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 Q1: Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules

Chair: James Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
Room: Imperial East

Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q1.00001: Observation of Rydberg excitation blockade effects in strongly magnetized atom clouds E. Paradis, K.C. Younge, S. Zigo, G. Raithel Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:12AM - 8:42AM		Q1.00002: Charge, density and electron temperature in a molecular ultracold plasma Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:42AM - 8:54AM		Q1.00003: Observation of Controllable Excitation Suppression in Cold $^{87}$Rb Rydberg Atoms J.E. Johnson, I. Arakelyan, Tao Hong, S.L. Rolston Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:54AM - 9:06AM		Q1.00004: Probing Coherence in a Cold Rydberg Gas M.R. Kutteruf, R.R. Jones Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:06AM - 9:18AM		Q1.00005: Strong coherent coupling of many levels across the ionization limit via 17 and 36 GHz microwave fields Joshua Gurian, K. Richard Overstreet, Haruka Maeda, Thomas Gallagher Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:18AM - 9:48AM		Q1.00006: Cooperative optical non-linearity using Rydberg atoms Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:48AM - 10:00AM		Q1.00007: Multiphoton population transfer in a kicked Rydberg atom: adiabatic rapid passage by separatrix crossing Turker Topcu, Francis Robicheaux Preview Abstract

Session Q2: Experiments with the World's First X-ray Free Electron Laser

Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University
Room: Imperial Center

Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00AM - 8:30AM		Q2.00001: AMO Instrumentation for the LCLS Free Electron Laser Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:30AM - 9:00AM		Q2.00002: Multiphoton absorption processes using the LCLS x-ray free-electron laser Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:00AM - 9:30AM		Q2.00003: First Results on Ultrafast and Ultraintense X-Ray Studies of Molecular Photoabsorption using the LCLS Free Electron Laser Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:30AM - 10:00AM		Q2.00004: Coherent Diffractive Imaging at LCLS Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session Q3: Quantum Gauge Theories and Ultra-cold Atoms

Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University
Room: Imperial West

Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00AM - 8:30AM		Q3.00001: Few-body Atomic Systems in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:30AM - 9:00AM		Q3.00002: Simulating dense QCD matter with ultracold atomic boson-fermion mixtures Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:00AM - 9:30AM		Q3.00003: Optically synthesized magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:30AM - 10:00AM		Q3.00004: Many-body physics in optical lattices under a synthetic magnetic field Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session Q4: Atom Optics

Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
Room: Regency Ballroom

Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q4.00001: Evidence for the role of core electrons in Van der Waals atom-surface potentials Vincent Lonij, Cathy Klauss, Will Holmgren, Alex Cronin Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:12AM - 8:42AM		Q4.00002: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO M1.00195 Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:42AM - 8:54AM		Q4.00003: Cavity-EIT with single atoms Martin M\"ucke, Eden Figueroa, Joerg Bochmann, Carolin Hahn, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas, Stephan Ritter, Gerhard Rempe Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:54AM - 9:06AM		Q4.00004: Cavity-Mediated Matter Wave Bistability in a Spin-1 Condensate Lu Zhou, Han Pu, Hong Ling, Weiping Zhang Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:06AM - 9:18AM		Q4.00005: Atom-chip based tunable optomechanical system Thierry Botter, Tom Purdy, Daniel Brooks, Nathaniel Brahms, Dan Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:18AM - 9:30AM		Q4.00006: Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing of de Broglie Waves: Beyond Optics Karen Kheruntsyan, V. Krachmalnicoff, J.-C. Jaskula, M. Bonneau, G.B. Partridge, V. Leung, D. Boiron, C.I. Westbrook, P. Deuar, P. Zin, M. Trippenbach Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:30AM - 9:42AM		Q4.00007: Crystal Atom Optics: Helium on Lithium Fluoride Adam Libson, Christoph Schaeff, Geneva White, Mark Raizen Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:42AM - 9:54AM		Q4.00008: Long-range interaction of single atoms through nanowires with nontrivial topology of couplings David Dzsotjan, Michael Fleischhauer Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:54AM - 10:06AM		Q4.00009: A Compact, Transportable, Microchip-Based System for High Repetition Rate Production of Bose-Einstein Condensates Daniel Farkas, Kai Hudek, Evan Salim, Stephen Segal, Dana Anderson Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 10:06AM - 10:18AM		Q4.00010: Subwavelength Optical Microscopy in Far-Field Qingqing Sun, Mohammad Al-Amri, Marlan Scully, Suhail Zubairy Preview Abstract

Session Q5: Quantum Measurement and Entanglement

Chair: Emily Edwards, University of Maryland
Room: Arboretum I-III

Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q5.00001: Quantum State Mapping in the 133 Cs Hyperfine Ground Manifold Brian Anderson, Aaron Smith, Poul Jessen Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:12AM - 8:24AM		Q5.00002: Environment Assisted Precision Magnetometry P. Cappellaro, G. Goldstein, J.R. Maze, L. Jiang, J.S. Hodges, A.S. Sorensen, M.D. Lukin Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:24AM - 8:36AM		Q5.00003: Integrated Single Atom Detector W. Rohringer, D. Fischer, M. Trupke, J. Schmiedmayer Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:36AM - 8:48AM		Q5.00004: Optical Quantum State Synthesis Paul Kwiat, Kevin McCusker, Radhika Rangarajan Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:48AM - 9:00AM		Q5.00005: Quantum state reconstruction of the 16 dimensional hyperfine manifold in cesium via continuous measurement and control Carlos Riofrio, Aaron Smith, Brian Anderson, Poul Jessen, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:00AM - 9:12AM		Q5.00006: Multipartite entanglement for one photon shared among four optical modes K.S. Choi, S.B. Papp, A. Goban, H. Deng, P. Lougovski, S.J. van Enk, H.J. Kimble Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:12AM - 9:24AM		Q5.00007: Quantifying Quantumness Daniel Braun, Olivier Giraud, Peter A. Braun Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:24AM - 9:36AM		Q5.00008: Spin Squeezing and Entanglement in an Ensemble of Spins Greater than 1/2 Leigh Norris, Collin Trail, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:36AM - 9:48AM		Q5.00009: The Invisible Quantum Tripwire: Analysis in the Presence of Photon Loss Daniel Lum, Petr Anisimov, Blane McCracken, Jonathan Dowling Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:48AM - 10:00AM		Q5.00010: The statistical strength of experiments to reject local realism with photon pairs and inefficient detectors Yanbao Zhang, Emanuel Knill, Scott Glancy Preview Abstract

Session Q6: EIT and Coherence Effects

Chair: George Welch, Texas A&M University
Room: Arboretum IV-V

Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00AM - 8:12AM		Q6.00001: Slow light in a pure nuclear spin system Mei-Ju Lu, Jonathan Weinstein Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:12AM - 8:24AM		Q6.00002: Spinor Slow-Light and unusual midgap states Johannes Otterbach, Razmik G. Unanyan, Michael Fleischhauer, Julius Ruseckas, Viaceslav Kudriasov, Gediminas Juzeliunas Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:24AM - 8:36AM		Q6.00003: Heterodyne coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for spectral phase retrieval and signal amplification Xi Wang, Aihua Zhang, Miaochan Zhi, Alexei Sokolov, George Welch, Marlan Scully Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:36AM - 8:48AM		Q6.00004: Broadband light generation in CVD single crystal diamond Miaochan Zhi, Kai Wang, Alexei Sokolov Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 8:48AM - 9:00AM		Q6.00005: Omni-directional collective emission of paired photons from atomic vapors Michael Moore, Yuping Huang Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:00AM - 9:12AM		Q6.00006: Resonances in Four-Level N-Scheme Atomic Systems in the Bare and Dressed States Pictures Tony Abi-Salloum, Bryan Henry, Jon Davis, Frank Narducci Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:12AM - 9:24AM		Q6.00007: Phase Jumps in an Electro-magnetically Induced Transparency System F.A. Narducci, J. Noble, G.R. Welch, J.P. Davis Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:24AM - 9:36AM		Q6.00008: Control of Lamb shift by driving field Shuai Yang, Hang Zheng, Ran Hong, Shi-Yao Zhu, Suhail Zubairy Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:36AM - 9:48AM		Q6.00009: Coherent Excitation of Rydberg Atoms in Micron Sized Vapor Cells James Shaffer, Harold Kubler, Thomas Baluktsian, Robert Low, Tilman Pfau Preview Abstract
Friday, May 28, 2010 9:48AM - 10:00AM		Q6.00010: Impossibility of large phase shifts via the ``giant Kerr effect'' with single-photon wavepackets Julio Gea-Banacloche Preview Abstract

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