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Session V1: Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: SPM of Single Atoms & Molecules

Sponsoring Units: GIMS
Chair: Frances Niestemski, Stanford University
Room: 203

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V1.00001: Non-contact friction and the relaxational dynamics of surface defects Jian-Huang She, Alexander V. Balatsky Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V1.00002: Dissecting an organic-metal bond by molecular manipulation Christian Wagner, Norman Fournier, Christian Weiss, Ruslan Temirov, F. Stefan Tautz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V1.00003: Multi-frequency amplitude modulated non-contact atomic force microscopy for nanoscale dielectric measurements Bharat Kumar, Joseph Bonvallet, Scott Crittenden Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V1.00004: Anomalously large $g$-factor of single atoms adsorbed on a metal substrate Jens Wiebe, Alexander A. Khajetoorians, Bruno Chilian, Roland Wiesendanger, Samir Lounis, Antonio T. Costa, Douglas L. Mills Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V1.00005: Spin Parity effects in STM single magnetic atom manipulation Fernando Delgado, Joaqu\'In Fern\'andez-Rossier Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V1.00006: Magnetic Particle Imagining with a Cantilever Detector Jacob Alldredge, John Moreland Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V1.00007: Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Molecules on Thin Insulating Films Invited Speaker: Jascha Repp Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V1.00008: Tailoring Dirac Fermions in Molecular Graphene Kenjiro K. Gomes, Warren Mar, Wonhee Ko, Charlie D. Camp, Dominik K. Rastawicki, Francisco Guinea, Hari C. Manoharan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V1.00009: Synthesizing and Observing Electric and Magnetic Gauge Fields in Molecular Graphene Dominik Rastawicki, Charlie D. Camp, Kenjiro K. Gomes, Ming Rue D. Thian, Alex W. Contryman, Hari C. Manoharan, Wonhee Ko, Warren Mar Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V1.00010: Topologically protected chiral edge state realized on molecular graphene Wonhee Ko, Warren Mar, Kenjiro K. Gomes, Dominik K. Rastawicki, Charlie D. Camp, Hari C. Manoharan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V1.00011: Measuring Electronic Properties of Topological Defects in Molecular Graphene Charlie Camp, Dominik Rastawicki, Kenjiro Gomes, Wonhee Ko, Warren Mar, Ming Rue Thian, Francis Niestemski, Alex Contryman, Carolina Gonzalez, Hari Manoharan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V1.00012: Scanning Vibronic Spectroscopy of Single Molecules Ming Rue D. Thian, Warren Mar, Wonhee Ko, Kenjiro K. Gomes, Dominik K. Rastawicki, Charlie D. Camp, Alex W. Contryman, Hari C. Manoharan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V1.00013: Pitfalls in normalizing scanning tunneling spectroscopy and how to do it ``right'' (from an experimentalist perspective) Michael Dreyer, Rami Dana, Anita Roychowdhury Preview Abstract

Session V2: Invited Session: Spin Caloritronics of Magnetic Structures and Devices

Sponsoring Units: GMAG
Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Delft University of Technology
Room: 204AB

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V2.00001: Thermal creation of stronger spin-transfer torque in oscillators and memories Invited Speaker: John Slonczewski Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V2.00002: Spin pumping and spin Seebeck effect Invited Speaker: Eiji Saitoh Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V2.00003: Computational spin caloritronics Invited Speaker: Ke Xia Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V2.00004: Magneto-Seebeck effect and thermal torques in magnetic tunnel junctions Invited Speaker: Markus Muenzenberg Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V2.00005: Thermomagnonic spin transfer and Peltier effects in insulating magnets Invited Speaker: Alexey A. Kovalev Preview Abstract

Session V3: Invited Session: Spin Fluctuations and Cooper Pairing in Unconventional Superconductors

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Assa Auerbach, Technion
Room: 205AB

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V3.00001: Linear-T scattering and pairing from spin fluctuations in organic superconductors Invited Speaker: Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V3.00002: Link between spin fluctuations and Cooper pairing in copper oxide superconductors Invited Speaker: Kui Jin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V3.00003: Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors Invited Speaker: Mathieu Le Tacon Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V3.00004: Magnetically driven superconductivity in CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ Invited Speaker: Oliver Stockert Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V3.00005: 2012 IUPAP C10 Young Scientist Prize on the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter Lecture: Spin Fluctuations and Pairing in Fe-based Superconductors Invited Speaker: A.D. Christianson Preview Abstract

Session V4: Bosons and Fermions in Optical Lattices

Sponsoring Units: DAMOP
Chair: Emanuele Dalla Torre, Harvard University
Room: 205C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V4.00001: Doublon production rate by optical lattice modulation for strongly correlated Fermionic atoms Akiyuki Tokuno, Eugene Demler, Thierry Giamarchi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V4.00002: Superfluid to normal phase transition in strongly correlated bosons in two and three dimensions Juan Carrasquilla, Marcos Rigol Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V4.00003: Double occupancy as a universal probe for antiferromagnetic correlations and entropy in cold fermions on optical lattices Nils Bluemer, Elena Gorelik, Daniel Rost, Thereza Paiva, Richard Scalettar, Andreas Kluemper Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V4.00004: Tunable Phases of Fermionic Cold Atoms Systems in Mixed Dimensions Kyle Irwin, Shan-Wen Tsai Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V4.00005: Pairing and Density-Wave Phases of Population Imbalanced Fermi-Fermi Mixture on Optical Lattice Chen-Yen Lai, Chuntai Shi, Shan-Wen Tsai Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V4.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V4.00007: Finite-temperature Properties of the Fermi-Hubbard Model on the Honeycomb Lattice Baoming Tang, Ehsan Khatami, Thereza Paiva, Marcos Rigol Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V4.00008: Realizing a fermionic superfluid state from a band insulator in an optical lattice Yogeshwar P. Saraswat, Amal Medhi, Vijay B. Shenoy Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V4.00009: A Boson Core Compressibility Measure for Optical Lattices Yasamin Khorramzadeh, Fei Lin, V.W. Scarola Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V4.00010: Numerical studies of exotic paired states in optical lattices Simone Chiesa, Shiwei Zhang, George Batrouni Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V4.00011: Competing instabilities in a two band Hubbard model on a square lattice Chuntai Shi, Shan-Wen Tsai Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V4.00012: Condensate Properties for Strongly Repulsive Bosons in a Double Well Joel Corbo, Jonathan DuBois, Birgitta Whaley Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V4.00013: A Quantum Plasmonic Circuit for Cold Atoms Michael Gullans, Darrick Chang, Johannes Feist, Tobias Tiecke, Jeff Thompson, Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller, Mikhail Lukin Preview Abstract

Session V5: Surface Electronic & Lattice Properties: Structure, Surface States, & Adsorption

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Ted Einstein, U. of Maryland, College Park
Room: 206A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V5.00001: Surface energy anisotropy for FCC metals: Functional forms Yan-Jiun Chen, Mihir Khadilkar, James P. Sethna Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V5.00002: Explicit consideration of surface structures for work function calculations Seungchul Kim, Andrew M. Rappe Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V5.00003: The role of surface states in inelastic electron tunneling into metal surfaces Minghu Pan, Qing Li, Peter Maksymovych Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V5.00004: Anisotropic Surface State Mediated RKKY Interaction Between Adatoms on a Hexagonal Lattice Theodore Einstein, Paul Patrone Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V5.00005: Inverse photoemission and LEED investigation of the ion-bombarded Ni(110) surface Benjamin Young, Jim Warner, David Heskett Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V5.00006: Electronic structure of the indium-adsorbed Au/Si(111)-$\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}$ surface: a first-principles study Feng-Chuan Chuang, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Wen-Huan Lin, Vidvuds Ozolins Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V5.00007: Lattice relaxation as the origin of the insulating nature of the alkali/Si(111):B surface Laurent Chaput, Cedric Tournier-Colletta, Louis Cardenas, Bertrand Kierren, Yannick Fagot-Revurat, Daniel Malterre, Patrick Lefevre, Francois Bertran, Antonio Tejeda, Amina Taleb Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V5.00008: First-Principles Study of One-Dimensional Metal-Molecule Hybrid Chains Self-Assembled on Ag Substrate Bon-Gil Koo, Young-Kyun Kwon Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V5.00009: Quantum Monte Carlo studies of surface adsorptions Ching-Ming Wei, Cheng-Rong Hsing Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V5.00010: Resistivity of thin gold films on mica induced by electron-surface scattering from a self-affine fractal surface Raul C. Munoz, Claudio Gonzalez-Fuentes, Ricardo Henriquez, Marcos Flores Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V5.00011: Electronic confinement imposed by a nanoporous network: Band formation from coupled quantum dots Kathrin Mueller, Meike Stoehr, Manfred Matena, Jorge Lobo-Checa, Thomas Jung, Lutz Gade Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V5.00012: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V5.00013: First-Principles Investigations of Oxygen Vacancies on SnO2 Nanofilms Daniel Cellucci, Steven Lewis Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V5.00014: Orbital tomography: Deconvoluting photoemission spectra of organic molecules Peter Puschnig, Eva-Maria Reinisch, Thomas Ules, Georg Koller, Sergey Soubatch, Markus Ostler, Lorenz Romaner, F. Stefan Tautz, Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Michael G. Ramsey Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V5.00015: Two-Dimensional Band Structure Study of Bi$_{1-x}$Sbx Thin Films Shuang Tang, Mildred Dresselhaus Preview Abstract

Session V6: Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Optics I: Spectroscopy and Excitons

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Philip Collins, University of California, Irvine
Room: 206B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V6.00001: High Throughput Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Individual Carbon Nanotubes Invited Speaker: Jiwoong Park Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V6.00002: Plasmon Nanooptics with Pristine and Hybrid Nanotube Systems Igor Bondarev, Maxim Gelin, Wolfgang Domcke Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V6.00003: Photoluminescence from suspended individual $^{13}$C-enriched nanotubes T. Shimada, A. Yokoyama, A. Ishii, J. Shiomi, S. Maruyama, Y.K. Kato Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V6.00004: Circular dichroism in air-suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes A. Yokoyama, A. Ishii, M. Yoshida, T. shimada, Y.K. Kato Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V6.00005: Visible fluorescence from 5-Angstrom single-wall carbon nanotubes Yasumitsu Miyata, Toshiya Nakamura, Miho Fujihara, Hong En Lim, Ryo Kitaura, Hisanori Shinohara Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V6.00006: Symmetry-breaking of carbon nanotubes vibrational modes induced by transversal deformations Newton M.B. Neto, Helio Chacham, Ado Jorio, Sabrina S. Carara, Jaqueline Soares, Ronaldo J.C. Batista, Ernesto Joselevich, Mildred Dresselhaus, Paulo Araujo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V6.00007: Non-Radiative Exciton Decay in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Mark Harrah, Jude Schneck, Alexander Green, Mark Hersam, Lawrence Ziegler, Anna Swan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V6.00008: Fine structure of exciton levels in carbon nanotubes: A semianalytical approach Serguei Goupalov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V6.00009: Dynamical crossovers, universality and long-range interactions of excitons on carbon nanotubes Jeremy Allam, Tariq Sajjad, Richard Sutton, Sophia Siddique, Zhongyang Wang, Konstantin Litvinenko, Quan-Hong Yang, Tom Brown, Wei Loh Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V6.00010: Exciton transport and exchange self-energy in semiconducting carbon nanotubes Jared Crochet, Jay Sau, Marvin Cohen, Juan Duque, Laurent Cognet, Stephen Doorn Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V6.00011: Quantum Interference Between the Third and Fourth Excitonic States in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes Hagen Telg, Juan G. Duque, Hang Chen, Anna K. Swan, Xiaomin Tu, Ming Zheng, Andrew P. Shreve, Stephen K. Doorn Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V6.00012: New Fundamental Optical Behaviors of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes at Cryogenic Temperatures: Closer to their Intrinsic Behavior Juan Duque, Christopher Hamilton, Jared Crochet, Andrew Dattelbaum, Scott Crooker, Stephen Doorn Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V6.00013: Coherent anti-stokes spectroscopy as a probe of chemical disorder in isolated carbon nanotubes Tatyana Sheps, Jordan Brocious, Eric O. Potma, Philip G. Collins Preview Abstract

Session V7: Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Engineering of Electronic Structure Materials

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCOMP
Chair: Serdar Ogut, University of Illinois at Chicago
Room: 207

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V7.00001: Band-edge engineering of Silicon by Surface Functionalization: a Combined Ab-initio and Photoemission Study Yan Li, Leslie O’Leary, Nathan Lewis, Giulia Galli Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V7.00002: Genetic engineering of band-egde optical absorption in Si/Ge superlattices Mayeul d'Avezac, Jun-Wei Luo, Thomas Chanier, Alex Zunger Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V7.00003: New mechanism for work-function tuning: ZnO surfaces modified by a strong organic electron acceptor Yong Xu, Oliver T. Hofmann, Rinke Patrick, Matthias Scheffler, Raphael Schlesinger, Norbert Koch, Antje Vollmer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V7.00004: Quantum Monte Carlo Characterization of Excited States and Energy-Level Alignment at Oligomer/Quantum-Dot Interfaces Yosuke Kanai, Jonathan L. DuBois, Donghwa Lee Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V7.00005: Shape managing the cross-section of a semiconductor nanowire as a method for fine tuning electro-optical properties Osman Baris Malcioglu, Jean-Yves Raty, Sorin Melinte Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V7.00006: Dimensional Reduction: A design tool for new semiconductor compounds for radiation detection B.W. Wessels, J.A. Peters, Z. Liu, J. Androulakis, M.G. Kanatzidis, H. Jin, A.J. Freeman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V7.00007: First principles study of LaGaO$_3$/MgAl$_2$O$_4$ (001) polar interfaces Alejandro Rebola, Peter Zapol, Jeffrey Eastman, Serdar Ogut Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V7.00008: Theory-driven design of hole-conducting transparent oxides G. Trimarchi, H. Peng, Im J., A.J. Freeman, V. Cloet, A. Raw, K.R. Poeppelmeier, K. Biswas, S. Lany, A. Zunger Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V7.00009: Screw Dislocated ZnO and Si Nanostructures Studied with Objective Molecular Dynamics Evgeniya Akatyeva, Ilia Nikiforov, Dong-Bo Zhang, Traian Dumitrica Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V7.00010: Tunable band gaps in transition metal dichalcogenides Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, Doron Naveh, Elias Towe Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V7.00011: Growth of Monolayer Boron Sheet on Metal and Metal Boride Surface Yuanyue Liu, Qingbo Yan, Hoonkyung Lee, Boris Yakobson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V7.00012: Understanding the properties of hexagonal Semiconduncting Nanomembranes Rodrigo Amorim, Xiaoliang Zhong, Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Ravindra Pandey, Shashi Karna Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V7.00013: Single-atom Magnetic Anisotropy on a Surface Chiung-Yuan Lin, Jing-Neng Yao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V7.00014: Computer Simulated Cold Welding of Metal Nanowires Edison da Silva, Zenner Pereira Preview Abstract

Session V8: Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome II

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Joe Helton, NIST
Room: 208

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V8.00001: Monte Carlo simulations of the fcc Kagom\'{e} lattice Vahid Hemmati, Martin Plumer, John Whitehead, Byron Southern Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V8.00002: Phase Control of Magnetic Order in (Y,Lu)BaCo$_{4}$O$_{7}$ John Mitchell, Sevda Avci, Omar Chmaissem, Laurent Chapon, Dmitry Khalyavin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V8.00003: Spin dynamics in the extended kagom\'{e} YBaCo$_{4}$O$_{7}$ Michael Hoch, Philip Kuhns, Tiglet Besara, Arneil Reyes, John Mitchell Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V8.00004: Spectral Signature of Neodymium Dopants in Frustrated Gadolinium Gallium Garnet Lattice Christopher Ferri, Michael Tennenbaum, Sayantani Ghosh Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V8.00005: Investigating the nature of magnetic correlations in the anti-ferromagnetic hyper-kagome material, Yb$_3$Ga$_5$O$_{12}$ Kate Ross, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Bewley, Tatiana Guidi, Yiming Qiu, Chris Wiebe, Haidong Zhou, Hanna Dabkowska, Bruce Gaulin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V8.00006: Spatially anisotropic kagome antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Vladimir A. Zyuzin, Gregory A. Fiete Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V8.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V8.00008: Dimensional reduction, avalanches and disorder in artificial kagome spin ice Remo V. Hugli, Gerard Duff, Hans-Benjamin Braun Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V8.00009: Propagation of monopole defects and flux channels in an artificial square spin-ice lattice Yimei Zhu, V.V. Volkov, Shawn Pollard Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V8.00010: Magnetization dynamics in artificial spin ice lattices Olle Heinonen, Sebastian Gliga Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V8.00011: Study of system-size effects on the emergent magnetic monopoles and Dirac strings in artificial kagome spin ice Alejandro Leon Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V8.00012: Magnetic reversal of an artificial square ice: dipolar correlation and charge ordering Jason Morgan, Aaron Stein, Sean Langridge, Christopher Marrows Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V8.00013: Experimental Realization of Isotropic Ising Spins in Frustrated and Unfrustrated Artificial Spin Ice with Perpendicular Anisotropy Sheng Zhang, Jie Li, Ian Gilbert, Yu Pan, Paul Lammert, Kriti Kohli, Rajiv Misra, Vincent Crespi, Nitin Samarth, Peter Schiffer, Cristiano Nisoli, Mike Erickson, Chris Leighton Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V8.00014: Hysteresis and Return Point Memory in Artificial Spin Ice Systems Cynthia Reichhardt, Andras Libal, Charles Reichhardt Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V8.00015: Collective Magnetic Behavior of Geometrically Frustrated Arrays with Perpendicular Anisotropy Y. Pan, K.K. Kohli, R. Fraleigh, A.L. Balk, D. Finkel, S. Zhang, J. Li, I. Gilbert, P.E. Lammert, R. Misra, V.H. Crespi, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth, M. Erickson, C. Leighton Preview Abstract

Session V9: Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Transport Properties

Sponsoring Units: GMAG DMP
Chair: Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin
Room: 209

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V9.00001: Scaling of the anomalous Hall effect in SrRuO$_{3}$ Noam Haham, Yishai Shperber, Moty Schultz, Netanel Naftalis, Efrat Shimshoni, James Reiner, Lior Klein Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V9.00002: Optical spectroscopy of magnetic exchange splitting above the Curie temperature in ferromagnetic SrRuO$_{3}$ thin film D.W. Jeong, C.H. Kim, C.H. Sohn, S.H. Chang, H.J. Park, T.D. Kang, Y.S. Lee, J.J. Yu, T.W. Noh Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V9.00003: Electronic and magnetic properties of Ca$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$RuO$_{4}$ epitaxial thin films Ludi Miao, Wenyong Zhang, Punam Silwal, Xiaolan Zhou, Ilan Stern, Jin Peng, Leonard Spinu, Zhiqiang Mao, Daeho Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V9.00004: Optical properties of ferrimagnetic NiFe$_{2}$O$_{4}$ thin films Dipanjan Mazumdar, Qi Sun, Ken O Neal, Brian Holinsworth, Hunter Sims, Jianxing Ma, Arunava Gupta, William Butler, Janice Musfeldt Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V9.00005: Effects of Strain in Highly Ordered Sr$_{2}$CrReO$_{6}$ Epitaxial Films A.J. Hauser, J.R. Soliz, M. Dixit, R.E.A. Williams, M.A. Susner, B. Peters, L.M. Mier, T.L. Gustafson, M.D. Sumption, H.L. Fraser, P.M. Woodward, F.Y. Yang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V9.00006: Probing of polarization reversal and charge conduction in epitaxial (Ga,Fe)$_{2}$O$_{3}$ thin films on conducting oxide SrRuO$_{3}$ R.H. Shin, S.H. Oh, J.H. Lee, W. Jo, C. Lefevre, A. Tomasson, F. Roulland, C. Meny, N. Viart Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V9.00007: Manipulating magnetic phase competition in manganites T. Zac Ward, Zheng Gai, Xiaoshan Xu, Hangwen Guo, Wenbin Wang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V9.00008: Role of Interface Transport in the Magnetoresistance of Strained Rare Earth Manganite Thin Films Parul Srivastava, Tyler Goehringer, Cacie Hart, Gilles Dongmo-Momo, Ekembu Kevin Tanyi, Grace Yong, Vera Smolyaninova, David Schaefer, Rajeswari Kolagani Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V9.00009: Correlation between the transport properties, atomic structure and oxygen vacancies of perovskites thin films Juan Rubio-Zuazo, Pilar Ferrer, Igor Madariaga, Jonander Gallastegui, German R. Castro Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V9.00010: The metal-insulator transition in a phase-separated manganite studied by in situ STS P.C. Snijders, M. Gao, H. Guo, T.Z. Ward, H.-J. Gao, J. Shen, Z. Gai Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V9.00011: Electroresistance and Joule heating effects in manganite thin films Benjamin Martinez, Luis Pena, Regina Galceran, Zorica Konstantinovic, Alberto Pomar, Bernat Bozzo, Lluis Balcells, Felip Sandiumenge Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V9.00012: Anisotropic magnetoresistance in thin films of the Mott metal CaVO$_{3 }$ Jiwei Lu, Man Gu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V9.00013: Magnetoelectric effects in Fe3O4 thin films Jared Wong, Adrian Swartz, Renjing Zheng, Roland Kawakami Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V9.00014: Dynamics of multiple phases in manganite as revealed by dielectric spectroscopy Zhigao Sheng, Masao Nakamura, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V9.00015: Interface induced giant magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroelectric superlattices Hongwei Wang, Lixin He, Xifan Wu Preview Abstract

Session V10: Invited Session: Quantum Entanglement in Many-Body Systems

Sponsoring Units: GQI DAMOP
Chair: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology
Room: 210A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V10.00001: Entanglement, teleportation and memory in atomic spin ensembles Invited Speaker: Eugene Polzik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V10.00002: Entanglement and real-space renormalization group methods for quantum field theories Invited Speaker: Frank Verstraete Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V10.00003: Entangled States of Trapped Ions Invited Speaker: Dietrich Leibfried Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V10.00004: Topological order and long range quantum entanglements Invited Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V10.00005: Entangled states as resources in quantum complexity theory Invited Speaker: Scott Aaronson Preview Abstract

Session V11: Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Edges and Grain Boundaries

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Aaron Bostwick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: 210B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V11.00001: Theory and hierarchical calculations of [0001] tilt grain boundaries in graphene Johan Carlsson, Luca M. Ghiringhelli, A. Fasolino Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V11.00002: Localized states at grain boundaries in graphite Adina Luican-Mayer, Guohong Li, Gabriel Autes, Oleg Yazyev, Eva Y. Andrei Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V11.00003: Altering graphene line defect properties using chemistry Smitha Vasudevan, Carter White, Daniel Gunlycke Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V11.00004: Imaging the Structure of Grains, Grain Boundaries, and Stacking Sequences in Single and Multi-Layer Graphene Invited Speaker: David Muller Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V11.00005: Experimentally Controlling the Edge Termination of Graphene Nanoribbons Xiaowei Zhang, Oleg Yazyev, Juanjuan Feng, Chenggang Tao, Yen-Chia Chen, Liming Xie, Steven Louie, Alex Zettl, Hongjie Dai, Michael Crommie Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V11.00006: Tunable magnetism at graphene edges Manuel Schmidt Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V11.00007: Dynamics of Graphene Edges Interaction under Joule-heating Xu Zhang, Xiaoting Jia, Eduardo Cruz-Silva, Lee-Ping Wang, Jessica Campos-Delgado, Paulo Antonio Araujo, Vincent Meunier, Mauricio Terrones, Tomas Palacios, Mildred Dresselhaus Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V11.00008: Structure, Stability and Electronic Properties of Graphene Edges on Co(0001) Deborah Prezzi, Daejin Eom, Kwang T. Rim, Hui Zhou, Michael Lefenfeld, Colin Nuckolls, Tony F. Heinz, George W. Flynn, Mark S. Hybertsen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V11.00009: Chemical versus Thermal Folding of Graphene Edges Ninghai Su, Miao Liu, Feng Liu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V11.00010: Edge effects in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons Wen Ying Ruan, Yiyang Sun, Sheng Bai Zhang, Mei-Yin Chou Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V11.00011: Mapping edge-state wavefunctions in chiral graphene nanoribbons Yen-Chia Chen, Dimas G. de Oteyza, Xiaowei Zhang, David Strubbe, Liying Jiao, Alex Zettl, Hongjie Dai, Steven G. Louie, Michael F. Crommie Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V11.00012: Effects of edge-potential on armchair graphene open boundary and nanoribbon Chi-Hsuan Chiu, Chon-Saar Chu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V11.00013: Formation of unconventional standing waves at graphene edges Changwon Park, Heejun Yang, Jisoon Ihm, Gunn Kim Preview Abstract

Session V12: Graphene: Optical Properties and Responses

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP
Chair: Larry Carr, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: 210C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V12.00001: Temperature dependence of hot carrier-assisted photoresponse in graphene Qiong Ma, Nathaniel Gabor, Nityan Nair, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V12.00002: Hot-Carrier cooling at Graphene-Metal Contact Interface Jason Ross, Grant Aivazian, Dong Sun, Aaron Jones, Wang Yao, David Cobden, Xiaodong Xu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V12.00003: Time Resolved Carrier Distributions in Graphene Steve Gilbertson, Georgi Dakovski, Tomasz Durakiewicz, Jian-Xin Zhu, Keshav Dani, Aditya Mohite, Andrew Dattelbaum, George Rodriguez Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V12.00004: Gate-tunable nanoplasmonic effects in single- and bi-layer graphene Zhe Fei, Gregory Andreev, Wenzhong Bao, Aleksandr Rodin, Alexander McLeod, Lingfeng Zhang, Zeng Zhao, Gerardo Dominguez, Mark Thiemens, Michael Fogler, Antonio Castro-Neto, Chunning Lau, Fritz Keilmann, Dimitri Basov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V12.00005: Atomically Localized Plasmon Enhancement in Monolayer Graphene Juan Carlos Idrobo, Wu Zhou, Jaekwang Lee, Jagjit Nanda, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V12.00006: Effect of nonhomogenous dielectric background on the plasmon modes in graphene double-layer structures Samvel Badalyan, Predrag Krstajic, Francois Peeters Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V12.00007: Measurement of plasmon dispersion in graphene: tunable graphene plasmonics Ben D. Dawson, Mike S. Lodge, Nima Nader Esfahani, R.E. Peale, M. Ishigami Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V12.00008: Scattering theory for graphene plasmons near edges and interfaces Aleksandr Rodin, Michael Fogler Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V12.00009: Edge Functionalization and Optical Excitations in Graphene Nanoflakes Caterina Cocchi, Deborah Prezzi, Alice Ruini, Marilia J. Caldas, Elisa Molinari Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V12.00010: Theory of double-resonant Raman spectra in graphene: intensity and line shape of defect-induced and two-phonon bands Pedro Venezuela, Michele Lazzeri, Francesco Mauri Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V12.00011: A TD-DFT study on the Optical and dielectric properties of graphene nanoflakes Carlos Ramos, Eduardo Cifuentes, Romeo de Coss Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V12.00012: Two-photon absorption measurements in graphene fragments: Role of electron-electron interactions A. Sandhu, A. Roberts, K. Aryanpour, A. Shukla, S. Mazumdar Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V12.00013: Pump-probe study of electron dynamics in bilayer graphene Long Ju, Tsung-Ta Tang, Feng Wang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V12.00014: Theory of Two-Photon Absorptions in Graphene Fragments K. Aryanpour, A. Shukla, S. Mazumdar, A. Sandhu, A. Roberts Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V12.00015: Floquet Spectrum and Transport Through an Irradiated Graphene Ribbon H.A. Fertig, Zhenghao Gu, Daniel Arovas, Assa Auerbach Preview Abstract

Session V13: Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Domain Walls

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Laura Lewis, Northeastern University
Room: 211

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V13.00001: Domain-wall dynamics in ferromagnetic nanowires Invited Speaker: Oleg Tretiakov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V13.00002: Reduction in critical current for domain wall injection by ion irradiation of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy nanowires Timothy Phung, Luc Thomas, See-Hun Yang, Charles Rettner, Kwang-Su Ryu, John Baglin, Brian Hughes, Stuart Parkin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V13.00003: 360 Degree DW formation during vortex to vortex switching in thin ferromagnetic nanorings in an applied circular field Yineng Sun, Abby Goldman, Abigail Licht, Yihan Li, Nihar Pradhan, Tianyu Yang, Mark Tuominen, Katherine Aidala Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V13.00004: Individual domain wall manipulation in a local oersted circular field Xiaolin Hu, Huajie Ke, Nihar Pradhan, Yineng Sun, Mark Tuominen, Katherine Aidala Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V13.00005: Probing and manipulating magnetization at the nanoscale Invited Speaker: Nitin Samarth Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V13.00006: Beyond a compact magnetic domain wall Philipp Eib, Carl Zinoni, Antoine Vanhaverbeke, Gian Salis, Reto Schlittler, Andreas Bischof, Rolf Allenspach Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V13.00007: Domain walls in ultrathin magnetic nanowires at finite temperatures Thomas Michaels, Alessandro Vindigni, Danilo Pescia Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V13.00008: Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Engineering in Chromium Films Jonathan Logan, Hyekyung Kim, Eric Isaacs, Oleg Shpyrko, Daniel Rosenmann, Zhonghou Cai, Ralu Divan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V13.00009: Formation and structure of 360 and 540 degree domain walls in thin magnetic stripes Mark Mascaro, Youngman Jang, S.R. Bowden, J. Unguris, C.A. Ross Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V13.00010: Polarization Dependent Switching of Asymmetric Nanorings with a Circular field Nihar Pradhan, Mark Tuominen, Katherine Aidala Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V13.00011: Non-volatile electric field tuning of magnetic domains in permalloy thin films coupled to ferroelastic PZT bilayers Ichiro Takeuchi, Anbusathaiah Varatharajan, Samuel Bowden, Sean Fackler, Tieren Gao, Paris Alexander, John Cumings, Dan Pierce, John Unguris Preview Abstract

Session V14: Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Spins and Magnetism in Carbon

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Jian Shen, Fudan University
Room: 212

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V14.00001: Inducing Magnetization by Flexing Graphene Nanoribbon Renat Sabirianov, Nabil Al-Aqtash Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V14.00002: Numerical studies of the magnetism in graphene nanoribbons and graphene dot Tianxing Ma, Zhongbing Huang, Hai-Qing Lin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V14.00003: g-Tensor control in a bent carbon nanotube quantum dot Ruby Lai, Hugh Churchill, Charles Marcus Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V14.00004: Magnetic impurities and Kondo conductance anomalies in nanotubes: the importance of being ``in'' Erio Tosatti, Pierpaolo Baruselli, Michele Fabrizio Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V14.00005: Spin-orbit coupling and electronic transport in carbon nanotubes in external fields Ginetom Diniz, S. E. Ulloa Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V14.00006: Spin-orbit induced strong coupling of a single spin to a nanomechanical resonator Philipp Struck, Andras Palyi, Mark Rudner, Karsten Flensberg, Guido Burkard Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V14.00007: Distinctive Magneto Conductance and Universal Scaling in One Dimensional Polymer Nanofibers Ajeong Choi, Kyung Ho Kim, Sung Ju Hong, Munju Goh, Kazuo Akagi, Richard B. Kaner, Yung Woo Park Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V14.00008: Magneto-Photoinduced Absorption in Organic Polymer Films Bhoj Gautam, Tho Nguyen, Eitan Ehrenfreund, Z.Valy Vardeny Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V14.00009: Tunnel magnetoresistance in Self-Assembled Monolayers Based Tunnel Junctions Richard Mattana, Cl\'ement Barraud, Sergio Tatay, Marta Galbiati, Pierre Seneor, Karim Bouzehouane, Eric Jacquet, Cyrile Deranlot, Albert Fert, Fr\'ed\'eric Petroff Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V14.00010: Electrical spin injection from an organic-based ferrimagnet in a hybrid organic/inorganic heterostructure Invited Speaker: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V14.00011: The effect on the properties of V(TCNE) grown on bare substrates and self assembled monolayers Megan Harberts, Howard Yu, Mark Guseman, Yu Lu, Ezekial Johnston-Halperin, Arthur Epstein Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V14.00012: Spin multiplicity and symmetry breaking in vanadium-benzene complexes Ivan Stich, Lucia Horvathova, Matus Dubecky, Lubos Mitas Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V14.00013: Total Scattering Study of Vanadium Tetracyanoethylene D.M. Pajerowski, J.L. Arthur, K. Page, J.S. Miller, J.W. Lynn Preview Abstract

Session V16: Heavy Fermions- 1-1-5 Systems and Others

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Deepak Singh, NIST
Room: 251

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V16.00001: Fermi surface of Ce$_{2}$RhIn$_{8}$ studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy Rui Jiang, R.S. Dhaka, Chang Liu, C. Petrovic, Adam Kaminski Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V16.00002: Anomalous superfluid response in the layered heavy fermion compound Ce$_2$PdIn$_8$ near a magnetic quantum critical point Kenichiro Hashimoto, Yuta Mizukami, Ryo Katsumata, Minoru Yamashita, Hiroaki Ikeda, Takasada Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, Daniel Gnida, Dariusz Kaczorowski, Antony Carrington Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V16.00003: Magnetism in 2D Heavy Fermion Superconductor CePt$_{2}$In$_{7}$ Nicholas apRoberts-Warren, John Crocker, Adam Dioguardi, Peter Klavins, Ching Lin, Kent Shirer, Abigail Shockley, Nicholas Curro Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V16.00004: Electric transport measurements on micro-structured CePt$_{2}$In$_{7}$ single crystals in a diamond anvil cell J. Kanter, P. Moll, F. Ronning, E. Bauer, P. Tobash, J. Thompson, B. Batlogg Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V16.00005: SmPt$_4$Ge$_{12}$ -- a filled skutterudite with exotic heavy-fermion properties Andreas Leithe-Jasper, Roman Gumeniuk, Walter Schnelle, Helge Rosner, Michael Nicklas, Michael Sch\"oneich, Ulrich Schwarz, Yuri Grin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V16.00006: Physical properties and Ce-valence of the filled skutterudite CePt$_4$Ge$_{12}$ Walter Schnelle, Roman Gumeniuk, Michael Nicklas, Helge Rosner, Andreas Leithe-Jasper, Yuri Grin, Kristina O. Kvashnina, Yuri Skourski Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V16.00007: Cu-NMR and magnetization in disordered nFL system UCu$_4$Ni O.O. Bernal, A. Valdez, M. Chiang, D.E. MacLaughlin, G.R. Stewart, J.S. Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V16.00008: Effect of pressure on CeGe$_{2-x}$ single crystals S.L. Bud'ko, D. Braithwaite, B. Salce, E. Colombier, M.S. Torikachvili, H. Hodovanets, P.C. Canfield Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V16.00009: A THz spectroscopy investigation of the heavy fermion state in CeCu$_2$Ge$_2$ Grace Bosse, L. Bilbro, R. Valdes Augilar, Y. Li, J. Eckstein, N.P. Armitage Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V16.00010: Influence of charge carrier doping on the $T^\ast$-scale in YbRh$_2$Si$_2$ Philipp Gegenwart, H.S. Jeevan, Y. Tokiwa, M. Schubert, M. Mchalwat, E. Blumenroether Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V16.00011: Quantum Criticality in the strongly correlated 3d electron system YFe$_{2}$Al$_{10}$ L.S. Wu, K. Park, Y. Janssen, M.S. Kim, C. Marques, M.C. Aronson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V16.00012: Small-angle neutron scattering study of the vortex lattice in PrOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$ Alexandre Desilets-Benoit, Andrea Bianchi, Simon Gerber, Nikola Eigetenmeyer, Jorge Gavilano, Michel Kenzelmann, Christian Pfleiderer, Sebastian Muehlbauer, Ryan Baumbach, Brian Maple Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V16.00013: In plane vortex lattice of the heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 A.D. Bianchi, P. Das, J.S. White, A.T. Holmes, E.M. Forgan, M. Kenzelmann, M. Zolliker, S. Gerber, J.L. Gavilano, E.D. Bauer, J.L. Sarrao, C. Petrovic, M.R. Eskildsen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V16.00014: Low-energy magnetic excitations in single-crystalline CeCu$_{2}$Ge$_{2}$ in fields up to 10 T Michael Loewenhaupt, Astrid Schneidewind, Enrico Faulhaber, Oliver Stockert Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V16.00015: Universal Kondo effect in Ti$_{0.94}$M$_{0.06}$O$_{2}$ (M = Nb, Ta) Thin Films Kalon Gopinadhan, A. Roy Barman, A. Annadi, T.P. Sarkar, W.M. Lu, Z.Q. Liu, Amar Srivastava, - Ariando, Sankar Dhar, T. Venkatesan Preview Abstract

Session V17: Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Junctions

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Kevin Ingersent, University of Florida and Douglas Natelson, Rice University
Room: 252A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V17.00001: Effects of electron-phonon coupling in the Kondo regime of a two-orbital single-molecule junction Edson Vernek, Gisele Iorio, Lili Deng, Kevin Ingersent, Enrique Anda Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V17.00002: Rectification in Symmetric Conjugated Molecules with Asymmetric Linkers Arunabh Batra, Jeffrey S. Meisner, Jonathan R. Widawsky, Eek Huisman, Colin Nuckolls, Latha Venkataraman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V17.00003: Simultaneous Determination of Conductance and Thermopower of Single Molecule Junctions Jonathan Widawsky, Pierre Darancet, Jeffrey Neaton, Latha Venkataraman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V17.00004: Theory of Solvent-Mediated Environmental Effects on Molecular-Scale Transport Michele Kotiuga, Pierre Darancet, Valla Fatemi, Birger Hennings, Michael Frei, Latha Venkataraman, Jeffrey Neaton Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V17.00005: Tailoring IV Characteristics and Rectification in Single-Molecule Junctions Pierre Darancet, Jonathan Widawsky, Hyoung Joon Choi, Latha Venkataraman, Jeffrey Neaton Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V17.00006: Electronic transport properties of functional single molecule junctions E.S. Tam, H.D. Abruna, D.C. Ralph Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V17.00007: Bias-Dependent Noise Measurements in Individual Electromigrated Nanoscale Junctions Patrick Wheeler, Ruoyu Chen, Douglas Natelson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V17.00008: Shot noise measurements as a function of bias in STM-style gold junctions Ruoyu Chen, Patrick Wheeler, Douglas Natelson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V17.00009: Testing the charge transport mechanism in molecule-nanoparticle networks by molecular exchange Venkata Kamalakar, Edwin Devid, Jean-Francois Dayen, Bernard Doudin, Sense Jan van der Molen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V17.00010: Quantum phase transitions arising from competing electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in a two-orbital single-molecule junction Lili Deng, Kevin Ingersent, Giselle Luiz, Edson Vernek, Enrique Anda Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V17.00011: Motion and Photon Emission of Single Molecules in Space-Time Joonhee Lee, Shawn Perdue, Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, V. Ara Apkarian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V17.00012: Atomic-scale motor driven by the current-induced forces Yu-Chang Chen, Bailey C. Hsu, Allen Tseng Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V17.00013: Capacitance variations of a Nanocapacitor in the Field Emission Regime Carlos Untiedt, Giovanni Saenz-Arce, Jose Ignacio Pascual Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V17.00014: Probing Water Structures in Nanopores via Tunneling Paul Boynton, Massimiliano Di Ventra Preview Abstract

Session V18: Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Interface and Surface Conductivity in SrTiO3

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Stefano Gariglio, Universite de Geneve
Room: 252B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V18.00001: Surface charges {\&} adsorbates tune the electron gas at the LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3 }$interface Yanwu Xie, Christopher Bell, Yasuyuki Hikita, Harold Y. Hwang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V18.00002: Unexpected Two Dimensional Electron Gas at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (110) Interface A. Annadi, X. Wang, K. Gopinadhan, W.M. Lv, Z.Q. Liu, A. Roy Barman, A. Srivastava, S. Saha, S. Dhar, H. Hilgenkamp, T. Venkatesan, - Ariando Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V18.00003: Temperature Dependent Strain Relaxation in LaAlO$_{3}$ Thin Films on SrTiO$_{3}$ Substrates Guozhen Liu, Ke Chen, Qingyu Lei, Qun Li, Longqing Chen, Xiaoxing Xi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V18.00004: The origin of the 2DEG at oxide polar-non polar interfaces: electron reconstruction versus defect doping Claudia Cantoni, Fabio Miletto Granozio, Carmela Aruta, Jaume Gazquez, Mark Oxley, Andrew Lupini, Maria Varela, Stephen Pennycook, Umberto Scotti di Uccio, Paolo Perna, Daniele Marr\`e Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V18.00005: Computational study of oxygen vacancy defects in perovskite oxides, SrTiO$_{3}$ and LaAlO$_{3}$ Chandrima Mitra, Chungwei Lin, John Robertson, Alexander Demkov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V18.00006: Oxygen vacancy shuttle across the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Tula R. Paudel, Yong Wang, J.D. Burton Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V18.00007: Electronic phase separation at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface Invited Speaker: - Ariando Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V18.00008: Effect of cation-nonstoichiometry in the SrTiO$_{3}$ layer on the interfacial conductance of LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ heterostructures Susanne Hoffmann-Eifert, Felix Gunkel, Sebastian Wicklein, Peter Brinks, Mark Huijben, Josee E. Kleibeuker, Gertjan Koster, Guus Rijnders, Regina Dittmann, Rainer Waser Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V18.00009: Nature of localized states induced by an oxygen vacancy in SrTiO$_3$ Chungwei Lin, Chandrima Mitra, Alexander Demkov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V18.00010: Oxygen deficiency on the p(1x1) structure of SrTiO$_{3}$ (001) surface Lina Chen, Zhaoliang Liao, Von Braun nascimento, Yi Li, A.C. Antony, E.W. plummer, Jiandi Zhang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V18.00011: Strain effects on the electron effective mass in SrTiO$_3$ Anderson Janotti, Daniel Steiauf, Chris G. Van de Walle Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V18.00012: Electrical Transport in SrTiO$_{3}$ Under Biaxial Strain Adam Kajdos, Bharat Jalan, James Allen, Susanne Stemmer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V18.00013: The Influence of Oxygen in Transition Metal Oxides P.L. Bach, V. Leboran, F. Rivadulla Preview Abstract

Session V19: Invited Session: Holography and Strongly Correlated Electron Matter

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Room: 253AB

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V19.00001: Why black holes may be useful for condensed matter physics Invited Speaker: Sean Hartnoll Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V19.00002: Holography and Mottness: A Discrete Marriage Invited Speaker: Philip Phillips Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V19.00003: Charge fractionalization and gauge-gravityduality Invited Speaker: Liza Huijse Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V19.00004: Emergent dimensions and quantum critical points Invited Speaker: Sung-Sik Lee Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V19.00005: Embedding Fermi liquids in string theory Invited Speaker: Steven Gubser Preview Abstract

Session V20: Invited Session: High k Dielectrics for High Carrier Mobility Channel Applications

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Jueinai Kwo, National Tsing Hua University
Room: 253C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V20.00001: Materials and Device Aspects of III-V 3D Transistors Invited Speaker: Peide Ye Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V20.00002: Pushing the material limit and physics novelty in high $\kappa$'s/high carrier mobility semiconductors for post Si CMOS Invited Speaker: Minghwei Hong Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V20.00003: Bonding principles of the Passivation Mechanism at III-V -- oxide Interfaces Invited Speaker: John Robertson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V20.00004: Exploring Ge and III-V devices to scale CMOS beyond the Si roadmap Invited Speaker: Marc Heyns Preview Abstract

Session V21: Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
Room: 254A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V21.00001: Evidence of strong correlations at the Van Hove singularity in the scanning-tunneling spectra of superconducting Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta}$ single crystals Arun Bansil, Jouko Nieminen, Ilpo Suominen, Tanmoy Das, Robert Markiewicz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V21.00002: Local correlations and deviations of energy scales from SI-STM in Bi-2212 Kyle McElroy, Jacob Alldredge, Kazuhiro Fujita, Genda Gu, Hiroshi Eisaki, S. Uchida Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V21.00003: Doping dependent study of non-equilibrium quasiparticle dynamics in the superconducting and normal state of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ thin films Fahad Mahmood, Darius Torchinsky, A. Bollinger, I. Bozovic, Nuh Gedik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V21.00004: Doping-dependence of Scattering Interference in Cuprates Kazuhiro Fujita, Mohammad Hamidian, Ines Firmo, Sourin Mukhopadhyay, Hiroshi Eisaki, Shin-ichi Uchida, J.C. Davis Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V21.00005: Time resolved reflectivity study of electron and hole doped cuprate superconductors James Hinton, Jake Koralek, Guichuan Yu, Mun Chan, Neven Barisic, Xudong Zhao, Martin Greven, Joseph Orenstein Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V21.00006: Magnetic, Structural and Resistivity Characterization of New R$_{3}$Gd$_{3}$Ba$_{2}$Ca$_{2}$Cu$_{7}$O$_{10}$:Li Compounds (R= rare earth) C. Aguilar, E.E. Marinero, E. Chavira, L. Bucio, H. Pfeiffer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V21.00007: External vs. ``internal'' pressure effect on the anti-ferromagnetic superexchange energy, $J$, in LnBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_6$ (Ln=La,Nd,...,Lu) Ben Mallett, Jeffery Tallon, Grant Williams, Thomas Wolf Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V21.00008: Anomalous High-Energy Spin Excitations in the High-$T_c$ Superconductor Parent Antiferromagnet La$_2$CuO$_4$ Stephen Hayden, Neil Headings, Radu Coldea, Toby Perring Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V21.00009: Charge transfer at the interface between ferromagnetic La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$ and superconducting EuBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7}$ probed by STM/STS Yinghao Liu, Jie Xiong, Jason Haraldsen(2), Li Yan, Alexander Balatsky(2), Quanxi Jia, Antoinette Taylor, Dmitry Yarotski Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V21.00010: Muon spin rotation investigation of the pressure effect on the magnetic penetration depth in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_x$ Alexander Maisuradze, Alexander Shengelaya, Alex Amato, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Hugo Keller Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V21.00011: Ultrafast spectroscopy of the stripe phase of underdoped La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ thin films Darius Torchinsky, Fahad Mahmood, A. Bollinger, I. Bozovic, Nuh Gedik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V21.00012: Nonlinear Response of the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-\delta}$ to the Transmission of Intense Terahertz Pulses Iwao Kawayama, Andreas Glossner, Caihong Zhang, Shinya Kikuta, Hironaru Murakami, Paul M\"uller, Masayoshi Tonouchi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V21.00013: Carrier mobility of insulating cuprates from time-resolved terahertz photoconductivity measurements J. Steven Dodge, Jesse C. Petersen, Amir D. Farahani, Ruixing Liang, Ivan Bozovic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V21.00014: Study of the radiation line width and shape from the Bi2212 mesa structure Takanari Kashiwagi, Takashi Yamamoto, Kazuya Ishida, Manabu Tsujimoto, Kaveh Delfanazari, Ryo Nakayama, Takeo Kitamura, Masashi Sawamura, Hidehiro Asai, Hidetoshi Minami, Kazuo Kadowaki Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V21.00015: High resolution copper M-Edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering at MERLIN Lewis Wray, Yi-De Chuang Preview Abstract

Session V22: Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Magnetism and Anisotropy

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCOMP
Chair: Rafael Fernandes, Columbia University
Room: 254B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V22.00001: In Plane Resistivity Anisotropy in iron Chalcogenides Jiun-Haw Chu, Chris Kucharczyk, Ian Fisher Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V22.00002: The temperature dependence of the conductance anisotropy of the pnictides studied via Monte Carlo simulation of the Spin-Fermion model Shuhua Liang, Cengiz Sen, Adriana Moreo, Elbio Dagotto, Gonzalo Alvarez Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V22.00003: Anisotropy in BaFe$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ single crystals with double chains of FeSe tetrahedra Hechang Lei, Hyejin Ryu, Anatoly Frenkel, Cedomir Petrovic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V22.00004: Towards an understanding of magnetic interactions and anisotropies in iron superconductors Invited Speaker: Elena Bascones Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V22.00005: Nematic order and its implications to the iron pnictides: pseudogap behavior, orbital order, and magneto-structural phase diagram R.M. Fernandes, A.V. Chubukov, J. Knolle, I. Eremin, J. Schmalian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V22.00006: Impurity-Induced Electronic Nematic State in Iron-Pnictide Superconductors Youichi Yamakawa, Yoshio Inoue, Hiroshi Kontani Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V22.00007: Effect of uniaxial strain on the structural and magnetic phase transitions in BaFe$_2$As$_2$ Chetan Dhital, Z. Yamani, Wei Tian, J. Zeretsky, A.S. Sefat, Ziqiang Wang, R.J. Birgeneau, Stephen Wilson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V22.00008: Anisotropic transport properties of the paramagnetic state of iron-based superconductors Joerg Schmalian, Elihu Abrahams, Rafael Fernandes Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V22.00009: Anisotropic magnetoelastic coupling in iron arsenide superconductors: an x-ray diffraction study in high magnetic field J.P.C. Ruff, R.K. Das, Z. Islam, J.-H. Chu, H.-H. Kuo, I.R. Fisher, H. Nojiri Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V22.00010: In-plane structural and electronic anisotropy in de-twinned (Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$)Fe$_2$As$_2$ Erick Blomberg, M.A. Tanatar, W.E. Straszheim, B. Shen, H.H. Wen, R. Prozorov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V22.00011: Nematic phase persisting above the superconducting dome of BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ S. Kasahara, H.J. Shi, K. Hashimoto, T. Shibauchi, T. Terashima, Y. Matsuda, T. Fukuda, K. Sugimoto, A.H. Nevidomskyy Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V22.00012: Unusual giant negative thermal expansion in La-doped CaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ superconducting single crystal Alwyn Rebello, John J. Neumeier, Zhaoshun Gao, Yanpeng Qi, Yanwei Ma Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V22.00013: Lower critical field, anisotropy, and two-gap features of LiFeAs Kalyan Sasmal, B. Lv, Z. Tang, F. Wei, Y. Xue, A. Guloy, Ching-Wu Chu Preview Abstract

Session V23: Superconductivity: Mostly Transport

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Wankyu Park, UI-urbana champaign
Room: 255

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V23.00001: Thermal Conductivity Data Near T$_{c}$ as a Probe of Unconventional Superconductivity Brian Sales Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V23.00002: Critical currents in thin-film superconductors via two-coil mutual inductance measurements John Draskovic, Jie Yong, Michael Hinton, Adam Ahmed, Song Wang, Stanley Steers, Thomas Lemberger Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V23.00003: Anomalous dependence of interface superconductivity on carrier density in metal-insulator bilayer Jie Wu, Oshri Pelleg, Gennady Logvenov, Anthony Bollinger, Greg Boebinger, Ivan Bozovic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V23.00004: Magnetotransport of La$_{(2-x)}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ with Nearly Continuous Doping Zachary Stegen, Jie Wu, Jonathon Kemper, Greg Boebinger, Scott Riggs, Fedor Balakirev, Albert Migliori, Ivan Bozovic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V23.00005: Decoupling of superconducting planes of La$_{1.905}$Ba$_{0.095}$CuO$_4$ in a transverse magnetic field John Tranquada, Z. Stegen, G.S. Boebinger, Su Jung Han, Jie Wu, Zhijun Xu, Genda Gu, Qiang Li Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V23.00006: Spatial Inhomogeneity in Oxygen Modulated Potassium Tungsten Oxide Thin Films: implications for superconductivity and metal-insulator transitions Ko Munakata, Katherine Luna, Akio Tsukada, Subhash Risbud, Theodore Geballe, Malcolm Beasley Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V23.00007: Thermal Hall effect in YBCO: Probing Fermi-surface reconstruction inside the superconducting state Olivier Cyr-Choini\`{e}re, Francis Lalibert\'{e}, Sophie Dufour-Beaus\'{e}jour, Ga\"{e}l Grissonnanche, Ryan T. Gordon, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Louis Taillefer, Brad J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, Doug A. Bonn, Walter N. Hardy, Cyril Proust Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V23.00008: On the magnetic tricritical point in BaFe$_{2(1-x)}$Co$_{2x}$As$_{2}$ Costel Rotundu, Robert Birgeneau Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V23.00009: $Rb_xFe_2Se_2$: A study of superconductivity under high pressure Melissa Gooch, Bing Lv, Liangzi Deng, Takaki Muramatsu, Jim Meen, Yuyi Xue, Bernd Lorenz, Ching-Wu Chu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V23.00010: Unusual superconducting state in Pr-doped CaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ Liangzi Deng, Bing Lv, Melissa Gooch, Fengyan Wei, Yanyi Sun, James Meen, Yuyi Xue, Bernd Lorenz, Ching-Wu Chu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V23.00011: Fermi-liquid behavior of quasiparticle scattering in the normal state of BaFe$_{2}$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x})_{2}$ Ying Jia, Lei Fang, Ulrich Welp, Alexei Koshelev, George Crabtree, Wai-Kwong Kwok Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V23.00012: Pressure effect on the electronic transport properties of Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$ Stevan Arsenijevi\'{c}, Richard Ga\'{a}l, Henrik R{\O}nnow, Romain Viennois, Enrico Giannini, Dirk van der Marel, L\'{a}szl\'{o} Forr\'{o} Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V23.00013: DC transport properties of Fe(Se,Te) crystals: Effects of Se substitution into Te site Seiki Komiya, Masafumi Hanawa, Ichiro Tsukada, Atsutaka Maeda Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V23.00014: Ferroelectricity and magnetoelectric coupling in underdoped La$_{2}$CuO$_{4+x}$ Z. Viskadourakis, I. Radulov, A.P. Petrovic, S. Mukherjee, B. Andersen, G. Jelbert, N.S. Headings, S.M. Hayden, K. Kiefer, S. Landsgesell, D.N. Argyriou, C. Panagopoulos Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V23.00015: Surface pinning effects in Ag doped superconducting polycrystalline Y$_{1}$Ba$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-x }$ Atilgan Altinkok, Murat Olutas, Kivilcim Kilic, Atilla Kilic Preview Abstract

Session V24: Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Enrico Bellotti, Boston University
Room: 256

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V24.00001: 1/f Noise in Delta Doped GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures Yun Suk Eo, Steven Wolgast, Cagliyan Kurdak, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V24.00002: Conductance noise in a strongly disordered 2D electron system in Si MOSFETs Ping V. Lin, Xiaoyan Shi, Jan Jaroszy\'nski, Dragana Popovi\'c Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V24.00003: Extended States and Critical Behavior in 2D and 3D Amorphous Conductors Donald Priour Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V24.00004: The disappearance of weak localization in a strongly correlated 2D hole system Richard L.J. Qiu, Xuan P.A. Gao, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V24.00005: Strong negative magnetoresistance in high-mobility 2D electron systems Michael Zudov, Anthony Hatke, John Reno, Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V24.00006: Nonlinear response of magnetoplasmon resonance Anthony Hatke, Michael Zudov, Michael Manfra Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V24.00007: Interference effect in magneto-oscillations in two-dimensional system under bichromatic irradiation Qianhui Shi, Maxim Khodas, Michael Zudov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V24.00008: Quantum lifetime of 2D electron in magnetic field Scott Dietrich, Sergey Vitkalov, Dmitry Dmitriev, Alexey Bykov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V24.00009: Hall viscosity in lattice models Rudro Biswas, Taylor Hughes Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V24.00010: Rank Saturation in finite size Entanglement Spectrum for Quantum Hall states Benoit Estienne, Bogdan A. Bernevig, Raoul Santachiara Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V24.00011: Magnetic field spectra and many-body correlations of spin 3/2 holes confined to GaAs quantum well George Simion, Yuli Lyanda-Geller Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V24.00012: Tunneling spectroscopy of 5/2 fractional quantum Hall excitations in etch defined quantum point contacts Madhu Thalakulam, Wei Pan, K.W. Baldwin, K.W. West, L. Pfeiffer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V24.00013: Quasiparticles and excitons for the Pfaffian quantum Hall state Antoine Sterdyniak, Ivan Rodriguez, Maria Hermanns, Joost Slingerland, Nicolas Regnault Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V24.00014: Exact results for a fermion chain with fractionalized excitations Masaaki Nakamura, Zheng-Yuan Wang, Emil Bergholtz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V24.00015: Polaronic effects in a single modulation doped GaAs quantum well Gerard Martinez, Clement Faugeras, Milan Orlita, A. Riedel, R. Rey, Klaus Friedland Preview Abstract

Session V25: High Pressure: Experiment

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DCMP
Chair: Anatoly Belonoshko, Royal Institute of Technology
Room: 257A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V25.00001: Kinetics studies across the phase transition of metals using \textit{dynamic}-DAC Jing-Yin Chen, William Evans Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V25.00002: Phase Transition Kinetics of GST at High Pressures Adam Cadien, Qing Yang Hu, Howard Sheng Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V25.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V25.00004: Pressure-induced phase transitions in GeS under high pressures Ranga Dias, Choong-Shik Yoo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V25.00005: High pressure behavior of Cr$_2$O$_3$ to 62~GPa Krystle Catalli, Hyunchae Cynn, William J. Evans Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V25.00006: Amorphous diamond -- A high-pressure superhard carbon allotrope Yu Lin, Li Zhang, Ho-kwang Mao, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Maria Baldini, Jinfu Shu, Wendy Mao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V25.00007: Comparison of the existing internally consistent pressure scales at high pressures and high temperatures Hyunchae Cynn, B.J. Baer, S.G. MacLeod, W.J. Evans, M.J. Lipp, J.P. Klepeis, Zs. Jenei, J.Y. Chen, K. Catalli, D. Popov, C.Y. Park Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V25.00008: Simultaneous measurement of pressure evolution of crystal structure and superconductivity in Fese$_{0.8 }$ using designer diamonds Walter Uhoya, Nathaniel Wolanyk, Georgiy Tsoi, Yogesh Vohra, Sistla M Rao, Mau-Kuen Wu, Samuel Weir Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V25.00009: Melting Studies of Metals in a Paris Edinburgh Cell via Radiography Magnus Lipp, Zsolt Jenei, Dave Ruddle, Chantel Aracne-Ruddle, Hyunchae Cynn, William Evans, Yoshio Kono, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Changyong Park Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V25.00010: Homoepitaxial Boron Doped Diamond Anvil as Heating Element in a Diamond Anvil Cell Jeffrey Montgomery, Gopi Samudrala, Yogesh Vohra Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V25.00011: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V25.00012: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V25.00013: High pressure study of mixed valence compound CsAuI$_{3}$ Shibing Wang, Shigeto Hirai, Alexander Kemper, Maria Baldini, Hongwei Ma, Scott Riggs, Maxwell Shapiro, Tom Devereaux, Ian Fisher, Wendy Mao, Ted Geballe Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V25.00014: Pressure tuning of the thermal conductance of weak interfaces Wen-Pin Hsieh, Austin Lyons, Eric Pop, Pawel Keblinski, David Cahill Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V25.00015: Target tracking in a dusty plasma: phase transitions and equations of state Neil Oxtoby, Jason Ralph, C\'eline Durniak, Dmitry Samsonov Preview Abstract

Session V26: Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems III

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Stefan Wessel, Aachen University
Room: 257B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V26.00001: A dynamical Marshall sign convention Kevin Beach Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V26.00002: Monte Carlo Simulations of Quantum Spin Systems in the Valence Bond Basis Fabian Zschocke Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V26.00003: Observing spinon excitations in quantum spin models Ying Tang, Anders Sandvik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V26.00004: Lightcone renormalization and quantum quenches in one-dimensional Hubbard models Jesko Sirker, Tilman Enss Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V26.00005: Time Evolution within a Comoving Window Martin Ganahl, Valentin Zauner, Tomotoshi Nishino, Hans Gerd Evertz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V26.00006: Emergence of prominent bound states in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chain after a local quantum quench Hans Gerd Evertz, Martin Ganahl, Elias Rabel, Fabian Essler Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V26.00007: Non-local order parameters in 1D symmetry protected topological phases Frank Pollmann, Ari Turner, Erez Berg Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V26.00008: Projected Density of Transitions for Heisenberg Models Roger Haydock, C.M.M. Nex Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V26.00009: Criticality in one-dimensional supersymmetric lattice fermions Matthias Troyer, Bela Bauer, Liza Huijse, Erez Berg, Kareljan Schoutens Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V26.00010: Study of Kitaev-Heisenberg model with second-neighbor Heisenberg coupling by DMRG simulations and slave-particle theories Yi-Fan Jiang, Hong-Chen Jiang, Hong Yao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V26.00011: Thermodynamics and phase transitions of the pinwheel-distorted Kagome lattice Heisenberg model Ehsan Khatami, Rajiv R.P. Singh, Marcos Rigol Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V26.00012: Numerical Schwinger boson approach to the Bethe lattice antiferromagnet at percolation Shivam Ghosh, Hitesh J. Changlani, Christopher L. Henley Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V26.00013: Spin Mott Glass Phase in the Disordered Spin Systems Dao-Xin Yao, Nv-Sen Ma, Anders Sandvik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V26.00014: Tuning the disorder in a bosonic superglass Derek Larson, Ying-Jer Kao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V26.00015: Impact of spin-orbit coupling on the Holstein polaron Zhou Li, Lucian Covaci, Mona Berciu, Devin Baillie, Frank Marsiglio Preview Abstract

Session V27: Invited Session: Flexible and Rolled Up Semiconductor Nanomembranes

Sponsoring Units: DCMP FIAP
Chair: Pablo Bianucci, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Room: 258AB

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V27.00001: Making Novel Materials Using Strain in Nanomembranes Invited Speaker: Max G. Lagally Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V27.00002: Strain Superlattice: A Combination of Strain Induced Self-Assembly and Strain Engineered Band Structure Invited Speaker: Feng Liu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V27.00003: Rolled-up multifunctional materials Invited Speaker: Oliver Schmidt Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V27.00004: Rolled-up Tube Based Nanophotonics Invited Speaker: Xiuling Li Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V27.00005: Nanomembrane photonics for Si photonic integration and flexible optoelectronics Invited Speaker: Weidong Zhou Preview Abstract

Session V28: Semiconductor Defects and Doping

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Walter Lambrecht, Case Western Reserve University
Room: 258C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V28.00001: Transition Metal Defects in Cubic and Hexagonal Polytypes of SiC: Site Selection and Electronic Structure from ab-initio Calculations Adam Gali, Viktor Iv\'ady, Andreas G\"allstr\"om, Nguyen Son, Erik Janz\'en Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V28.00002: Quantum Effects of Strain Influence on the Dopant Behavior in Semiconductors Deyan Sun, Zhentang Wang, Shiyou Chen, Xiangmei Duan, Su-Huai Wei, Xingao Gong Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V28.00003: First-principle Calculations of Donor and Acceptor Levels in PbI2 for Ultra-fast Scintillation Gaigong Zhang, Andrew Canning, Niels Gronbech-Jensen, Lin-Wang Wang, Stephen Derenzo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V28.00004: Nonradiative lifetimes in intermediate band materials -- absence of lifetime recovery Jacob J. Krich, Bertrand I. Halperin, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V28.00005: Imaging Defects in Semiconductors with a Snapshot Micro-Imaging Technique Kirstin Alberi, Brian Fluegel, Dan Beaton, Angelo Mascarenhas Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V28.00006: Fluorescent nanodiamonds for biomedical thermal imaging Juan Enrique Ramirez Hernandez, Jose Garcia Sole, Martin Rafael Pedroza Montero, Marcelino Barboza Flores, Daniel Jaque, Laura Martinez Maestro, Karla Josefina Santacruz Gomez, Francisco Sanz Rodriguez, Ningning Dong, Tomas Calderon Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V28.00007: Laser induced local modification of material properties in a semiconductor alloy Yong Zhang, Naili Yue Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V28.00008: Spatial Variation in Mobility-Lifetime Product in Bulk TlBr and CZT David Phillips, Nancy Haegel, Kevin Blaine, Hadong Kim, Guido Ciampi, Len Cirignano Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V28.00009: Quantum Stress: Density Functional Theory Formulation and Physical Manifestation Hao Hu, Feng Liu Preview Abstract

Session V29: Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Epitaxial Junctions and Two-Level Systems

Sponsoring Units: GQI
Chair: Hanhee Paik, Yale University
Room: 259A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V29.00001: Coherence in a transmon qubit with epitaxial tunnel junctions Martin Weides, Jeffrey Kline, Michael Vissers, Martin Sandberg, David Wisbey, David Pappas, Blake Johnson, Tom Ohki Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V29.00002: Superconducting qubits consisting of epitaxially-grown NbN/AlN/NbN Josephson junctions Yasunobu Nakamura, Hirotaka Terai, Kunihiro Inomata, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Wei Qiu, Zhen Wang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V29.00003: Josephson phase qubits incorporating high-Q crystalline dielectrics U. Patel, Y. Gao, L. Maurer, S. Sendelbach, D. Hover, K.H. Cho, C.B. Eom, R. McDermott Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V29.00004: Growth of epitaxial Al/AlOx/Re using a sputtering PLD hybrid system with \textit{in-situ} RHEED Kwang-Hwan Cho, Jacob Podkaminer, Umeshkumar Patel, Robert McDermott, Chang-Beom Eom Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V29.00005: Transport Characteristics of Self-Aligned Josephson Junctions Grown using co-Deposited Molecular Beam Epitaxy Gustaf Olson, Allison Dove, Zachary Yoscovits, Chris Nugroho, Vladimir Orlyanchik, Dale Van Harlingen, James Eckstein Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V29.00006: Internal loss of superconducting resonators induced by interacting two level systems Lara Faoro, Lev Ioffe Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V29.00007: Two-level system dynamics in amorphous dielectrics probed with a dc electric field Moe Khalil, Sergiy Gladchenko, M.J.A. Stoutimore, F.C. Wellstood, K.D. Osborn Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V29.00008: Studying two-level systems in Josephson junctions with a Josephson junction defect spectrometer M.J.A. Stoutimore, M.S. Khalil, Sergiy Gladchenko, R.W. Simmonds, C.J. Lobb, K.D. Osborn Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V29.00009: Relaxation of a Cooper-Pair Box Coupled to Discrete Charge Fluctuators B.S. Palmer, Z. Kim, F.C. Wellstood Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V29.00010: Microwave Frequency Loss in Aluminum Nanobridge Josephson Junctions Eli Levenson-Falk, R. Vijay, Steven Weber, Kater Murch, I. Siddiqi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V29.00011: $T_1$-echo sequence - Preserving the state of a qubit in the presence of coherent interaction Clemens M\"uller, Alexander Shnirman, Martin Weides Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V29.00012: Circuit quantum electrodynamics with a scanning qubit Will Shanks, Devin Underwood, James Raftery, Srikanth Srinivasan, Anthony Hoffman, Andrew Houck Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V29.00013: Noise and microresonance of critical current in Josephson junction induced by Kondo trap states Mohammad Ansari, Frank Wilhelm Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V29.00014: Probing coupling mechanism between microscopic two-level system and superconducting qubits Yang Yu, Zhentao Zhang Preview Abstract

Session V30: Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Measurement

Sponsoring Units: GQI
Chair: Mark Gyure, HRL
Room: 259B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V30.00001: Single-donor spin qubits in silicon Invited Speaker: Andrea Morello Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V30.00002: Quantum read-out and fast initialization of nuclear spin qubits with electric currents Rogerio de Sousa, Noah Stemeroff Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V30.00003: Real-time readout and lifetime measurements of single-triplet states in a Si/SiGe double quantum dot Jonathan Prance, Zhan Shi, Christie Simmons, Don Savage, Max Lagally, Lars Schreiber, Lieven Vandersypen, Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt, Sue Coppersmith, Mark Eriksson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V30.00004: Calibrated State Tomography in Singlet-Triplet Qubits Oliver Dial, Michael Shulman, Shannon Harvey, Hendrik Bluhm, Vladimir Umansky, Amir Yacoby Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V30.00005: Readout and Control Technology for Spin Qubits James Colless, David Reilly Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V30.00006: Si/SiGe Quantum Dot Charge Sensing with Radio Frequency Single-Electron Transistor Mingyun Yuan, Zhen Yang, A.J. Rimberg, M.A. Eriksson, D.E. Savage Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V30.00007: Study of the QPC Back-action to Electron Spin Based Qubits Ming Xiao, Haiou Li, Gang Cao, Guoping Guo, Guangcan Guo, Hongwen Jiang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V30.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V30.00009: Fast charge sensing in InAs nanowire double quantum dot devices Minkyung Jung, Michael Schroer, Karl Petersson, Jiri Stehlik, Jason Petta Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V30.00010: Single charge sensing and transport in double quantum dots fabricated from commercially grown Si/SiGe heterostructures K. Wang, C. Payette, Y. Dovzhenko, P. Koppinen, J.R. Petta Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V30.00011: Charge sensing in a silicon MOS double quantum dot M. Lilly, K. Nguyen, R. Young, E. Nielsen, N. Bishop, J. Wendt, R. Grubbs, T. Pluym, J. Stevens, J. Dominguez, R. Muller, M. Carroll Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V30.00012: Dispersive readout of spin blockade in a carbon nanotube double quantum dot Hugh Churchill, Ruby Lai, Charles Marcus Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V30.00013: Relaxation hotspots and fast reset of a single electron spin in a double quantum dot Katja Nowack, Mohammad Shafiei, Christian Reichl, Werner Wegscheider, Lieven Vandersypen Preview Abstract

Session V31: Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - ARPES

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
Room: 260

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V31.00001: Topological Surface States in Ternary Spin-Orbit Insulators: An ARPES Viewpoint Madhab Neupane, S.-Y. Xu, L.A. Wray, A. Petersen, R. Shankar, A. Fedorov, C. Liu, Y.S. Hor, J. Xiong, D.-X. Qu, H. Lin, N.P. Ong, A. Bansil, R.J. Cava, M.Z. Hasan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V31.00002: Rashba Spin-Splitting Control at the Surface of the Topological Insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ Zhihuai Zhu, G. Levy, B. Ludbrook, C.N. Veenstra, J.A. Rosen, R. Comin, D. Wong, P. Dosanjh, A. Ubaldini, P. Syers, N.P. Butch, J. Paglione, I.S. Elfimov, A. Damascelli Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V31.00003: Recent Results on Topological Phase Transition and Texture Inversion in Tunable Topological Insulators Su-Yang Xu, Yuqi Xia, Lewis Andrew Wray, Shuang Jia, Fabian Meier, Jan Hugo Dil, Jurg Osterwalder, Bartosz Slomski, Aron Bansil, Hsin Lin, Robert Cava, M. Zahid Hasan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V31.00004: Surface Termination of Cleaved Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ Investigated by Low Energy Ion Scattering Xiaoxiao He, Zhiyong Wang, Jing Shi, Jory Yarmoff Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V31.00005: Electronic Structure of Clean and Adsorbate-Covered Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ Richard Hatch, Marco Bianchi, Tilo Planke, Jianli Mi, Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, Philip Hofmann Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V31.00006: Sharp Dirac cone at a buried superconductor/topological insulator interface Justin Waugh, Yue Cao, Qiang Wang, Alexei Fedorov, Z.J. Xu, Genda Gu, Daniel Dessau Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V31.00007: Mapping the Orbital Texture of the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 Yue Cao, Justin Waugh, Seung Ryong Park, Qiang Wang, Theodore Reber, Sung-Kwan Mo, Matthew Brahlek, Namrata Bansal, Seongshik Oh, Genda Gu, Daniel Dessau Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V31.00008: Spin resolved photoemission on surface doped topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ Zhihui Pan, Elio Vescovo, Alexei Fedorov, D. Gardner, S. Chu, Young S. Lee, Genda Gu, Tonica Valla Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V31.00009: Controlling the Bulk-surface Spectroscopic Separation in 3D Topological ``Metals'' Exploiting Hybridization Yi-Ting Hsu, Mark Fischer, Taylor Hughes, Eun-Ah Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V31.00010: Topological insulators in the quaternary chalcogenide compounds and ternary famatinite compounds Y.J. Wang, H. Lin, Tanmoy Das, M.Z. Hasan, A. Bansil Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V31.00011: Quasiparticle band structures of $\beta$-HgS, HgSe, and HgTe Niels E. Christensen, Axel Svane, Manuel Cardona, Athanasios Chantis, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Takao Kotani Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V31.00012: Exceptionally Weak Electron-Phonon Coupling on the Surface of the Topological Insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ - A Promise for Room Temperature Applications Tonica Valla, Z.-H. Pan, A.V. Fedorov, D. Gardner, Y.S. Lee, S. Chu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V31.00013: Persistence of Topological Order and Formation of Quantum Well States in Topological Insulators B2(Se,Te)3 under Ambient Conditions Chaoyu Chen, Xingjiang Zhou Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V31.00014: Strong Warping Effects and Angular Momentum Structures of Topological Insulator Wonsig Jung, Y.K. Kim, B.Y. Kim, Y.Y. Koh, M. Matsunami, S. Kimura, M. Arita, K. Shimada, J.H. Han, B.K. Cho, C. Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V31.00015: Three-Dimensional Massive Dirac Fermion in the Bulk Band Structure of Cubic Inverse Perovskite Ca$_3$PbO Toshikaze Kariyado, Masao Ogata Preview Abstract

Session V32: Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Interfaces, Layered Materials, and Growth

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCOMP
Chair: Matthew Dawber, SUNY Stony Brook
Room: 261

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V32.00001: Electric-field control of magnetization in Co$_{40}$Fe$_{40}$B$_{20 }$/ Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3})_{0.7}$Ti$_{0.3}$O$_{3}$ structure at room temperature Sen Zhang, Y.G. Zhao, S. Rizwan, X.F. Han, J.X. Zhang, R. Ramesh Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V32.00002: Coherently Coupled ZnO and VO$_{2}$ Interface studied by Photoluminescence and electrical transport across a phase transition Amar Srivastava, S. Saha, A. Annadi, Y.L. Zhao, K. Gopinadhan, X. Wang, N. Naomi, Z.Q. Liu, S. Dhar, T.S. Herng, Bao Nina, - Ariando, Jun Ding, T. Venkatesan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V32.00003: Ferroelectricity and compositional inversion symmetry breaking in PbTiO$_{3}$/SrRuO$_{3}$ superlattices S.J. Callori, J. Gabel, D. Su, J. Sinsheimer, M.V. Fernandez-Serra, M. Dawber Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V32.00004: Interface control of emergent ferroic order in Ruddlesden-Popper Sr$_{n+1}$Ti$_n$O$_{3n+1}$ Turan Birol, Nicole A. Benedek, Craig J. Fennie Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V32.00005: Use of dimensionality to enhance tunable microwave dielectrics D.G. Schlom, Che-Hui Lee, R. Haislmaier, E. Vlahos, V. Gopalan, T. Birol, Y. Zhu, L.F. Kourkoutis, N. Benedek, Y. Kim, J.D. Brock, D.A. Muller, C.J. Fennie, N.D. Orloff, J.C. Booth, V. Goian, S. Kamba, M.D. Biegalski, M. Bernhagen, R. Uecker, X.X. Xi, I. Takeuchi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V32.00006: Ferroelectric-Antiferroelectric Phase Control: Interplay Between Octahedral Tilt, Polarization, and Chemistry at BFO-LSMO Interfaces Young-Min Kim, Pu Yu, Ying-Hao Chu, Stephen Pennycook, Sergei Kalinin, Albina Borisevich Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V32.00007: Interplay of couplings between antiferrodistortive, ferroelectric, and strain degrees of freedom in monodomain PbTiO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ superlattices Pablo Aguado-Puente, Pablo Garcia-Fernandez, Javier Junquera Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V32.00008: Engineered polarization rotation in PbTiO$_{3}$/CaTiO$_{3}$ superlattices John Sinsheimer, Sara J. Callori, Youcef Benkara, Benjamin Bein, Jon Daley, Dong Su, Matthew Dawber Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V32.00009: In situ studies on ferroelectric BaTiO$_{3}$ interface Junsoo Shin, Von Braun Nascimento, Ward Plummer, Jiandi Zhang, Albina Borisevich, Vincent Meunier, Sergei Kalinin, Arthur Baddorf Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V32.00010: Ellipsometric study of SrTiO$_{3}$ thin film grown Si(100) Yao Tian, Carolina Adamo, Kenneth Burch Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V32.00011: Valence Fluctuation in UltrathinTi$_{1+x}$O$_{2}$ on Rutile TiO$_{2}$ Q.Y. Chen, P.V. Wadekar, H.J. Hunag, S.W. Yeh, N.J. Ho, H.W. Seo, W.K. Chu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V32.00012: Atomic Layer-by-Layer Growth of Homoepitaxial SrTiO$_{3}$ Films by Laser MBE Qingyu Lei, Guozhen Liu, Ke Chen, Suilin Shi, Fuqiang Huang, Xiaoxing Xi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V32.00013: Preparation of Atomically Flat SrTiO$_3$ Surfaces Using Non-acid Etching and Thermal Annealing Process John Connell, Ambrose Seo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V32.00014: Effect of Mg$^{2+}$ on the structure of amorphous CaCO$_3$ -- A molecular dynamics simulation Hidekazu Tomono, Hiroki Nada Preview Abstract

Session V34: Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers V: Applications II

Sponsoring Units: DCP
Chair: Amber Krummel, Colorado State University
Room: 107A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V34.00001: Thermalization of photoexcited electrons in bismuth investigated by time-resolved THz spectroscopy and {\it ab initio} calculations Iurii Timrov, Tobias Kampfrath, Jerome Faure, Nathalie Vast, Christian Ast, Christian Frischkorn, Martin Wolf, Paola Gava, Luca Perfetti Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V34.00002: Spatio-temporal dynamics of plasmons on a metal cone Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, Joonhee Lee, Shawn M. Perdue, V. Ara Apkarian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V34.00003: Time-Resolved ARPES Study of Ultrafast Dynamics in Cuprate Superconductor Bi2212 Jianqiao Meng, Georgi L. Dakovski, Jian-Xin Zhu, Peter S. Riseborough, Genda Gu, Steve M. Gilbertson, George Rodriguez, Tomasz Durakiewicz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V34.00004: SFG and SPR Study of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Film Assembly on Positively Charged Surfaces Sanghun Song, Tobias Weidner, Matthew Wagner, David Castner Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V34.00005: Nanoscale sensing with surface-enhanced CARS spectroscopy Dmitri Voronine, Alexander Sinyukov, Xia Hua, Guowan Zhang, Wenlong Yang, Kai Wang, Pankaj Jha, George Welch, Alexei Sokolov, Marlan Scully Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V34.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V34.00007: Time-resolved photocurrent generation in graphene $p-n$ junctions; probing $e-h$ relaxation dynamics near the Fermi level Matt Graham, Su-Fei Shi, Daniel Ralph, Jiwoong Park, Paul McEuen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V34.00008: Standoff detection of trace compounds enabled by continuum pulse shaping and coherent Raman scattering Marshall T. Bremer, Orin Yue, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Marcos Dantus Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V34.00009: Transient Absorption Spectroscopy for the Detection of Multiexciton States in Semiconductor Quantum Dots Amanda Neukirch, Oleg Prezhdo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V34.00010: How much information do ultrafast spectra contain? The case for ultrafast quantum process tomography Alan Aspuru-Guzik Preview Abstract

Session V35: Focus Session: DFT VII: Time-Dependent Processes I: Driven Systems

Sponsoring Units: DCP
Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University
Room: 107B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V35.00001: Towards the ab-initio description of photo-induced processes Invited Speaker: E.K.U. Gross Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V35.00002: Exact factorization of the time-dependent electron-nuclear wavefunction: Time-dependent potential energy surface Ali Abedi, Federica Agostini, Neepa T. Maitra, E.K.U. Gross Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V35.00003: Exact factorization of the full electron-nuclear wavefunction: A quantum-classical study Federica Agostini, Ali Abedi, Eberhard Gross Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V35.00004: Time-dependent density functional theory for open quantum systems David Tempel, Alan Aspuru-Guzik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V35.00005: Time-Dependent Electron Localization Functions, TDELF's, for Molecular Ionization and Harmonic Generation in Intense Laser Pulses Andre D. Bandrauk, Emmanuel Fowe Penka Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 10:00AM		V35.00006: TDDFT for nonlinear phenomena of light-matter interactions Invited Speaker: Angel Rubio Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V35.00007: Performance of the exact adiabatic density functional to describe Rabi physics Johanna Ildemar Fuks, Nicole Helbig, Heiko Appel, Ilya Tokatly, Angel Rubio Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V35.00008: Curing pathologies of TDDFT with semiclassical electron correlation Peter Elliott, Neepa Maitra Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V35.00009: Quantum dynamics integrators in a plane-wave implementation of time-dependent density functional theory Andr{\'e} Schleife, Alfredo Correa, Yosuke Kanai Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V35.00010: The effect of cusps in time-dependent quantum mechanics Zenghui Yang, Neepa Maitra, Kieron Burke Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V35.00011: Demonstration of the Gunnarsson-Lundqvist theorem and Lack of Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem for Excited States Xiao-Yin Pan, Yu-Qi Li, Biao Li, Viraht Sahni Preview Abstract

Session V36: General Chemical Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCP
Chair: David Leitner, University of Nevada, Reno
Room: 107C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V36.00001: Measurement of kinetic and potential energy deposition in highly charged ion collisions with surfaces R.E. Lake, J.M. Pomeroy, C.E. Sosolik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V36.00002: Charge transport in single photochromic molecular junctions Youngsang Kim, T. Pietsch, Elke Scheer, T. Hellmuth, F. Pauly, D. Sysoiev, T. Huhn, T. Exner, U. Groth, U. Steiner, A. Erbe Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V36.00003: Length and temperature dependent crossover of charge transport across molecular junctions Ya-Lin Lo, Shih-Jye Sun, Ying-Jer Kao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V36.00004: Electrical properties of a layered manganese vanadate Victoria Soghomonian, Qifan Yuan, Elinor Spencer, Nancy Ross Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V36.00005: Capturing Ion-Solid Interactions with MOS structures R. Shyam, W.R. Harrell, J.E. Harriss, C.E. Sosolik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V36.00006: Self-consistent full counting statistics of inelastic transport Tae-Ho Park, Michael Galperin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V36.00007: Measurement of the Spectral Distribution of Low Energy Electrons Emitted as a Result of M$_{3}$VV Auger Transitions in Cu(100) Suman Satyal, Prasad Joglekar, Karthik Sashtry, Alexander Weiss, Steven Hulbert Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V36.00008: Interaction of Water Layers on Calcite Surfaces Rashid Hamdan, Hai-Ping Cheng Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V36.00009: Tracking Amino Acids in Chiral Quantum Corrals Esmeralda Yitamben, Rees Rankin, Erin Iski, Jeffrey Greeley, Richard Rosenberg, Nathan Guisinger Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V36.00010: Influence of ligand and environment substitution on photo-triggered linkage isomerization of photochromic ruthenium sulfoxide complexes Kristin Springfeld, Volker Dieckmann, Sebastian Eicke, Mirco Imlau Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V36.00011: Classical models for electron capture by highly charged ions in the thin film regime Josh Pomeroy, Russell Lake Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V36.00012: Coupling of Cobalt-Tetraphenylporphyrin Molecules in Copper Nitride Molecular Network Vinicius Claudio Zoldan, Chunlei Gao, Ricardo Faccio, Andr\'e Avelino Pasa Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V36.00013: A New Series of Donor-Acceptor Substituted Small Organic Molecules With Large Third Order Molecular Polarizability Marten Beels Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V36.00014: Organic molecular crystals: materials with competing orders Gianluca Giovannetti, Sanjeev Kumar, Jean-Paul Pouget, Massimo Capone Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V36.00015: Energy Transport in Quantum Systems with Discrete Spectrum George Levin, Wesley Jones, Kamil Walczak, Kirk Yerkes Preview Abstract

Session V37: Topological Insulators: Magnetoelectric Effect, Control, and Dynamics

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Liang Fu, Harvard University
Room: 108

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V37.00001: A thermodynamic measure of the Magento-electric coupling in the 3D topological insulator Doron Bergman, Gil Refael Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V37.00002: Magnetoelectric response of a topological surface under the conditions of an imperfect quantum Hall effect Allan MacDonald, Dmytro Pesin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V37.00003: Magnetoelectric effect in topological insulator/magnetic layer nanostructure Yuriy Semenov, Ki Wook Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V37.00004: Magnetoelectric and thermoelectric transport in graphene and helical metal: Effect of applied electric field Sung-Po Chao, Huazhou Wei, Vivek Aji Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V37.00005: Noninvasive Probe of Charge Fractionalization in Quantum Spin-Hall Insulators Ion Garate, Karyn Le Hur Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V37.00006: Topological charge pumping effect by the magnetization dynamics on the Surface of Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators Hiroaki Ueda, Akihito Takeuchi, Gen Tatara, Takehito Yokoyama Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V37.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V37.00008: Electric tuning of topological insulator states and their surface scattering Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, Gerhard Klimeck Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V37.00009: Electrical control of the Kondo effect in a helical edge liquid Erik Eriksson, Anders Str\"{o}m, Girish Sharma, Henrik Johannesson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V37.00010: Nonlinear spectroscopy of non-Abelian Berry curvature Fan Yang, Ren-Bao Liu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V37.00011: The Shockley-model description of the edge states in topological insulators Victor Yakovenko, Sergey Pershoguba Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V37.00012: Thermoelectric efficiency of holey topological insulators Artem Abanov, Oleg Tretiakov, Jairo Sinova Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V37.00013: Spin-charge Dynamics On Surface States of Topological Insulators and 2DEG Xin Liu, Jairo Sinova Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V37.00014: Ultrastrong coupling cavity QED of the magnetic cyclotron transition in a 2D electron gas: massive versus Dirac fermions David Hagenm\"{u}ller, Simone De Liberato, Cristiano Ciuti Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V37.00015: Topological Floquet Spectrum in Three Dimensions via a Two-Photon Resonance Netanel Lindner, Doron Bergman, Gil Refael, Victor Galitski Preview Abstract

Session V40: Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Proteins

Sponsoring Units: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP
Chair: Everett Lipman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Room: 156A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V40.00001: From single molecule to single tubules Invited Speaker: Chin-Lin Guo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V40.00002: Studying spatial gradients of signaling proteins in mitotic spindles with time-integrated multipoint moment analysis Doogie Oh, Daniel Needleman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V40.00003: New chemical kinetics for description of chemical noise in small, heterogeneous biological systems: Beyond the paradigm of the rate constant concept Jaeyoung Sung Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V40.00004: Generalized Michaelis-Menten equation for conformation-modulated monomeric enzyme catalysis Jianlan Wu, Jianshu Cao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V40.00005: Conformational-Modulated Enzyme Catalysis: Generalized Michaelis-Menten Equation and Single Molecule Measurements Invited Speaker: Jianshu Cao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V40.00006: Probing short-lived protein ligand interactions with single-molecule force spectroscopy Ozgur Sahin, Mingdong Dong Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V40.00007: Using Surface Curvature to Control the Dimerization of a Surface-Active Protein Martin Kurylowicz, Maximiliano Giuliani, John Dutcher Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V40.00008: Ligand Binding Stability and Site Specific Chemical Potentials in the Anisotropic Network Model Rahmi Ozisik, Osman Burak Okan, Aravind Rammohan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V40.00009: Watching Single Enzymes and Fluorescent Proteins in Action in Solution Using a Microfluidic Trap Invited Speaker: Randall Goldsmith Preview Abstract

Session V41: Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I: Dynamics and Function

Sponsoring Units: DBIO DPOLY
Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University
Room: 156B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V41.00001: Two tyrosyl radicals stabilize high oxidation states in cytochrome c oxidase for efficient energy conservation and proton translocation Invited Speaker: Denis Rousseau Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V41.00002: Structural and electronic properties of copper-containing nitrite reductase (CuNiR): elucidating the mechanism of nitrite reduction at the T$_2$Cu center Yan Li, Miroslav Hodak, Jerry Bernholc Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V41.00003: Nanometer Scale Distance Measurements for Biological Systems using Gd$^{3+}$-based Spin Probes at High Magnetic Fields Devin Edwards, Daniella Goldfarb, Songi Han, Mark Sherwin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V41.00004: Metal-like transport in proteins: A new paradigm for biological electron transfer Nikhil Malvankar, Madeline Vargas, Mark Tuominen, Derek Lovley Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V41.00005: Behind the Scene Role of Conserved Threonine in Intein Splicing Albert Dearden, Brian Callahan, Marlene Belfort, Saroj Nayak Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V41.00006: Coherent Oscillations in Hemoglobin and Myoglobin Ligand Complexes and their Dynamical Connection to Global Protein Motion and Gas Discrimination Jacob Jantzi, Kristina Woods Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V41.00007: Vibrational Dynamics of Ferric MbCN-A Revisit by Resonance Raman and Vibrational Coherence Spectroscopy Weiqiao Zeng, Yuhan Sun, Abdelkrim Benabbas, Paul M. Champion Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V41.00008: Effect of DNA binding on geminate CO recombination kinetics in CooA Abdelkrim Benabbas, Venugopal Karunakaran, Hwan Youn, Thomas Poulos, Paul Champion Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V41.00009: Physical control of carrier-mediated ion-transporters by entrainment of their turnover rate Wei Chen, Clausell Mathis, Zhihui Fang, Jason Mast, Karim Hamidi, Patrick Kelly, Max Eve Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V41.00010: Molecular dynamics simulation studies of dielectric response and vibrational energy relaxation in photoactive yellow protein and green fluorescent protein Yao Xu, Ramachandran Gnanasekaran, David Leitner Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V41.00011: Employing Solution X-Ray Scattering to Investigate Conformational Changes of Proteins Mustafa Tekpinar, Wenjun Zheng Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V41.00012: Near-Field Orientation Sensitive Terahertz Micro-Spectroscopy of Single Crystals Gheorghe Acbas, Rohit Singh, Edward Snell, Andrea Markelz Preview Abstract

Session V42: Focus Session: Systems Biology - Stochastic Gene Expression

Sponsoring Units: DBIO
Chair: Stephen Hagen, University of Florida, Physics Dept
Room: 156C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V42.00001: Mapping the environmental fitness landscape: Lessons from a noisy synthetic gene circuit Invited Speaker: Gabor Balazsi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V42.00002: Stochastic description of birth and death processes governed by a mixture of exponential and non-exponential waiting times Stephan Eule Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V42.00003: Mechanistic basis for transcriptional bursting of ribosomal genes in E. coli Sandeep Choubey, Alvaro Sanchez, Jane Kondev Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V42.00004: Decreasing the stochasticity of mammalian gene expression by a synthetic gene circuit Dmitry Nevozhay, Tomasz Zal, Gabor Balazsi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V42.00005: Applications of queueing theory to stochastic models of gene expression Invited Speaker: Rahul Kulkarni Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V42.00006: Cross-talk and interference can enhance information capacity of a signaling pathway Sahand Hormoz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V42.00007: Exact results for integral thresholds in models of stochastic oscillatory gene expression Srividya Iyer Biswas, Norbert Scherer, Aaron Dinner Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V42.00008: Fitness Effects of Network Non-Linearity Induced by Gene Expression Noise Christian Ray, Tim Cooper, Gabor Balazsi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V42.00009: Stochastic Gene Expression in Networks of Post-transcriptional Regulators Charles Baker, Tao Jia, Hodjat Pendar, Rahul Kulkarni Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V42.00010: Accurate analytical distributions for stochastic gene expression Hodjat Pendar, Rahul Kulkarni Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V42.00011: Stochastic Hopf bifurcation in transcription networks with delayed feedback John Wentworth, Mathieu Gaudreault, Jorge Vinals Preview Abstract

Session V43: Invited Session: Entrepreneurship - The Quest for Start-Up Success Based on Research Advances

Sponsoring Units: FEd FGSA
Chair: John M. Newsam, Windhover Ventures LLC
Room: 157AB

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V43.00001: Start-ups for Dummies Invited Speaker: Lawrence Bock Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V43.00002: Pushing a physics discovery towards commercial impact Invited Speaker: Eric Mazur Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V43.00003: How a Venture Capitalist Approaches an Investment Decision Invited Speaker: Daniel Colbert Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V43.00004: Having your cake and eating it too; effective engagement in start-ups from an academic seat Invited Speaker: Chad Mirkin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V43.00005: An entrepreneurial physics method and its experimental test Invited Speaker: Robert Brown Preview Abstract

Session V44: Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Surface Interactions

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Dilip Gersappe, SUNY Stony Brook
Room: 157C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V44.00001: The synthesis of metal nanoparticulate catalysts within functional microgel particles Maria Kaliva, Eleni Pavlopoulou, Konstantinos Christodoulakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Spiros H. Anastasiadis Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V44.00002: The role of nanoparticle synergies in modifying the thermal properties of biodegradable polymer blends Kai Yang, Shan He, Rachel Davis, Miriam Rafailovich, Takashi Kashiwagi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V44.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V44.00004: Supramolecular Assembly in a Polymer Nanocomposite Rick Beyer, Aaron Jackson, Samuel Price, Christopher Gold, Andrew Duncan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V44.00005: Stabilizing nanotube films with thin polymer layers: Mitigating van der Waals forces through excluded-volume interactions Matthew R. Semler, John M. Harris, Erik K. Hobbie Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V44.00006: SANS Studies of DNA-Templated Silver Nanoclusters Hongyu Guo, Sunil Sinha, Jaswinder Sharma, Jennifer Martinez, Andrew Shreve Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V44.00007: Theory of the Structure and Miscibility of Soft Filler Polymer Nanocomposites Jian Yang, Kenneth Schweizer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V44.00008: Self-assembly of Nano-rods in Photosensitive Phase Separation Ya Liu, Olga Kuksenok, Egor Maresov, Anna Balazs Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V44.00009: Dynamic mechanical properties of hydroxyapatite/polyethylene oxide nanocomposites: characterizing isotropic and post-processing microstructures Meisha Shofner, Ji Hoon Lee Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V44.00010: Thermodynamic Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites towards Controlled Nanoparticle Dispersion Alisyn Nedoma, Rajeev Dattani, Joao Cabral Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V44.00011: Effect of competing monomer-monomer and monomer-particle interactions on the assembly of copolymer grafted nanoparticles Tyler Martin, Arthi Jayaraman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V44.00012: Dielectric Breakdown in Filled Silicone Elastomers at the Particle/Matrix Interface Roger Diebold, Michael Gordon, David Clarke Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V44.00013: The Development of Filler Structure in Colloidal Silica -- Polymer Nanocomposites Invited Speaker: Jeffrey Meth Preview Abstract

Session V45: Soft Matter Physics of Heterogeneous Membranes - Experiments

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY DBIO
Chair: Gary Grest, Sandia National Laboratories
Room: 159

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V45.00001: Structure and mechanics of biological fiber-laden membranes Yogesh Kumar Murugesan, Alejandro Rey, Damiano Pasini Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V45.00002: From a single molecule to a membrane of structured ionic polymers: A molecular dynamic simulation study Dipak Aryal, Dvora Perahia, Gary S. Grest Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V45.00003: Investigation of the elastic properties of a lipid bilayer by fluorescence interferometry Dong Gui, Hsiang-ku Lin, Ehsan Noruzifar, Leonid Pryadko, Roya Zandi, Umar Mohideen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V45.00004: Regulating the Size and Stabilization of Lipid Raft-Like Domains and Using Calcium Ions as Their Probe Uri Raviv, Or Szekely Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V45.00005: Floret-shaped solid domains on giant fluid lipid vesicles induced by pH Stavroula Sofou, Amey Bandekar Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V45.00006: The influence of membrane stress on phase separation and domain shape in phospholipid vesicles Dong Chen, Maria Santore Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V45.00007: Membrane fluctuations alter the fluidity of clathrin protein lattices Andrew Spakowitz, Nicholas Cordella, Shafigh Mehraeen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V45.00008: The structure of unsupported, self-assembled phospholipid bilayers on an artificially nano-patterned surface Gregory Smith, Seung-Yong Jung, James Browning, Jong Keum, Nickolay Lavrik, Pat Collier Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V45.00009: Peptide-induced Asymmetric Distribution of Charged Lipids in a Vesicle Bilayer Revealed by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering William Heller, Shuo Qian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V45.00010: Cooperative assembly in targeted drug delivery Debra Auguste Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V45.00011: Polymer-Protein interaction at air/liquid interfaces: X-ray reflectivity and surface spectroscopy studies Wenjie Wang, Nathaniel Anderson, Sanjeeva Murthy, David Vaknin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V45.00012: Microporous device for local electric recordings on lipid bilayers Theresa Kaufeld, Christopher Battle, Conrad Weichbrodt, Claudia Steinem, Christoph Schmidt Preview Abstract

Session V46: Invited Session: Active Matter and Dynamical Systems

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY DBIO
Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Room: 160AB

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V46.00001: From filamentous bundles to active random flows Invited Speaker: Zvonimir Dogic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V46.00002: Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From Laser Ablation to Microtubule Invited Speaker: Daniel Needleman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V46.00003: Synchronization of eukaryotic flagella {\it in vivo}: from two to thousands Invited Speaker: Raymond E. Goldstein Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V46.00004: Dynamic Patterns in Active Fluids Invited Speaker: Frank J\"ulicher Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 11:00AM		V46.00005: Order and instabilities in dense bacterial colonies Invited Speaker: Lev Tsimring Preview Abstract

Session V47: Focus Session: Heterogeneous Colloids II

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: David Pine, New York University
Room: 160C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V47.00001: Self Assembly of Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Approximants Christopher Iacovella, Aaron Keys, Sharon Glotzer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V47.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V47.00003: Self-assembly of anisotropic colloidal particles under confinement Carlos Avendano Jimenez, Fernando Escobedo Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 9:12AM		V47.00004: Towards Structural Complexity with Colloids Invited Speaker: Michael Engel Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V47.00005: Novel Non-Close-Packed Structures Assembled by Spherical Colloids with Anisotropic Interactions under Electric Field Fuduo Ma, Ning Wu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V47.00006: Self-assembly of polydisperse nanoparticles into monodisperse supraparticles: a computer simulation study Trung D. Nguyen, Yunsheng Xia, Byeongdu Lee, Ming Yang, Aaron Santos, Paul Podsiadlo, Zhiyong Tang, Sharon C. Glotzer, Nicholas A. Kotov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V47.00007: Particle dynamics in colloidal glasses with short-range attraction Piotr Habdas, Ke Chen, Martin Iwanicki, Daniel Flynn, John Michael Devany, Lisa Mariani, Arjun G. Yodh Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:24AM		V47.00008: Self-assembly of colloidal surfactants Invited Speaker: Willem Kegel Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V47.00009: The Structure of Dipolar Colloidal Gels in the Dilute Regime Veronica I. Marconi, Marcelo A. Carignano Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V47.00010: Two-Dimensional Crystals of Icosahedral Viruses at Liquid interfaces Masafumi Fukuto, Lin Yang, Antonio Checco, Ivan Kuzmenko, Quyen Nguyen, Nick Mank, Qian Wang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V47.00011: Active colloids at liquid-liquid interfaces: dynamic self-assembly and functionality Alexey Snezhko, Igor Aranson Preview Abstract

Session V48: Focus Session: Advanced Optical Probes of Soft Matter - Forces, Imaging, Excitons

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY DBIO
Chair: Maria Kilfoil, University of Massachusetts
Room: 161

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V48.00001: TBD Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V48.00002: Brownian vortex circulation due to spin orbit conversion in a circularly polarized optical tweezer David Ruffner, David G. Grier Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V48.00003: Pulling Particles Backward Using a Forward Propagating Beam Jack Ng, Jun Chen, Zhifang Lin, Che Ting Chan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V48.00004: Lateral optical binding forces between two colloidal Mie particles Ming-Tzo Wei, Jack Ng, C.T. Chan, H. Daniel Ou-Yang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V48.00005: Super-Resolution Imaging Using Randomly Diffusing Probes Anna Labno, Hu Cang, Christopher Gladden, Xiang Zhang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V48.00006: Three-dimensional thermal noise images of single biopolymer filaments allows to determine their orientation and quantify their mechanical properties Martin Kochanczyk, Tobias Bartsch, Pinyu Thrasher, Ernst-Ludwig Florin Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V48.00007: Microscopy method for the characterization of structural color on a single wing scale of Morpho butterfly Beom-Jin Yoon, Matija Crne, Jung Ok Park, Mohan Srinivasarao Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V48.00008: High Fidelity Detection of Defects in Polymer Films using Surface-Modified Nanoparticles Chaitanya Pratiwada, Sindhuja Chari, Jolanta Marszalek, Matthew Becker, Alamgir Karim Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V48.00009: A Study of the Polarizability of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in an Optical Field Jingyu Wang, H. Daniel Ou-Yang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V48.00010: Dynamics of Aerial Tower Formation in Bacillus subtilis Biofilms Naveen Sinha, Agnese Seminara, James Wilking, Michael Brenner, Dave Weitz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V48.00011: The Orientation of Luminescent Excitons in Layered Organic Nanomaterials Jon Schuller, Sinan Karavelli, Keliang He, Shyuan Yang, Jie Shan, John Kymissis, Rashid Zia Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V48.00012: Accessing exciton transport in light-harvesting structures with plasmonic nanotip Semion K. Saikin, Johannes Feist, M.T. Homer Reid, Mikhail D. Lukin, Alan Aspuru-Guzik Preview Abstract

Session V49: Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Solar Cells and Light Emitting Devices

Sponsoring Units: DMP DPOLY
Chair: Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Room: 162A

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V49.00001: Frequency dependence of magnetoresistance in MEH-PPV Thaddee Kamdem Djidjou, Tho Nguyen, Z. Valy Vardeny, Andrey Rogachev Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V49.00002: Graphene-Based Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Fei Yu, Vikram Kuppa Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V49.00003: Planar Organic Photovoltaics for more Opportunities of Efficiency Enhancement and Parameters Controlling Feras G. Alzubi, Saiful I. Khondaker Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V49.00004: Low band gap polymer bulk heterojunction solar cell on a co-planar digitated electrodes structure Abrar Quadery, Feras Alzubi, Simon Tang, Andre J. Gesquiere, Saiful Khondaker Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V49.00005: Charge Accumulation and Internal Photovoltaic Processes in Organic Solar Cells Huidong Zang, Yu-Che Hsiao, Qing Liu, Ilia Ivanov, Bin Hu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V49.00006: Photocurrent noise in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells N.S. Vidhyadhiraja, Monojit Bag, K.S. Narayan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:48AM		V49.00007: Relating charge transport and performance in single-layer graded-composition organic light-emitting devices Invited Speaker: Russell Holmes Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V49.00008: Sources of high photo-current in inverted organic solar cells Abay Gadisa, Yingchi Liu, Rene Lopez, Edward Samulski Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V49.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V49.00010: Near-Infrared Photodetector Consisting of J-Aggregating Cyanine Dye and Metal Oxide Thin Films Timothy Osedach, Antonio Iacchetti, Richard Lunt, Trisha Andrew, Patrick Brown, Gleb Akselrod, Vladimir Bulovic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V49.00011: Electrical Stability Tests of Polymer Light Emitting Devices Jacob Cox, Zac Barcikowski, Marian Tzolov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V49.00012: Rational design of charge transport molecules for blue organic light emitting devices Asanga Padmaperuma, Lelia Cosimbescu, Phillip Koech, Evgueni Polikarpov, James Swensen, Daniel Gaspar Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V49.00013: Transient Capacitance of Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Nancy Haegel, Yevtte Davis, Peter Crooker, J. Devin MacKenzie, Yuka Yoshioka Preview Abstract

Session V50: Structure and Properties of Copolymers

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: 162B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V50.00001: Designing 100 K Glass Transition Breadths in Bulk Polymer Systems: Effects of Architecture in Homopolymers, Copolymers, and Copolymer Blends Stephen Marrou, Sean Wundrow, John Torkelson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V50.00002: Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Elastomeric Multiblock Terpolymers Containing Glassy, Rubbery, and Semicrystalline Blocks Feng Zuo, C. Guillermo Alfonzo, Frank Bates Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V50.00003: Energy Storage and Dissipation in Random Copolymers during Biaxial Loading Hansohl Cho, Mary Boyce Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V50.00004: X-ray scattering studies of ordered block copolymer melts during uniaxial extensional flow Wesley Burghardt, Ruinan Mao, Erica McCready Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V50.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V50.00006: Understanding the Dynamics of Magnetic Field Alignment for Rod-Coil Block Copolymers Bryan McCulloch, Giuseppe Portale, Wim Bras, Alexander Hexemer, Rachel A. Segalman Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V50.00007: In-situ SAXS observation of magnetic field effects on block copolymer ordering and alignment Chinedum Osuji, Manesh Gopinadhan, Pawel Majewksi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V50.00008: Characterizing Mesoporous Block Copolymers by Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering David Wong, Keith Beers, Cheng Wang, Jeffrey Kortright, Nitash Balsara Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V50.00009: Self-assembly Morphology and Crystallinity Control of Di-block Copolymer Inspired by Spider Silk Wenwen Huang, Sreevidhya Krishnaji, David Kaplan, Peggy Cebe Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V50.00010: The Effects of Blockiness on the Chemical Composition Distribution of Partially Functionalized Polystyrene Wayne Powers, Jan Genzer, Chang Y. Ryu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V50.00011: Large Scale Purification and Characterization of Model Poly(isopropyl methacrylate)-block-Poly(styrene) Diblock Copolymers Asem Abdulahad, Du Yeol Ryu, Chang Yeol Ryu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V50.00012: Quantifying Fluctuation Effects on the Order-Disorder Transition of Symmetric Diblock Copolymers Jing Zong, Qiang (David) Wang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V50.00013: Simulation of micelle lattice ordering via nucleation from disorder in a diblock copolymer melt Russell Spencer, Robert Wickham Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V50.00014: Order-to-order Transition in Closed-loop type Block Copolymer Hyungju Ahn, Hoyeon Lee, Sungmin Park, Du Yeol Ryu Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V50.00015: Self-assembly Behavior of Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-\textit{block}-poly(methyl methacrylate) Block Copolymers Prepared by Anionic Coupling Reaction Jin Kon Kim, Hong Chul Moon Preview Abstract

Session V52: Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Biological Systems and Structures

Sponsoring Units: GSNP DFD
Chair: Jacy Bird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: 153C

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:36AM		V52.00001: Micro-actuation through swelling and tissue engineering Invited Speaker: Nicholas Fang Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V52.00002: Plant tendrils: Nature's hygroscopic springs Sharon Gerbode, Joshua Puzey, Andrew McCormick, L. Mahadevan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V52.00003: Radial force development during root growth measured by photoelasticity Evelyne Kolb, Christian Hartmann, Patricia Genet Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V52.00004: Digging Like Plants: Flexible Intruders in Granular Materials Dawn Wendell, Katharine Luginbuhl, Diego Solano, Peko Hosoi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V52.00005: Helical Buckling of Plant Roots: Mechanics and Morphology Jesse Silverberg, Roslyn Noar, Michael Packer, Maria Harrison, Chris Henley, Itai Cohen, Sharon Gerbode Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V52.00006: Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Optimally-Packed, Twisted Filament Bundles Amir Azadi, Gregory Grason Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V52.00007: Mechanical Behavior of Bio-inspired Model Suture Joints Yaning Li, Erica Lin, Christine Ortiz, Mary Boyce Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V52.00008: Morphogenesis of protrusions from confined lipid bilayers mediated by mechanics Marino Arroyo, Margarita Staykova, Mohammad Rahimi, Howard A Stone Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V52.00009: Thin-shell model for faceting of multicomponent elastic vesicles Rastko Sknepnek, Monica Olvera de la Cruz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V52.00010: Charge Effects on Mechanical Properties of Elastomeric Proteins Ravi Kappiyoor, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Daniel Dudek, Ishwar Puri Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V52.00011: Denaturation of Circular DNA: Supercoils, overtwist and condensation Alkan Kabakcioglu, Amir Bar, David Mukamel Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V52.00012: Mechanics of short rod-like molecules in tension Prashant Purohit Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V52.00013: Turning by buckling: a cheap evolutionary strategy for turning among marine bacteria Kwangmin Son, Jeffrey Guasto, Roman Stocker Preview Abstract

Session V53: Wet and Cohesive Granular Materials

Sponsoring Units: GSNP
Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University
Room: 153B

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V53.00001: An analytical framework for aeolian saltation Meredith Reitz, Douglas Jerolmack Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V53.00002: X-Ray Fluoroscopy of Sedimentation in Elastic Fluids T.A. Brzinski, R. Karunamuni, A.D.A. Maidment, P.E. Arratia, D.J. Durian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V53.00003: Three dimensional imaging of soft sphere packings under shear Joshua Dijksman, Hu Zheng, Robert Behringer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V53.00004: Fluidization of wet granulates under hydrodynamic shear - experiments Christoph G\"ogelein, Ilenia Battiato, Matthias Schr\"oter, Stephan Herminghaus, J\"urgen Vollmer Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V53.00005: Building designed granular towers one drop at a time Julien Chopin, Arshad Kudrolli Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V53.00006: Dynamics of failure in cohesive granular packings Jennifer Rieser, Wenbin Li, Ju Li, Jerry Gollub, Douglas Durian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V53.00007: Cohesive granular aggregates under punching: theory and experiments Alexei Perelet, Tapan Sabuwala, Gustavo Gioia Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V53.00008: Discrete Particle Dynamics Simulations of Adhesive Systems with Thermostatting Flint Pierce, Jeremy Lechman, John Hewson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V53.00009: Normal Mode Spectrum of Finite Sized Granular Systems: The Effects of Fluid Viscosity at the Grain Contacts John Valenza, David Johnson Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V53.00010: Influence of liquid bridges on the macroscopic properties of granular assemblies Geoffroy Lumay, Jorge Fiscina, Francois Ludewig, Nicolas Vandewalle Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V53.00011: Wetting and packing effects on evaporation out of a porous medium Cesare Mikhail Cejas, Bertrand Selva, Raphael Beaufret, Larry Hough, Christian Fretigny, Remi Dreyfus Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V53.00012: A coupled deformation-diffusion theory for fluid-saturated porous solids David Henann, Ken Kamrin, Lallit Anand Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V53.00013: Water Retention of Sandy Soil with Hydrogel Particle Additives under Steady Rain Yuli Wei, Douglas Durian Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V53.00014: Period tripling causes rotating spirals in agitated wet granular matter Kai Huang, Ingo Rehberg Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V53.00015: The melting of an ice blok assembly Stephane Dorbolo, Nicolas Vandewalle, Claude Laroche Preview Abstract

Session V54: Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects Including Vortex Related Phenomena (Theory)

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: 152

Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		V54.00001: Vortex Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Superconductors: Excitations of Domain Walls and Enhanced Viscosity Shizeng Lin, Lev Bulaevskii, Cristian Batista Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		V54.00002: The effect of impurities on the Superheating field of Type II superconductors Fareh Pei-Jen Lin, Alexander Gurevich Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		V54.00003: Gap structure probed by field-angle resolved thermal oscillations in CeCoIn5 superconductor Matthias J. Graf, Tanmoy Das, Anton B. Vorontsov, Ilya Vekhter Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		V54.00004: Pnictide Half-Dirac Nodal Quasiparticle Scaling Properties in Vortex State Imam Makhfudz Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		V54.00005: Vortex-assisted photon counts and their magnetic field dependence in superconducting nano-wire single-photon detectors Lev Bulaevskii, Matthias Graf, Shizeng Lin, Vladimir Kogan Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		V54.00006: Type-1.5 superconductivity: effects of interband interactions and Semi-Meissner State Egor Babaev, Johan Carlstrom, Julien Garaud Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		V54.00007: Length scales, collective modes, and type-1.5 regimes in three-band superconductors Johan Carlstrom, Julien Garaud, Egor Babaev Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		V54.00008: Molecular Dynamics of Type-1.5 Superconductors Qingze Wang, Christopher Varney, Hans Fangohr, Egor Babaev Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		V54.00009: Stabilization of a vortex-antivortex lattice created by a magnetic-field pulse V.N. Gladilin, J. Tempere, J.T. Devreese, V.V. Moshchalkov Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		V54.00010: Topological solitons in three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry Julien Garaud, Johan Carlstrom, Egor Babaev Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		V54.00011: Vortex dynamics in Superconducting Corbino Disks: Molucular Dynamics and Heat Transport Simulations Masaru Kato, David Fujibayashi Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		V54.00012: $\Phi_{0}$ as a smallest unit of the intermediate state of a type-I superconductor: Revelation through nonlinear dynamics Golibjon Berdiyorov, Alexander Hernandez-Nieves, Francois Peeters, Daniel Dominguez, Milorad Milosevic Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		V54.00013: Nucleation and development of dendritic flux avalanches in superconducting films J{\O}rn Inge Vestg{\aa}rden, Daniil Shantsev, Yuri Galperin, Tom Henning Johansen Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		V54.00014: Josephson and pancake vortices in Bi-2212 with anti-dots array Kazuto Hirata, Shuuichi Ooi, Takashi Mochiku Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM		V54.00015: Effect of pinning force on critical current using molecular dynamic simulation Abdalla Obeidat, Hadeel Abu Lahim Preview Abstract