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 R1: Focus Session: Fermi Gases

Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University
Room: Chemistry Building 402

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:30AM - 11:00AM		R1.00001: Theory of BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Fermi Gases: Insights into Thermodynamical and Spectroscopic Experiments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:00AM - 11:30AM		R1.00002: Experiments with Interacting Fermi Gases Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		R1.00003: Zero Sound in Fermi Dipolar Condensates Shai Ronen, John Bohn Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		R1.00004: Biaxial nematic phases in ultracold dipolar Fermi gases Benjamin Fregoso, Kai Sun, Eduardo Fradkin, Benjamin Lev Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		R1.00005: Superfluid density profile in a trapped Fermi gas Nicolai Nygaard, Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		R1.00006: Trapped fermion mixtures with unequal masses: a Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach Menderes Iskin, Carl Williams Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		R1.00007: A ``Dilution Refrigerator'' Using Spin-Polarized Fermions Sourish Basu, Erich J. Mueller Preview Abstract

Session R2: Rydberg Gases

Chair: Georg Raithel, University of Michigan
Room: Gilmer Hall 130

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:30AM - 11:00AM		R2.00001: Generation of localized ``Bohr-like'' wavepackets in near-circular orbit about the nucleus Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:00AM - 11:30AM		R2.00002: Deceleration and electrostatic trapping of hydrogen Rydberg molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:30AM - 12:00PM		R2.00003: Dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms in RF fields Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:00PM - 12:30PM		R2.00004: Simulations of a strongly interacting Rydberg gas Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session R3: EIT and Slow Light

Chair: Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin
Room: Gilmer Hall 190

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:30AM - 10:42AM		R3.00001: Studies on negative refractive index without absorption Renuka Rajapakse, Susanne Yelin Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:42AM - 10:54AM		R3.00002: Multi-Soliton Pulse Areas and the Bright-Dark Basis E. Groves, J.H. Eberly Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:54AM - 11:06AM		R3.00003: Magneto-optical control of the speed of light Anil Patnaik, Paul Hsu, Sukesh Roy, James Gord Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:06AM - 11:18AM		R3.00004: Electromagnetically induced transparency involving Rydberg states in a Rb microcell James Shaffer, Harold K\"ubler, Thomas Baluktsian, Alexi Charnukha, Christian Urban, Robert L\"ow, Tilman Pfau Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:18AM - 11:30AM		R3.00005: Experimental study of memory decay in an optically dense EIT medium Nathaniel Phillips, Irina Novikova, Alexey Gorshkov Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		R3.00006: Electromagnetically induced transparency and four-wave mixing in an optically dense atomic vapor Irina Novikova, Nathaniel Phillips, Alexey Gorshkov Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		R3.00007: Controlling Light with Light: Efficient Energy Transfer between Laser Beams by Stimulated Raman Scattering Youbo Zhao, Tana E. Witt, Robert J. Gordon Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		R3.00008: Cross correlation between entangled photon pairs from four-wave mixing in a Warm Ensemble of Rubidium Tommy Willis, Francisco Willis, Daniel Hemmer, Steven Rolston, Luis Orozco Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		R3.00009: All-Optical Modulation of Four Wave Mixing in a Rb-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fiber Pablo Londero, Vivek Venkataraman, Amar Bhagwat, Aaron Slepkov, Alexander Gaeta Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		R3.00010: Pulse Propagation in Four-Level Atomic Systems Studied in light of Three-Level Doublets Tony Abi-Salloum, Seth Meiselman, J.P. Davis, Frank A. Narducci Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:30PM - 12:42PM		R3.00011: Dirac dynamics of stationary light in 1D: Klein tunneling and Zitterbewegung Johannes Otterbach, Razmik Unanyan, Michael Fleischhauer Preview Abstract

Session R4: Spectroscopy Techniques / MEMS

Chair: Mishkatul Bhattacharya, University of Arizona
Room: Clark Hall 108

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:30AM - 10:42AM		R4.00001: Population transfer between ground state and coherent superposition of excited states by spectrally shaped broadband pulses Sergey Zhdanovich, Evgeny Shapiro, Moshe Shapiro, John Hepburn, Valery Milner Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:42AM - 10:54AM		R4.00002: Narrowband spectroscopy by all-optical correlation of broadband pulses Xiaoji Xu, Stanislav Konorov, John Hepburn, Valery Milner Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:54AM - 11:06AM		R4.00003: Influence of femtosecond dephasing on CARS coherence in various approximations Vladimir Malinovsky Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:06AM - 11:18AM		R4.00004: Two-color STIRAP in trapped-ion quantum states Chitra Rangan Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:18AM - 11:30AM		R4.00005: Efficiency of STIRAP as a function of buffer gas pressure: sodium in argon Jim L. Hicks, Susan D. Allen, Joey Burdin, William D. Murry, J. Bruce Johnson Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		R4.00006: Cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy using a broadband prism cavity and a supercontinuum source Paul S. Johnston, Kevin K. Lehmann Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		R4.00007: High resolution spectroscopy of Rb atoms in hollow-core fibers Aaron Slepkov, Vivek Venkataraman, Amar Bhagwat, Pablo Londero, Alexander Gaeta Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		R4.00008: Active feedback lock of a Fabry-Perot cavity to the emission of a single quantum dot John Lawall, Michael Metcalfe, Glenn Solomon Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		R4.00009: Magnetic coupling of laser-cooled atoms to a micro-resonator Andrew Geraci, Ying-Ju Wang, Matthew Eardley, John Moreland, John Kitching Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		R4.00010: Multi-color, Multi-path Optical Beam Steering Utilizing High Performance MEMS Mirrors Caleb Knoernschild, Changsoon Kim, Felix Lu, Jungsang Kim Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:30PM - 12:42PM		R4.00011: Coupling nanomechanical cantilevers to dipolar molecules Swati Singh, Mishkat Bhattacharya, Omjyoti Dutta, Pierre Meystre Preview Abstract

Session R5: Feshbach Resonances

Chair: Seth Aubin, College of William and Mary
Room: Clark Hall 107

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:30AM - 10:42AM		R5.00001: Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Gases Eite Tiesinga, Cheng Chin, Rudolf Grimm, Paul Julienne Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:42AM - 10:54AM		R5.00002: Tuning atomic interactions near a Feshbach resonance in 87Rb Robert Compton, Yu-Ju Lin, Karina Jiminez-Garcia, Ian Spielman Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:54AM - 11:06AM		R5.00003: Analytic descriptions of magnetic Feshbach resonances in nonzero partial waves Bo Gao Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:06AM - 11:18AM		R5.00004: Controlling a magnetic Feshbach resonance with laser light Matthias Lettner, Dominik Bauer, Christoph Vo, Gerhard Rempe, Stephan Duerr Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:18AM - 11:30AM		R5.00005: Observation of an Optical Feshbach Resonance in $^{88}$Sr P.G. Mickelson, Y.N. Martinez de Escobar, M. Yan, R. Chakraborty, T.C. Killian Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		R5.00006: Optical Feshbach resonances in 171Yb Iris Reichenbach, Paul S. Julienne, Ivan H. Deutsch Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		R5.00007: Shape effects in low energy Feshbach resonances Ryan Kalas, Eddy Timmermans Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		R5.00008: Stability of a Three-Component $^{6}$Li$^{40}$K Fermi Mixture near a $^{6}$Li Feshbach Resonance Devang Naik, Frederik Spiegelhalder, Andreas Trenkwalder, Erik Wille, Gerhard Hendl, Florian Schreck, Rudolf Grimm Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		R5.00009: Atom loss in a two-component Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance Gyu-Boong Jo, Jae H. Choi, Caleb A. Christensen, Ye-ryoung Lee, Tout Wang, Tony H. Kim, Wolfgang Ketterle, David E. Pritchard Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		R5.00010: Electronic Feshbach Resonances created in Soft X-ray--Induced O$_{2}$ dissociation Etienne Gagnone, Robin Santra, Arvinder Sandhu, Vandana Sharma, Wen Li, Phay Ho, Predrag Ranitovic, Lew Cocke, Craig Hogle, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn Preview Abstract

Session R6: Focus Session: Interactions Between Individual Atoms

Chair: Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin
Room: Minor Hall 209

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:30AM - 11:00AM		R6.00001: Towards entanglement of two individual atoms using the Rydberg blockade Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:00AM - 11:30AM		R6.00002: Observation of long range Rydberg blockade Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		R6.00003: Entangled Mechanical Oscillators John D. Jost, J.P. Home, J.M. Amini, D. Hanneke, R. Ozeri, C. Langer*, J.J. Bollinger, D. Leibfried, D.J. Wineland Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		R6.00004: Ultrafast Manipulation of Trapped Ion Qubits Wes Campbell, Qudsia Quraishi, Jonathan Mizrahi, Chris Monroe Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		R6.00005: Optical lattice-based addressing and control of long-lived neutral-atom qubits Nathan Lundblad, Ian Spielman, William Phillips, Trey Porto Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		R6.00006: Dual Degeneracy of Lithium and Cesium Atoms for Scalable Quantum Information Processing Kathy-Anne Soderberg, Arjun Sharma, Kara Lamb, Peter Scherpelz, Andreas Klinger, Skyler Degenkolb, Nathan Gemelke, Cheng Chin Preview Abstract
Friday, May 22, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		R6.00007: Quantum information processing and quantum simulations with alkaline-earth atoms in an optical lattice Alexey Gorshkov, Eugene Demler, Mikhail Lukin, Andrew Daley, Peter Zoller, Martin Boyd, Jun Ye, Michael Hermele, Victor Gurarie, Ana Maria Rey Preview Abstract

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