna Siwy , Matthew Powell , Michael Sullivan , Christina Trautmann , Robert Eisenberg

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D38.00008: Protein denaturing on Nanospheres
James Forrest , Jonathan Teichroeb

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D38.00009: Nanoscale Radiofrequency Molecular Biosensing
Jean-Luc Fraikin , David Wood , Mike Stanton , Andrew Cleland

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D38.00010: Nano-scale resolution full-field microscopy using tabletop extreme ultraviolet lasers
Fernando Brizuela , Courtney Brewer , Georgiy Vaschenko , Yong Wang , Miguel Larotonda , Bradley Luther , Mario Marconi , Jorge Rocca , Carmen Menoni , Weilun Chao , Yanwei Liu , Erik Anderson , David Attwood , Alexander Vinogradov , Igor Artioukov , Yuri Pershyn , Viktor Kondratenko

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D38.00011: Nano-Optics for Chemical and Materials Characterization
Michael Beversluis , Stephan Stranick

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D38.00012: Simultaneous Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Imaging and Spectroscopy in Confocal Mode.
Denis Pristinski$^1$ , Melek Erol$^2$ , Henry Du$^1$ , Svetlana Sukhishvili$^2$

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D38.00013: Initial Development of a sub-micron Angle Resolved Photoemission Microscope
Aaron Bostwick , Jessica McChesney , Eli Rotenberg

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Session D39: Focus Session: Materials and Applications for Solar Energy II

Sponsoring Units: FIAP DMP
Chair: Dave Ginley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Colorado Convention Center - 502


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 3:06PM

D39.00001: Intermediate- band solar cells: future prospects and challenges
Invited Speaker: Antonio Marti

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D39.00002: Materials characterization and optimization in silicon heterojunction solar cells using spectroscopic ellipsometry
Dean Levi , Eugene Iwaniczko , Qi Wang , Howard Branz

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D39.00003: Characterization of Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Photovoltaic Devices using Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy.
J.M. Yarbrough , I.C. Schick , V. Kaydanov , T.R. Ohno , R.T. Collins

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D39.00004: Theory of photo-conversion in polycrystalline silicon
A.I. Shkrebtii , A.V. Sachenko , A.P. Gorban , V.P. Kostylyov , I.O. Sokolovsky , A. Kazakevitch

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D39.00005: Photovoltaic applications of hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films grown by the Saddle Field Glow Discharge Method
F. Gaspari , A.I. Shkrebtii , A. Kazakevitch , A.V. Sachenko , I.O. Sokolovsky , N. Kherani , T. Teatro , J. Perz

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D39.00006: Simple method to examine the work function of transparent conducting oxide for traditional and organic based photovoltaics
Joseph Berry , Matthew Reese , John Perkins , David Ginley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D39.00007: Combinatorial Development of Amorphous Mixed Metal Oxide Transparent Conductors
J.D. Perkins , M.F.A.M. van Hest , M.I. Bertoni , C.W. Teplin , J.J. Berry , J.L. Alleman , M.S. Dabney , L.M. Gedvilas , B.M. Keyes , B. To , A. Leenheer , M.P. Taylor , Dennis Readey , R. O'Hayre , D.S. Ginley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D39.00008: Optimization of amorphous In-Zn-O (IZO) transparent conductor sputtered at ambient temperature
Andrew Leenheer , John Perkins , Andrew Cavendor , Matthew Taylor , Maikel van Hest , David Ginley

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D39.00009: Transparent Conducting ZnO Thin Films Doped with Al and Mo
Joel Duenow , Timothy Gessert , David Wood , David Young , Timothy Coutts

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D39.00010: A theoretical study on native point defects and dopants in cuprous oxide
Weichao Wang , Dangxin Wu , Qiming Zhang , Meng Tao

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D39.00011: Thin film preparation of the p-type transparent semiconductor Cu$_{3}$TaS$_{4}$
Paul Newhouse , Peter Hersh , Douglas Keszler , Janet Tate

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D39.00012: Properties of a potential transparent p-type semiconductor Cu$_{3}$TaQ$_{4}$ (Q = S or Se)
Peter Hersh , Paul Newhouse , Douglas Keszler , Janet Tate

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D39.00013: Transparent conductive BaCuTeF thin films by pulsed laser deposition
Robert Kykyneshi , David McIntyre , Janet Tate , Cheol-Hee Park , Douglas Keszler

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Session D40: Semiconductors: Electronic Structure

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Hai Ping Cheng, University of Florida
Colorado Convention Center - 503


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D40.00001: First-Principles Dielectric Spectra of Silicon: THz through UV
H.M. Lawler , S. Dalosto , Z.H. Levine , E.L. Shirley , J.J. Rehr

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D40.00002: Symmetry in optical properties: Silicon temperature dependent dielectric function
M.J.G. Lee , A. Shkrebtii , W. Richter , M. Drago , G. Nicholls , Z.A. Ibrahim

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D40.00003: \textit{Ab initio} Optical Absorption by A Simple and Efficient Method: Single Excitation Configuration Interaction After Downfolding
Kazuma Nakamura , Yoshihide Yoshimoto , Ryotaro Arita , Masatoshi Imada , Shinji Tsuneyuki

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D40.00004: Band-offsets of semiconductor heterostructures using hybrid density functionals
Amita Wadehra , John W. Wilkins , Richard G. Hennig , Gustavo E. Scuseria

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D40.00005: B3LYP Works for Semiconductors Heterostructures
Jeremy Nicklas , John Wilkins

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D40.00006: Analysis of core-valence linearization in $G_{\mathrm{0}}W_{\mathrm{0}}$ calculations
Ricardo Gomez-Abal , X. Li , M. Scheffler , C. Ambrosch-Draxl

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D40.00007: Band gap bowing in large size-mismatched II-VI alloys
Su-Huai Wei , Chang-Youn Moon , Y.Z. Zhu , G.D. Chen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D40.00008: Large band gap bowing in CuAgGaS2 chalcopyrite semiconductors and its effect on optical parameters
Chandrima Mitra , Walter Lambrecht

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D40.00009: Optical properties of semiconductor alloys and superlattices
HyeJung Kim , Yia-Chung Chang , Y.D. Kim

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D40.00010: First principles exploration of the possibility of high mobility phases and alloys of group IV semiconductors.
Jay Sau , Marvin Cohen

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D40.00011: Band Edge Energies and Band Gaps of Quaternary GaInAsSb Alloys
Rita Magri , Alex Zunger , Herbert Kroemer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D40.00012: Inverse Band Structure determination of optical properties of (In,Ga)(As,Sb) alloys
Paulo Piquini , Alex Zunger

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D40.00013: First-principles investigation of the band gap evolution in (Pb,Sn)Te
Xing Gao , Murray Daw

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D40.00014: Structure, Electronic Structure and Phonons of ZnSnN2
Tula R. Paudel , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D40.00015: Electronic structure of SmN, DyN, and GdN
B. Ruck , S. Granville , A.R.H. Preston , D.H. Housden , H.J. Trodahl , A. Bittar , J.E. Downes , K.E. Smith , P. Larson , W.R.L. Lambrecht

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Session D41: Magnetism in 2 Dimensions

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Jason Crain, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Colorado Convention Center - 504


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D41.00001: Spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy of individual magnetic adatoms
Yosef Yayon , Victor Brar , Michael Crommie , Lax Senapati , Steve Erwin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D41.00002: Spin-polarized metastable-atom deexcitation spectroscopy study of Xenon-adsorbed iron surfaces
Yasushi Yamauchi , Mitsunori Kurahashi , Taku Suzuki , Xia Sun , Zhongping Wang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D41.00003: Homochiral magnetism in low-dimensional magnets
Stefan Blugel , Marcus Heide , Gustav Bihlmayer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D41.00004: Temperature-induced Domain Shrinking in Dipolar Frustrated Ising Ferromagnet
Danilo Pescia , Alessandro Vindigni , Oliver Portmann , Paolo Politi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D41.00005: Controlling Spin-Density Wave Periodicity in Thin Cr$_{1-x }$V$_{x}$ Films
Oleg Krupin , Eli Rotenberg , S. D. Kevan

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D41.00006: Manipulating spins using spin-valves of self-assembled molecular wires
Vladimir Burtman , Valy Z. Vardeny

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D41.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D41.00008: Structural and magnetic properties of ferromagnetic metal-oxide films grown by polymer assisted deposition
M. Jain , P. Shukla , M. F. Hundley , A. K. Burrell , T. M. McCleskey , Q. X. Jia

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D41.00009: Growth, structure and magnetic properties study of CVD cobalt layers
Nirmalendu Deo , Harold S. Gamble

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D41.00010: Combinatorial Exploration of Magnetostriction of Fe$_{1-x-y}$Ga$_{x}$M$_{y}$ Ternary Alloys
Jason Hattrick-Simpers , Kyu Sung Jang , Samuel E. Lofland , Noble Woo , Bruce Van Dover , Manfred Wuttig , Ichiro Takeuchi

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D41.00011: Memory interference in stage-2 CoCl$_{2}$ graphite intercalation
Masatsugu Suzuki , Itsuko Suzuki , Motohiro Matsuura

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D41.00012: Experimental Determination of the Heats of Formation for the Ordered Intermetallics in the Fe-Pt System
David Berry , Katayun Barmak , Ysela Chiari

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D41.00013: Resistivity, transverse magnetoresistance and Hall effect induced by electron-surface scattering on thin gold films deposited onto preheated mica substrates under high vacuum
Raul C. Munoz , Juan P. Garcia , Ricardo Henriquez , German Kremer , Luis Moraga

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D41.00014: Kapitza Pendulum Effect in Weakly Disordered Continuously Degenerate Magnetic Materials
Igor Fomin

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Session D42: Self-Ordering Nanostructures

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire
Colorado Convention Center - 505


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D42.00001: Novel mechanisms for self-assembled pattern formation in nanoscopic metal films
R. Kalyanaraman , J. Trice , C. Favazza , D. Thomas , R. Sureshkumar

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D42.00002: Growth and ordering of gas films on a decagonal AlNiCo quasicrystal surface
W. Setyawan , R.D. Diehl , N. Ferralis , M.W. Cole , S. Curtarolo

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D42.00003: An Addressable Supramolecular Rotary Switch Featuring Distinguishable Positions Embedded In A Two-Dimensional Porphyrin-Based Porous Network
Meike Stoehr , Nikolai Wintjes , Hannes Spillmann , Andreas Kiebele , Serpil Boz , Thomas Jung , Fuyong Cheng , Davide Bonifazi , Francois Diederich

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D42.00004: Creation of open networks from perylene derivatives
Manfred Matena , Meike Stoehr , Markus Wahl , Tomas Samuely , Thomas A. Jung , Lutz H. Gade

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D42.00005: Statistical Mechanics of Pore Self-Ordering in Porous Alumina
Arief Budiman , Daniel Lo

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D42.00006: Characterization of molecular linkages of Zeolite microcrystal assembly
Heeju Lee , Jin Seon Park , Kyung Byung Yoon , Hyunjung Kim

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D42.00007: Determination of the hyperpolarizability components of hemicyanine dyes by measuring the anisotropic fluorescence and second harmonic of the dyes uniformly aligned within zeolite channels
Doseok Kim , Taekyu Shim , Myounghee Lee , Bumku Rhee , Hyeonsik Cheong , Hyunsung Kim , Kyungbyung Yoon

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D42.00008: Orientational Order and Hyperpolarizability of Nonlinear Chromophore Molecules Supported in Amphiphilic 4-Helix Bundle Peptides
Grazia Gonella , Andrey Tronin , Michael J. Therien , Hai-Lung Dai , J. Kent Blasie

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D42.00009: \textit{Ab initio }simulations of alkyl-terminated Si(001) surfaces.
Giancarlo Cicero

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D42.00010: Structure and morphology of (111) textured Au/Co/Au trilayers grown on glass by MBE.
Divine Kumah , J.R. Skuza , A. Cebollada , C. Clevaro , J.M. Garcia Martin , R.A. Lukaszew , Roy Clarke

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D42.00011: Silicon-on-insulator for symmetry-converted growth
Y. Fujikawa , Y. Yamada-Takamura , G. Yoshikawa , T. Ono , M. Esashi , P. Zhang , M. G. Lagally , T. Sakurai

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D42.00012: Nanotube Formation from Self-Bending Nanofilms Driven by Atomic-scale Surface Stress Imbalance
Ji Zang , Minghuang Huang , Feng Liu

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D42.00013: Formation of metallic periodic nanostructures by spontaneous oscillation in self-organized electrocrystallization
Mu Wang , Ruwen Peng , Guobin Ma , Xiping Hao , Naiben Ming

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Session D43: Synthesis and Growth of Nanostructured Materials

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Chris Palmstrom, Univeristy of Minnesota
Colorado Convention Center - 506


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D43.00001: Detailed Structure Determination of Nanostructures by Low-Energy Electron Diffraction.
Michel Van Hove , G.M. Gavaza , Z.X. Yu , L. Tsang , C.H. Chan , S.Y. Tong

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D43.00002: Modeling the Role of Ligands in Controlling the Sizes, Shapes and Supramolecular Ordering of Quantum Dots
Michael Tambasco , Sanat Kumar , Igal Szleifer

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D43.00003: Migration-influenced island size distribution in interfacial growth
Da-Jun Shu , Mu Wang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

D43.00004: A level-set method for self-organized pattern formation during heteroepitaxial growth
Christian Ratsch , Young-Ju Lee , Xiaobin Niu , Russel Caflisch

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

D43.00005: Phononic Band Gaps in Colloidal Crystals at Hypersonic Frequencies
George Fytas , Wei Cheng , Eugenia Nunez , Ulrich Jonas , Nikolaos Stefanou

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

D43.00006: Local crystal structure of iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized from Ferritin
Michael Krispin , Marcus Preisinger , Peter Pfalzer , Siegfried Horn , Daniel Strongin

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D43.00007: Viscoplasticity and granularity in films of colloidal nanocrystals
Dongyun Lee , Shengguo Jia , Sarbajit Banerjee , Joze Bevk , Irving Herman , Jeffrey Kysar

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D43.00008: Doping colloidal nanocrystals: the role of surfactacts
Mao-Hua Du , Steven Erwin , Alexander Efros

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D43.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D43.00010: Sub-100 nm interferometric lithography realized with table top extreme ultraviolet lasers
Mario Marconi , Przemyslaw Wachulak , Dineshchandra Patel , Maria Gabriela Capeluto , Carmen Menoni , Jorge Rocca

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D43.00011: Chemical Nanomachining of Si
Jeremy Robinson , Paul Evans , J. Alex Liddle , Oscan Dubon

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D43.00012: Sculpting of Nanopores in Silicon-Nitride Membranes
Kristin Lucas , Jeffrey L. Wasserman , Soo Hyung Lee , Nina Markovic

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D43.00013: Nanocrystalline Composite Media in the GeO$_{2}$-Ga$_{2}$O$_{3}$ Mullite-Type System: Synthesis and Conventional as Well as Synchrotron Based Characterization
Kristina E. Lipinska-Kalita , Patricia E. Kalita , Oliver Hemmers , Cedric L. Gobin , Gino Mariotto , Thomas Hartmann , Longzhou Ma

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D43.00014: GaAs$_{x}$P$_{1-x}$ Superlattice nanowires.
Romaneh Jalilian , Sharvil Desai , Anton Sidorov , Zhiqiang Chen , B. K. Pradhan , Gamini Sumanasekera

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

D43.00015: Quantitative structural characterization of annealed InAs/GaSb superlattices
Ge Liu , Bernd Fruhberger , Ivan K. Schuller , Heather J. Haugan , Gail J. Brown

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Session D44: Focus Session: Spin and Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Nanostructures

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Gabriel Bester, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Colorado Convention Center - 507


Monday, March 5, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

D44.00001: Optical control and determination of charge in self-assembled quantum dots
M. Korkusinski , P. Hawrylak , A. Babinski , M. Potemski , S. Raymond , J. Lapointe , Z. Wasilewski

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

D44.00002: Spin effects in coupled quantum dots under ac electric fields
Lilia Meza-Montes , Arezky H. Hernandez , Sergio E. Ulloa

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Monday, March 5, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

D44.00003: Qubit identification and entanglement in tunneling and F\"{o}rster coupled quantum dots
Juan E. Rolon , Sergio E. Ulloa

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:06PM - 3:42PM

D44.00004: Spin Interactions in Optically Excited Quantum Dot Molecules
Invited Speaker: Michael Scheibner

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

D44.00005: Theory of Spin States in Coupled Quantum Dots.
Ilya Ponomarev , Matt Doty , Michael Scheibner , Allan Bracker , Dan Gammon , Tom Reinecke

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Monday, March 5, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

D44.00006: Polarized stimulated emission from photonic molecule states in coupled microdisk lasers
X. Li , B.J. Cooley , N. Samarth , F.M. Mendoza , R.C. Myers , D.D. Awschalom

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

D44.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

D44.00008: Spin Multiphoton Antiresonance at Finite Temperatures
Christian Hicke , Mark Dykman

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

D44.00009: Nonlinear interlevel optical phenomena in quantum dots
Victor Bondarenko , Yang Zhao

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

D44.00010: Origin of second-harmonic generation of Si nanoinclusions in glass
E.J. Adles , D.E. Aspnes

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Monday, March 5, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

D44.00011: Rabi Coupling Between IR-active Phonon and Cavity-resonant Electromagnetic Modes
Gavin K. Brennen , H.M. Lawler , Sanjiv Shresta , J.N. Byrd

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Monday, March 5, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

D44.00012: Electron-Photon interaction associated Uncertaity Relation based Tunneling in a Parallel Double Quantum Dot System
Kao-Chin Lin

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