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Session H02: Atoms in Optical Lattices I

Chair: Trey Porto, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room: Grand A

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H02.00001: Band and correlated insulators of cold fermions in a mesoscopic lattice Martin Lebrat, Pjotrs Gri\v{s}ins, Dominik Husmann, Samuel H\"{a}usler, Laura Corman, Thierry Giamarchi, Jean-Philippe Brantut, Tilman Esslinger Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H02.00002: Exploration of a Floquet phase diagram in a driven optical lattice Kevin Singh, Kurt Fujiwara, Zachary Geiger, Mikhail Lipatov, David Weld Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H02.00003: Quantum state engineering of a Hubbard system with ultracold fermions Geoffrey Ji, Christie Chiu, Muqing Xu, Anton Mazurenko, Daniel Greif, Markus Greiner Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H02.00004: Beating the diffraction limit: an optical lattice of sub-wavelength barriers Yang Wang, Sarthak Subhankar, Przemyslaw Bienias, Mateusz Lkacki, Tsz-chun Tsui, Mikhail Baranov, Alexey Gorshkov, Peter Zoller, James Porto, Steven Rolston Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H02.00005: Observation of the Sliding Phase in $^8^7$Rb A Dewan, M. E. W Reed, Z. S Smith, S. L Rolston Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H02.00006: Realization of Dirac semi-metal bands in a two-dimensional optical lattice with spin-orbit coupling Bo Song, Chengdong He, Zejian Ren, Elnur Hajiyev, Qianhang Cai, Xiong-Jun Liu, Gyu-Boong Jo Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H02.00007: High precision multi-band spectroscopy of ultracold atoms in optical lattices Benno Rem, Nick Flaeschner, Matthias Tarnowski, Dominik Vogel, Klaus Sengstock, Christof Weitenberg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H02.00008: Site-Resolved Microscopy of a Photonic Mott Insulator Ruichao Ma, Clai Owens, Brendan Saxberg, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H02.00009: Dicke model simulation via cavity-assisted Raman transitions Zhiqiang Zhang, Chern Hui Lee, Ravi Kumar, Kyle Arnold, Stuart Masson, Arne Grimsmo, Scott Parkins, Murray Barrett Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H02.00010: Self-adapted Floquet Dynamics of Ultracold Bosons in a Cavity Xi-Wang Luo, Chuanwei Zhang Preview Abstract

Session H03: Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Physics

Chair: Markus Greiner, Harvard University
Room: Grand B

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:30AM		H03.00001: Dynamics of a Bose gas quenched to unitarity Invited Speaker: Robert Smith Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:30AM - 9:00AM		H03.00002: Quantum many-body scars: a new form of ergodicity breaking in a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator Invited Speaker: Dmitry Abanin Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H03.00003: Probing the thermal to many-body localized transition in one dimension with single site resolution Alexander Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, Robert Schittko, Sooshin Kim, M. Eric Tai, Vedika Khemani, Adam Kaufman, Julian Leonard, Markus Greiner Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H03.00004: Critical phenomena of a multicritical point in a driven-dissipative many-body system Jeremy T. Young, Michael Foss-Feig, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Mohammad F. Maghrebi Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H03.00005: The Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a driven dissipative transition Yogesh S Patil, Hil Fung Harry Cheung, Tamiro Villazon, Aditya G Date, Anushya Chandran, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Mukund Vengalattore Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H03.00006: Many Body Localization without disorder Sayan Choudhury, Qi Zhou Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H03.00007: Observation of Non-Gaussian Statistics and Levy Flights in Nitrogen Vacancy Centers David Levonian, Michael Goldman, Kristiaan DeGreve, Swati Singh, Daniel Twitchen, Matthew Markham, Mikhail Lukin Preview Abstract

Session H04: Laser Cooling and Trapping

Chair: Brian Anderson, American University
Room: Grand C

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H04.00001: Steady-state ultracold Sr with unity phase-space density ChunChia Chen, Shayne Bennetts, Rodrigo González Escudero, Benjamin Pasquiou, Florian Schreck Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H04.00002: Towards arrays of strontium atoms in optical tweezers. Jacob Covey, Alexandre Cooper, Ivaylo Madjarov, Brian Timar, Emily Qiu, Alexander Baumgärtner, Manuel Endres Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H04.00003: Single-Frequency Sisyphus Cooling of Lithium in the Presence of a Dipole Trap Yanping Cai, Daniel Allman, Parth Sabharwal, Kevin Wright Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H04.00004: Observation of sub-doppler cooling via swept adiabatic transfer in Rb Baochen Wu, Graham P. Greve, James K. Thompson Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H04.00005: Demonstration of a magneto-optic trap formed using a reversible, solid-state electrochemical Rb device Songbai Kang, Kaitlin Moore, James Mcgilligan, Russell Mott, Allison Mis, Chris Roper, Elizabeth Donley, John Kitching Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H04.00006: Density variations with mm-scale periodicity in optical molasses Timothy Roach, Patrick Connolly Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H04.00007: The Quantum Efficiency of Adiabatic Transfer Laser Cooling J.P. Bartolotta, M.A. Norcia, J.R.K. Cline, J.K. Thompson, M.J. Holland Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H04.00008: Building one Molecule from a Reservoir of Two Atoms Lee Liu, Jonathan Hood, Yichao Yu, Jessie Zhang, Nicholas Hutzler, Till Rosenband, Kang-Kuen Ni Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H04.00009: Continuous loading of $\nu=0$ $^{85}$Rb$_2$ ultracold molecules in a crossed optical dipole trap from a magneto-optical trap Henry Passagem, Nadia Bouloufa-Maafa, Olivier Dulieu, Luis Marcassa Preview Abstract

Session H05: Focus Session: AMO Science with Free Electron Lasers

Chair: Daniel Rolles, Kansas State University
Room: Grand E

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:30AM		H05.00001: Ultrafast electronic and nuclear dynamics induced by intense, ultrashort XFEL pulses. Invited Speaker: Kiyoshi Ueda Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:30AM - 9:00AM		H05.00002: Time-Resolved Photoionization and Fragmentation Dynamics of Fullerenes Studied with the Linac Coherent Light Source Free Electron Laser (FEL) Invited Speaker: Nora Berrah Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H05.00003: XUV-Assisted High-Order Harmonic Generation Shashank Pathak, Jan Tross, Adam Summers, Daniel Rolles, Carlos Trallero, Dimitrios Rompotis, Benjamin Erk, Christopher Passow, Bastian Manschwetus, Sadia Bari, Rebecca Boll, Patrik Grychtol Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H05.00004: Quantum coherent control of the photoelectron angular distribution in bichromatic-field ionization. Klaus Bartschat, Nicolas Douguet, Elena V. Gryzlova, Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo, Ekaterina I. Staroselskaya Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H05.00005: X-ray emission in Clusters Exposed to Intense X-ray Free-electron Laser (XFEL) Pulses Phay Ho, Chris Knight, Linda Young, Christoph Bostedt Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H05.00006: Anisotropic evaporation of a large nanoplasma Camila Bacellar, Christoph Bostedt, Andrey Vilesov, Oliver Gessner Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H05.00007: Radiation damage dynamics of light and heavy atoms of biological significance in Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham models Alexander Kozlov, Harry M. Quiney Preview Abstract

Session H06: Tests of Basic Laws

Chair: Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University
Room: Grand G

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H06.00001: Towards an improved electron and positron magnetic moment measurement as a test of the standard model and CPT symmetry Samuel Fayer, Thomas Myers, Xing Fan, Gerald Gabrielse Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H06.00002: Photodissociation of ThF$+$ and the eEDM Kia Boon Ng, Yan Zhou, Daniel Gresh, William Cairncross, Tanya Roussy, Kevin Boyce, Yuval Shagam, Lan Cheng, Jun Ye, Eric Cornell Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H06.00003: Testing CPT with the Anti-hydrogen Molecular Ion Edmund Myers, David Fink, Jordan Smith Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H06.00004: Precision isotope shift measurement in decoherence-free subspace. Nitzan Akerman, Tom Manovitz, Ravid Shaniv, Yotam Shapira, Roee Ozeri Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H06.00005: Constraints on Ultralight Dark Matter with an Optical Lattice Clock Colin Kennedy, Eric Oelker, Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, Lindsay Sonderhouse, Edward Marti, Sarah Bromley, John Robinson, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H06.00006: Progress towards a force sensor using Bloch oscillations to constrain dark matter theories Chandler Schlupf, Robert Niederriter, Kayla Rodriguez, Paul Hamilton Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H06.00007: Tests of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry with Precision Experiments Yunhua Ding, V. Alan Kosteleck\'y Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H06.00008: Progress on a new pulsed $^{87}$Rb-$^{21}$Ne co-magnetometer Junyi Lee, Hudson Loughlin, Morgan Hedges, Michael Romalis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H06.00009: He-Xe co-magnetometers: systematics and sensitivity to new physics William Terrano, Jonas Meinel, Natasha Sachdeva, Tim Chupp Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H06.00010: Demonstration of a Sensitive Method to Measure Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Violation Emine Altuntas, Jeffrey Ammon, Sidney Cahn, David DeMille Preview Abstract

Session H07: Spectroscopy, Lifetimes, and Oscillator Strengths

Chair: Wes Walter, Denison University
Room: Grand D

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H07.00001: Absolute Measurement of Fluorescent Quantum Yield using Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy Stephen Johnson, Brandon Couch, Andrew Meyer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H07.00002: Testing quantum electrodynamics in neutral beryllium-9 Eryn Cook, Alisha Vira, Emma Livernois, Carson Patterson, Will Williams Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H07.00003: Microwave-optical two photon excitation of Rydberg states Duncan Tate, Thomas Gallagher Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H07.00004: Quantum beat spectroscopy of Rydberg hyperfine structure Huy Nguyen, Jacob Lampen, Matthew Winchester, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H07.00005: Abstract Withdrawn
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H07.00006: Measurement of the lifetime of the 7S1/2 state in atomic cesium using asynchronous gated detection Yao De George Toh, Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas, Nathan Glotzbach, Jonah Quirk, Ian C. Stevenson, Jungo Choi, Andrew M. Weiner, Daniel S. Elliott Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H07.00007: Effects of spin-exchange collisions on atomic radio-frequency spectroscopy Chuanpeng Hao, Yuan Zhu, Zheru Qiu, Qi Sun, Dong Sheng Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H07.00008: Measurement and identification of EUV spectra from highly charged Yb in an electron beam ion trap Yuri Ralchenko, Roshani Silwal, N/A Dipti, Joan M. Dreiling, Samuel Sanders, B. Hemalatha Rudramadevi, John D. Gillaspy, Endre Takacs Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H07.00009: Theoretical and experimental studies of absolute absorption of a lithium vapor cell. Leonardo de Melo, Jiaming Li, Le Luo Preview Abstract

Session H08: Ion-Atom and Atom-Atom Collisions

Chair: John Tanis, Western Michigan University
Room: Grand F

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H08.00001: Controlling cold atom-ion collisions using a Rydberg state Limei Wang, Markus Deiss, Johannes Hecker Denschlag Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H08.00002: Radiative Double Electron Capture (RDEC) in 40 MeV $\rm{\bf F}^{\bf 8+}$ and $\rm{\bf F}^{\bf 9+}$ + Ne Collisions David La Mantia, Nuwan Kumara, Asghar Kayani, Anna Simon, John Tanis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H08.00003: Controling Excited-State Ion-Atom Reaction Ming Li, Alexander Petrov, Svetlana Kotochigova Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H08.00004: Heating dynamics in ultra-cold ion-atom system Meirav Pinkas, Ziv Meir, Tomas Sikorsky, Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Roee Ozeri Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H08.00005: Spin-exchange and spin-relaxation in ultracold Rb-Sr$^+$ collisions Masato Morita, Tomas Sikorsky, Ziv Meir, Alexei Buchachenko, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Edvardas Narevicius, Timur V. Tscherbul, Roee Ozeri Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H08.00006: Radiative double electron capture (RDEC) for F$^{\mathrm{8,9+}}$ ions colliding with N$_{\mathrm{2}}$* Nuwan Kumara, David La Mantia, Asghar Kayani, Prashanta Niraula, Shahid Iqbal, Anna Simon, John Tanis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H08.00007: Measurements of charge-exchange reaction rate constants between $\textrm{Ca}^+$ and Na in a hybrid atom-ion trap Jonathan Kwolek, Douglas Goodman, James Wells, Francesco Narducci, Winthrop Smith Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H08.00008: Cold and Controlled Chemical Reactions between Molecules and Ions Tiangang Yang, Gary Chen, Arthur Suits, Eric Hudson, Wesley Campbell Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H08.00009: Study of Cold Phase Chemistry Using a Hybrid Atom-Ion Setup Kisra Egodapitiya, Jyothi Saraladevi, Zhubing Jia, Gang Shu, Robert Clark, Piero Chiappina, Kenneth Brown Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H08.00010: Control of atom-ion reactions at low temperatures Michael Mills, Prateek Puri, Elizabeth West, Christian Schneider, Eric Hudson Preview Abstract

Session H09: Quantum Gates

Chair: John Bollinger, NIST
Room: Grand H

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H09.00001: Robust entanglement of trapped ion qubits Yotam Shapira, Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, Roee Ozeri Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H09.00002: Entanglement between two species of atomic ions and the loophole-free test of quantum contextuality Pengfei Wang, Junhua Zhang, Mark Um, Ye Wang, Tian Xie, Naijun Jin, Jing-Ning Zhang, Kihwan Kim Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H09.00003: Entangling Ions through Multiple Transverse Modes on an Ion-Chain Kuan Zhang, Yao Lu, Shuaining Zhang, Yangchao Shen, Wentao Chen, Jing-Ning Zhang, Kihwan Kim Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H09.00004: Parallel 2-Qubit Operations on a Programmable Ion Trap Quantum Computer Caroline Figgatt, Aaron Ostrander, Norbert Linke, Kevin Landsman, Daiwei Zhu, Dmitri Maslov, Christopher Monroe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H09.00005: Entanglement of trapped ions using low-frequency magnetic field gradients Shaun C. Burd, David T. C. Allcock, Raghavendra Srinivas, Daniel H. Slichter, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H09.00006: Trapped ion-inspired entangling gate for superconducting qubits Sydney Schreppler, Marie Lu, Lukas Buchmann, Felix Motzoi, Irfan Siddiqi Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H09.00007: Photon-mediated universal quantum gate between two neutral atoms in an optical cavity Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Severin Daiss, Stephan Ritter, Lin Li, Gerhard Rempe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H09.00008: Quantum compilation optimized for experiments with multi-qubit gates Liangyu Ding, Xiang Zhang, Qiuxin Zhang, Danna Shen, Xiran Sun, Wei Zhang Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H09.00009: A Photon-Photon Quantum Gate Based on Rydberg Polaritons Steffen Schmidt-Eberle, Daniel Tiarks, Thomas Stolz, Stephan Duerr, Gerhard Rempe Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H09.00010: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract