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 X1: Hot Topics

Chair: Lou DiMauro, The Ohio State University
Room: Chemistry Building 402

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:30AM - 11:00AM		X1.00001: Towards quantum computing over the rainbow: scalable multipartite entanglement in the optical frequency comb Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:00AM - 11:30AM		X1.00002: Electron Microscopy of Ultracold Quantum Gases Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:30AM - 12:00PM		X1.00003: Synthesizing arbitrary photon states in a superconducting resonator: The quantum digital to analog converter Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:00PM - 12:30PM		X1.00004: Plasma-vacuum interface: a new medium for attosecond pulse generation Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X2: Focus Session: Ultracold Molecules II

Chair: Kate Kirby, ITAMP, Harvard University
Room: Gilmer Hall 130

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:30AM - 11:00AM		X2.00001: Understanding ultracold polar molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:00AM - 11:30AM		X2.00002: Experiments with Stark decelerated and trapped molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		X2.00003: Quantum phases of strongly interacting polar molecules Guido Pupillo, Andrea Micheli, Michael Ortner, Peter Zoller Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		X2.00004: Photonionization Spectroscopy of Electrostatically Trapped, Ultracold Polar Molecules in the Electronic Ground State Patrick Zabawa, Amy Wakim, Christopher Haimberger, Jan Kleinert, Nicholas P. Bigelow Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		X2.00005: Formation of weakly bound molecules in buffer-gas cooling experiments with silver atoms N. Brahms, T.V. Tscherbul, P. Zhang, J. Klos, Y. Au, H.R. Sadeghpour, A. Dalgarno, J.M. Doyle, T.G. Walker Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		X2.00006: Molecular cooling by optical pumping with shaped femtosecond pulses Daniel Comparat, Dimitris Sofikitis, Andr\'ea Fioretti, Xiaolin Li, Ridha Horchani, Pierre Pillet, Maria Allegrini, Marin Pichler, Sebastien Weber, B\'eatrice Chatel Preview Abstract

Session X3: Optical Lattices III

Chair: Cass Sackett, University of Virginia
Room: Gilmer Hall 190

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:30AM - 10:42AM		X3.00001: Artificial Relativity with Optical Lattices J.Y. Vaishnav, Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:42AM - 10:54AM		X3.00002: Solving the mystery of the missing superfluid shells: radio-frequency spectroscopy of a homogeneous Bose gas in an optical lattice yields a bimodal line shape Kaden Hazzard, Erich Mueller Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:54AM - 11:06AM		X3.00003: Long-lived quantum coherence in a 1D optical lattice investigated using 2D pump-probe spectroscopy Luciano S. Cruz, Samansa Maneshi, Chao Zhuang, Christopher R. Paul, Aephraim M. Steinberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:06AM - 11:18AM		X3.00004: Optical Microscope for Quantum Gases in a 2D Trap Waseem Bakr, Jonathon Gillen, Amy Peng, Simon F\"olling, Markus Greiner Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:18AM - 11:30AM		X3.00005: The Effects of Disorder in Systems of Neutral Atoms Confined in Optical Lattices M. Beeler, E.E. Edwards, Tao Hong, S.L. Rolston Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		X3.00006: Effects of interactions on an Anderson insulator in a disordered lattice Benjamin Deissler, Chiara D'Errico, Marco Fattori, Giacomo Roati, Matteo Zaccanti, Michele Modugno, Giovanni Modugno, Massimo Inguscio Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		X3.00007: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO Q2.00006 Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		X3.00008: Hexatic, Wigner crystal and superfluid phases of dipolar bosons Kaushik Mitra, Carlos Sa de Melo, Carl Williams Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		X3.00009: Two-dimensional FFLO vortex lattices and vortex liquids Predrag Nikolic Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		X3.00010: Repulsively Interacting Fermi-Fermi Mixtures in 3D Optical Lattices Sebastian Will, Ulrich Schneider, Lucia Hackerm\"{u}ller, Thorsten Best, Simon Braun, Immanuel Bloch Preview Abstract

Session X4: Precision Measurements

Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
Room: Clark Hall 108

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:30AM - 10:42AM		X4.00001: Evidence for Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moments in 133Cs and 87Rb from Measurements of Hyperfine Intervals Carol E. Tanner, Vladisalv Gerginov, Walter R. Johnson Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:42AM - 10:54AM		X4.00002: Atomic mass measurements for neutrino mass Matthew Redshaw, Brianna Mount, Edmund Myers Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:54AM - 11:06AM		X4.00003: Atomic masses of the alkalis, oxygen isotopes, and the dipole of a triatomic ion Brianna Mount, Matthew Redshaw, Edmund Myers Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:06AM - 11:18AM		X4.00004: Limit on variation of fundamental constants from photoassociation in ultracold gases Marko Gacesa, Robin C\^ot\'e Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:18AM - 11:30AM		X4.00005: Probing Interactions Between Ultracold Fermions Gretchen Campbell, Andrew Ludlow, Jan Thomsen, Martin Boyd, Michael Martin, Sebastian Blatt, Matthew Swallows, Travis Nicholson, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		X4.00006: Compact atomic clock prototype using a Rb vapor cell and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser Eugeniy Mikhailov, Nathan Belcher, Irina Novikova Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		X4.00007: Calculation of Blackbody Radiation Shifts for Atomic Clock Research Marianna Safronova, M.G. Kozlov, Dansha Jiang, Bindiya Arora, Charles W. Clark, Ulyana Safronova Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		X4.00008: Third-order relativistic many-body calculations of energies, transition rates, hyperfine constants, and black-body radiation shift in $^{171}$Yb$^+$ Ulyana Safronova, Marianna Safronova Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		X4.00009: Precise measurement of the hyperfine splittings within the 6p$_{3/2}$ level of atomic indium using two-color diode laser spectroscopy. Mevan Gunawardena, Huajie Cao, Paul W. Hess, P.K. Majumder Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		X4.00010: Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy of Cs $6S_{1/2}$-$7D_{3/2,\,5/2}$ transition Chin-Chun Tsai, Yi-Hsiu Chang, Ying-Yu Chen, Yi-Chih Lee, Hsiang-Chen Chui Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:30PM - 12:42PM		X4.00011: Spectroscopy of a singly trapped $^{25}$Mg$^{+}$ ion Jason Nguyen, Brian King Preview Abstract

Session X5: Atoms and QED

Chair: Irina Novikova, College of William and Mary
Room: Clark Hall 107

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:30AM - 10:42AM		X5.00001: Photon-Photon Entanglement with an Atom-Cavity System Joerg Bochmann, Bernhard Weber, Holger Specht, Martin Muecke, Christian Noelleke, Stephan Ritter, Eden Figueroa, David Moehring, Gerhard Rempe Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:42AM - 10:54AM		X5.00002: Bloch-Zener oscillations of atoms inside an optical cavity Prasanna Venkatesh Balasubramanian, Michael Trupke, Edward Hinds, Duncan O'Dell Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:54AM - 11:06AM		X5.00003: Quantum phase transitions, fluctuations, and stripe ordering in many-body cavity QED Benjamin Lev, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Paul Goldbart Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:06AM - 11:18AM		X5.00004: Positioning and measuring atomic gases in a Atom Chip/Cavity QED apparatus Daniel Brooks, Thomas Purdy, Thierry Botter, Dan Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:18AM - 11:30AM		X5.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:30AM - 11:42AM		X5.00006: Bistable Mott insulator to superfluid phase transition in cavity optomechanics W. Chen, K. Zhang, M. Bhattacharya, D.S. Goldbaum, P. Meystre Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:42AM - 11:54AM		X5.00007: Cavity Optomechanics with a Bose-Einstein Condensate Kristian Baumann, Ferdinand Brennecke, Stephan Ritter, Tobias Donner, Christine Guerlin, Tilman Esslinger Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:54AM - 12:06PM		X5.00008: On the Direction of the Casimir Force due to a Dirichlet Scalar Martin Schaden Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		X5.00009: Phase Shift of a Weak Coherent Beam by a Single Atom Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Meng Khoon Tey, Brenda Chng, Jianwei Lee, Gleb Maslennikov, Christian Kurtsiefer Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:18PM - 12:30PM		X5.00010: Dispersion Forces and Boundary Effects on Spontaneous Emission Rates of a Harmonic Oscillator Felipe Da Rosa, Tarciro Mendes, Andre Tenorio, Carlos Farina Preview Abstract

Session X6: Focus Session: Frontiers in Strong Field Physics at Long Wavelengths

Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
Room: Minor Hall 125

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:30AM - 11:00AM		X6.00001: Strong field atomic physics at mid-infrared wavelengths Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:00AM - 11:12AM		X6.00002: Scaling of phase matching of high-order harmonics into the multi-keV x-ray region at low ionization and large density-length products Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Alon Bahabad, Michael Gerrity, Paul Arpin, Matthew Seaberg, Richard Sandberg, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Pavel Sidorenko, Oren Cohen, Sterling Backus, Xiaoshi Zhang, Greg Taft, Ivan Christov Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:12AM - 11:24AM		X6.00003: Temporal Characterization of Below-Threshold Harmonics in a Scaled Keldysh System E. Power, A.M. March, F. Catoire, E. Sistrunk, K. Krushelnick, P. Agostini, L.F. DiMauro Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:24AM - 11:36AM		X6.00004: Generation of strong-field below threshold harmonics Jennifer Tate, Mette Gaarde, Kenneth Schafer Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:36AM - 12:06PM		X6.00005: Strong field Ionization in the Far Infrared Limit Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:06PM - 12:18PM		X6.00006: Multiphoton Assisted Recombination: Beyond the Simpleman's Model Edward Shuman, Tom Gallagher, Bob Jones Preview Abstract

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