Bulletin of the American Physical Society

40th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume 54, Number 7

Tuesday–Saturday, May 19–23, 2009; Charlottesville, Virginia

Session Index

Session Q1: Ultracold Molecules I

Chair: Nick Bigelow, University of Rochester
Room: Chemistry Building 402

Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00AM - 8:30AM		Q1.00001: Ultracold Polar Molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:30AM - 9:00AM		Q1.00002: Ultracold triplet Rb$_{2}$ molecules in the rovibrational ground state Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 9:30AM		Q1.00003: Photoassociation of ultracold polar molecules in the rovibrational ground state Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:30AM - 10:00AM		Q1.00004: Ultracold Heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi Molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session Q2: Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chair: J. Thywissen, University of Toronto
Room: Gilmer Hall 130

Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q2.00001: Phase Space Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Spinor Condensate Yingmei Liu, Eduardo Gomez, Stephen Maxwell, Lincoln Turner, Eite Tiesinga, Paul Lett Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:12AM - 8:24AM		Q2.00002: Probe momentum distribution of a quasi-2d condensate using condensate focusing Shihkuang Tung, Giacomo Lamporesi, Eric Cornell Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:24AM - 8:36AM		Q2.00003: Three-Compoment Coreless Vortices in a Spinor BEC L. Suzanne Leslie, Azure Hansen, Kevin Wright, Nick Bigelow Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:36AM - 8:48AM		Q2.00004: Measuring the rates of spontaneous vortex formation in highly oblate Bose-Einstein condensates Tyler Neely, Edward Samson, Ashton Bradley, Matthew Davis, Brian Anderson Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:48AM - 9:00AM		Q2.00005: Splitting a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Two Translating Traps B. Sun, M.S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 9:12AM		Q2.00006: Induced interaction and crystallization of impurity fields in a Bose-Einstein condensate David Roberts, Sergio Rica Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:12AM - 9:24AM		Q2.00007: A buffer-gas cooled BEC of metastable $^4$He S. Charles Doret, Colin B. Connolly, Wolfgang Ketterle, John M. Doyle Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:24AM - 9:36AM		Q2.00008: Structure and Collapse of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate Ryan Wilson, Shai Ronen, John Bohn Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:36AM - 9:48AM		Q2.00009: Solving Coupled Gross--Pitaevskii Equations on a Cluster of PlayStation 3 Computers Mark Edwards, Jeffrey Heward, C.W. Clark Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:48AM - 10:00AM		Q2.00010: The Two-Mode Approximation in a Realistic Bose-Josephson Junction in a $^{85}$Rb/$^{87}$Rb BEC Mixture Jeffrey Heward, Mark Edwards, C.W. Clark Preview Abstract

Session Q3: Magnetometry

Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Room: Gilmer Hall 190

Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q3.00001: New Method for Light Shift Elimination in Optical Pumping Systems Bart McGuyer, Yuan-Yu Jau, William Happer Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:12AM - 8:24AM		Q3.00002: Dressed Spin of Helium-3 in the Cell at Room Temperature Ping-Han Chu, Andrea Esler, Jen-Chieh Peng, Douglas Beck, Steven Clayton, Steven E. Williamson, Jacob Yoder Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:24AM - 8:36AM		Q3.00003: Atomic Magnetometry in the AttoTesla Regime Hoan Bui Dang, Michael Romalis Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:36AM - 8:48AM		Q3.00004: Spin-Damping in an RF atomic magnetometer Orang Alem, Michael V. Romalis, Karen L. Sauer Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:48AM - 9:00AM		Q3.00005: Earth-Field Self Oscillating Magnetometer Eric Corsini, Brian Patton, Dmitry Budker Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 9:12AM		Q3.00006: Detection of scalar coupling at zero magnetic field with an atomic magnetometer Micah Ledbetter, Charles Crawford, Alex Pines, Dave Wemmer, John Kitching, Svenja Knappe, Dmitry Budker Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:12AM - 9:24AM		Q3.00007: Microfabricated spin exchange relaxation free atomic magnetometer W. Clark Griffith, Ricardo Jimenez-Martinez, Jan Preusser, Svenja Knappe, John Kitching Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:24AM - 9:36AM		Q3.00008: Nuclear quadrupole resonances and their effect on NMR sensors Elizabeth Donley, Tara Cubel-Liebisch, Jonathan Long, Eleanor Hodby, Ted Fisher, John Kitching Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:36AM - 9:48AM		Q3.00009: Magnetometry With High Spatial Resolution Using Cold Atoms in Dark Optical Tweezers Fredrik Fatemi, Mark Bashkansky Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:48AM - 10:00AM		Q3.00010: Magnetometric sensitivity optimization for nonlinear optical rotation with frequency-modulated light Louis Rene Jacome, Srikanth Guttikonda, Lok Fai Chan, Eric J. Bahr, Derek F. Jackson Kimball Preview Abstract

Session Q4: Collisions with Biomolecules

Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton
Room: Clark Hall 108

Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00AM - 8:30AM		Q4.00001: Low-Energy Electron Collisions with Biomolecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:30AM - 9:00AM		Q4.00002: Effects of low-energy electrons on DNA constituents: effective cross sections for condensed thymidine Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 9:30AM		Q4.00003: Positron Scattering from Bio-Molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:30AM - 10:00AM		Q4.00004: Plasmas for Biomedical Applications: Interaction Pathways of Low Temperature Plasmas with Biological Cells Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session Q5: Nonlinear Dynamics

Chair: John Delos, College of William and Mary
Room: Clark Hall 107

Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q5.00001: Some exactly solvable quantum-chaotic models Vladimir Yurovsky, Maxim Olshanii Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:12AM - 8:24AM		Q5.00002: Chaos Threshold and Failure of Chirikov's Criteria in Mean Field Bose-Hubbard Model Amy Cassidy, Vanja Dunjko, Maxim Olshanii Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:24AM - 8:36AM		Q5.00003: Chaotic Escape of Rays from a Vase-shaped Billiard: Simulations and Experiment Jaison Novick, Mathew Keeler, John Delos Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:36AM - 8:48AM		Q5.00004: Chaotic Ionization of a Rydberg Atom Subjected to Alternating Kicks Korana Burke, Kevin Mitchell Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:48AM - 9:00AM		Q5.00005: Strong Field Atomic Dynamics Driven by Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses Stephen Clow, Uvo Holscher, Carlos Trallero, Thomas Weinacht Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 9:12AM		Q5.00006: Controlling Material Transformation and Plasma Emission with Trains of Ultrafast Laser Pulses Robert J. Gordon, Sima Singha, Zhan Hu Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:12AM - 9:24AM		Q5.00007: Monodromy matrix theory of Trojan wave packets on elliptical orbits Matt Kalinski Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:24AM - 9:36AM		Q5.00008: Three-dimensional solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with Rydberg state mediated nonlocal interactions Mark Saffman, Stefan Skupin, Pavel Lushnikov, Wieslaw Krolikowski Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:36AM - 9:48AM		Q5.00009: High Degrees of Impulsive Alignment in Repetitively Excited $\mbox{N}_2$ at STP James Cryan, Ryan Coffee, Philip Bucksbaum Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:48AM - 10:00AM		Q5.00010: Moyal phase-space analysis of nonlinear optical Kerr media Karl-Peter Marzlin, Tom Osborn Preview Abstract

Session Q6: Ultra-Fast Probing of Molecular Wave Functions

Chair: Tom Weinacht, SUNY Stony Brook
Room: Minor Hall 125

Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00AM - 8:30AM		Q6.00001: Time and Space Resolved High Harmonic Imaging of Electron Tunnelling from Molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:30AM - 9:00AM		Q6.00002: Theory of Dynamic Chemical Imaging with infrared laser Pulses Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 9:30AM		Q6.00003: Multi-Orbital contributions in High Harmonic Generation Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:30AM - 10:00AM		Q6.00004: Molecular dynamics probed using high harmonic generation and strong field ionization Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

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