Bulletin of the American Physical Society

39th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volume 53, Number 7

Tuesday–Saturday, May 27–31, 2008; State College, Pennsylvania

Session Index

Session U1: Creating and Manipulating Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules

Chair: Laurence Pruvost, Lab Aime Cotton
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE

Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:00AM - 8:36AM		U1.00001: Rovibrational Dynamics and Photoassociation of Cold Heteronuclear Dimers in Electric Fields Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:36AM - 9:12AM		U1.00002: Heteronuclear K-Rb mixtures with tunable interactions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:12AM - 9:48AM		U1.00003: Creation of heteronuclear Feshbach molecules with $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:48AM - 10:24AM		U1.00004: Cold Controlled Chemistry Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U2: Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons

Chair: Matt Mackie, Temple University
Room: Kern Building 112

Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:00AM - 8:36AM		U2.00001: Strong Interactions of Photon Pairs in Cavity QED Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:36AM - 8:48AM		U2.00002: Coherent control of a single atom in cavity QED T.E. Northup, A.D. Boozer, R. Miller, A. Boca, D. Wilson, H.J. Kimble Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:48AM - 9:00AM		U2.00003: Combining Cavity QED and Atom Chips Thomas Purdy, Daniel Brooks, Dan Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:00AM - 9:12AM		U2.00004: Progress Toward a Cavity-QED Realization of the Dicke Model Quantum Phase Transition Robert Cook, Ben Baragiola, JM Geremia Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:12AM - 9:48AM		U2.00005: Strongly correlated photons in one-dimensional waveguides Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:48AM - 10:00AM		U2.00006: Conditional Quantum Beats in Cavity QED David Norris, Rebecca Olson Knell, Jietai Jing, L.A. Orozco Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:00AM - 10:12AM		U2.00007: Can we make precision measurements more precise? James K. Thompson, Shannon R. Sankar, Zilong Chen Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:12AM - 10:24AM		U2.00008: Spin squeezing in optical lattice clocks through lattice based quantum non-demolition measurements Dominic Meiser, Murray J. Holland Preview Abstract

Session U3: Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization

Chair: Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Keller Building 104

Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:00AM - 8:36AM		U3.00001: Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Ionization Processes Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:36AM - 8:48AM		U3.00002: Extracting accurate cross sections for one- and two-photon double ionization from a time-dependent wavepacket Alicia Palacios, Thomas Rescigno, C. William McCurdy Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:48AM - 9:00AM		U3.00003: Time-series analysis of vibrational nuclear wave packet dynamics U. Thumm, T. Niederhausen, B. Feuerstein Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:00AM - 9:12AM		U3.00004: Two-dimensional electron angular distributions from aligned molecules Vinod Kumarappan, Lotte Holmegaard, Christian Martiny, Christian Madsen, Thomas Kjeldsen, Simon Viftrup, Lars Madsen, Henrik Stapelfeldt Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:12AM - 9:48AM		U3.00005: Fragmentation of Small Molecules by Photo-Double Ionization Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:48AM - 10:00AM		U3.00006: Excitation and Ionization of Argon by Few-Cycle Intense Laser Pulses Xiaoxu Guan, Oleg Zatsarinny, Klaus Bartschat, Barry Schneider Preview Abstract

Session U4: Cooling and Trapping

Chair: Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB

Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:00AM - 8:12AM		U4.00001: Magnetic trapping of copper and silver using buffer gas loading Nathaniel Brahms, Bonna Newman, Cort Johnson, Thomas Greytak, Daniel Kleppner, John Doyle Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:12AM - 8:24AM		U4.00002: Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Nitrogen and Cotrapping of NH Matthew Hummon, Wesley Campbell, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Yihua Wang, John Doyle Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:24AM - 8:36AM		U4.00003: AC electric trapping of neutral atoms Adela Marian, Sophie Schlunk, Wieland Schoellkopf, Gerard Meijer Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:36AM - 8:48AM		U4.00004: Progress towards a buffer gas cooled BEC of metastable He S. Charles Doret, Colin B. Connolly, Wolfgang Ketterle, John M. Doyle Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:48AM - 9:00AM		U4.00005: Narrow-Line Laser Cooling and Trapping of Strongly Magnetic Atoms Andrew Berglund, James Hanssen, Jabez McClelland Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:00AM - 9:12AM		U4.00006: Collisional cooling of ultra-cold atom ensembles Ludwig Mathey, Eite Tiesinga, Paul Julienne, Charles Clark Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:12AM - 9:24AM		U4.00007: Trapping cold Cs atoms in an optical bottle beam Larry Isenhower, Will Williams, Adam Dally, Mark Saffman Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:24AM - 9:36AM		U4.00008: State-insensitive two-color optical trapping Bindiya Arora, M.S. Safronova, Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:36AM - 9:48AM		U4.00009: Spin Relaxation in Dark Optical Traps Spencer Olson, Matthew Terraciano, Mark Bashkansky, Fredrik Fatemi Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:48AM - 10:00AM		U4.00010: Evaporative Cooling Of a Photon Fluid to Quantum Degeneracy Brian Seaman, Murray Holland Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:00AM - 10:12AM		U4.00011: Optomechanical cooling and trapping in a three-mirror cavity M. Bhattacharya, H. Uys, P. Meystre Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:12AM - 10:24AM		U4.00012: Using a Laguerre-Gaussian beam to cool and trap the rotational motion of a mirror M. Bhattacharya, P.-L. Giscard, P. Meystre Preview Abstract

Session U5: New Experimental Techniques

Chair: Marty Ligare, Bucknell University
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I

Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:00AM - 8:12AM		U5.00001: Rubidium atomic hyperfine filter for amplitude manipulation of femtosecond frequency comb Marin Pichler, Hrvoje Skenderovi\' c, Damir Aumiler, Ticijana Ban, Goran Pichler Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:12AM - 8:24AM		U5.00002: Laser frequency comb for improved exoplanet detection and cosmology Chih-Hao Li, Andrew J. Benedick, Peter Fendel, Alex Glenday, Franz X. Kaertner, David F. Phillips, Dimitar Sasselov, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Ronald L. Walsworth Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:24AM - 8:36AM		U5.00003: Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of Alkali Salts Ben Olsen, Brian Patton, Yuan-Yu Jau, Will Happer, Kiyoshi Ishikawa Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:36AM - 8:48AM		U5.00004: Laser-Atomic Oscillator Yuan-Yu Jau, William Happer Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:48AM - 9:00AM		U5.00005: Polarization of metastable 129Xe Tian Xia, Steven Morgan, Yuan-Yu Jau, William Happer Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:00AM - 9:12AM		U5.00006: Slowing and Stopping Supersonic Beams with an Atomic Coilgun Adam Libson, Edvardas Narevicius, Christian G. Parthey, Isaac Chavez, Julia Narevicius, Uzi Even, Mark G. Raizen Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:12AM - 9:24AM		U5.00007: Detecting level crossings without looking at the spectrum M. Bhattacharya, C. Raman Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:24AM - 9:36AM		U5.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:36AM - 9:48AM		U5.00009: Monitoring coherent vibrational control with transient multidimensional infrared spectroscopy. Matthew Ross, Kevin Kubarych Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:48AM - 10:00AM		U5.00010: Detection and Imaging of $\rm{He}_2$ Triplet Molecules in Superfluid Helium W.G. Rellergert, S.B. Cahn, A. Curioni, J.A. Nikkel, J.D. Wright, D.N. McKinsey Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:00AM - 10:12AM		U5.00011: Laser Induced Electron Diffraction A. Staudte, M. Meckel, D. Comtois, D. Zeidler, D. Pavicic, H. Bandulet, H. Pepin, J.C. Kieffer, R. Doerner, D.M. Villeneuve, P.B. Corkum Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:12AM - 10:24AM		U5.00012: Analysis of a single pulse of light through a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer J. Bruce Johnson, Kevin Lyon, Michael J. Johnson Preview Abstract

Session U6: Electron-Atom and Positron-Atom Collisions

Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II

Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:00AM - 8:12AM		U6.00001: Coupled-cluster based R-matrix codes (CCRM): Recent developments Chiranjib Sur, Anil K. Pradhan Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:12AM - 8:24AM		U6.00002: Full-Relativistic B-Spline R-Matrix Calculations for Electron Collisions with Gold Atoms. Oleg Zatsarinny, Klaus Bartschat, Charlotte Froese \hbox{Fischer} Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:24AM - 8:36AM		U6.00003: Electron Impact Ionization of Xenon Atomic Ions John A. Ludlow, Stuart D. Loch, Michael S. Pindzola Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:36AM - 8:48AM		U6.00004: Differential Cross Sections for Electron-Impact Single and Double Ionization of Helium Michael S. Pindzola, John A. Ludlow, Francis J. Robicheaux, James P. Colgan Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:48AM - 9:00AM		U6.00005: Electron impact autoionization in the presence of a laser field B.A. deHarak, K.D. Wells, K.B. MacAdam, N.L.S. Martin Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:00AM - 9:12AM		U6.00006: Energy of the quasi-free electron in low density Ar and Kr: Extension of the local Wigner-Seitz model Xianbo Shi, Luxi Li, Gina Moriarty, Cherice Evans, Gary Findley Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:12AM - 9:24AM		U6.00007: High resolution positron scattering from helium James Sullivan, Peter Caradonna, Adric Jones, Stephen Buckman, Casten Makochekanwa Preview Abstract

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