Bulletin of the American Physical Society

42nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume 56, Number 5

Monday–Friday, June 13–17, 2011; Atlanta, Georgia

Session Index

Session M1: Focus Session: Photoionization Spectroscopy

Chair: Thomas Gorczyca, Western Michigan University
Room: A601

Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:00AM - 8:30AM		M1.00001: X-ray absorption spectroscopy of photoionised plasmas at Z Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		M1.00002: Spectroscopic Analysis of K and L-shell emission with K-$\alpha $ lines for Cu Arati Dasgupta, Robert Clark, John Giuliani, Jack Davis, Brent Jones, Dave Ampleford Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		M1.00003: Low-Resolution Photodetachment Spectroscopy of the S$_{2}^{-}$ Ion John N. Yukich, Anne Joiner, Robert Mohr Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:54AM - 9:24AM		M1.00004: Photoionization of Li Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:24AM - 9:36AM		M1.00005: Photoelectron Angular Distributions from Xe in a DC Electric Field Stephen T. Pratt, V. Alvin Shubert Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:36AM - 9:48AM		M1.00006: Electron Correlation and Molecular Dynamics in Ethylene after Photo Double Ionization F.P. Sturm, S.Y. Lee, Th. Weber, T.Y. Osipov, T. Jahnke, L. Ph. Schmidt, K. Kreidi, R. Doerner, A.L. Landers, C.W. McCurdy, M.H. Prior, A. Belkacem Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:48AM - 10:00AM		M1.00007: Updated square-well potential model for $A$@C$_{60}$ photoionization David Keating, Valeriy Dolmatov Preview Abstract

Session M2: Atomic Clocks

Co-Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Vladan Vuletic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: A602

Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:00AM - 8:12AM		M2.00001: Suppression of collisional shifts via strong inter-atomic interactions in a $^{87}$Sr optical lattice clock Michael Martin, Matthew Swallows, Michael Bishof, Yige Lin, Sebastian Blatt, Ana Maria Rey, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:12AM - 8:24AM		M2.00002: Toward a Portable Optical Atomic Clock in Neutral Silver (Ag) Carol Tanner Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:24AM - 8:36AM		M2.00003: Precision calculation of blackbody radiation shifts for metrology at the 18$^{\textrm{th}}$ decimal place Marianna Safronova, Mikhail Kozlov, Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:36AM - 8:48AM		M2.00004: Progress toward a single 229Th3+ ion nuclear optical clock Corey Campbell, Alexander Radnaev, Alex Kuzmich Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:48AM - 9:00AM		M2.00005: Blackbody radiation shift, multipole polarizabilities, oscillator strengths, lifetimes, hyperfine constants, and excitation energies in Ca$^+$ U.I. Safronova, M.S. Safronova Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:00AM - 9:12AM		M2.00006: Cavity enhanced non-linear spectroscopy of ultra-narrow optical transitions Dominic Meiser, Michael J. Martin, Jun Ye, Murray J. Holland Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:12AM - 9:24AM		M2.00007: Conditional Spin-Squeezing of a Large Ensemble via the Vacuum Rabi Splitting Zilong Chen, Justin G. Bohnet, Shannon R. Sankar, Jiayan (Phoenix) Dai, James K. Thompson Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:24AM - 9:36AM		M2.00008: Optimized design of a polarization spectroscopy experiment to measure collective spin projection noise Enrique Montano, Pascal Mickelson, Poul Jessen Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:36AM - 9:48AM		M2.00009: Enhanced Spin Squeezing via Collective and Individual Atomic Control Leigh Norris, Collin Trail, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:48AM - 10:00AM		M2.00010: Quantum tomography of atomic spins via continuous measurement Carlos Riofrio, Ivan Deutsch, Aaron Smith, Brian Anderson, Poul Jessen Preview Abstract

Session M3: Cold Collisions and Photoassociation

Chair: Jose D'Incao, JILA and University of Colorado
Room: A703

Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:00AM - 8:12AM		M3.00001: Photoassociation of ultracold NaCs via (4)$\Omega$=1 yields deeply-bound, highly polar X$^{1}\Sigma^{+}$ states Amy Wakim, Patrick Zabawa, N.P. Bigelow Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:12AM - 8:24AM		M3.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:24AM - 8:36AM		M3.00003: Investigation of a resonantly coupled photoassociation resonance for production of ultracold, polar molecules in the absolute vibrational ground state Patrick Zabawa, Amy Wakim, Marek Haruza, Nicholas Bigelow Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:36AM - 8:48AM		M3.00004: Long-Range Trilobite-like Cs Molecules in a Crossed 1064 nm Dipole Trap Jonathan Tallant, Donald Booth, Luis Marcassa, Bruno Marangoni, James Shaffer Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:48AM - 9:00AM		M3.00005: Sympathetic cooling in an optically trapped mixture of alkali and spin-singlet atoms Anders Hansen, Alexander Khramov, William Dowd, Alan Jamison, Vladyslav Ivanov, Frank M\"unchow, Subhadeep Gupta Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:00AM - 9:12AM		M3.00006: Interactions between ultra-cold ions and neutral atoms/Bose-Einstein condensates David A. Anderson, Andrew T. Cadotte, Rachel E. Sapiro, Georg Raithel Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:12AM - 9:24AM		M3.00007: Anisotropy in the Interactions of Ultracold Dysprosium Svetlana Kotochigova, Alexander Petrov Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:24AM - 9:36AM		M3.00008: Bound States of Two Bosons in an Optical Lattice Near an Association Resonance Jerome Sanders, Otim Odong, Juha Javanainen, Matt Mackie Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:36AM - 9:48AM		M3.00009: Towards the experimental accuracy deperturbation analysis of the fully mixed $A^{1}\Sigma^{+}$ and $b^{3}\Pi$ states of Rb$_{2}$, Cs$_{2}$ and RbCs molecules Andrey Stolyarov, Thomas Bergeman Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:48AM - 10:00AM		M3.00010: 1D scattering experiments with ultra-cold atoms: transient enhancement of high momenta Rockson Chang, Chris Ellenor, Mirco Siercke, Shreyas Potnis, Aephraim Steinberg Preview Abstract

Session M4: Focus Session: Recollision Physics

Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
Room: A704

Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:00AM - 8:30AM		M4.00001: Attosecond electron emission probes of ultrafast nanolocalized fields Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		M4.00002: Prevalence of different double ionization pathways in driven atomic and molecular systems Agapi Emmanouilidou Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		M4.00003: Phase-tagged non-sequential double ionization of N$_2$, O$_2$, and CO in 4-fs laser fields Nora G. Johnson, M. Kuebel, K. J. Betsch, I. Ben-Itzhak, R.R. Jones, G.G. Paulus, R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, B. Bergues, M.F. Kling Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		M4.00004: Recollisions and correlated double ionization with circularly polarized light Francois Mauger, Cristel Chandre, Turgay Uzer Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		M4.00005: Probing the giant resonance in Xe via HHG with sub-two cycle 1.8 $\mu$m laser pulses Francois Legare, Andrew D. Shiner, Bruno E. Schmidt, Carlos Trallero-Herrero, Hans J. Worner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Paul B. Corkum, David M. Villeneuve Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		M4.00006: Dependence of carbon fragments from methane in strong and ultrastrong elliptically polarized laser fields Nagitha Ekanayake, Bruce Wen, Lauren Howard, Sarah Wells, Michael Videtto, Christopher Mancuso, Teodor Stanev, Zachary Condon, Sara LeMar, Arielle Camilo, Robert Toth, Matthew Decamp, Barry Walker Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:30AM - 10:00AM		M4.00007: Electron recollisions or precollisions in elliptically polarized laser fields Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session M5: Quantum Information Methods

Chair: Emily Edwards, JQI and University of Maryland
Room: A705

Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:00AM - 8:12AM		M5.00001: Experimental repetitive quantum error correction Julio T. Barreiro, P. Schindler, T. Monz, V. Nebendahl, D. Nigg, M. Chwalla, M. Hennrich, R. Blatt Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:12AM - 8:24AM		M5.00002: Arbitrary Ultrafast Manipulation of a Trapped Ion Qubit Jonathan Mizrahi, Wesley C. Campbell, Crystal Senko, Chris Monroe Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:24AM - 8:36AM		M5.00003: Fast Quantum Gates Using Dynamical and Geometrical Phase Vladimir Malinovsky, Patrick Hawkins, Svetlana Malinovskaya Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:36AM - 8:48AM		M5.00004: Long-range quantum gates using external symmetry breaking Hendrik Weimer, Norman Yao, Chris Laumann, Mikhail Lukin Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:48AM - 9:00AM		M5.00005: Quantum error correction of photon-scattering errors Nitzan Akerman, Yinnon Glickman, Shlomi Kotler, Roee Ozeri Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:00AM - 9:12AM		M5.00006: Photon Collection from a Trapped Ion in a Cavity T. Andrew Manning, Jonathan Sterk, Le Luo, Chris Monroe, Peter Maunz Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:12AM - 9:24AM		M5.00007: Cluster state generation using long-range interactions Elena Kuznetsova, Tank Bragdon, Robin Cote, Susanne Yelin Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:24AM - 9:36AM		M5.00008: Efficient Sympathetic Cooling of Trapped Atomic Ions Grahame Vittorini, Craig Clark, Kenneth Brown Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:36AM - 9:48AM		M5.00009: Single Motional Quantum Exchange between Independently Trapped Ions K.R. Brown, C. Ospelkaus, Y. Colombe, A.C. Wilson, D. Leibfried, D.J. Wineland Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:48AM - 10:00AM		M5.00010: Adiabatic quantum computation with neutral atoms via the Rydberg blockade Krittika Goyal, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract

Session M6: Focus Session: In-situ Imaging of Ultracold Atomic Gases

Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Room: A706

Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:00AM - 8:30AM		M6.00001: Controlling and Imaging Quantum Gases at the Single Atom Level Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		M6.00002: Probing the Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition at the Single Atom Level Eric Tai, Waseem Bakr, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Amy Peng, Jonathon Gillen, Simon Foelling, Lode Pollet, Philipp Preiss, Markus Greiner Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		M6.00003: Cavity-aided magnetic-resonance imaging of atoms in optical lattices Nathan Brahms, Thomas Purdy, Daniel W.C. Brooks, Thierry Botter, Dan M. Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		M6.00004: Electron Microscopy of Ultracold Quantum Gases Giovanni Barontini, Vera Guarrera, Peter Wuertz, Andreas Vogler, Matthias Scholl, Arne Ewerbeck, Herwig Ott Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		M6.00005: Imaging spatial correlations of Rydberg excitations in cold atom clouds Andrew Schwarzkopf, Rachel Sapiro, Georg Raithel Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:18AM - 9:48AM		M6.00006: In-situ study of critical behavior in two-dimensional Bose gases Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:48AM - 10:00AM		M6.00007: Mapping out the quasi-condensate transition through the 1D-3D dimensional crossover Karen Kheruntsyan, Julien Armijo, Thibaut Jacqmin, Isabelle Bouchoule Preview Abstract

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