Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 31 MAY 2002

P6.001 Fundamental Symmetries and Precision Measurements

P6.002 Measurement of Isotope Shifts, Fine amp; Hyperfine Structure Splittings of Li D Lines

William van Wijngaarden, Robert Ashby, Jonathon Walls, Jason Clarke, Baolong Lu (Physics Dept., York University)

P6.003 Measurement of the 6s - 7p transition probabilities in atomic cesium and a revised value for the weak charge Q_W

A.A. Vasilyev, I.M. Savukov, M.S. Safronova, H.G. Berry (University of Notre Dame)

P6.004 Electron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment with Laser-Cooled Atoms

Harvey Gould (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jason Amini (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

P6.005 Tests of CPT and Lorentz symmetry using atomic masers

F. Cane, M. Humphrey, D. Phillips, M. Rosen, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

P6.006 Atomic Structure Measurements and Fundamental Symmetry Tests in a Thallium Atomic Beam

P.K. Majumder, S.C. Doret (Physics Dept., Williams College)

P6.007 Precision measurements of the n=2 triplet P fine structure of helium: A determination of the fine-structure constant

M. C. George, L. D. Lombardi, E. A. Hessels (York University, Toronto, Canada)

P6.008 Measurement of the Fine and Hyperfine Structure in the triplet 2S-2P transition of Helium-3.

Marc Smiciklas, David Shiner (University of North Texas)

P6.009 Helium Fine Structure and the Fine Structure Constant

G. W. F. Drake (University of Windsor)

P6.010 Fourth-order many-body perturbation theory

Andrei Derevianko, Erik D. Emmons (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557)

P6.011 Consequences of the N-Body Dirac Equation: The Classical Variables of Spin

Felix T. Smith (Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International)

P6.012 Study of Methods for Producing a Tunable UV Laser for Spectroscopy at 243nm.

Ali Khademian, David Shiner (University of North Texas)

P6.013 Applications of laser-polarized noble gas NMR

R. Mair, M. Rosen, L. Tsai, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian), D. Cory, R. Wang (MIT), D. Candela (UMass), F.W. Hersman (UNH)

P6.014 Cold Atoms and Ions

P6.015 Study of CPT in Cold Atoms and Measurement of Atom Number in a MOT

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

P6.016 A fast, deterministic source of single Cr atoms

Shannon B. Hill, Jabez J. McClelland (Electron Physics Group, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

P6.017 Progress Toward Intercombination Line Cooling in Strontium

Sarah B. Nagel, Clayton Simien, Ashok Vudayagiri, Thomas C. Killian (Rice University)

P6.018 Laser-Cooled Atomic Strontium Apparatus

Ashok Vudayaygiri, Clayton E. Simien, Sarah B. Nagel, Thomas C. Killain (Department of Physics and Astronomy Rice University Houston, TX -77005)

P6.019 Status of ^84Rb/^87Rb Quantum Degeneracy Project

Xinxin Zhao (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Eric Burt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Scott Crane, Michael Di Rosa, Jason Kitten, Roberto Onofrio, David Vieira (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

P6.020 Construction of a 3-D Optical Lattice for a Cavity QED

M. L. Terraciano, M. Lerotic, L. A. Orozco (SUNYSB)

P6.021 The speed-dependent throughput of a magnetic octupole velocity filter including nonadiabatic effects

Eric Abraham, Janis Alnis, Marcis Auzinsh, Elena Dashevskaya, Brendan Furneaux, Mark Keil, Chris McRaven, Evgueni Nikitin, Neil Shafer-Ray, Richard Waskowsky (University of Oklahoma)

P6.022 Slowing Metastable Helium (He*) Using the Bichromatic Force

M. Cashen, M. Partlow, H. Metcalf (Physics, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook NY 11794-3800 USA)

P6.023 Optical Standing Wave Trap for Cs Atoms

T. Takekoshi, R. J. Knize (Laser and Optics Research Center, U. S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840 USA)

P6.024 Coated rubidium vapor cells for stored light and atomic clocks

J. Hager, D. Phillips, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

P6.025 Stable Implementation of a DAVLL Lock

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

P6.026 Modulation-free laser frequency stabilization and detuning

C.I. Sukenik, H.C. Busch, M. Shiddiq (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)

P6.027 One- and Two-Photon Photoionization Cross Section Measurements for the Rubidium Ground State

J. R. Lowell, T. E. Northup, T. Takekoshi, B. M. Patterson, R. J. Knize (Laser and Optics Research Center, U. S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840 USA)

P6.028 Progress toward producing and confining ultracold RbAr molecules

C.I. Sukenik, H.C. Busch (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)

P6.029 Formation of Ultracold Polar Molecules

E. Taylor-Juarros, R. Côté (University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)), K. Kirby (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (Cambridge, MA))

P6.030 Development and application of a cryogenic hydrogen maser

M. Humphrey, E. Mattison, D. Phillips, R. Vessot, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

P6.031 Temperature Measurements and Shear Modes with Penning Trap Ion Crystals.

M. Jensen, J.J. Bollinger, J.M. Kriesel (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305)

P6.032 Internal Energy Distribution in Sympathetically Cooled Molecular Ions

Robert I. Thompson, Amy Fisher, Thomas Harmon, Clayton Winslade, Nasser Ahmadi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

P6.033 Interacting ion oscillators in contiguous confinement wells

Joseph N. TAN (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.)

P6.034 TRI\muP - Development of a Radioactive Isotope Trapping Facility at KVI

G. P. Berg, P. Dendooven, O. Dermois, M. N. Harakeh, R. Hoekstra, K. Jungmann, S. Kopecky, R. Morgenstern, A. Rogachevskiy, R. Timmermans, L. Willmann, H. W. Wilschut (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)

P6.035 Quantum Information

P6.036 Geometric Phase for Mixed Polarization States

Daryl Achilles, David Branning, Paul Kwiat (University of Illinois)

P6.037 Theoretical aspects of two-qubit quantum state synthesis

T. C. Wei, J. B. Altepeter, D. A. Branning, P. M. Goldbart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), D. F. V. James (Los Alamos National Laboratory), P. G. Kwiat, S. Mukhopadhyay, N. A. Peters (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

P6.038 Generation of One and Two Qubit Polarization States

Nicholas Peters, Joseph Altepeter, David Branning, Paul Goldbart, Evan Jeffrey, Paul Kwiat, Tzu-Chieh Wei (University of Illinois)

P6.039 Delayed Choice Quantum Cryptography

Evan Jeffrey, Paul Kwiat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

P6.040 Engineering single photon and single atom sources

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

P6.041 Quantum Information and Spectroscopy with Trapped Strontium Ions

Dana Berkeland, Daisy Raymondson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

P6.042 Control of trapped ion qubits using shaped optical pulses

C. Rangan, C. Monroe, P.H. Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120), A.M. Bloch (Department of Mathmatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109)

P6.043 Patterned Loading of Atoms from a Bose-Einstein Condensate into a Superlattice

S. Peil, J. V. Porto, B. Laburthe Tolra, B. King, J. M. Obrecht (National Institute of Standards and Technology), M. Subbotin (Institute of Spectroscopy RAS), S. Rolston, W. D. Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

P6.044 Spin squeezing in a resonantly driven BEC

Stewart Jenkins, Brian Kennedy (School of Physics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430)

P6.045 Coherent atom interactions mediated by dark-state polaritons

Axel Andre (Physics department, Harvard University), Lu-Ming Duan (Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology), Mikhail Lukin (Physics department, Harvard University)

P6.046 Photonic band gap in atomic ensembles

Axel Andre, Mikhail Lukin (Physics department, Harvard University)

P6.047 Coherent spin manipulation and quantum computation in double-dot molecules

J. M. Taylor, J. A. Folk, A. A. Houck, C. M. Marcus, M. D. Lukin (Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

P6.048 Mean-field theory of dipole blockade

John Calsamiglia (ITAMP and Physics Department, Harvard University,Cambridge MA 02138; Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT), Robin Côté (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT), Mikhail D. Lukin (ITAMP and Physics Department, Harvard University,Cambridge MA 02138)

P6.049 Single-photon coherent modes of free-space spontaneous emission

K. W. C. Chan (Center for Quantum Information and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627), C. K. Law (Center for Quantum Information and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shation, NT, Hong Kong), J. H. Eberly (Center for Quantum Information and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627)

P6.050 Entanglement Sharing in the Two-Atom Tavis-Cummings Model

Trace Tessier, Ivan Deutsch, Paul Alsing (Information Physics Group, University of New Mexico), Ivette Fuentes-Guridi (Optics Section, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College), Gavin Brennen (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

P6.051 High Rydberg States, Semiclassical Physics

P6.052 Transition States in Atomic Physics: Extension to Systems with more than two degrees of freedom

Charles Jaffe (Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6049), Turgay Uzer (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430)

P6.053 Semiclassical study of autoionization in laser excited double Rydberg states

W. Huang, T. J. Morgan (Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459)

P6.054 Transitions among H Stark substates induced by time-varying, weak static electric fields

A. Butz, P.M. Koch, K.D. Schultz, J. Wilson (SUNY Stony Brook)

P6.055 Transient Phase-Space Localization of Quasi-One-Dimensional Rydberg Wavepackets

C.L. Stokely, F.B. Dunning (Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University), A.K. Pattanayak (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College and Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University), D.G. Arbo (Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), C.O. Reinhold (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), J. Burgdorfer, S. Yoshida (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology)

P6.056 Long-Lived Stark States of He above the Classical Ionization Threshold

Heric Flores-Rueda, David Wright, Wen Huang, Roderick Jensen, Thomas Morgan (Wesleyan University)

P6.057 Measurement of the ray-splitting correction to the Weyl formula

C. Vaa, P.M. Koch (SUNY Stony Brook), R. Bluemel (Wesleyan Univ.)

P6.058 The Stark Ball

K.B. MacAdam (U. Kentucky), C.S. Hwang (Korean Air Force Academy)

P6.059 Even parity Rydberg states of bismuth

K. Baranowski, L. Ng, W.E. Cooke (Physics Department, College of William and Mary)

P6.060 Long-range molecular Ryberg states of Rb_2 and Cs_2.

A. A. Khuskivadze, I. I. Fabrikant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), M. I. Chibisov (Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute")

P6.061 Measuring the Temperature Evolution of Ultracold Plasmas

J. L. Roberts, M. J. Lim, S. L. Rolston (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

P6.062 Radiative cascading in cold plasmas

Flannery M. R. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Vrinceanu D. (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics)

P6.063 Microwave Spectroscopy of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms

Wenhui Li (Department of Physics, University of Virginia), Igor Mourachko (Deparment of Physics, University of Virginia), M.W. Noel (Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College), T.F. Gallagher (Deparment of Physics, University of Virginia)

P6.064 Ionization of Xenon Rydberg Atoms at a Surface

C. Oubre, Z. Zhou, P. Nordlander, F. B. Dunning (Rice University)

P6.065 Measurements of the Lifetime of Long-lived, Autodetaching Negative Ions

L. Suess, R. Parthasarathy, F.B. Dunning (Rice University)

P6.066 Producing Rydberg States of Helium Using STIRAP

O. Kritsun, B. Dietzek, H. Metcalf (Physics, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook NY 11794-3800 USA)

P6.067 Semiclassical Treatment of Complex Atoms in External Fields

Brian E. Granger (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Chris H. Greene (JILA and the Department of Physics, University of Colorado)

P6.068 Classically Scaled Quantum Calculations for Direct Comparison with Experimental Scaled Energy Spectra

J.D. Wright, F. Staehle, H. Flores-Rueda, R. Blumel, T.J. Morgan (Wesleyan University)

P6.069 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

P6.070 Molecular Transition Moments at Large Internuclear Distances

Xi Chu, Alex Dalgarno (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

P6.071 Quantum mechanical study of the F + H_2 (v=0, j=0-1) reactions in the temperature range 50-500K

Cheng Zhu, Naduvalath Balakrishnan, Alex Dalgarno (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138)

P6.072 Singlet oxygen quenching rate in pure oxygen and gas mixture

B. V. Zhdanov, D. K. Neumann, T. Henshaw, R. J. Knize, M. P. Murdough (Laser and Optics Research Center, U.~S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840 USA)

P6.073 Red-Wing Scattering Studies of Li(4p) + Ar, H2 and CH4 Collisions

Brian Hattaway (Department of Physics, North carolina Aamp;T State University), Barker Barker (Department of Physics, North Carolina Aamp;T State University), Solomon Bililign (Department of Physics)

P6.074 Investigation of He-CaH collisions at ultracold temperatures

N. Balakrishnan (Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154), A. Dalgarno (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138), G. C. Groenenboom (Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

P6.075 He(^1S) - He(^3S) collision and radiative interaction at low temperatures

D. Vrinceanu, H. R. Sadeghpour (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics)

P6.076 Dissociative ionization of spatially aligned D_2 by fast highly charged ions

A.L. Landers, A. Al-Naser, J.A. Tanis (Western Michigan University), E. Wells (University of Virginia), T. Osipov, K.D. Carnes, I. Ben-Itzhak, C.L. Cocke (Kansas State University)

P6.077 Angular-Resolved Translational Energy Spectroscopy Applied to Cold Collisions

James P. Shaffer, Chris Austin (The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma), Mohamed Razzak Meera Lebbai (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma)

P6.078 Prospects for cooling and trapping rotationally hot molecules

Robert C. Forrey (Penn State University, Berks-Lehigh Valley College)

P6.079 Slow Collisions involving He and alkali-metal atoms:Alignment and Orientation Effects

Bidhan Saha (Department of Physics, Florida Aamp;M University, Tallahassee, FL-32307.)

P6.080 Toward hot and dense monoatomic alkali vapor

Goran Pichler, Ticijana Ban, Damir Aumiler, Viktor Zivcec (Institute of physics, P.O.Box 304, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia)

P6.081 Determination of Potassium Cold Collision Parameters by an Analysis of Feshbach Resonances

Christopher Ticknor, John Bohn (JILA, Department of Physics, Univeristy of Colorado)

P6.082 Charge transfer in slow collisions between hydrogen atoms and metal surfaces

B. Bahrim (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan and Chemistry and Physics Dept., Lamar University, Beaumont, TX), U. Thumm (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan)

P6.083 Atom-surface potentials beyond the dipole image term for metastable helium atoms

J.F. Babb (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian), Zong-Chao Yan (U. New Brunswick, Canada)

P6.084 Studies of Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of Helium-3

B. Chann, Earl Babcock, L. W. Anderson, T. G. Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

P6.085 ^3He Spin Relaxation Due to Magnetized Glass

R.E. Jacob, B. Saam (University of Utah), B.C. Anger (Weber St.\ University)

P6.086 Spin relaxation of gas- and solid-phase ^129Xe

G.L. Samuelson, T. Su, B. Saam (University of Utah)

P6.087 Analytical Regge Poles Trajectories Calculation for Singular Potentials: The Lennard-Jones Potential^.

S. N. Naboko (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), Z. Felfli (Clark Atlanta University, USA), N. B. Avdonina (University of Pittsburgh, USA), A. Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta University, USA)

P6.088 BREIT-PAULI R-MATRIX CALCULATIONS FOR L-SHELL ATOMIC PROCESSES IN Fe~XVI, Fe~XVII, AND XVIII

Guo Xin Chen, Sultana Nahar, Anil Pradhan (The Ohio State University), Honglin Zhang (Los Alamos National Lab)

P6.089 Positron Scattering

P6.090 D-wave resonances in positronium hydride

Richard J. Drachman (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), Joseph Di Rienzi (College of Notre Dame of Maryland)

P6.091 Near-Threshold Positron Impact Ionization of Hydrogen and the Noble Gases

Radu Campeanu, Allan Stauffer (York University, Toronto, Canada), Ladislau Nagy ("Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

P6.092 Hyperspherical hidden crossing calculation of positron-lithium collisions

S. J. Ward (University of North Texas), J. Shertzer (College of the Holy Cross)

P6.093 High angular momentum resonances in e^+-H scattering

Z.-C. Yan (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Y. K. Ho (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)

P6.094 Near threshold measurements of positron scattering from atoms and molecules

J.P. Marler, J.P. Sullivan*, S.J. Buckman**, S.J. Gilbert, C.M. Surko (Dept. of Physics, University of California, San Diego)

P6.095 High-resolution of positron annihilation on molecules

L. D. Barnes, S. J. Gilbert, C. M. Surko (University of California, San Diego)

P6.096 Positronium Formation Cross Section Measurements for Magnesium

Eugene Surdutovich, Michael Harte, Walter Kauppila, Chin Kwan Kwan, Talbert Stein (Wayne State University)

P6.097 Positronium Formation Cross Section Measurements for Cesium

Kimberly Price, Eugene Surdutovich, Walter Kauppila, Talbert Stein (Wayne State University)

P6.098 Towards Absolute Positronium Formation Cross Section Measurements in Inert Gases*

E.G. Miller, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, K. Pipinos, T.S. Stein (Wayne State University)

P6.099 Total Cross Section Measurements for Positrons and Electrons Scattered by Lithium and Magnesium Atoms

T.S. Stein, J. Jiang, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, S.P. Parikh