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Session H2: Invited Session: Cold Atoms in Optical Cavities

Chair: Murray Holland, JILA
Room: Ballroom B

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 11:00AM		H2.00001: Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics: A Universal Quantum Optics Toolbox Invited Speaker: Gerhard Rempe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:00AM - 11:30AM		H2.00002: Breaking Quantum and Thermal Limits on Precision Measurements Invited Speaker: James K. Thompson Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 12:00PM		H2.00003: Entangled states of spin and clock oscillators Invited Speaker: Eugene Polzik Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:00PM - 12:30PM		H2.00004: Collective atomic motion and spin dynamics in a driven optical cavity Invited Speaker: Dan Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract

Session H3: Invited Session: Engaging Students at All Levels in the Practice of Modeling Experiments

Co-Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Chad Hoyt, Bethel University
Room: Ballroom D

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 11:00AM		H3.00001: Teaching Research in the Traditional Classroom: Why Make Graduate Students Wait? Invited Speaker: Lincoln D. Carr Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:00AM - 11:30AM		H3.00002: Student use of model-based reasoning when troubleshooting an electric circuit Invited Speaker: Dimitri Dounas-Frazer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 12:00PM		H3.00003: Teaching Computation Across the Curriculum Invited Speaker: Marcos Caballero Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:00PM - 12:30PM		H3.00004: Engaging Students In Modeling Instruction for Introductory Physics Invited Speaker: Eric Brewe Preview Abstract

Session H4: Quantum Networks and Protocols

Chair: Paul Hess, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland-College Park
Room: 554AB

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		H4.00001: A single ion coupled to a UV fiber-cavity Hendrik-Marten Meyer, Timothy Ballance, Ashwin Boddeti, Pascal Kobel, Kilian Kluge, Jakob Reichel, Michael K\"ohl Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		H4.00002: Cross-species gates in a Ba/Yb ion trap for modular networked quantum computing Martin Lichtman, Ismail Inlek, Clay Crocker, Ksenia Sosnova, Chris Monroe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		H4.00003: Barium Qubit State Detection and Ba Ion-Photon Entanglement Ksenia Sosnova, Ismail Volkan Inlek, Clayton Crocker, Martin Lichtman, Christopher Monroe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:06AM - 11:18AM		H4.00004: Quantum teleportation from light beams to vibrational states of a macroscopic diamond. Panyu Hou, Yuanyuan Huang, Xinxing Yuan, Xiuying Chang, Chong Zu, Li He, Luming Duan Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:18AM - 11:30AM		H4.00005: Experimental demonstration of a quantum router Xinxing Yuan, JIajun Ma, Panyu Hou, Xiuying Chang, Chong Zu, Luming Duan Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 11:42AM		H4.00006: Quantum repeater with continuous variable encoding Linshu Li, Victor V. Albert, Marios Michael, Sreraman Muralidharan, Changling Zou, Liang Jiang Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:42AM - 11:54AM		H4.00007: Proposal for a telecom quantum repeater with single atoms in optical cavities Manuel Uphoff, Manuel Brekenfeld, Dominik Niemietz, Stephan Ritter, Gerhard Rempe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:54AM - 12:06PM		H4.00008: A controllable single photon beam-splitter as a node of a quantum network. Santosh Kumar, Gaurav Gautam, Saikat Ghosh, Deepak Kumar Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:06PM - 12:18PM		H4.00009: Saving entangled photons from sudden death is a single-mode fiber ---- Interplay of Decoherence and dynamical decoupling. Manish Kumar Gupta, Chenglong You, Jonathan P. Dowling, Hwang Lee Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:18PM - 12:30PM		H4.00010: Unconditional polarization qubit quantum memory at room temperature Mehdi Namazi, Connor Kupchak, Bertus Jordaan, Reihaneh Shahrokhshahi, Eden Figueroa Preview Abstract

Session H5: Electric-Dipole Searches and Tests of Fundamental Symmetries

Chair: Elizabeth Petrik, Harvard University
Room: 551AB

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		H5.00001: Updated measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of $^{199}$Hg Brent Graner, Yi Chen, Eric Lindahl, Blayne Heckel Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		H5.00002: Systematic errors in the measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the $^{199}$Hg atom Yi Chen, Brent Graner, Blayne Heckel, Eric Lindahl Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		H5.00003: An improved limit on the EDM of $^{\mathrm{225}}$Ra Michael Bishof, Kevin Bailey, Matthew R. Dietrich, John P. Greene, Roy J. Holt, Mukut R. Kalita, Wolfgang Korsch, Nathan D. Lemke, Zheng-Tian Lu, Peter Mueller, Thomas P. O'Connor, Richard H. Parker, Tenzin Rabga, Jaideep T. Singh Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:06AM - 11:18AM		H5.00004: Quantum State Magnification Nils Engelsen, Onur Hosten, Rajiv Krishnakumar, Mark Kasevich Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:18AM - 11:30AM		H5.00005: Progress Toward a Ten-Times Better Measurement of the Electron's EDM with ThO Brendon O'Leary, Vitaly Andreev, Daniel Ang, Jacob Baron, David DeMille, John Doyle, Gerald Gabrielse, Nicholas Hutzler, Zack Lasner, Cristian Panda, Elizabeth Petrik, Christian Weber, Adam West, Grey Wilburn Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 11:42AM		H5.00006: Thermochemical Beam Source of ThO for Measuring the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Elizabeth Petrik, Jacob Baron, Nick Hutzler, Zack Lasner, Brendon O'Leary, Cristian Panda, Adam West, Grey Wilburn, David DeMille, Gerald Gabrielse, John Doyle Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:42AM - 11:54AM		H5.00007: Progress of the JILA electron EDM experiment Daniel Gresh, William Cairncross, Kevin Cossel, Matt Grau, Kia Boon Ng, Yan Zhou, Yiqi Ni, Jun Ye, Eric Cornell Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:54AM - 12:06PM		H5.00008: Increasing measurement sensitivity for the electron's electric dipole moment using trapped molecular ions Yan Zhou, Daniel Gresh, William Cairncross, Matt Grau, Kia Boon Ng, Yiqi Ni, Eric Cornell, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:06PM - 12:18PM		H5.00009: Nuclear Spin Dependent Parity Violation in Diatomic Molecules Emine Altuntas, Sidney Cahn, David DeMille, Mikhail Kozlov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:18PM - 12:30PM		H5.00010: Probing the Higgs force with isotope shift spectroscopy Roee Ozeri, Cedric Delaunay, Gilad Perez, Yotam Soreq Preview Abstract

Session H6: Two-Dimensional Gases

Chair: Blair Blakie, University of Otago
Room: 552AB

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		H6.00001: Radiofrequency Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics of Fermi Gases in the 2D to Quasi-2D Dimensional Crossover Chingyun Cheng, Jayampathi Kangara, Ilya Arakelyan, John Thomas Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		H6.00002: Observation of the Leggett-Rice effect in an ensemble of 2D Fermi gases Christopher Luciuk, Scott Smale, Stefan Trotzky, Haille Sharum, Tilman Enss, Joseph Thywissen Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		H6.00003: Three-bosons in 2D with a magnetic field Seth Rittenhouse, Brad Johnson, Andrew Wray, Jose D'Incao Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:06AM - 11:18AM		H6.00004: Exciton-like molecules and interaction resonances in bilayer ultracold gases Marton Kanasz-Nagy, Eugene Demler, Gergely Zarand Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:18AM - 11:30AM		H6.00005: Local properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard model Jan Drewes, Luke Miller, Eugenio Cocchi, Chun Fai Chan, Daniel Pertot, Ferdinand Brennecke, Michael K\"{o}hl Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 11:42AM		H6.00006: Critical Dynamics in Quenched 2D Atomic Gases F. Larcher, F. Dalfovo, N. P. Proukakis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:42AM - 11:54AM		H6.00007: Dynamics of Two Dimensional Bose Gases and the Role of Scale Invariance Jeff Maki Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:54AM - 12:06PM		H6.00008: Local Probing of Phase Coherence in a Strongly Interacting 2D Quantum Gas Niclas Luick, Jonas Siegl, Klaus Hueck, Kai Morgener, Thomas Lompe, Wolf Weimer, Henning Moritz Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:06PM - 12:18PM		H6.00009: Pair condensation in a spin-imbalanced 2D Fermi gas Debayan Mitra, Peter Brown, Peter Schauss, Stanimir Kondov, Waseem Bakr Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:18PM - 12:30PM		H6.00010: Controlling interactions in ultracold fermionic ytterbium-173 Moritz H\"ofer, Luis Riegger, Chrisitian Hofrichter, Diogo Rio Fernandes, Immanuel Bloch, Simon F\"olling Preview Abstract

Session H7: Few-body Systems

Chair: Jason Nguyen, Rice University
Room: 553AB

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		H7.00001: Accessing the quantum Hall regime in cold atom traps using circularly polarized light Rachel Wooten, Bin Yan, Chris H. Greene Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		H7.00002: Exploration of scattering resonances in the presence of Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-­orbit coupling Su-Ju Wang, Chris Greene Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		H7.00003: Ultracold two-body dynamics in optical lattices with topological singularities Davit Aghamalyan, Andrea Simoni, Jean-Michel Launay Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:06AM - 11:18AM		H7.00004: Three-body recombination near a narrow Feshbach resonance in $^6$Li Le Luo, Jiaming Li, Ji Liu, Leonardo de Melo, Bo Gao Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:18AM - 11:30AM		H7.00005: Harmonic trap resonance enhanced synthetic atomic spin-orbit coupling Ling-Na Wu, Xinyu Luo, Zhi-Fang Xu, Masahito Ueda, Ruquan Wang, Li You Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 11:42AM		H7.00006: Lifetime of $^6$Li$^{40}$K dimers near a Feshbach resonance Michael Jag, Marko Cetina, Rianne Lous, Jesper Levinsen, Dmitry Petrov, Rudolf Grimm Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:42AM - 11:54AM		H7.00007: Photonic Landau levels on cones Nathan Schine, Albert Ryou, Andrey Gromov, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:54AM - 12:06PM		H7.00008: Optical control of Magnetic Feshbach Resonances using Closed Channel EIT Arunkumar Jagannathan, Nithya Arunkumar, James Joseph, John Thomas Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:06PM - 12:18PM		H7.00009: Contact Tensor in a $p$-Wave Fermi Gas with Anisotropic Feshbach Resonances Shuhei M. Yoshida, Masahito Ueda Preview Abstract

Session H8: Focus Session: Molecular Control and Imaging

Chair: Robert Lewis, Temple University
Room: 555AB

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		H8.00001: Coherent control of quantum dynamics in laser kicked molecular rotors Martin Bitter, Valery Milner Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		H8.00002: Adiabatic field-free alignment of asymmetric top molecules with an optical centrifuge Aleksey Korobenko, Valery Milner Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		H8.00003: Capture into resonance and phase space dynamics in optical centrifuge Tsafrir Armon, Lazar Friedland Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:06AM - 11:36AM		H8.00004: Quantum Localization in Laser-Driven Molecular Rotation Invited Speaker: Ilya Averbukh Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:36AM - 11:48AM		H8.00005: Coherent control of wavepacket launch and evolution in molecular cations in strong-field regime Dmitri Romanov(1,3), Katharine Moore Tibbetts(2,3), Maryam Tarazkar(2,3), Timothy Bohinsky(2,3), Spiridoula Matsika(2,3), Robert Levis(2,3) Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:48AM - 12:00PM		H8.00006: Separation of \textit{cis} and \textit{trans} geometric isomers by Coulomb explosion imaging Utuq Ablikim, B. Kaderiya, V. Kumarapan, A. Rudenko, D. Rolles, C. Bomme, E. Savelyev, H. Xiong, N. Berrah, D. Kilcoyne Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:00PM - 12:30PM		H8.00007: Molecular Control and Imaging Invited Speaker: Vinod Kumarappan Preview Abstract

Session H9: Rydberg Polaritons and Rydberg EIT

Chair: Mary Lyon, Joint Quantum Institute
Room: 556AB

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		H9.00001: Effective Field Theory for Rydberg Polaritons M. J. Gullans, Y. Wang, J. D. Thompson, Q.-Y. Liang, V. Vuletic, M. D. Lukin, A. V. Gorshkov Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		H9.00002: Three-body interactions between slow light Rydberg polaritons Krzysztof Jachymski, Przemyslaw Bienias, Hans Peter B\"{u}chler Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		H9.00003: Storage enhanced non-linearities in a cold Rydberg ensemble Emanuele Distante, Auxiliadora Padron-Brito, Matteo Cristiani, David Paredes-Barato, Hugues de Riedmatten Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:06AM - 11:18AM		H9.00004: Observation of Cavity Rydberg Polaritons Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Ningyuan Jia, Albert Ryou, Nathan Schine, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:18AM - 11:30AM		H9.00005: Electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms inside a high-finesse optical cavity Jiteng Sheng, Santosh Kumar, Jonathon Sedlacek, Yuanxi Chao, Haoquan Fan, James Shaffer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:30AM - 11:42AM		H9.00006: Towards Rydberg quantum optics in a hollow core fiber Mohammad Noaman, Maria Langbecker, Patrick Windpassinger Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:42AM - 11:54AM		H9.00007: Spin Exchange in Rydberg EIT Travis Nicholson, Jeff Thompson, Qiyu Liang, Sergio Cantu, Aditya Venkatramani, Thomas Pohl, Soonwon Choi, Mikhail Lukin, Vladan Vuletic Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:54AM - 12:06PM		H9.00008: Dynamical Evolution of Interacting Photon Pulses in Rydberg Medium Bing He, Liu Yang, Jin-Hui Wu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Min Xiao Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:06PM - 12:18PM		H9.00009: Detrimental effects of molecular resonances on Rydberg blockade Andrei Derevianko, Peter Komar, Turker Topcu, Ronen Kroeze, M Lukin Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:18PM - 12:30PM		H9.00010: A mesoscopic Rydberg impurity in an atomic quantum gas Richard Schmidt, Hossein Sadeghpour, Eugene Demler Preview Abstract