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Session H1: Spin-Liquid Insulators and Strongly Correlated Superconductors

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Matthew Fisher, UC-Santa Barbara
Room: LACC 152

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H1.00001: Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Charge Excitations in manganites Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H1.00002: Exotic Phases and Fractionalization in Frustrated Quantum Magnets Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H1.00003: Spin Liquids, Valence Bond Crystals and Cantor Deconfinement in Quantum Dimer Models Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H1.00004: Novel Inhomogeneous Metallic Phase in a Disordered Mott Insulator in Two Dimensions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H1.00005: Bose Metal in 2D Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H2: Polymer Physics Prize Symposium

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Richard Register, Princeton University
Room: LACC 151

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H2.00001: Routes to Frustrated Nanostructures with Block Copolymers Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H2.00002: Using polymer chemistry and block copolymers to create a viable nanopatterning strategy Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H2.00003: Micellization of pH-responsive Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers in Aqueous Media and the Formation of Metal Nanocrystals Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H2.00004: Force Measurements Using Capillary Instabilities Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H2.00005: Toughness and adhesion in an acqueous environment Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H3: Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: Gordon Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Room: LACC 515B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H3.00001: Broida Prize Talk: Imaging Photodissociation Dynamics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H3.00002: George E. Pake Prize Lecture Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H3.00003: Onsager Prize Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H3.00004: Rahman Prize Talk: Small is Different: Materials in the Nanoscale Nonscalable Regime Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H3.00005: Heineman Prize Talk: Spin Glasses Between Mathematics and Physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H4: Recent Developments in Semiconductor Heterostructure Spin Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara
Room: LACC 515A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H4.00001: Spin-Orbit Coupling and Spin Polarization in 2D Hole Systems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H4.00002: Spin-polarized reflection of electrons in a two-dimensional electron system Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H4.00003: Spin-Galvanic Effect in Semiconductor Quantum Wells Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H4.00004: Magneto-optical studies of magnetic and non-magnetic narrow-gap semiconductors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H4.00005: Spin susceptibility of AlAs two-dimensional electron systems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H5: From Biological to Infrastructure Networks: Structure and Dynamics

Sponsoring Units: GSNP
Chair: Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame University
Room: LACC 502B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H5.00001: Evolution and structure of the Internet: A statistical physics approach Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H5.00002: Defense in Complex Networks Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H5.00003: What can we learn from the network approach in finance? Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H5.00004: Robustness of metabolic networks: Flux balance analysis Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H5.00005: Information Horizons in Complex Networks Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H6: The Physics Community's Defense of Human Rights

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Myriam Sarachik, Physics Department, CCNY
Room: LACC 502A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H6.00001: Einstein, social responsibility of physicists and human rights in China Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H6.00002: Physicists and Human Rights: Reflections on the Past and the Present Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H6.00003: Physicists for Human Rights in the Former Soviet Union Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H6.00004: Human Rights in Iran after the 1978 Islamic Revolution Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H6.00005: The American Physical Society's Involvement in the Defense of Human Rights Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H7: Nanomechanical Biosensors

Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Thomas Thundat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: LACC 408B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H7.00001: Cantilever Arrays for Multiplexed Analysis of Chemical and Biomolecular Reactions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H7.00002: Chemical Specificity in Nanomechanical Sensors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H7.00003: A Novel Electronic Transduction Scheme with MOSFET-Embedded Microcantilevers for Bio-Chem Sensing Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H7.00004: Suspended microchannel resonators for biomolecular detection Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H7.00005: Nanomechanics and Electronic Detection in Biosensing Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session H9: Focus Session: Low Dimensional Magnetism

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DMP GMAG
Chair: Kirill Belashchenko, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Room: LACC 153A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H9.00001: Magnetic Properties of Quantum Corrals Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H9.00002: Noncollinear magnetism at ferromagnetic/anti\-ferro\-magnetic interfaces: canting and half-metallicity K. Nakamura, T. Ito, A.J. Freeman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H9.00003: Effect of spin-orbit interaction on a magnetic impurity in the vicinity of a surface Laszlo Szunyogh, Gergely Zarand, M. Carmen Munoz, Balazs L. Gyorffy Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H9.00004: Ab-initio theory of Kerr angles in magnetic multilayer systems Irene Reichl, Andras Vernes, Peter Weinberger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H9.00005: Ab initio studies of non-collinear magnetic ordering of Cr dimers on Mo(110) Yang Wang, Ruqian Wu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H9.00006: Calculation of the free energy of NiFe2O4 nanopoarticles by Monte Carlo simulation Chenggang Zhou, T. C. Schulthess, D. P. Landau Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H9.00007: Theoretical study on the magnetic structure of ultrathin Fe on Cu(100) Laszlo Udvardi, Laszlo Szyunyogh, Peter Weinberger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H9.00008: Effects of Magnetic Impurities in Quasi-One-Dimensional Magnets Munehisa Matsumoto, Hajime Takayama Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H9.00009: Computational Electronic Structure of Photoinduced Spin Transitions in Molecular Photoswithches Teepanis Chachiyo, Jorge H. Rodriguez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H9.00010: Ab Initio Calculation of Zero Field Splitting Parameters of Iron Complexes and Molecular Magnets Fredy Aquino, Jorge H. Rodriguez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H9.00011: Review of calculation of magnetic hyperfine Interactions for a molecular system Ho-Ki Jeong, Junho Jeong Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H9.00012: Quantum Percolation in Two-dimensional antiferromagnets Rong Yu, Tommaso Roscilde, Stephan Haas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H9.00013: An Ab Initio Study of H2 Interaction with Pu (100) Surface M. N. Huda, A. K. Ray Preview Abstract
		H9.00014: NMR studies of quantum spin liquids using high magnetic fields: SrCu$_{2}$(BO$_{3})_{2}$ and BaCuSi$_{2}$O$_{6}$ Raivo Stern, I. Heinmaa, P. Kuhns, A. Reyes, W. Moulton, M. Horvatic, C. Berthier, C. Batista, M. Jaime, T. Kimura, H. Dabkowska, B. D. Gaulin Preview Abstract

Session H10: Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Electronic Structure

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University
Room: LACC 153B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H10.00001: Electronic Structure of Mn in III-V semiconductors: lessons from First-principles theory Invited Speaker: Alex Zunger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H10.00002: Antiferromagnetic $s-d$ exchange coupling in GaMnAs R.C. Myers, M. Poggio, N.P. Stern, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H10.00003: Calculation study of Curie Temperature in GaAs based diluted magnetic semiconductor Jialei Xu, Mark van Schilfgaarde, German D. Samolyuk Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H10.00004: Band structure model of magnetic coupling in II-VI and III-V semiconductors Su-Huai Wei, Gustavo M. Dalpian Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H10.00005: Compensation, interstitial defects and ferromagnetism in III-V semiconductors Timothy Ziman, Georges Bouzerar, Josef Kudrnovsk\`y Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H10.00006: Mn electronic structure and induced Ga moment in Mn-doped GaN Lian Li, Sau Ha Cheung, Seth King, Michael Weinert , David Keavney Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H10.00007: Spin-Fermion Models for Manganites and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors: A Dynamical Mean Field Study Florentin Popescu, Gonzalo Alvarez, Elbio Dagotto Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H10.00008: ScN:Mn a dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor Aditi Herwadkar, Walter R. L. Lambrecht Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H10.00009: First-principles Study of the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Cobalt Indium Nitride Pavel Lukashev, Walter R. L. Lambrecht Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H10.00010: Theoretical modeling of epitaxial growth and properties of Mn/Ge (001) multilayers J.E. Medvedeva, A.J. Freeman, J.B. Ketterson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H10.00011: Magnetism of silicon doped with alkaline earth elements Bang-Gui Liu, Li-Jie Shi, Steven G. Louie Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H10.00012: A dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor with an isolated impurity band: (Ga,Mn)P M.A. Scarpulla, B.J. Cardozo, O.D. Dubon, W.M. Hlaing Oo, M.D. McCluskey Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H10.00013: Piezo-Magneto-Electric Effects in p-Doped Semiconductors Oskar Vafek, Andrei Bernevig Preview Abstract
		H10.00014: Anisotropic exchange interactions in III-V diluted magnetic semiconductors Carsten Timm, A. H. MacDonald Preview Abstract

Session H11: Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DMP GSCCM
Chair: Stephane Mazevet, LANL
Room: LACC 153C

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H11.00001: Melting and metallization of compressed hydrogen: Predictions from first-principles calculations Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H11.00002: Path Integral Simulations of Hydrogen Melting at High Pressures Rebekah Graham, Burkhard Militzer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H11.00003: Hydrogen Bonding at Extreme Conditions Riad Manaa Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H11.00004: Incommensurately modulated sulfur at megabar pressures: experimental and computational study Olga Degtyareva, Razvan Caracas, Eugene Gregoryanz, Ronald Cohen, Russell Hemley Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H11.00005: Time scale for rapid resolidification in the presence of competing solid phases Fred H. Streitz, Mehul V. Patel, James N. Glosli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H11.00006: Rapid pressure-induced solidification of molten metals Mehul Patel, Frederick Streitz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H11.00007: Beryllium at high pressure and temperature: A first-principles molecular dynamics study Andrea Trave, Eric Schwegler, Francois Gygi, Giulia Galli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H11.00008: Covalency in the superionic phase of water Laurence Fried, Nir Goldman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H11.00009: Multiscale Modeling of the Onset of Void Coalescence in Dynamic Fracture Robert E. Rudd, Eira T. Seppala, James Belak Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H11.00010: Atomistic-based Dislocation Mobility Model for Material Strength at High Pressure Lin H. Yang, John A. Moriarty Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H11.00011: Deformation near grain boundaries in rocksalt structured ceramics at high strain rates James Palko, John Kieffer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H11.00012: Absence of B1-B2 structural transition in lithium halides under hydrostatic pressure Romeo de Coss, Gabriel Murrieta Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H11.00013: Anharmonic Materials and Thermoelasticity at High Temperatures and Pressures Daniel Orlikowski, Randolf Q. Hood, Per Soderlind, John A. Moriarty Preview Abstract

Session H12: Vortices in Superconductors III

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: M. Tikham, Harvard University
Room: LACC 402A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H12.00001: Momentum dependence of the half-flux quantum effect in YBCO-Nb rings John Kirtley, Chang Tsuei, A. Ariando, Hans Hilgenkamp Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H12.00002: Measuring the inertial mass of a vortex in the cuprate superconductors Lorenz Bartosch, Subir Sachdev, Leon Balents Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H12.00003: Criticality in the $N$-flavor London model Asle Sudbo, Jo Smiseth, Eivind Smorgrav, Egor Babaev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H12.00004: Coherent oscillations in a multilayered Josephson junction Serhii Shafranjuk, John Ketterson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H12.00005: One-dimensional Superconducting NbSe2 Zhili Xiao*, Yew-San Hor, Ulrich Welp, Yasuo Ito*, John F. Mitchell, Russ E. Cook, Wai-Kwong Kwok, George W. Crabtree Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H12.00006: Novel type of vortex rectification in plain Pb/Ge superconducting films Farkhad Aliev, Juan Sierra, Vladimir Pryadun, Dusan Golubovic, Victor Moshchalkov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H12.00007: Vortex Pinning in a Superconducting Thin Film Pierced by Ferromagnetic Columnar Defects M. Amin Kayali Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H12.00008: Depinning transitions of flux lines from extended defects in superconductors Anatoli Polkovnikov, David Nelson, Yariv Kafri Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H12.00009: Peak Effect at Disorder-driven Dimensional Crossover in the Mixed Phase of Layered Superconductors Jose P. Rodriguez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H12.00010: Dissipation due to vortices in a bilayer thin film superconductor Wei Zhang, H.A. Fertig Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H12.00011: Dendritic flux avalanches and nonlocal electrodynamics in thin superconducting films A. Gurevich, I. Aranson, V. Vlasko-Vlasov, V. Vinokur, U. Welp, M. Welling, R. Wijngaarden Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H12.00012: Simulations of the intermediate state in type-I superconductors A.D. Hernandez , D. Dominguez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H12.00013: Vortex sub-lattice melting in a two-component superconductor Eivind Smorgrav, Asle Sudbo, Jo Smiseth, Egor Babaev Preview Abstract

Session H13: Superconducting Magneto-Transport Properties

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Carmen Alamasan, Kent State University
Room: LACC 402B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H13.00001: Superconductivity and possible charge Kondo effect in Tl-doped PbTe Y. Matsushita, H. Bluhm, T. H. Geballe, I. R. Fisher Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H13.00002: Quantum Fluctuations and High-Field Phase Diagram of the Infinite Layer Superconductor Sr$_{0.9}$M$_{0.1}$CuO$_2$ (M = La, Gd) C.R. Hughes, A.D. Beyer, N-C. Yeh, V.S. Zapf, M-S. Park, K-H. Kim, S-I. Lee Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H13.00003: Upper Critical Field in C-Doped MgB2 Thin Films and Coated Fibers V. Ferrando, J. Chen, P. Orgiani, A.V. Pogrebnyakov, X.X. Xi, Qi Li, J. Redwing Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H13.00004: HiTc Resistivity Measurements and QCP in CLBLCO Superconductors Yakov Eckstein, Byron Watkins, KHanan Chashka, Arkady Knizhnik Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H13.00005: Hall Effect in CLBLCO Superconductors Byron Watkins, KHanan Chashka, Arkady Knizhnik, Yakov Eckstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H13.00006: Low temperature anisotropic magnetoresistance studies of the electron-doped superconductor Pr$_{1.85}$Ce$_{0.15}$CuO$_4$ Weiqiang Yu, P. Li, J. Higgins, Y. Dagan, B. Liang, R.L. Greene Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H13.00007: Superconducting Critical Field Curves in Uranium-Niobium alloys Jason C. Cooley, W. Larry Hults, Jason C. Lashley, James L. Smith, George M. Schmiedeshoff Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H13.00008: New Transition in the Vortex Liquid State: intrinsic limit of the irreversibility line Wai-Kwong Kwok, Goran Karapetrov, Ulrich Welp, Andreas Rydh, George Crabtree, Lisa Paulius, Jordi Figueras, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H13.00009: Evolution of the Hall effect in CeCoIn$_5$; non-Fermi to Fermi liquid crossover Yasuyuki Nakajima, Koichi Izawa, Yuji Matsuda, Hiroaki Shishido, Rikio Settai, Yoshichika Onuki, Hiroshi Kontani, Masato Hedo, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Takehiko Matsumoto Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H13.00010: Magnetisation and the Irreversibility Line in Strongly Underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ Alix McCollam, Stephen Julian, Ruixing Liang, Douglas Bonn, Walter Hardy Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H13.00011: Destruction of superconductivity and pseudogap closing in Bi$_2$Sr$_{2-x}$La$_x$CuO$_{6+\delta}$ by 58 T magnetic field S. Ono, Yoichi Ando, F.F. Balakirev, J.B. Betts, G.S. Boebinger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H13.00012: Electrical Transport Study of Fluctuations for the Superconducting Transition in the Electron Doped Cuprate $Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4}$ Jacques Renaud, Patrick Fournier, Jacques Beauvais, Claude Bourbonnais, Mike Denhoff Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H13.00013: Angular Magnetoresistivity Measurements in the Pseudogap Region of $Y_{1-x}Pr_{x}Ba_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-\delta}$ T. Katuwal, P. Gyawali, C.C. Almasan, B.J. Taylor, M.B. Maple Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H13.00014: Remarkable doping dependence of the spin magnetoresistance in Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ Yoram Dagan, M.C. Barr, W.M. Fisher, R.L. Greene, T. Dhakal, A. Biswas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H13.00015: The high-field transport property of Sm-Ba-Cu-O bulk materials with different nano-scale additions Y.C. Liao, S.Y. Chen, I.G. Chen, M.K. Wu Preview Abstract

Session H14: Focus Session: Organic / Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials

Sponsoring Units: FIAP DPOLY
Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan
Room: LACC 403B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H14.00001: Synthesis Mechanisms and Properties of POSS Compounds Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H14.00002: How Does POSS Influence Polymer Properties? Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H14.00003: Simulation of Self-Assembly of Functionalized Silsesquioxane Molecules John Kieffer, Feng Qi, Jinhua Zhou, Murat Durandurdu, Xi Zhang, Sharon Glotzer, Cheng-Ying Lee, Matt Neurock Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H14.00004: Simulation of Organic-tethered Silesquioxane Nanocube Assemblies Xi Zhang, Elaine Chan, Lin Ho, Sharon Glotzer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H14.00005: Nanostructured Organosilicates from Self-assembled Block Copolymers/Silsesquioxanes Mixtures Ho-Cheol Kim, Erik Freer, Jennifer Cha, James Hedrick, Robert Miller Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H14.00006: Density Functional Theory and MD Simulations of Properties of PDMS near Silica Surfaces Shyamal K. Nath, Amalie L. Frischknecht, John G. Curro, John D. McCoy Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H14.00007: Atomistic Simulations of Acene Functionalized Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) Molecules Feng Qi, Murat Durandurdu, John Kieffer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H14.00008: Quantitative Determination of the Chemical Composition of Silica-Poly(Norbornene) Nanocomposites Thomas Seery, Mark Jordi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H14.00009: Branch Content in Hybrid Materials using Small-Angle Scattering Greg Beaucage Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H14.00010: Nanoscale Ordered Structure in High Temperature Ceramics Azar Alizadeh, Julin Wan, Patrick Malenfant, Seth Taylor, Sergio Loureiro, Mohan Manoharan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H14.00011: Mechanical and electronic properties of organic–inorganic hybrid semiconductor ZnSe(C2H8N2)1/2 Amjad Nazzal, Huaxiang Fu Preview Abstract

Session H15: Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices I

Sponsoring Units: FIAP DCMP DMP
Chair: Rachel S. Goldman, University of Michigan
Room: LACC 405

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H15.00001: Quasi-localized states, electron scattering and carrier mobility in GaNAs Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H15.00002: Influence of Nitrogen Incorporation Mechanisms on Optical and Electronic Properties of GaAsN Alloys M. Reason, H.A. McKay, W. Ye, D. Mao, R.S. Goldman, X. Bai, C. Kurdak, V. Rotberg Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H15.00003: Two-Dimensional Electron Transport in Selectively Doped GaAsN/AlGaAs Heterostructures X. Bai, H.A. McKay, R.S. Goldman, C. Kurdak Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H15.00004: Localization and exciton line-width broadening in the dilute nitride, GaNAs Dermot McPeake, Ivana Bosa, Andrew Lindsay, Stephen Fahy, Eoin P. O'Reilly Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H15.00005: The unusual band structure properties of dilute nitride GaAsN alloys Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H15.00006: Excited states of acceptor-like excitons bound to isolated nitrogen in GaAs D.J. Wolford, E.A. Stinaff, K.W Ver Steeg, Tyson D. Hoffmann Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H15.00007: Planar modulation of the conduction band edge in GaNxAs1-x Kirstin Alberi, O.D. Dubon, A. Minor, W. Shan, K.M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz, S.J. Chung, D.E. Mars, F. Zavaliche Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H15.00008: Electron Transport in Dilute Alloys of GaAs(1-x)N(x) Richard Ahrenkiel, Joseph Luther, Steven Johnston, Wyatt Metzger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H15.00009: Dilute GaAs-Nitride Alloys Grown with Bismuth by MBE D. A. Beaton, T. Tiedje, S. Tixier, S. E. Webster, N. R. Zangenberg, E. C. Young, P. Wei, F. Schiettekatte, S. Francoeur Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H15.00010: Role of Nitrogen on Emission Wavelengths of InAs Quantum Dots: InAs/GaAs Interfaces and Strain-compensating GaAsN Burying Layers I. Suemune, S. Ganapathy, K. Uesugi, N. Matsumura, Y. Nabetani, T. Matsumoto Preview Abstract

Session H16: Focus Session: Tip-enhanced Nano-optics and Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Khaled Karrai, Ludwig-Maximilians University
Room: LACC 404A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H16.00001: Tip-enhanced spectroscopy from ordered silver nanoparticle arrays Erin Orazem, Dave Bussian, Sarah Cross, Jason Schmidt, Melissa Summers, Steve Buratto Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H16.00002: Electromagnetic response in Scattering-type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy Javier Aizpurua, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Pedro Miguel Echenique Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H16.00003: Microscopic near-field optics of metallic nanoparticles Yongqiang Xue Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H16.00004: Tip-confined near fields for locally probing optical constants and fluorescence Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H16.00005: Size dependence of the exciton g-factor in self-assembled CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots Thang B. Hoang, Sebastian Mackowski, Howard E. Jackson, Leigh M. Smith, Piotr Wojnar, Grzegorz Karczewski, Jacek Kossut Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H16.00006: Exchange coupling between magnetic and non-magnetic quantum dots Leigh M. Smith, Sebastian Mackowski, Tak Gurung, Aziz M. Majidi, Mark Jarrell, Howard E. Jackson, Fedir V. Kyrychenko, Chris J. Stanton, Grzegorz Karczewski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H16.00007: Temperature dependence Infrared and Raman studies of III-V/II-VI core-shell nanostructures Felicia S. Manciu, Bruce D. McCombe, Bernard A. Weinstein, Robert E. Tallman, Derrick Lucey, Y. Sahoo, Paras N. Prasad Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H16.00008: Tuning the spin properties of excitons in CdTe/ZnTe self-assembled quantum dots Kapila P. Hewaparakrama, Sebastian Mackowski, Howard E. Jackson, Leigh M. Smith, Grzegorz Karczewski, Jacek Kossut, Wolfgang Heiss Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H16.00009: Probing excited states in self-assembled quantum dots with resonant Raman scattering Amensisa Abdi, Thang B. Hoang, Sebastian Mackowski, Leigh M. Smith, Howard E. Jackson, Jan Yarrison-Rice, Jacek Kossut, Grzegorz Karczewski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H16.00010: Electric field modulated optical saturation absorption of CdSe quantum dots Bin Shi, Zuoming Zhao, Pak-Sam Chang, Ya-Hong Xie, Chander Radhakrishnan, Harold Monbouquette Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H16.00011: Modulated electroreflectance from multilayer InGaAs quantum wires and dot chains Zhixun Ma, Todd Holden, Zhiming Wang, Lyudmila Malikova, Gregory Salamo Preview Abstract

Session H17: Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Single Molecule Junctions

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCP
Chair: Robert L. Willett, Bell Laboratories
Room: LACC 404 B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H17.00001: Electronic States and Electronic Coupling in Organic Molecular Systems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H17.00002: Near-Perfect Conduction through a Single Molecular Orbital in a Ferrocene-Based Molecular Wire Michael S. Fuhrer, Stephanie A. Getty , Chaiwat Engtrakul, Lixin Wang, Lawrence R. Sita, Rui Liu, San-Huang Ke, Harold U. Baranger, Weitao Yang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H17.00003: The Kondo Effect in Transition Metal Ion Based Single-Molecule Transistor Lam Yu, Zachary Keane, Jacob Ciszek, Long Cheng, Michael Stewart, James Tour, Douglas Natelson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H17.00004: Mechanically-Adjustable and Electrically-Gated Single-Molecule Transistors Alexandre Champagne, Abhay Pasupathy, Joshua Parks, Daniel Ralph Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H17.00005: Prevalence of Coulomb blockade in electro-migrated junctions with conjugated and non-conjugated molecules Anat de Picciotto, Jennifer Klare, Kenji Sugo, Colin Nuckolls, Artur Erbe, Kirk Baldwin, Robert Willett Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H17.00006: Organometallic Spintronics: Dicobaltocene Switch Rui Lui, San-Huang Ke, Weitao Yang, Harold Baranger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H17.00007: Vibrational Excitations in Single-Trimetal-Molecule Transistors Dong-Hun Chae, Zhen Yao, John F. Berry, Carlos A. Murillo, F. Albert Cotton Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H17.00008: Room-temperature single-electron transistors with individual alkanedithiol molecules Kang Luo, Dong-Hun Chae, Suyong Jung, Zhen Yao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H17.00009: Phonon-Rabi-Resonance and Assisted Tunneling in Molecules Edson Vernek, Enrique Anda, Nancy Sandler, Sergio Ulloa Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H17.00010: Effective Tunneling of Torsional Polarons in Short Molecules Efta Yudiarsah, Sergio Ulloa Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H17.00011: Theory of tunneling and electron transport through single molecules of polyaniline Otto Sankey, Myeong Lee, Gil Speyer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H17.00012: Electrical Response of Molecular Chains from Density Functional Theory Stephan Kuemmel, Leeor Kronik, John P. Perdew Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H17.00013: Molecular Spintronics: Theory of Spin-Dependent Electron Transport Between Iron Nano-Contacts Bridged by Organic Molecules and Fe Atomic Chains* Hugh Dalgleish, George Kirczenow Preview Abstract
		H17.00014: Rectifying effects in di-block oligomer molecular diodes Ivan Oleynik, Mortko Kozhushner, Vladimir Posvyanskii Preview Abstract
		H17.00015: Temperature-dependent molecular conduction measured by the electrochemical deposition of a platinum electrode in a lateral configuration Y.W. Park, B. Kim, S.J. Ahn, J.G. Park, S.H. Lee, Eleanor E.B. Campbell Preview Abstract

Session H18: Modeling of Superconducting Systems for Quantum Computing

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Xuedong Hu University at Buffalo, SUNY
Room: LACC 406A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H18.00001: Simple quantum feedback of a solid-state qubit Alexander Korotkov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H18.00002: Logic gates for superconducting qubits M. Steffen, R. McDermott, K.B. Cooper, M. Ansmann, J.M. Martinis, R. Simmonds, K. Cicak, K. Osborn, S. Oh, D.P. Pappas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H18.00003: On a relation between the high and low frequency noise Alexander Shnirman, Gerd Sch\"on, Ivar Martin, Yuriy Makhlin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H18.00004: Subgap states in dirty superconductors and their effect on dephasing in Josephson qubits Alessandro Silva, Lev Ioffe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H18.00005: Asymmetry and decoherence in a double-layer persistent-current qubit G. Burkard, D. P. DiVincenzo, P. Bertet, I. Chiorescu, J. E. Mooij Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H18.00006: Non-Stationary Dephasing by a Classical Intermittent Noise Pascal Degiovanni, David Carpentier, Maxime Clusel, Josef Schriefl Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H18.00007: Measurement induced dephasing of a superconducting qubit strongly coupled to a resonator Jay Gambetta, Alexandre Blais, David Schuster, Andreas Wallraff, Ren-Shou Huang, Johannes Majer, Luigi Frunzio, Steven Girvin, Robert Schoelkopf Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H18.00008: Non-additivity of decoherence rates in superconducting qubits Guido Burkard, Frederico Brito Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H18.00009: Phonon-induced decoherence of Andreev level qubit Alexander Zazunov, Vitaly S. Shumeiko, Goran Wendin, Ekaterina N. Bratus' Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H18.00010: Fidelity and quantum chaos in the nanocircuit for the Josephson flux qubit E. N. Pozzo, D. Dominguez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H18.00011: Correlation-induced suppression of decoherence in capacitively coupled Cooper-pair boxes Xuedong Hu, J. Q. You, Franco Nori Preview Abstract
		H18.00012: Microwave Parametric Down Conversion and Squeezing Using Circuit QED K. Moon, S.M. Girvin, A. Blais, J. Gambetta Preview Abstract

Session H19: Bilayers

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Michael Fogler, UCSD
Room: LACC 406 B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H19.00001: In-plane magnetodrag in dilute bilayer two-dimensional systems E.H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H19.00002: Effective Drag Between Strongly Inhomogeneous Layers: Exact Results Vadym Apalkov, Mikhail Raikh Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H19.00003: Probing the Extents of Negative Drag in the Quantum Hall Regime Gokul Gopalakrishnan, Sanghun An, Sarah Parks, Yuko Shiroyanagi, Thomas Gramila, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H19.00004: Exploring Electron Drag in Intermediate Magnetic Fields Sanghun An, Gokul Gopalakrishnan, Yuko Shiroyanagi, Sarah Parks, Thomas Gramila, Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H19.00005: Vortices, instantons and deconfinement in bilayer quantum Hall systems Ziqiang Wang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H19.00006: Undoped GaAs bilayers for exciton condensation experiments M.P. Lilly, J.A. Seamons, E. Bielejec, J.L. Reno Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H19.00007: Dipolar superfluidity in electron-hole bilayers Yogesh Joglekar, Alexander Balatsky, Peter Littlewood Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H19.00008: Coherence Network in a Quantum Hall Bilayer H.A. Fertig, Ganpathy Murthy Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H19.00009: Influence of Disorder on Spontaneous Coherence and Collective Transport in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems Enrico Rossi, Allan H. MacDonald Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H19.00010: Real Spin in Pseudospin Quasiparticles of Bilayer Quantum Hall systems Bahman Roostaei, H. A. Fertig, Kieran Mullen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H19.00011: Tunneling and the Collective Mode Spectrum of Strongly Correlated Bilayer 2D Electron Systems X. Lopez-Yglesias, I.B. Spielman, J.P. Eisenstein, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H19.00012: Tunneling Under Microwave Illumination in Bilayer Two Dimensional Electron Systems J.A. Bonetti, L.C. Sinclair, J.P. Eisenstein, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H19.00013: Resonance in Microwave Spectra of Bilayer Hole Sample Zhihai Wang, Y. Chen, G. Sambandamurthy, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, E. Tutuc, M. Shayegan Preview Abstract

Session H20: Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces I

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, NCSU
Room: LACC 407

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H20.00001: Dielectric and vibrational properties of crystalline and amorphous high-k lanthanum aluminate Pietro Delugas, Vincenzo Fiorentini, Alessio Filippetti Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:48AM		H20.00002: Dielectric Anomalies in Cuprates and Nickelates Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H20.00003: Infrared properties of the bismuth pyrochlores Minghan Chen, David Tanner, Juan Nino Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H20.00004: Structural Phase Transition in Zircon and Hafnon studied by Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy Herbert Jaeger, Sean McBride Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H20.00005: Dependence of the band gap in the high-k dielectric HfO$_2$ on crystalline phase K. Nishitani, P. Rinke, Ph. Eggert, S.J. Hashemifar, P. Kratzer, M. Scheffler Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H20.00006: Density Functional Theory Simulations of Atomic Layer Deposition of HfO2 Joseph Han, Charles Musgrave Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H20.00007: ZrO2 high-K dielectric thin films for high-density field-effect doping studies Xin Zhou, Gertjan Koster, Malcolm Beasley Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H20.00008: The Dynamical Structure Factor of NiO and CoO* B.C. Larson, J.Z Tischler, P. Zschack, K.D. Finkelstein, Wei Ku, O. Restrepo, A.G. Equiluz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H20.00009: Influence of Shallow Core Level Hybridization on the Electronic Structure of Metal Oxides R.G. Egdell, P-A Glans, T. Learmonth, K.E. Smith, J. Guo, C. McGuinness, A. Walsh, G. Watson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H20.00010: First Principles Investigation of 47Ti and 17O Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in the Rutile and Anatase Phases of TiO2 S. Byahut, Sudha Srinivas, Lee Chow, Junho Jeong, R. H. Scheicher (*) , T. P. Das (**) Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H20.00011: Dielectric properties of Ca- and Ba-doped SrTiO3 Li-Chun Tung, Tuson Park, John Sarrao, Alex Lacerda, Ward Beyermann Preview Abstract
		H20.00012: Intrinsic Effect of a Nitrogen Atom on Hf-based High-k Gate Dielectrics -A First Principles Study Naoto Umezawa, Kenji Shiraishi, Takahisa Ohno, Heiji Watanabe, Toyohiro Chikyow, Kazuyoshi Torii, Kikuo Yamabe, Keisaku Yamada, Hiroshi Kitajima, Tsunetoshi Arikado Preview Abstract
		H20.00013: The Magnetocaloric Effect in New Rare Earth Compounds A.L. Lima, M.F. Hundley, V. Fritsch, S. Bobev, J.D. Thompson, J.L. Sarrao Preview Abstract

Session H22: Nucleic Acids

Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Room: LACC 409B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H22.00001: RNA Interference Induced by the Cationic Lipid Delivery of siRNA Nathan Bouxsein, Christopher McAllister, Kai Ewert, Charles Samuel, Cyrus Safinya Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H22.00002: Theory of Bubble Nucleation and Cooperativity in DNA melting Nikos Voulgarkis, Saul Ares, Kim Rasmussen, Alan Bishop Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H22.00003: Effects of sequence disorder on DNA looping and cyclization Yuri Popov, Alexei Tkachenko Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H22.00004: Large N transfer matrix models of DNA melting Vassili Ivanov, Giovanni Zocchi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H22.00005: Mechanical unraveling of nucleosomes assembled on heterogeneous DNA using core histones, NAP-1, and ACF Douglas E. Smith, Gregory J. Gemmen, Ronald Sim, Karl A. Haushalter, Pu-Chun Ke, James T. Kadonaga Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H22.00006: Brownian dynamics simulation of the nucleosome chirality - the wrapping direction of DNA on the histone octamer Peng-Ye Wang, Wei Li, Shuo-Xing Dou Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H22.00007: Force dependence of the opening rate of a single DNA hairpin-loop Jeungphill Hanne, Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Giovanni Zocchi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H22.00008: Applied stress and the thermal denaturation of DNA Tatiana Kuriabova, Joseph Rudnick Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H22.00009: Molecular mechanical studies of hydrated B-DNAs: conformation and counterions Charles Cleveland, Uzi Landman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H22.00010: Optical conductivity of wet DNA Arnd Hubsch, Robert G. Endres, Daniel L. Cox, Rajiv R.P. Singh Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H22.00011: Low Temperature Intrinsic Paramagnetism in B-DNA Sawako Nakamae, Maximilien Cazayous, Alain Sacuto, Philippe Monod, Dominique Durand, Helene Bouchiat Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H22.00012: Experimental investigation of the influence of DNA structure on its the charge transport properties V. Soghomonian, B. Hartzell, Hong Chen, J.J. Heremans Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H22.00013: Single state tight binding model for transport through DNA H. Mehrez, M.P. Anantram Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H22.00014: First-principles Study of Muon and Muonium in A- and B-form DNA E. Torikai, R.H. Scheicher, T.P. Das, F.L. Pratt, K. Nagamine Preview Abstract
		H22.00015: Disorder in DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies Nolan Harris, Ching-Hwa Kiang Preview Abstract
		H22.00016: A Systematic Study of Single-stranded DNA Electrophoresis in Photopolymerized Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Gels Roger Lo, Victor Ugaz Preview Abstract

Session H23: Focus Session: Brownian Motion and Stochastic Dynamics in the 100 Years Since Einstein

Sponsoring Units: GSNP DBP
Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University
Room: LACC 410

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H23.00001: Study of the dissipative Hofstadter model in the $\pi$-flux regime Eduardo Novais, Antonio Castro Neto, Francisco Guinea Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H23.00002: The quantum description of Einstein's Brownian motion Francesco Petruccione, Bassano Vacchini Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H23.00003: Preserving Positivity During Quantum Brownian Evolution Allan Tameshtit Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H23.00004: Human dispersal on geographical scales Dirk Brockmann, Lars Hufnagel, Theo Geisel Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H23.00005: Probability distribution of financial returns in a model of multiplicative Brownian motion with stochastic diffusion coefficient Antonio Silva, Richard Prange, Victor Yakovenko Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:36AM		H23.00006: Stochastic bifurcation for a white-noise perturbed nonlinear oscillator Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H23.00007: Excited Random Walk in One Dimension Tibor Antal, Sidney Redner Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H23.00008: Exact kinetic Monte Carlo approach for diffusion without the lattice hops Vasily Bulatov, Tomas Oppelstrup, George Gilmer, Malvin Kalos, Babak Sadigh, Wei Cai Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H23.00009: Noise-induced escape of modulated systems: synchronization and scalings Dmitri Ryvkine, Mark Dykman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H23.00010: Probing diffusion on the nanometer scale using electrochemistry Diego Krapf, Meng-Yue Wu, Henny W. Zandbergen, Cees Dekker, Serge G. Lemay Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 11:00AM		H23.00011: Constructive role of Brownian motion: Brownian motors and Stochastic Resonance Invited Speaker: Peter H\"anggi Preview Abstract

Session H24: Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation II

Sponsoring Units: GSNP DMP
Chair: Robin Selinger, Catholic University
Room: LACC 411

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H24.00001: The Complementary Roles of Noise and Energy in Deformation Robb Thomson, Marisol Koslowski, Richard LeSar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H24.00002: Direct Visualization of Dislocation Dynamics in Grain Boundary Scars Mark Bowick, Peter Lipowsky, Andreas Bausch, Jan Meinke, David Nelson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H24.00003: Atomistic simulation studies of dislocation patterning in plastic deformation N. Scott Weingarten, Robin Selinger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H24.00004: Dislocation patterning in the deformed Ni- bicrystal from polychromatic microdiffraction G. E. Ice, R.I. Barabash, J.W.L. Pang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H24.00005: Dynamics of Dislocations in Anisotropic Pattern Carina Kamaga, Michael Dennin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H24.00006: Geometric Frustration in 2d crystals Brian Allen, Yaroslav Chushak, Alex Travesset Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H24.00007: Deformation and Contact Between Self-Affine Surfaces Invited Speaker: Mark Robbins Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H24.00008: Molecular Dynamics study of Tribological Phenomena at High Sliding Velocities Karthikeyan Subramanian, David A. Rigney Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H24.00009: A Study Of High Speed Friction Behavior Under Elastic Loading Conditions P.J. Crawford, P.M. Rightley, J.E. Hammerberg Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H24.00010: Simulations of the Monolayer Lubricants on Solid Surfaces Douglas Irving, Clifford Padgett, Simon Kelly, Donald Brenner Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H24.00011: Molecular Mechanisms of Anti-Wear Pad Formation and Function Nicholas Mosey, Martin Mueser, Tom Woo Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H24.00012: Dissipation and quantum chemical processes: A case study of anti-wear pad forming zinc polyphophates Martin Muser, Nicholas Mosey, Tom Woo Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H24.00013: Statistical Analysis of Surface Roughness and Dynamic Friction Profiles During Metalforming Steven Mates, Mark Stoudt, Joseph Hubbard Preview Abstract
		H24.00014: Dynamic Fracture in Drying Nanoparticle Suspensions Eric R. Dufresne, Daniel J. Stark, L. Mahadevan, David A. Weitz Preview Abstract
		H24.00015: High Density, High Velocity Sliding for Ta, Al Interfaces Ramon Ravelo, T.C. Germann, J.E. Hammerberg Preview Abstract

Session H25: Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: NaxCoO2 Experiment and Theory

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Claude Ederer, UC-Santa Barbara
Room: LACC 501A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H25.00001: Electronic Structure, Magnetism, and Superconductivity in Na$_x$CoO$_2$ Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H25.00002: Novel Aspects of Correlated Electron Motion in (K/Na)xCoO2 systems Revealed by Advanced Photoelectron Spectroscopy M. Zahid Hasan, D. Qian, M. Foo, Robert Cava Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H25.00003: Orbital Symmetry and Electron Correlation in Na$_{x}$CoO$_2$ W. B. Wu, D. J. Huang, J. Okamoto, H.-J. Lin, C.T. Chen, A. Tanaka, F.C. Chou, A. Fujimori Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H25.00004: Theory of Sodium Ordering in Na$_x$CoO$_2$ Steven G. Louie, Peihong Zhang, Marvin L. Cohen, Rodrigo B. Capaz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H25.00005: A resonant ultrasound spectroscopy study of the phase transitions in Na$_{0.75}$CoO$_{2}$ Veerle Keppens, Rapha\"el P. Hermann, Zhiying Zhang, Kathleen Affholter, Ivan Sergienko, Rongying Jin, Brian C. Sales, David G. Mandrus Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H25.00006: A DMFT study of Na$_{x}$CoO$_{2}$ Chris Marianetti, Gabriel Kotliar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H25.00007: Temperature dependence of DOS at the surface of Na0.75CoO2 Lei Cai, Chenxi Lu, Jiandi Zhang, R. Jin, B. C. Sales, D. G. Mandrus Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H25.00008: A Study of Magnetoresistance of Na0.75CoO2 Rongying Jin, Zhixian Zhou, Alexei Souslov, Brian Sales, Qinghong Kou, David Mandrus Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H25.00009: Optical Properties of Na$_x$CoO$_2$ Single Crystals (0.20$\leq$x$\leq$0.85) N.L. Wang, D. Wu, G. Li, J.L. Luo, X.H. Chen, C.H. Wang, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, T. Xiang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H25.00010: Formation of the one-electron structure of CoO$_{2}$ layers Igor Mazin, Ole Andersen, Ove Jepsen, Michelle Johannes Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H25.00011: ARPES studies of Na0.7CoO2 system D. Qian, M.Z. Hasan, Y.-D. Chuang, A. Kuprin, A.V. Fedorov, R. Kimmerling, E. Rotenberg, Z. Hussain, H. Koh, N.S. Rogado, M.L. Foo, R.J. Cava Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H25.00012: Ferromagnetic spin fluctuation and possible triplet superconductivity due to inter-orbital Hund's-rule coupling in Na$_x$CoO$_2 \cdot y$H$_2$O Masahito Mochizuki, Youichi Yanase, Masao Ogata Preview Abstract
		H25.00013: Optical investigations on Na$_{0.7}$CoO$_{2}$ Leonardo Degiorgi, Giulio Caimi, Helmut Berger Preview Abstract

Session H26: Focus Session: Nanotubes and nanowires: Theoretical Studies

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: M.P. Anantram, NASA Ames
Room: LACC 501B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H26.00001: Mesoscopic Band Gap Engineering in SWNTs: How the Symmetry Affects Electronic Properties Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H26.00002: Effect of diameter and contacts on electron transport in carbon nanotubes Alexei Svizhenko, M.P. Anantram Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H26.00003: Near Ideal Operation of Nanometer Gate Length Carbon Nanotube FETs Khairul Alam, Roger Lake Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H26.00004: Electron Orbital Filtering in Multiply Connected Carbon Nanotubes Gunn Kim, Sang Bong Lee, Tae-Suk Kim, Jisoon Ihm Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H26.00005: Shot Noise and Full Counting Statistics from Non-equilibrium Plasmons in a Double Junction Quantum Wire Jaeuk Kim, Jari Kinaret, Mahn-Soo Choi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H26.00006: High frequency properties of a CNT-based nanorelay Jari Kinaret, Magnus Jonsson, Tomas Nord, Sven Axelsson, Susanne Viefers Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H26.00007: Dynamic friction force in a novel Ultra-High Frequency Oscillator Haibin Su, William Goddard III Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H26.00008: Theoretical Studies of Charge Transport through Al atomic wires Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh, Pawel Pomorski, Christopher Roland Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H26.00009: Variational Wavefunctions for a Quantum Wire of Cylindrical J.E. Hasbun Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H26.00010: Scanning probe microscopy of spin-charge separation Iddo Ussishkin, Leonid I. Glazman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H26.00011: STM Response of a Luttinger Liquid with a Kondo Impurity Paata Kakashvili, Henrik Johannesson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H26.00012: Exchange Coupling in a One-Dimensional Wigner Crystal Alexios Klironomos, Revaz Ramazashvili, Konstantin Matveev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H26.00013: Spin-splitting induced by spin-orbit interaction in chiral nanotubes M.P. L\'opez-Sancho, L. Chico, M.C. Mu\~noz Preview Abstract
		H26.00014: Diffusion Of Lithium And Hydrogen In Nanotubes In Terms Of Fokker-Plank Equation John Adams, Russell Selva, Yuriy Malozovsky Preview Abstract

Session H27: Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties I

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University
Room: LACC 501C

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H27.00001: Spin Transport in Carbon Nanotubes Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H27.00002: Electron Transport in Ferromagnetically-Contacted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Chris Merchant, Soo-Hyung Lee, Jeffrey Wasserman, Nina Markovic Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H27.00003: Characterization of noise and dynamic fluctuations in carbon nanotubes Derek Kingrey, Philip G. Collins Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H27.00004: Quantum Shot Noise Suppression in Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Na Young Kim, Jing Kong, William Oliver, Hongjie Dai, Yoshihisa Yamamoto Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H27.00005: Coulomb Oscillations and Hall Effect in Quasi-2D Graphite Quantum Dots Scott Bunch, Yuval Yaish, Markus Brink, Kirill Bolotin, Paul McEuen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H27.00006: Persistent Four-Electron Shell Filling in Carbon Nanotubes Alexander Makarovski, Alexey Zhukov, Jie Liu, Gleb Finkelstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H27.00007: Probing the Conductivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Yang Wu, Feng Wang, Gordana Dukovic, Michael Loy, Louis Brus, Tony Heinz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:24AM		H27.00008: Local Gate Control in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Devices Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H27.00009: Frequency-Modulation Imaging of Quantum Dots in Carbon Nanotubes Markus Brink, J. Zhu, Paul L. McEuen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H27.00010: Electrical properties of 0.4 cm long single walled nanotubes Zhen Yu, Christopher Rutherglen, Shengdong Li, Peter Burke Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H27.00011: Electrical and thermal transport in metallic carbon nanotubes Marcelo Kuroda, Jean-Pierre Leburton Preview Abstract

Session H28: Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids I

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
Room: LACC 506

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H28.00001: Structural Amorphous Metals – Amorphous Steels and Ultra-Strong Light Metals Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H28.00002: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Bulk Metallic Glasses Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H28.00003: Medium-Range Structure in Al-based Amorphous Metals from Fluctuation Electron Microscopy Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H28.00004: Bulk metallic glass formation in Zr$_{65}$Cu$_{27}$Ti$_{8}$ Alloys Y. T. Shen, L. Q. Xing, K. F. Kelton Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H28.00005: Effect of Icosahedral Short-range Order on the Undercoolability of Ti-Zr-Ni Liquid Alloys G. W. Lee*, A. K. Gangopadhyay, K. F. Kelton, R. W. Hyers, T. J. Rathz, J. R. Rogers, A. I. Goldman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H28.00006: Role of Icosahedral Short-range-order in Undercooled Liquids of Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Al Alloys on Bulk Metallic Glass Formation A. K. Gangopadhyay, G. W. Lee, T. H. Kim, K. F. Kelton, R. C. Bradshaw, R. W. Hyers, T. J. Rathz, J. R. Rogers, B. Sieve, A. I. Goldman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H28.00007: Direct observation of enhanced residual thermal energy coupling to solids in femtosecond laser ablation Anatoliy Vorobyev , Chunlei Guo Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H28.00008: Calculation of optical absorption in Al accross the solid $\longrightarrow$ liquid transition Lorin X. Benedict, John E. Klepeis, Frederick H. Streitz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H28.00009: Homogeneous melting of superheated crystals Mattias Forsblom, G{\" o}ran Grimvall Preview Abstract
		H28.00010: Glass formation by first-order transition in Al-Fe-Si system Leonid A. Bendersky, John W. Cahn Preview Abstract

Session H30: Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Patrick Mather, Case Western Reserve University
Room: LACC 505

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H30.00001: BREAK - H30
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H30.00002: Polydomain Liquid Crystalline Networks as Actuators Patrick Mather, Haihu Qin, Ingrid Rousseau Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H30.00003: Molecular orientation of commercial thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers in transient shear flow Stanley Rendon, Wesley Burghardt, Robert Bubeck Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H30.00004: Confined Discotic Liquid Crystalline Self-Assembly in a Novel Coil-Coil-Disk Triblock Oligomer Li Cui, Jianjun Miao, Lei Zhu, Igors Sics, Benjamin Hsiao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H30.00005: From vulcanization to isotropic and nematic rubber elasticity Xiangjun Xing, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul Goldbart, Annette Zippelius Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H30.00006: Slow dynamics and the glass transition in anisotropic polymer liquids Folusho Oyerokun, Kenneth Schweizer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H30.00007: The Origin of Helical Suprastructure from Achiral 4-Biphenyl Carboxylic Acid Molecules Kwang-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Matthew J. Graham, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H30.00008: Free Energy Functional for Bend-core Liquid-Crystal Molecules Rui Zhang, An-Chang Shi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H30.00009: Electric-field-induced motion of colloid particles in smectic liquid crystals Antal Jakli, Guangxun Liao, Ivan Smalyukh, Jack Kelly, Oleg Lavrentovich Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H30.00010: Crystallization of Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexes at the Air-Water Interface Alex Travesset, David Vaknin, Gilat Nizri, Shlomo Magdassi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H30.00011: Mesophase Behavior of Polyion-Complexed Azobenzene Chromophores in the Bulk C. Geraldine Bazuin, Carmen M. Tibirna, Qian Zhang Preview Abstract

Session H31: Photonics and Optoelectronics

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY FIAP
Chair: Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University
Room: LACC 503

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H31.00001: Analysis of the diffraction properties of volume holograms written with spherical object beams Michael Ermold, Adam Fontecchio Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H31.00002: Development of High Refractive Index Poly(thiophene) for 3-D Organic Photonic Crystals Stephen Cheng, Shi Jin, Matthew Graham, Timothy Bunning Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H31.00003: Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymers for Optoelectronic Applications Rachel Segalman, Bradley Olsen, Yuefei Tao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H31.00004: Nanomechanical Characterization of Finite-Size Constrained Relaxation Processes in Optoelectronic and Photonic Thin Films Tomoko Gray, Rene Overney, Marnie Haller, Jingdong Luo, Alex Jen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H31.00005: Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect and Electroabsorption in a Novel Nano-Optical Material based on the Nonconjugated Conductive Polymer, Poly(ethylenepyrrolediyl) Derivative R. Swamy, P. Vippa, H. Rajagopalan, J. Titus, M. Thakur, A. Sen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H31.00006: Single- and Two-photon Pumped Defect-Mode Lasing in Dye-doped One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Jongseung Yoon, Wonmok Lee, Steven Kooi, Jean-Michel Caruge, Moungi Bawendi, Robert Field, Przemyslaw Markowicz, Paras Prasad, Edwin Thomas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H31.00007: Electro-optic Modulation Using a DAST Single-crystal Film in a Fabry-Perot Cavity S.P. Kutty, M. Thakur Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H31.00008: Investigation of the self-pumped two-beam coupling in a photorefractive material using beam propagation simulation Mohammad Saleh, Partha Banerjee, Gary Cook, Shekhar Guha, Dean Evans Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H31.00009: Demonstration of Wavelength Tunable Silicon Raman Laser Ozdal Boyraz, Bahram Jalali Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H31.00010: Silicon light emission from {113} rodlike defects Grant Z Pan, Roman Ostroumov, Yaguang Lian, K. N. Tu, Kang L Wang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H31.00011: Effect of Photovoltaic Induced Instabilities in Photorefractive Reflection Gratings in LiNbO$_{3}$:Fe Jennifer Gibson, Mohammad Saleh, Gary Cook, Dean Evans Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H31.00012: Development of a new photorefractive and photovoltaic potassium niobate crystal D.R. Evans, G. Cook, J.L. Gibson, M.A. Saleh, S.A. Basun, J.M. Seim, G.J. Mizell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H31.00013: Reduction of Dark Current in Germanium Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector Siguang Ma, Song Tong, Hyung-Jun Kim, Joo-Young Lee, K. L. Wang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H31.00014: EXAFS Study of the Electroluminescence Materials ZnS:Cu,Cl and ZnS:Cu,Mn,Cl, and EL devices Frank Bridges, M. Warkentin, S. A. Carter, M. Anderson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H31.00015: Anomalous space-charge field enhancement in Fe:KNbO3 Gary Cook, Dean Evans, Sergei Basun, Jennifer Gibson, Mohammad Saleh Preview Abstract
		H31.00016: Microbeam HRXRD and Photoluminescence characterization of selective area grown (SAG) optoelectronic waveguide arrays A.A. Sirenko, S. O'Malley, A. Kazimirov, D.H. Bilderback, Z.-H. Cai, B. Lai, A. Ougazzaden Preview Abstract

Session H32: Novel Computational Algorithms II

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Ron Mickens, Clark-Atlanta
Room: LACC 507

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H32.00001: Simple but effective finite difference methods for simulating shock phenomena arising in continuum mechanics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H32.00002: Model A Dynamics in Potts Models and Pure Lattice Gauge Theory Bernd Berg, Alexei Bazavov, Alexander Velytsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H32.00003: Improved Wang-Landau algorithm for the joint density of states of continuous models Chenggang Zhou, T.C. Schulthess, D.P. Landau Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H32.00004: Genetic-Algorithm first-principles prediction of novel ground state Alex Zunger, Volker Blum$^{2,}$ Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H32.00005: Optimization the localized orbitals in nearly O(N) electronic structure methods Qingzhong Zhao, Wenchang Lu, Jerry Bernholc Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H32.00006: Direct enumeration investigation of bandgaps and effective masses of semiconductor alloys Peter A. Graf, Kwiseon Kim, Wesley B. Jones, Gus L. W. Hart Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H32.00007: Atomistic material design by optimization Kwiseon Kim, Peter A. Graf, Wesley B. Jones Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H32.00008: Physically-motivated dynamical algorithms for the graph isomorphism problem Shiueyuan Shiau, Robert Joynt, S.N. Coppersmith Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H32.00009: Object-oriented Development of an All-electron Gaussian Basis DFT Code for Periodic Systems John Alford, Samuel Trickey Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H32.00010: Finite Element Discrete Variable Method for the Solution of the Time-Dependent Schroedinger Equation Barry Schneider, Lee Collins Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H32.00011: Hybrid DFT/Thomas-Fermi-like simulations of solvated molecules in water Miroslav Hodak, Wenchang Lu, Jerry Bernholc Preview Abstract
		H32.00012: Positivity Preserving Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes for PDE's Having Cross-Diffusion Terms Ronald Mickens Preview Abstract
		H32.00013: Numerical classical and quantum mechanical simulations of charge density wave models Andrew Beckwith Preview Abstract

Session H33: Quantum Fluids and Solids I

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware
Room: LACC 511C

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H33.00001: Mobility of solid 4He James Day, John Beamish Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H33.00002: A Torsional Oscillator Study of Solid Hydrogen Anthony Clark, Xi Lin, M.H.W. Chan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H33.00003: On the Supersolid State of Matter Boris Svistunov, Nikolay Prokof'ev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H33.00004: Off Diagonal Long Range Order in Low Temperature Solid Helium Bryan Clark, David Ceperley Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H33.00005: Superflow in Solid $^4$He Wayne Saslow Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H33.00006: Superfluid interfaces in quantum solids Evgeni Burovski, Evgeni Kozik, Anatoly Kuklov, Nikolay Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H33.00007: Premelting Induced Decoupling as a cause of Nonclassical Rotational Inertia in Solid $^4$He J.S. Wettlaufer, J.G. Dash Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H33.00008: Superfluidity of Dense $^4$Helium in Vycor Saad Khairallah, David Ceperley Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H33.00009: Exchange Frequencies in Helium-4 Crystals with Defects Burkhard Militzer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H33.00010: Exactly Soluble Model for Superfluid Solid? Chia-Ren Hu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H33.00011: Construction of an ultra low temperature cryostat at University of Florida P. Bhupathi, H.C. Choi, J. Cancino, Y. Lee Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H33.00012: Potential low cost, safe, high efficiency propellant for future space program D. Zhou, N.S. Sullivan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H33.00013: A Superfluid Clock Konstantin Penanen, Talso Chui Preview Abstract

Session H34: Environmental Interfaces IV

Sponsoring Units: DCP
Chair: Bruce Kay, PNNL
Room: LACC 511A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H34.00001: Organic Structure/Reactivity Relationships for Probing the Reactivity of Mineral/Water Interfaces Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H34.00002: Probing the Structure of Natural Organic Matter Adsorbed on Carbonaceous Surfaces using Atomic Force Microscopy Howard Fairbrother, Justin Gorham Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H34.00003: The Binding of Roxarsone at the Silica/Water Interface Studied with Second Harmonic Generation Christopher Konek, David Ostrowski, Franz Geiger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:36AM		H34.00004: Surfactant Control of Gas Uptake into Supercooled Sulfuric Acid Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H34.00005: Direct Observation of Charge Inversion by Multivalent Ions as a Universal Electrostatic Phenomenon Serge Lemay, Koen Besteman, Marcel A. G. Zevenbergen, Hendrik A. Heering Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H34.00006: Molecular Dynamics simulation of Oil-Water liquid-liquid interfaces Janamejaya Chowdhary, Branka Ladanyi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:36AM		H34.00007: Connecting Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry to Study Interfacial Phenomena Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H34.00008: Dynamic interfaces of manganese oxide and manganese carbonate substrate in the presence of cobalt Young-Shin Jun, Scot Martin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H34.00009: Rapid assessment of anisotropic surface dissolution processes using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD): A corrosion study of polycrystalline alloy 22 in various acidic environments Jeremy Gray, Bassem El-Dasher, Joel Hayes, Christine Orme Preview Abstract

Session H35: Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology III

Sponsoring Units: DCP DBP
Chair: J. Onuchic, University of California-San Diego
Room: LACC 511B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H35.00001: The Energy Landscape of Proteins Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H35.00002: Exploring the protein funnel energy landscape for folding and function Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:48AM		H35.00003: Protein Folding and Amyloid Formation: Good Questions for Solid State NMR Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H35.00004: Distribution of Defects on Curved Crystals Yaroslav Chushak, Alex Travesset Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H35.00005: Fast Electronic Relaxation in Metal Clusters via Excitation of Coherent Shape Deformations: Slipping Through a Bottleneck Vitaly Kresin, Yuri Ovchinnikov, Vladimir Kresin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H35.00006: Planar graph model of energy landscapes Joseph Snider, Clare Yu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H35.00007: A Novel Approach to Kinetics on Complex Potential Energy Surface Jun Lu, R. Stephen Berry Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H35.00008: Metal Cluster Anions Produced by Attachment of Slow Electrons: Readjustment and Blurring of the Magic Numbers Roman Rabinovitch, Ramiro Moro, Chunlei Xia, Vitaly Kresin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H35.00009: Alloy surface segregation in reactive environments via density functional theory and atomistic thermodyanamics John Kitchin, Karsten Reuter, Matthias Scheffler Preview Abstract

Session H36: BEC and Trapped Bose Gases

Sponsoring Units: DAMOP
Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC-Berkeley
Room: Convention Center 510

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H36.00001: Ring Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates Bryan Nelsen, Mark Edwards, Lincoln Carr, Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H36.00002: Experiments with Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Cavity Subhadeep Gupta, Kevin Moore, Thomas Purdy, Kater Murch, Stefan Schmid, Dan Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H36.00003: BEC in a novel magnetic trap for many-atom cavity QED Kevin Moore, Kater Murch, Thomas Purdy, Subhadeep Gupta, Dan Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H36.00004: Exact Calculations for Ultracold Rotating Bose Gases Alexis Gagnon Morris, David Feder Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H36.00005: Nambu-Goldstone Mode in a Rotating Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate Tatsuya Nakajima, Masahito Ueda Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H36.00006: Pinning of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate by an optical lattice J.W. Reijnders, R.A. Duine Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H36.00007: Quantum Theory of LLL Cold-Atom Vortices C.B. Hanna, A.J. Sup, A.H. MacDonald Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H36.00008: Density profiles for atomic quantum Hall states Frank van Lankvelt, Nigel Cooper, Jasper Reijnders, Kareljan Schoutens Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H36.00009: Drag effects and vortex states in binary superfluids in optical lattices Alexander Meyerovich, Anatoly Kuklov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H36.00010: Real-time imaging of spinor dynamics in $^{87}$Rb Bose Einstein Condensates Sabrina R. Leslie, Lorraine Sadler, James Higbie, Shin Inouye, Ananth Chikkatur, Dan M. Stamper-Kurn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H36.00011: Quantum Chaos of Bogoliubov Waves for a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Stadium Chuanwei Zhang, Jie Liu, Mark Raizen, Qian Niu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H36.00012: Bose-Einstein condensation with attractive interactions Asaad Sakhel, Jonathan Dubois, Henry Glyde Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H36.00013: The ground state of Bose gases with repulsive interaction: A quantum Monte Carlo study Wirawan Purwanto, Shiwei Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H36.00014: Ab initio study of polar molecules in an optical lattice Svetlana Kotochigova, Eite Tiesinga Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H36.00015: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Trapped Dipolar Gases Kwangsik Nho, D.P. Landau Preview Abstract
		H36.00016: Interference of Rotating Atomic Clouds Erich Mueller, Tin-Lun Ho Preview Abstract

Session H37: General Fluid Dynamics and Phenomena

Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Gary Williams, UCLA
Room: LACC 512

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H37.00001: Spectrum and Dynamics of Luminescence from Laser-created Bubbles in Pressurized Water Frank Lee, David Hecht, Emil A. Brujan, Gary A. Williams Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H37.00002: Luminescence Spectra of Laser-induced Cavitation Bubbles Emil A. Brujan, Gary A. Williams Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H37.00003: Leidenfrost Effect of Water Drops on the Surface of Liquid Nitrogen Heetae Kim, Gary A. Williams Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H37.00004: Liquid Drop Growth On A Fiber In Fibrous Filters S.V. Doiphode, A.L. Yarin, W. Liu, G.G. Chase, D.H. Reneker Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H37.00005: Coalescence of liquid drops without singularities Stephen Decent Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H37.00006: The Hydrodynamic Coupling of Two Rotating Micro-objects Liangyu Zhou, Yafei Wang, Tao Zhang, Gang Hu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H37.00007: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Two-Phase Nanojets and Nanobridges Wei Kang, W.D. Luedtke, Uzi Landman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H37.00008: Selective Withdrawal with an Inverted Viscosity Ratio Sarah Case, Sidney Nagel Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H37.00009: Electro-viscous effect on Heat Transfer in Ionic Fluid Flow in Microchannels Abhishek Jain Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H37.00010: Propagation velocities of chemical reaction fronts advected by Poiseuille flow Boyd Edwards Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H37.00011: Mesoscale modelling of fluctuating fluids: colloids, active particles and polymers in flow Thomas Ihle, Daniel Kroll, Erkan Tuzel, Martin Hecht Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H37.00012: Nonlinear Analysis of Dewetting of a Two-Layer Thin Liquid Film Lael Fisher, Alexander Golovin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H37.00013: Jet Simulation in a Diesel Engine Zhiliang Xu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H37.00014: Hydrodynamics of a cold one-dimensional fluid: the problem of strong shock waves Pablo I. Hurtado, Paul L. Krapivsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H37.00015: Lattice-Boltzmann Models of Ion Thruster Cathode 3D MHD Flows Jacques Richard, Prerit Shah Preview Abstract

Session H38: Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory II

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Steven Kivelson, UCLA
Room: Concention Center 513

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H38.00001: Universal Aspects of Coulomb Frustrated Phase Separation Reza Jamei, Steven Kivelson, Boris Spivak Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H38.00002: Phases and Phase Transitions in the Two-Dimensional Ionic Hubbard Model Tyler Bryant, Rajiv R. P. Singh Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H38.00003: Metal and insulator coexistence region in disordered correlated systems M.C.O. Aguiar, V. Dobrosavljevic, E. Abrahams, G. Kotliar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H38.00004: Analytic properties of insulating solution of half-filled Hubbard model Alexander Joura, Denis Demchenko, Jim Freericks Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H38.00005: Phase diagram of (TMTSF)2PF6 revisited Lev Gor'kov, Pavel Grigoriev, Pavel Krotkov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H38.00006: Mean field theory of charge-density wave state in magnetic field Pavel Grigoriev, Dmitrij Lyubshin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H38.00007: Instabilities in Strongly Interacting Electron Liquids Sankar Das Sarma, Ying Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H38.00008: Electron-phonon interaction close to a Mott transition Giorgio Sangiovanni, Massimo Capone, Claudio Castellani, Marco Grilli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H38.00009: The doped spin 3/2 half filled Mott insulator Stellan Ostlund, T. Hans Hansson, Anders Karlhede Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H38.00010: Effects of short-ranged interactions in random hopping models on 2D bipartite lattices Matthew S. Foster, Andreas W.W. Ludwig Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H38.00011: Metal-Insulator transition in 2D: Non-perturbative results Alexander Punnoose, Alexander Finkelstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H38.00012: Phase diagram of the one dimensional 1/2-filled Hubbard-Holstein model R. T. Clay, R. P. Hardikar Preview Abstract

Session H39: Ferroelectric Phase Transitions

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Clifford M. Krowne, NRL
Room: Conference Center 514

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H39.00001: Microscopic Origin of Polarity in Quasi-Amorphous BaTiO3. A.I. Frenkel, Y. Feldman, V. Lyahovitskaya, E. Wachtel, I. Lubomirsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H39.00002: Influence of Phase Coexistence on Crystal Structure of 6\%-La Series of Plzt Solid Solutions V.M. Ishchuk, V.N. Baumer, Z.A. Samoyilenkolenko, V.L. Sobolev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H39.00003: Redistribution of electronic charges in the spin-Peierls state in (TMTTF)$_2$AsF$_6$ observed by $^{13}$C NMR Shigeki Fujiyama, Toshikazu Nakamura Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H39.00004: Auxilliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Ferroelectric Instability Hendra Kwee, Henry Krakauer, Shiwei Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H39.00005: Electric-field poling effect on thermal stability of monoclinic phase in a (110)-oriented Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3})_{0.74}$Ti$_{0.26}$O$_{3}$ crystal V. Hugo Schmidt, R. R. Chien, C.-L. Tsai, Chi-Shun Tu, F.-T. Wang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H39.00006: Aging and Slow Dynamics in the Relaxor Ferroelectrics SBN and SBN:La Lambert K. Chao, Eugene V. Colla, M. B. Weissman, Dwight D. Viehland Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H39.00007: [111] Electric Field Enhancement of Polar Nano-Regions in a Ferroelectric Relaxor Guangyong Xu, Peter Gehring, Gen Shirane Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H39.00008: Nonlinear optical evidence for broken inversion symmetry in Cd$_2$Re$_2$O$_7$ Jesse Petersen, J. Steven Dodge, Michael Steger, Jian He, David Mandrus Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H39.00009: Study of Ferroelectricity in Monodisperse BaTiO3 Nanoparticles by Optical Second-Harmonic Generation Daohua Song, Limin Huang, Zhuoying Chen, Michael Loy, Stephan O`Brien, Tony Heinz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H39.00010: Proton Tunneling Relaxation in the Dielectric glass RADP Yejun Feng, Carlos E. Ancona-Torres, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Eric Courtens Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H39.00011: Response of Polar Nanoregions in the Relaxor Ferroelectric PZN-8\%PT to an Electric Field Peter Gehring, Guangyong Xu, Gen Shirane Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H39.00012: Electronic Asymmetry by Compositionally Braking Inversion Symmetry Maitri Warusawithana, H. Chen, J. Zuo, M. B. Weissman, J. N. Eckstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H39.00013: Spontaneous Emergence of Free Carrier at Phase Transitions of Insulating BaTiO$_{3}$ Single Crystals Yukio Watanabe, Hirotaka Yoshioka, Yosuke Urakami Preview Abstract

Session H40: Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Persistence and Islands

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP
Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland
Room: LACC 408A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H40.00001: Mapping spatial persistent large deviations of nonequilibrium surface growth processes onto the temporal persistent large deviations of stochastic random walk processes Magdalena Constantin, Sankar Das Sarma Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H40.00002: Survival Probability in the Fluctuations of Interacting Steps Hailu Gebremariam, C. Dasgupta, T.L. Einstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H40.00003: Island-Size Distribution and Capture Numbers in 3D Nucleation and Growth Feng Shi, Y. Shim, J.G. Amar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H40.00004: Nucleation and Kinetic Study of Pb Quantum Size Effect Islands Grown on Si(111) R. Feng, E.H. Conrad, M.C. Tringides, C. Kim, C. Jeffrey, P.F. Miceli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H40.00005: Multiscale modeling of Ge islands on Si(001): growth mode and morphological transition Francesco Montalenti, Silvia Cereda, Leo Miglio Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H40.00006: One-dimensional Ostward ripening on island growth F.K. Men, A.L. Chin, C.R. Lee Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H40.00007: Atomistic and Continuum Simulations of Island Coalescence Edmund Webb III, Steven Seel, Jonathan Zimmerman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H40.00008: Simulation of Growth Shape of Stressed/Strained 2D Monolayer Island Naiyang Ma, Feng Liu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H40.00009: Prediction of Macroscopic Surface Shapes from Adatom Rate Equations in Epitaxial Growth A. Ballestad, Bayo Lau, J. H. Schmid, T. Tiedje, M. Whitwick Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H40.00010: Lattice-Gas Modeling of Stiffness on fcc(111) Surfaces: General Results T. L. Einstein, T. J. Stasevich Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H40.00011: Surface Step Stiffness: Next-Nearest Neighbor Interactions and Beyond T. J. Stasevich, T. L. Einstein Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H40.00012: Diffusion of Small 2D-Cu Clusters on Cu (111) Altaf Karim, Ahlam N. Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H40.00013: Evolution of Sub-Monolayer Films of Thiolphenol Molecules on Cu(111) Studied by STM Kin Wong, Ki-Young Kwon, Robert A. Perry, Bommisetty V. Rao, Erick Ulin-Avila, Greg Pawin, Anwei Liu, Ludwig Bartels Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H40.00014: Theoretical Analysis of Electromigration-Induced Void Migration and Surface Waves in Metallic Thin Films Jaeseol Cho, M. Rauf Gungor, Dimitrios Maroudas Preview Abstract

Session H41: Cooperative Phenomena: Phase Transition in Magnetic Systems

Sponsoring Units: GMAG
Chair: Tom Kaplan, Michigan State University
Room: LACC 150A

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H41.00001: Spin-wave spectrum and magnetic phase diagram of hexagonal HoMnO$_{3}$ O.P. Vajk, M. Kenzelmann, J.W. Lynn, S.B. Kim, S.-W. Cheong Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H41.00002: Magnetic phase diagram of RFe$_4$Al$_8$ (R$=$Dy,Gd,Lu) single crystals M. Angst, A. Kreyssig, A.I. Goldman, P.C. Canfield Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H41.00003: The magnetic phase diagram of single-crystal antiferromagnetic Ce$_2$Fe$_{17}$ Y. Janssen$^1$, Y. A. Mozharivskyj$^{1,2}$, S. Jia$^{1,3}$, P. C. Canfield$^{1,3}$ Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H41.00004: Critical Behavior of a Compressible Ising Antiferromagnet at Constant Pressure Xiaoliang Zhu, F. Tavazza, D.P. Landau Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H41.00005: Transverse Magnetic Susceptibility in an Ising Spin Liquid D. M. Silevitch, C. Ancona-Torres, T. F. Rosenbaum, G. Aeppli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H41.00006: Half-Magnetization Plateau in the Pyrochlore Spin-Peierls Model Yukitoshi Motome, Nic Shannon, Karlo Penc Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H41.00007: Bose Glass Phase in Heisenberg Dimer Systems Omid Nohadani, Stefan Wessel, Stephan Haas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H41.00008: NMR Investigation of 2D Frustrated Heisenberg Antiferromagnet - V.F. Mitrovi{\'c}, M-A. Vachon, A.P. Reyes, R. Coldea Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H41.00009: $\mu$SR study of $\mathrm{LiHo_xY_{1-x}F}$ J. Rodriguez, S. Dunsiger, G.J. MacDougall, G.M. Luke, Y.J. Uemura, P. Russo, A. Savici, J. Quilliam Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H41.00010: Exact Solution of the Heinsenberg-Kondo Quantum Spin Glass, Showing that an Infinite Order Quantum Phase Transition Occurs Between the Quantum Spin Glass and Kondo Spin Quenched Phases at a Temperature of Order Ten Times Lower than that Given by Mean Fi Robert Schrieffer, Bernard Coqblin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H41.00011: SU(2)-invariant spin 1/2 Hamiltonians with RVB and other valence bond phases Kumar S. Raman, Shivaji L. Sondhi, Roderich Moessner Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H41.00012: A new method for analyzing second-order phase transitions applied to the ferromagnetic transition of a polaronic system John J. Neumeier, Y-K. Yu, J. A. Souza, H. Terashita, R. F. Jardim Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H41.00013: Fermi liquid description of the helical magnetism, phase transitions, and collective modes in MnSi. Jason Jackiewicz, Kevin Bedell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H41.00014: Effect of anisotropies on magnetic quantum phase transitions B. Normand, M. E. Zhitomirsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H41.00015: Phase transitions and symmetries of quantum dots in applied magnetic fields Wolfgang Geist, M.Y. Chou Preview Abstract

Session H42: Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures III

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: John Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Lab
Room: LACC 150B

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:36AM		H42.00001: Magnetic Anisotropy in Surface Supported Nanostructures Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 8:48AM		H42.00002: STM and SQUID studies of quantum engineered Co magnetic nanoplateles on Si. U. M. Mirsaidov, J.-L. Li, S.-Y. Qin, C.K. Shih, J. T. Markert, Z. Zhang, J.-F. Jia, Q.-K. Xue Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:48AM - 9:00AM		H42.00003: Kinetic pathway for the formation of Fe nanowires on stepped Cu(111) surfaces Yina Mo, Kalman Varga, Efthimios Kaxiras, Zhenyu Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:00AM - 9:12AM		H42.00004: Carbon coated iron nanowires: a theoretical study Mariana Weissmann, Griselda Garcia, Miguel Kiwi, Ricardo Ramirez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H42.00005: Thermal Processing and Overlayer Effects of Ultra-Thin Fe Layers on GaAs(001) Justin Shaw, Charles Falco Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H42.00006: Enhanced Magnetism in Cobalt Nanoparticles Gene Venturini, Jess Wilcoxon, Paula Provencio Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H42.00007: Are catalytic properties preserved at the nanoscale?: The case of cobalt. Fernando Reboredo, Giulia Galli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H42.00008: Vacancy-Induced Magnetic Structures in Graphene Sheet Hosik Lee, Myungjun Han, Gundoo Lee, Jaejun Yu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H42.00009: Local Spin Anisotropy Effects upon the Magnetization of Single Molecule Dimers Richard Klemm, Dmitri Efremov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H42.00010: Theoretical investigation of noncollinear magnetism for Mn$_{5}$ and Mn$_{6}$ Tsuguo Morisato, Shiv Khanna, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H42.00011: Isomers and Isomags in MnnX (n = 5-6, X=N, O) Clusters W.-J. Zheng, J.M. Nilles, K.H. Bowen, N.O. Jones, S.N. Khanna, P. Jena, T. Baruah, M.R. Pederson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H42.00012: Effect of Hydrogen Absorption on the Magnetic Moment and Anisotropy of Fen and Con Clusters M.R. Beltran, N.O. Jones, S.N. Khanna, T. Baruah, M.R. Pederson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H42.00013: Spin-dependent Fabry-P\'erot interferometer of a Cu thin film grown on fcc Co(001) Y.Z. Wu, A.K. Schmid, M.S. Altman, X.F. Jin, Z.Q. Qiu Preview Abstract

Session H43: Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions II

Sponsoring Units: GMAG DMP
Chair: Xiu-Feng Han, Institute of Physics, Beijing
Room: LACC 150 C

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:00AM - 8:12AM		H43.00001: High resistance demagnetized state in $\rm La_{0.67}Sr_{0.33}MnO_3/SrTiO_3/La_{0.67}Sr_{0.33}MnO_3$ magnetic tunnel junctions. Eric Wertz, Qi Li Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:12AM - 8:24AM		H43.00002: Colossal Magnetoresistance Based Tunnel Junctions with Magnetic and Nonmagnetic Insulating Barriers Lisa Alldredge, Rajesh Chopdekar, Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, Yuri Suzuki Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:24AM - 8:36AM		H43.00003: Magnetically Tunable Depletion Layer in Manganite-Titanate Heterojunctions Naoyuki Nakagawa, Tomofumi Susaki, Harold Y. Hwang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36AM - 9:12AM		H43.00004: Interface Controlled Tunneling Spin Polarization Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:12AM - 9:24AM		H43.00005: Interfacial Effects in Spin Transport in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Tzen Ong, Barbara Jones, Annica Heyman, Shu Peng Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24AM - 9:36AM		H43.00006: Inverse Tunneling Magnetoresistance in nanoscale Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Tae-Suk Kim Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H43.00007: BEEM and STS studies of aluminum oxide tunnel barrier layers P.G. Mather, A.C. Perrella, J.C. Read, E. Tan, R.A. Buhrman Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H43.00008: Temperature dependent asymmetry of the nonlocal spin injection resistance: evidence for spin non-conserving interface scattering Samir Garzon, Igor Zutic, Richard Webb Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H43.00009: Dependence of giant tunneling magnetoresistance in MgO based magnetic tunnel junctions on the structure of Co electrodes See-Hun Yang, Mahesh Samant, Stuart Parkin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H43.00010: Spin-dependent Transport through a Magnetic Carbon-Nanotube-Based Molecular Junction Chun Zhang, Linlin Wang, Hai-ping Cheng, Xiaoguang Zhang, Yongqiang Xue Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H43.00011: Spin-dependent tunneling conductance between a 2D quantum well and a 1D quantum wire Yun-pil Shim, S. K. Lyo* Preview Abstract
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H43.00012: Magnetization Hysteresis and Quantum Tunneling in Lanthanide Double-Decker Complexes H. Rupp, P. M\"uller, S. Brink, O. Fuhr, M. Ruben Preview Abstract