Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 37th Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Tuesday–Saturday, May 16–20, 2006; Knoxville, TN

Session Index

Session N1: Thesis Prize Session

Chair: Steven Manson, Georgia State University
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall

Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:30PM - 2:06PM		N1.00001: The Relative Phase of Two Spatially Separate Bose-Einstein Condensates Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:06PM - 2:42PM		N1.00002: Fully Quantum Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment Invited Speaker: Brian Odom Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:42PM - 3:18PM		N1.00003: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:18PM - 3:54PM		N1.00004: Incoherent Waves and Random-Phase Solitons in Nonlinear Periodic Systems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session N2: Particle-Induced Ionization and Break-up Processes of Atoms and Molecules

Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzak, Kansas State University
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG

Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:30PM - 2:06PM		N2.00001: Recent progress in modeling the electron-impact ionization of atoms. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:06PM - 2:42PM		N2.00002: Electron and Photon Impact Ionization: Extracting Fundamental Quantities From Experiment Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:42PM - 3:18PM		N2.00003: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Atomic Fragmentation Processes Invited Speaker: Michael Schulz Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:18PM - 3:54PM		N2.00004: Novel Studies of Electron-Impact Induced Ionization of Atoms and Molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session N3: Atoms in Optical Lattices

Chair: Sabrina Leslie, University of California, Berkeley
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D

Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:30PM - 1:42PM		N3.00001: A lattice of double wells for manipulating pairs of cold atoms. Jennifer Sebby-Strabley, Marco Anderlini, Ben Brown, Johnny Huckans, Jens Kruse, Patricia Lee, Ian Spielman, Steve Rolston, James Porto, William Phillips Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:42PM - 1:54PM		N3.00002: Experiments with Ultra-cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice with Dynamically Variable Lattice Constant John Huckans, Ian Spielman, Bruno Laburthe Tolra, J.V. Porto, W.D. Phillips Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:54PM - 2:06PM		N3.00003: Probing Localization Physics with a Bose-Einstein Condensate Subject to Optical Random Potential: Interplay of Interaction and Disorder Yong P. Chen, M. Junker, D. Dries, C. Welford, J. Hitchcock, R. G. Hulet Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:06PM - 2:18PM		N3.00004: Quantum coherence of Hard-Core-Bosons and Fermions: Extended, Glassy and Mott Phases Ana Maria Rey, Indubala I. Satija , Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:18PM - 2:30PM		N3.00005: Metal-insulator transition revisited for cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials Daniel Dakin, Indubala Satija Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:30PM - 2:42PM		N3.00006: Quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates from nano-pillars T.A. Pasquini, M. Saba, Y. Shin, G. Jo, C. Christensen, S. Will, D.E. Pritchard, W. Ketterle Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:42PM - 2:54PM		N3.00007: Interaction-induced localization of an impurity in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate Ryan Kalas, D. Blume Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:54PM - 3:06PM		N3.00008: Coherent collisional spin-dynamics in an optical lattice Artur Widera, Simon F\"olling, Fabrice Gerbier, Torben M\"uller, Immanuel Bloch Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:06PM - 3:18PM		N3.00009: Bragg spectroscopy of Bose-condensed atoms in an optical lattice Xu Du, Shoupu Wan, Emek Yesilada, Changyun Ryu, Daniel Heinzen Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:18PM - 3:30PM		N3.00010: Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Number Statistics in a Degenerate Bose Gas. Chih-Sung Chuu, Florian Schreck, Todd P. Meyrath, Gabriel N. Price, Mark G. Raizen Preview Abstract

Session N4: Quantum and Non-Linear Optics

Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian for Astrophysics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E

Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:30PM - 1:42PM		N4.00001: Stored light optimization in Rb vapor cells Irina Novikova, David Phillips, Ronald Walsworth Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:42PM - 1:54PM		N4.00002: Influence of EIT coherence on laser phase-noise to intensity-noise conversion Yanhong Xiao, David Phillips, Cindy Hancox, Irina Novikova, Ronald Walsworth Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:54PM - 2:06PM		N4.00003: Light storage in coated vapor cells Michael Hohensee, Mason Klein, David Phillips, Irina Novikova, Ronald Walsworth Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:06PM - 2:18PM		N4.00004: Negative refraction without absorption in the optical regime Juergen Kaestel, Michael Fleischhauer, Susanne F. Yelin, Ron L. Walsworth Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:18PM - 2:30PM		N4.00005: The N- and CPT- joint resonance: Theory, experiment and implications for novel compact frequency references. Michael Crescimanno, Irina Novikova, Yanhong Xiao, Cindy Hancox, David Phillips, Ron Walsworth Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:30PM - 2:42PM		N4.00006: Two photon quantum interference of light emitted by two ions P. Maunz, M.J. Madsen, D.L. Moehring, K. Younge, R.N. Kohn, Jr., C. Monroe Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:42PM - 2:54PM		N4.00007: Quantum State Reconstruction of a Large Angular Momentum by Continuous Weak Meaurement Poul Jessen, Greg Smith, Andrew Silberfarb, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:54PM - 3:06PM		N4.00008: Large Cross-Phase Modulation between Slow Co-propagating Weak Pulses in $^{87}$Rb Z.B. Wang, K.-P. Marzlin, B.C. Sanders Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:06PM - 3:18PM		N4.00009: Cavity-Aided Single Atom Detection on an Atom Chip Igor Teper, Yu-ju Lin, Vladan Vuletic Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:18PM - 3:30PM		N4.00010: Coherent Interactions with Rubidium Atoms Confined in a Hollow-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fiber Saikat Ghosh, Amar Bhagwat, Christopher Kyle Renshaw, Shireen Goh, Alexander Gaeta, Brian Kirby Preview Abstract

Session N5: Wavepackets and Control of Molecules and Large Systems

Chair: Brett Pearson, SUNY Stony Brook
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB

Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:30PM - 1:42PM		N5.00001: Controlling Molecular Fragmentation: Charge Transfer in a Dissociating Molecule Brett Pearson, Mark Baertschy, David Cardoza, Thomas Weinacht Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:42PM - 1:54PM		N5.00002: Imaging Molecular Wavefunctions during Dissociation Mark Baertschy, Brett Pearson, David Cardoza, Thomas Weinacht Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:54PM - 2:06PM		N5.00003: Coherent control of excited state vibrational coherences of a molecule in solution Andrei Florean, Elizabeth Carroll, Roseanne Sension, Philip Bucksbaum Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:06PM - 2:18PM		N5.00004: Dynamical coherence transfer in photoelectron diffraction in N$_2$ B. Zimmermann, V. McKoy, B. Langer, U. Becker Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:18PM - 2:30PM		N5.00005: Optimizing impulsive rotational wave packet excitation for molecular phase modulation Omid Masihzadeh, Mark Baertschy, Randy Bartels Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:30PM - 2:42PM		N5.00006: Rotational wave packet dynamics with high energy excitation Mark Baertschy, Omid Masihzadeh, Randy Bartels Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:42PM - 2:54PM		N5.00007: Optimal Control of Large Spin Systems Seth Merkel, Souma Chaudhury, Andrew Silberfarb, Tobias Herr, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:54PM - 3:06PM		N5.00008: Control of Landau orbits by electromagnetic vortices Iwo Bialynicki-Birula Preview Abstract

Session N6: Spectroscopy, Lifetimes, Oscillator Strengths

Chair: Sultana Nahar, Ohio University
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C

Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:30PM - 1:42PM		N6.00001: Fine structure measurements in high-L, n=17 and 20 Rydberg states of magnesium: A determination of the polarizabilities of Mg$^{+}$ Erica L. Snow, Laura E. Wright, Stephen R. Lundeen Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:42PM - 1:54PM		N6.00002: Fine Structure Measurements in High-L Rydberg States of Argon. Laura E. Wright, Erica L. Snow, Stephen R. Lundeen, W. Gregg Sturrus Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:54PM - 2:06PM		N6.00003: Hyperfine splitting of the $6s$ level in Rb and its hyperfine anomaly Adrian Perez-Galvan, Yanting Zhao, Luis Orozco Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:06PM - 2:18PM		N6.00004: M\"{o}ssbauer Study of Eu$_{14}$MnSb$_{11}$ and Yb$_{14}$MnSb$_{11}$ Zintl Compounds. Durga Kafle, Dennis Brown Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:18PM - 2:30PM		N6.00005: Lattice based spectroscopy on an even isotope of Yb Zeb Barber, Chad Hoyt, Chris Oates, Leo Hollberg Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:30PM - 2:42PM		N6.00006: 2p$_{3/2}^{-1}$3x$^{-1}$-3x$^{-1}$3d$^{-1}$ X-Ray satellites in the L$\alpha$$_{1}$ region of 4d transition elements Surendra Poonia Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:42PM - 2:54PM		N6.00007: L$\beta$ $_{2 }$ satellites in the X-ray emission spectra of 5d transition elements Surendra Poonia Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:54PM - 3:06PM		N6.00008: High Precision Theory and Isotope Shifts for Li and Be+ Gordon Drake, Zong-Chao Yan Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:06PM - 3:18PM		N6.00009: Precision Measurement of the 2$^{3}$S$_{1}$-2$^{3}$P$_{J}$ Transitions in $^{4}$He using an Optical Frequency Comb Daniel Farkas, Gerald Gabrielse Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:18PM - 3:30PM		N6.00010: Temperature Dependent Electronic and Vibrational Circular Dichroism of Carvone and Limonene Watheq Al-basheer, Jiangtao He, Prasad Polavarapu, Richard Pagni, Robert Compton Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:30PM - 3:42PM		N6.00011: Systematic Study of the $^{87}$Sr Clock Transition in an Optical Lattice Martin Boyd, Andrew Ludlow, Tanya Zelevinsky, Seth Foreman, Sebastian Blatt, Mark Notcutt, Tetsuya Ido, Jun Ye Preview Abstract

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