Bulletin of the American Physical Society

41st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume 55, Number 5

Tuesday–Saturday, May 25–29, 2010; Houston, Texas

Session Index

Session K1: Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases I

Chair: Sophie Rittner, Rice University
Room: Imperial East

Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:30AM - 11:00AM		K1.00001: Interacting Fermions in Optical Lattices: Entropy and Temperature Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:00AM - 11:30AM		K1.00002: Dissipative Fluid Dynamics for the Dilute Fermi Gas at Unitarity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K1.00003: Spin Transport in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas Ariel Sommer, Andre Schirotzek, Mark Ku, Martin Zwierlein Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K1.00004: Ferromagnetism versus Correlation in Strongly Repulsively Interacting Fermi Gases Hui Zhai, Xiaoling Cui Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K1.00005: Measurement of the ``Contact'' and the Paired Fraction of Ultracold Atoms in the BEC-BCS Crossover Yean-an Liao, Wenhui Li, T. Paprotta, A.S.C. Rittner, R.G. Hulet Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:06PM - 12:18PM		K1.00006: Unitary Superfluidity Of Polarized Fermionic Gases In Highly Elongated Traps L. Baksmaty, H. Lu, C. Bolech, H. Pu Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:18PM - 12:30PM		K1.00007: Measurement of Universal Thermodynamic Functions for a Unitary Fermi Gas Munekazu Horikoshi, Shuta Nakajima, Masahito Ueda, Takashi Mukaiyama Preview Abstract

Session K2: Attosecond Electron Physics

Chair: Markus Guehr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Imperial Center

Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:30AM - 11:00AM		K2.00001: Attosecond Spectral Interferometry and Quantum Control of Electron Dynamics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:00AM - 11:30AM		K2.00002: Probing and Controlling Electronic Dynamics on the Attosecond Scale Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:30AM - 12:00PM		K2.00003: Attosecond dynamics in simple molecular systems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:00PM - 12:30PM		K2.00004: Generation of isolated attosecond pulses with double optical gating and electronic dynamics in molecules studied via attosecond pump-probe experiment Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K3: Focus Session: Tests of Lorentz Invariance

Co-Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Imperial West

Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:30AM - 11:00AM		K3.00001: Studying Gravity and Gravitational Waves with Atom Interferometry Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:00AM - 11:30AM		K3.00002: New limits on spin-dependent Lorentz and CPT-violating interactions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K3.00003: Recent Results on Lorentz Violation in Atomic Experiments Jay Tasson, Alan Kostelecky Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K3.00004: Testing the Lorentz Invariance of Light with a Birefringent Cavity Michael Hohensee, Francisco Monsalve, Holger M\"uller Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K3.00005: Lorentz Symmetry Effects Connected with Cosmological Expansion Felix T. Smith Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:06PM - 12:18PM		K3.00006: A Test of CPT and Lorentz Violation Using a Compact, Rotating Co-Magnetometer Justin Brown, Sylvia Smullin, Thomas Kornack, Michael Romalis Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:18PM - 12:30PM		K3.00007: 2010 Data Tables for Lorentz and CPT Violation Neil Russell, Alan Kostelecky Preview Abstract

Session K4: Trapped Ion Quantum Information

Co-Sponsoring Units: GQI
Chair: Wes Campbell, University of Maryland
Room: Regency Ballroom

Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K4.00001: Multiqubit Decoherence in Ion-trap Quantum Computation Thomas Monz, Philipp Schindler, Julio T. Barreiro, Michael Chwalla, Bill Coish, Markus T. Hennrich, Rainer Blatt Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K4.00002: Near field quantum control of trapped ions Christian Ospelkaus, Kenton R. Brown, Jason M. Amini, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K4.00003: Private random numbers produced by entangled ions and certified by Bell's theorem David Hayes, Dzmitry Matsukevich, Peter Maunz, Chris Monroe, Steven Olmschenk Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K4.00004: Integrating Fiber Cavities and Ion Traps Tracy Northup, Birgit Brandst\"atter, Andreas Stute, Maximilian Harlander, Piet O. Schmidt, Rainer Blatt Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K4.00005: Novel Ion Trap for Efficient Fluorescence Collection from Ion Qubits Gang Shu, Nathan Kurz, Matthew Dietrich, Shaw-Pin Chen, Boris Blinov Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K4.00006: Enhanced Light Collection from a Trapped Ion Using a Micromirror Integrated with Surface Trap Rachel Noek, Caleb Knoernschild, Taehyun Kim, Peter Maunz, True Merrill, Harley Hayden, C.S. Pai, Jungsang Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K4.00007: Decoherence due to elastic Rayleigh scattering H. Uys, M.J. Biercuk, A.P. VanDevender, C. Ospelkaus, J.J. Bollinger, D. Meiser Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K4.00008: Detection of Single Ion Spectra by Coulomb Crystal Heating Craig Clark, James Goeders, Yatis Dodia, C. Ricardo Viteri, Kenneth Brown Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:06PM - 12:18PM		K4.00009: Thermalization and temperature distribution in a driven ion chain Guin-Dar Lin, Luming Duan Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:18PM - 12:30PM		K4.00010: Micro-fabricated Surface Ion Traps for Quantum Computation Clark Highstrete, Matthew Blain, Kevin Fortier, Walter Gordy, Raymond Haltli, Shanalyn Kemme, Thomas Lindgren, David Moehring, Mark E. Smith, Daniel Stick, Chris Tigges Preview Abstract

Session K5: Undergraduate Session

Chair: Jan Chaloupka, University of Northern Colorado
Room: Arboretum I-III

Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:30AM - 10:50AM		K5.00001: Ionization of atomic hydrogen in strong infrared laser fields Brant Abeln, Daniel Weflen, Klaus Bartschat, Timothy Urness, Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:50AM - 11:10AM		K5.00002: Alignment and orientation dependence of collision induced dissociation Ben Berry, Wania Wolff, Nora G. Johnson, A. Max Sayler, B. Gaire, M. Zohrabi, J. McKenna, K.D. Carnes, I. Ben-Itzhak Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:10AM - 11:30AM		K5.00003: Rubidium Optical Pumping for an Electron Spin Filter Eric Norrgard Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:30AM - 11:50AM		K5.00004: Theoretical Description of Trapped Low-Dimensional Dipoles in the Strongly-Interacting Regime Kristofor B. Nyquist Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:50AM - 12:10PM		K5.00005: Matched Bichromatic Optical Lattices for Quantum Information Processing with Ultracold Atoms Skyler Degenkolb, Andreas Klinger, Nathan Gemelke, Kathy-Anne Brickman Soderberg, Cheng Chin Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:10PM - 12:30PM		K5.00006: Experimentally measurable non-monotonicity for the quantum-classical transition in nonlinear nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) Qi Li, Adam Steege, Arie Kapulkin, Arjendu Pattanayak Preview Abstract

Session K6: Atom-Atom Collisions

Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University
Room: Arboretum IV-V

Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K6.00001: Neutron impact ionization of helium Johannes Feist, Matthias Liertzer, Stefan Nagele, Renate Pazourek, Joachim Burgd\"orfer, Barry I. Schneider, Lee A. Collins Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K6.00002: Simulations of the Spatial Dependence of Populations in High Field Optical Pumping Ben Olsen, Will Happer Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K6.00003: Positive nonlinear pressure shift of Cs in Ne Tian Xia, Bart McGuyer, Yuan-Yu Jau, William Happer Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K6.00004: Collisional narrowing with optically trapped atoms Yoav Sagi, Ido Almog, Nir Davidson Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K6.00005: Disorientation of the Ne$^{\ast }$(2p$_{i}$ [J=1]) atoms due to He atom collisions in glow discharges at 10 K $<$ T $<$ 3000 K Cristian Bahrim, Vaibhav Khadilkar Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K6.00006: Limits on anomalous short-range spin-dependent interactions from spin-exchange collisions Alec Boyd, Derek Kimball Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K6.00007: Magnetically trapped erbium and thulium: rapid spin relaxation Colin B. Connolly, Yat Shan Au, S. Charles Doret, Wolfgang Ketterle, John M. Doyle Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K6.00008: Magnetic Trapping of NH Molecules with 20 s Lifetimes Edem Tsikata, Wesley Campbell, Matthew Hummon, Hsin-I Lu, John Doyle Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:06PM - 12:18PM		K6.00009: Collision dynamics of ultracold atoms confined in 1D optical lattices Zhiying Li, Roman Krems Preview Abstract
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:18PM - 12:30PM		K6.00010: The charm of trap loss: sensitive probe of collisions and trap depth Kirk W. Madison, James L. Booth Preview Abstract

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