Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 29 MAY 2002

10:15 B1.001 Attosecond pulses: generation, measurement and the role of the carrier/envelope phase

Georg A. Reider (Institut fuer Photonik, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria)

10:51 B1.002 Femtosecond lasers: the clockwork of optical timepieces

Scott Diddams (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:27 B1.003 Single-Cycle Optical Pulses Synchronized with Molecular Oscillations

Alexei V. Sokolov (Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University)

12:03 B1.004 Compressing light pulses with coherently spinning molecules

Henry Kapteyn (JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

10:15 B2.001 Absolute Measurement of Atom Number in a Magneto-Optical Trap

Ite A. Yu (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, R. O. C.), Ying-Cheng Chen, Yen-An Liao

10:27 B2.002 Storage Ring for Neutral Atoms

Jacob Sauer, Murray Barrett, Michael Chapman (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Amo group at Georgia Tech Team

10:39 B2.003 A continuous source of magnetically guided dark state atoms

Wilbert Rooijakkers, Richard Conroy, Mukund Vengalattore, Mara Prentiss (Harvard University, Physics Dept, Lyman Laboratory)

10:51 B2.004 Prospects for Atom Interferometry using Bose-Einstein Condensates

C. A. Sackett, O. Garcia, J. M. Reeves (University of Virginia)

11:03 B2.005 Observation of coherent backscattering of light in ultracold ^85Rb

P. Kulatunga, C.I. Sukenik, M.D. Havey (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia), D.V. Kupriyanov, I.M. Sokolov (St. Petersburg State Technical University)

11:15 B2.006 High Densities of Rb-87 atoms in a Holographic Atom Trap

R. Newell, J. Sebby, T. G. Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:27 B2.007 Tunneling Resonances and Coherence in a Gray Optical Lattice

B. K. Teo, J. R. Guest, G. Raithel (FOCUS Center and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Michigan)

11:39 B2.008 Ultrasensitive Detection of Radioactive Cesium Isotopes Using a Magneto-Optical Trap

Michael D. Di Rosa (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), Scott G. Crane (United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave, Washington DC 20392-5420), Jason J. Kitten, Wayne A. Taylor, David J. Vieira, Xinxin Zhao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

11:51 B2.009 Cold Rydberg Atom Gases and Plasmas in Strong Magnetic Fields

Jeffrey R. Guest, Michael T. Gastner, Georg Raithel (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

12:03 B2.010 Trapping and Control of Ultracold Atoms Near A Surface

Mukund Vengalattore, Wilbert Rooijakkers, Richard Conroy, Mara Prentiss (Harvard)

12:15 B2.011 Continuous Measurement of the Mean Magnetic Moment of a Cold Atomic Vapor

Greg Smith, Souma Chaudhury, Poul S. Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721)

12:27 B2.012 Thermodynamics of Two-Level Atoms in a Magneto-Optical Trap

Thomas Loftus, Xinye Xu, John Hall, Alan Gallagher, Jun Ye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0440)

10:15 B3.001 Free-space Quantum Key Distribution over 10 km in Daylight and at Night

Richard Hughes, Jane Nordholt, Charles Peterson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:27 B3.002 Laser Polarized Xenon as Nuclear Spin Qubits

Timothy Chupp, Kevin Coulter, S. Burcin Bayram, Scott Swanson, Eric Zuiderweg (University of Michigan)

10:39 B3.003 Quantum gates in trapped cadmium ions

Patricia Lee, Boris Blinov, Kathy-Anne Brickman, Louis Deslauriers, Martin Madsen, Russell Miller, Christopher Monroe (FOCUS Center, University of Michigan)

10:51 B3.004 Demonstration of a simplified controlled-NOT quantum logic gate

B. DeMarco, A. Ben-Kish, D. Leibfried, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, B.M. Jelenkovi\'c, W.M. Itano, J. Britton, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, D.J. Wineland (NIST, Boulder, Time and Frequency Division)

11:03 B3.005 Phase-difference squeezing and entanglement from a stable type-II optical parametric oscillator

Sheng Feng, Olivier Pfister (University of Virginia Physics Department)

11:15 B3.006 Demonstration of non-deterministic quantum logic operations using linear optical elements

Bryan Jacobs, Todd Pittman, James Franson (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

11:27 B3.007 Entanglement and distillation in quantum optical systems

Ignacio Cirac, Geza Giedke, Barbara Kraus (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching), Maciej Lewenstein (Universität Hannover)

11:39 B3.008 Entanglement of Formation of 2-mode Gaussian States

Kiran K. Manne, Pranaw Rungta, Carlton M. Caves (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131)

11:51 B3.009 Lorentz Invariance of Entanglement

Paul M. Alsing (Albuquerque High Performance Computer Center, University of New Mexico), Gerard Milburn (Centre for Quanutm Computer Technology, University of Queensland, Australia)

12:03 B3.010 Quantum teleportation with close-to-maximal entanglement from a beam splitter

Olivier Pfister, Ngoc-Khanh Tran (University of Virginia Physics Department)

12:15 B3.011 Diagnosing maximally entangled mixed states

Tzu-Chieh Wei, Paul M. Goldbart, Paul G. Kwiat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:27 B3.012 Anisotropy and Magnetic Field Effects on the Entanglement of a Two Qubit Heisenberg XY Chain

Gerard Lagmago Kamta, Anthony F. Starace (Dept. of Physics, The University of Nebraska, 116 Brace Laboratory, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111)

12:39 B3.013 Quantum Time Entanglement of Electrons

J.H. McGuire, A.L. Godunov (Tulane University)

10:15 B4.001 Two-Color Photoassociation Spectroscopy of the Triplet Ground State of Na2

L. de Araujo, S. Gensemer, J. Weinstein, F. Fatemi, K. Jones, P. Lett, E. Tiesinga (Atomic Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., MS 8424, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8424)

10:27 B4.002 Synchrotron Storage Ring for Neutral Polar Molecules

Harvey Gould (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Hiroshi Nishimura, Glen Lambertson, Juris Kalnins

10:39 B4.003 A New Measurement of the Dissociation Energy of Molecular Hydrogen

Y. Zhang, H. Kim, E.E. Eyler (Physics Department, University of Connecticut.)

10:51 B4.004 Theoretical studies of vibrational energies and force constants of diatomic electronic states using algebraic approach and variational method

Weiguo Sun (Institute of Physics and College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065 P. R. China), Shilin Hou (Institute of Physics and College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065 P, R, China)

11:03 B4.005 H2+ ion in a strong magnetic field: variational study

Alexander Turbiner (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, National University of Mexico)

11:15 B4.006 White-Light-Induced Fragmentation of Toluene

Astrid M. Müller (JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO 80309-0440), Bernd Witzel (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany), Cornelis J. Uiterwaal (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111), Jochen Wanner, Karl-Ludwig Kompa (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

11:27 B4.007 Observation of fluorescence from Ba+ ions in liquid xenon for laser tagging of double beta decay 136Ba+ daughters and neutrino mass determination

Shie-Chang Jeng, Jr. Fairbank (Department of Physics, Colorado State University), Mitsuhiro Miyajima (Department of Applied Physics, Fukui University, Japan)

11:39 B4.008 Two-photon spectroscopy of low-lying states of lithium

William DeGraffenreid, Craig Sansonetti (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:51 B4.009 Determination of the Fine Structure Constant from Helium Spectroscopy

Krzysztof Pachucki (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University), Jonathan Sapirstein (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

12:03 B4.010 DFT Studies of the Structure of Fe+Rn (R= Ar, Xe; n = 1 ? 6) Clusters

Nayana Vaval (Department of Physics,North Carolina Aamp;T State University), Solomon Bililign (Department of Physics, North Carolina Aamp;T State University)

12:15 B4.011 Application of extended wavelength range OPOs in cluster ion spectroscopy

Mark Johnson (Yale University)

12:27 B4.012 Antihydrogen formation cross section and differential cross section in antiproton -positronium reaction

chi yu Hu, valdimir Melezhik (California State University at Long Beach)

10:15 B5.001 Dissociative recombination of H3+: Jahn-Teller coupling and the competition between autoionization and dissociation

Viatcheslav Kokoouline (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440)

10:51 B5.002 Perturbation Study of the Bose-Einstein Condensate: a Dimensional Treatment

Deborah Watson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma)

11:27 B5.003 Breaking molecules make lots of noise

Amichay Vardi (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

12:03 B5.004 Advances in Quantum Information/Quantum Computation

Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck)