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Session B2: Focus Session: Quench Dynamics and Defect Formation in Ultracold Atoms

Chair: Kaden Hazzard, Rice University
Room: Union ABC

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 11:00AM		B2.00001: Dynamics of Symmetry Breaking Phase Transitions Invited Speaker: Wojciech Zurek Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:00AM - 11:30AM		B2.00002: Formation of topological defects in a two-dimensional Bose gas through quench cooling Invited Speaker: J\'er\^ome Beugnon Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:30AM - 11:42AM		B2.00003: Bound-state effects in diabatically quenched BECs John Corson, John Bohn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:42AM - 11:54AM		B2.00004: Critical dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous Bose gas Alexander Gaunt, Nir Navon, Robert Smith, Zoran Hadzibabic Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:54AM - 12:06PM		B2.00005: Quantum Quench Dynamics of a Fermi Impurity Marko Cetina, Michael Jag, Rianne Lous, Isabella Fritsche, Georg Bruun, Rasmus Christensen, Meera Parish, Jesper Levinsen, Rudolf Grimm Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		B2.00006: Prethermalized states of quenched spinor condensates Srivatsan Chakram, Yogesh Sharad Patil, Mukund Vengalattore Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		B2.00007: Interaction Quench Induced Multimode Dynamics of Finite Atomic Ensembles Simeon Mistakidis, Lushuai Cao, Peter Schmelcher Preview Abstract

Session B3: Photoassociation and Cold Polar Molecules

Chair: Hans Peter Büchler, University of Stuttgart
Room: Franklin AB

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 10:42AM		B3.00001: Towards ultracold ground-state NaRb molecule Mingyang Guo, Bing Zhu, Xiaoke Li, Bo Lu, Fudong Wang, Xin Ye, Dajun Wang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:42AM - 10:54AM		B3.00002: Triplet state photoassociation of LiNa Timur Rvachov, Alan Jamison, Li Jing, Yijun Jiang, Martin Zwierlein, Wolfgang Ketterle Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:54AM - 11:06AM		B3.00003: Formation of LiYb Molecules by Photoassocation Richard Roy, Rajendra Shrestha, Alaina Green, Subhadeep Gupta Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:06AM - 11:18AM		B3.00004: Spin-orbital dynamics in a system of polar molecules Sergey Syzranov, Michael Wall, Victor Gurarie, Ana Maria Rey Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:18AM - 11:30AM		B3.00005: RbCs molecules co-trapped with Rb and Cs atoms Michael Bellos, Toshihiko Shimasaki, David DeMille Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:30AM - 11:42AM		B3.00006: Feshbach to ultracold molecular state Raman transitions in a seven-level system using optical frequency combs Gengyuan Liu, Svetlana Malinovskaya Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:42AM - 11:54AM		B3.00007: Creation of Ultracold Dipolar Ground State Molecules of $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K Sebastian Will, Jee Woo Park, Jennifer Schloss, Zoe Yan, Huanqian Loh, Martin Zwierlein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:54AM - 12:06PM		B3.00008: Two-Photon Pathway to Ultracold Fermionic Ground State Molecules of NaK Jee Woo Park, Jennifer Schloss, Zoe Yan, Huanqian Loh, Sebastian Will, Martin Zwierlein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		B3.00009: Increasing the filling of ultracold KRb molecules in a 3D optical lattice Steven Moses, Jacob Covey, Bryce Gadway, Bo Yan, Matthew Miecnikowski, Jun Ye, Deborah Jin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		B3.00010: Collisional losses and dipolar interactions in lattice gases of cold polar molecules Martin Gaerttner, Ana Maria Rey Preview Abstract

Session B4: Focus Session: Attosecond Dynamics in Atoms and Molecules

Chair: Alicia Palacios, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Room: Union DE

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 11:00AM		B4.00001: Attosecond Delays in Resonant Photoionization Invited Speaker: Alfred Maquet Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:00AM - 11:30AM		B4.00002: Towards attosecond measurement in molecules and at surfaces Invited Speaker: Jonathan Marangos Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:30AM - 11:42AM		B4.00003: Theoretical interpretation of attosecond transient absorption experiments on diatomics in O$_2$ Xuan Li, Daniel J. Haxton, C. William McCurdy Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:42AM - 11:54AM		B4.00004: Molecular Self-Probing Spectroscopy with High Harmonic Generation at Long Wavelengths A. Camper, S.B. Schoun, P. Agostini, Pascal Salieres, J. Caillat, R.R. Lucchese, L. DiMauro Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:54AM - 12:06PM		B4.00005: Mapping and Controlling Ultrafast Dynamics of Highly Excited D2$+$ by Attosecond XUV Radiation Predrag Ranitovic, C. Hogle, L. Martin, R.Y. Bello, A. Palacios, J.L. Sanz-Vicario, F. Mart\'In, Xiao-Min Tong, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		B4.00006: Imaging nonadiabatic laser-driven electron transient localization through high-order harmonic spectroscopy Michelle Miller, Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, Andreas Becker Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		B4.00007: Time-resolving Attosecond Chiral Dynamics in Molecules with High Harmonic Spectroscopy O. Smirnova, R. Cireasa, A. Boguslavskiy, B. Pons, M.C.H. Wong, D. Descamps, S. Petit, H. Ruf, N. Thire, A. Ferre, J. Suarez, B. E. Schmidt, J. Higuet, A. F. Alharbi, F. Legare, V. Blanchet, B. Fabre, S. Patchkovskii, Y. Mairesse, R. Bhardwaj Preview Abstract

Session B5: Invited Session: Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics

Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
Room: Fairfield

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 11:00AM		B5.00001: Measurements of electron-impact single and multiple ionization for ions of astrophysical interest Invited Speaker: Michael Hahn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:00AM - 11:30AM		B5.00002: Atomic collision processes for modelling cool star spectra Invited Speaker: Paul Barklem Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:30AM - 12:00PM		B5.00003: High Level Ab Initio Kinetics as a Tool for Astrochemistry Invited Speaker: Stephen Klippenstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:00PM - 12:30PM		B5.00004: Nuclear Spin Dependent Chemistry of the Trihydrogen Cation in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds Invited Speaker: Kyle Crabtree Preview Abstract

Session B6: Vortices and Related Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
Room: Delaware AB

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 10:42AM		B6.00001: Critical Velocity for Vortex Shedding in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Woo Jin Kwon, Geol Moon, Sang Won Seo, Yong-il Shin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:42AM - 10:54AM		B6.00002: Quantized vortices in interacting gauge theories Salvatore Butera, Manuel Valiente, Patrik Ohberg Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:54AM - 11:06AM		B6.00003: Half-quantum circulation and optical spin Hall effect in a polariton spinor ring condensate Gangqiang Liu, David Snoke, Andrew Daley, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:06AM - 11:18AM		B6.00004: Deconstruction of excitations in atomtronic systems using phase reference B. Coheleach, M. Edwards, C.W. Clark Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:18AM - 11:30AM		B6.00005: Cascade of Solitonic Excitations in a Superfluid Fermi Gas: From Solitons and Vortex Rings to Solitonic Vortices Mark Ku, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Tarik Yefsah, Martin Zwierlein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:30AM - 11:42AM		B6.00006: Temporal and thermal dependence of a persistent, quantized current in a BEC Avinash Kumar, Stephen Eckel, Fred Jendrzejewski, Gretchen Campbell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:42AM - 11:54AM		B6.00007: Impurity and Dislocation Mediated Vortex Lattice Melting in Bose-Einstein Condensate Bishwajyoti Dey Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:54AM - 12:06PM		B6.00008: Rotation of quantum impurities in the presence of a many-body environment Mikhail Lemeshko, Richard Schmidt Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		B6.00009: Thermal and quantum fluctuation effects in rotational hysteresis of ring Bose--Einstein condensates M. Edwards, C. Heller, Y.-H. Wang, C.W. Clark Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		B6.00010: Black--hole lasing action in laboratory Bose--Einstein condensates Yi-Hsieh Wang, Ted Jacobson, Mark Edwards, Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract

Session B7: Quantum Computation and Simulation

Chair: Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin
Room: Delaware CD

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 10:42AM		B7.00001: Scrolling the quantum optical frequency comb: one-way quantum computing with hybrid time-frequency entanglement Olivier Pfister, Pei Wang, Rafael Alexander, Moran Chen, Niranjan Sridhar, Nicolas Menicucci Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:42AM - 10:54AM		B7.00002: Realization of Quantum Integer-Spin Chains with Controllable Interactions Paul Hess, Philip Richerme, Crystal Senko, Jacob Smith, Aaron Lee, Itsik Cohen, Alex Retzker, Chris Monroe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:54AM - 11:06AM		B7.00003: Quantum Thermalization and Localization in Trapped Ions Jacob Smith, Paul Hess, Harvey Kaplan, Aaron Lee, Brian Neyenhuis, Lexi Parsagian, Phil Richerme, Christopher Monroe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:06AM - 11:18AM		B7.00004: Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure by Quantum Coupled-Cluster with a Trapped Ion System Shen Yangchao, Xiang Zhang, Shuaining Zhang, Jin-Ning Zhang, Man-Hong Yung, Kihwan Kim Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:18AM - 11:30AM		B7.00005: A 2D Array of 100's of Ions for Quantum Simulation and Many-Body Physics in a Penning Trap Justin Bohnet, Brian Sawyer, Joseph Britton, John Bollinger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:30AM - 11:42AM		B7.00006: Entangling gates in trapped ions using arbitrary individual addressing and pulse shaping Caroline Figgatt, Shantanu Debnath, Norbert Linke, Lenore Koenig, Christopher Monroe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:42AM - 11:54AM		B7.00007: Progress Towards Quantum Simulation Using Micro-fabricated Ion Traps K. Wright, G. Ji, C. Rickerd, K. Collins, C. Monroe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:54AM - 12:06PM		B7.00008: Phonon down-conversion in a linear ion trap Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablutzel, Huanqian Loh, Dzmitry Matsukevich Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		B7.00009: Deterministic Generation of High NOON States in Phonon Modes of a Trapped-Ion System Junhua Zhang, Mark Um, Luming Duan, Kihwan Kim Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		B7.00010: Quantum simulation of Dirac tachyons with trapped ions via quantum measurement Tony Lee, Unai Alvarez-Rodriguez, Xiao-Hang Cheng, Lucas Lamata, Rajibul Islam, Enrique Solano Preview Abstract

Session B8: Focus Session: Fundamental Constants

Co-Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Mikhail Kozlov, PNPI Gatchina Russia
Room: Franklin CD

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:30AM - 11:00AM		B8.00001: Fundamental Constants and Tests with Simple Atoms Invited Speaker: Joseph Tan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:00AM - 11:12AM		B8.00002: Towards an improved measurement of the proton size from precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen Lothar Maisenbacher, Axel Beyer, Ksenia Khabarova, Arthur Matveev, Randolf Pohl, Thomas Udem, Theodor W. H\"{a}nsch, Nikolai Kolachevsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:12AM - 11:24AM		B8.00003: Progress towards measuring the $2S_{1/2}$ to $2P_{1/2}$ interval in hydrogen A.C. Vutha, N. Bezginov, I. Ferchichi, E.A. Hessels Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:24AM - 11:36AM		B8.00004: Progress towards measuring the Rydberg Constant Using Circular Rydberg Atoms in an Intensity-Modulated Optical Lattice Andira Ramos, Kaitlin Moore, Georg Raithel Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:36AM - 12:06PM		B8.00005: Precision measurements in gravitational physics with cold atom interferometry Invited Speaker: Guglielmo M. Tino Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:06PM - 12:18PM		B8.00006: Quantum Tests of the Universality of Free Fall Dennis Schlippert, Henning Albers, Christian Meiners, Logan L. Richardson, Etienne Wodey, Hendrik Heine, Dipankar Nath, Christian Schubert, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst M. Rasel Preview Abstract
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:18PM - 12:30PM		B8.00007: Simultaneous Dual-Species Atom Interferometry Alexis Bonnin, Nassim Zahzam, Yannick Bidel, Alexandre Bresson Preview Abstract