Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 1 JUNE 2002

09:00 R1.001 A Boson/Fermion Mixture of Lithium Atoms

Randall Hulet (Rice University)

09:36 R1.002 Formation of a Hydrogen Condensate and Discussion of the Factor of 2 Problem

Stephen Moss (MIT)

10:12 R1.003 Interacting Rubidium and Potassium Bose-Einstein Condensates

Giovanni Modugno (European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy)

10:48 R1.004 Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate

David Feder (NIST and the University of Maryland, College Park)

09:00 R2.001 The Kapitza-Dirac effect

Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

09:36 R2.002 The Quest for Fermi Superfluidity: Implications of an All-Optical Degenerate Fermi Gas

J. E. Thomas (Duke University Physics Department)

10:12 R2.003 All-optical Bose-Einstein Condensation

Michael Chapman (Georgia Institute of Technology)

10:48 R2.004 K-Shell Photodetachment of Negative Ions

Nora Berrah (Western Michigan University)

09:00 R3.001 Measuring the Photon Recoil Frequency using Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates

Gupta Gupta, Dieckmann Dieckmann, Hadzibabic Hadzibabic, Ketterle Ketterle, Pritchard Pritchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:12 R3.002 Using optical masks to create and image sub-optical wavelength atomic structures in a MOT

Andrey Turlapov, Aleksey Tonyushkin, Tycho Sleator (New York University)

09:24 R3.003 Momentum transfer using chirped standing waves: Bragg scattering

Vladimir Malinovsky, Paul Berman (Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and FOCUS Center, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

09:36 R3.004 Sub-lambda Atom Gratings via Raman Transitions

Paul Berman (Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, FOCUS Center, and Physics Department, University of Michigan), Boris Dubetsky (Physics Department, University of Michigan)

09:48 R3.005 Demonstration of interferometry with nonlinear beam-splitters

D. Leibfried, A. Ben-Kish, B. DeMarco, M. Rowe, V. Meyer, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, B. Jelencovi\'c, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, D. J. Wineland (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305)

10:00 R3.006 Nonlinear interferometer as a resource for maximally entangled photonic states for Heisenberg-limited interferometry

Christopher Gerry, Adil Benmoussa (Lehman College, CUNY), Richard Campos

10:12 R3.007 Role of Atomic Velocity on Degenerate Phase-Conjugate Four-Wave Mixing

D.S. Elliott, Binh Do (Purdue University)

10:24 R3.008 Supercontinuum Generation In A Microstructure Fiber

Jennifer Tate, Douglass Schumacher (The Ohio State University)

10:36 R3.009 Instability limits to "fast light" pulse propagation

Daniel Gauthier, Michael Stenner (Duke University, Department of Physics, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708)

10:48 R3.010 Detection of Photons from an Inhibited Spontaneous Emitter

David Branning, Paul Kwiat (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801), Alan Migdall (Optical Technology Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441)

11:00 R3.011 Delay-dependent amplification of a probe pulse via stimulated Rayleigh scattering

M. V. Fedorov (General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), S. V. Popruzhenko (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), D. F. Zaretsky (Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia), W. Becker (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

11:12 R3.012 TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTON MODEL

Aliaksandr Khodin (Institute of Electronics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus)

09:00 R4.001 ^129Xe-Rb spin-exchange cross section measurement at high magnetic field

Yuan-Yu Jau, N. N. Kuzma, D. K. Walter, W. M. Griffith, W. Happer (Princeton University)

09:12 R4.002 Reactive scattering in the ultracold regime

I. Simbotin, R. Côté (Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269), N. Balakrishnan (Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154), A. Dalgarno (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138)

09:24 R4.003 Determination of Scattering Lengths in Low Temperature Heteronuclear Collisions

S.B. Weiss, N.P. Bigelow (University of Rochester)

09:36 R4.004 Open quantum system approach for hydrogenic ions subject to multiple collisions and the interaction with the radiation field.

Tatsuya Minami, Carlos Reinhold, Joachim Burgdorfer (University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Vienna University of Technology)

09:48 R4.005 Secondary emission induced by low-energy negative ion bombardment of a surface: Role of an adsorbate

Wendy Vogan, Roy Champion (College of William and Mary Physics Department)

10:00 R4.006 Proton Transfer Rate Coefficient Measurements of Selected Volatile Organic Molecules

G. Brooke, S. Popovi\'c, L. Vu\vskovi\'c (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)

10:12 R4.007 Nuclear and Electronic Energy Loss of 1-60 keV Ions in Silicon

Herbert Funsten, Ronnie Harper, Steve Ritzau, Joe Borovsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM), Raj Korde (International Radiation Detectors, Torrance, CA)

10:24 R4.008 Interference in Electron Emission from H_2 by 3 MeV H^+

S. HOSSAIN, A. S. Al-NASER, A. L. LANDERS, D. J. POLE, O. ABU-HAIJA, J. A. TANIS (Western Michigan University), H. KNUTSON (Johns Hopkins University), A. ROBISON, B. Stamper (Kalamazoo Math Sci. Center), N. STOLTERFOHT (Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin)

10:36 R4.009 Alignment effects in electron capture from D_2^+ molecular ions by doubly charged projectiles

I. Reiser (JR MacDonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA), H. Bräuning (Institut für Kernphysik, Strahlenzentrum, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany), C. L. Cocke (JR MacDonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA)

10:48 R4.010 Dissociative and Non-Dissociative Electron Capture in He^2+ - O_2 Collisions.

O. Abu-Haija, E.Y. Kamber, A.S. Alnaser, S.M. Ferguson (Dept. of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008)

11:00 R4.011 Collision-Induced Absorption Spectra of H_2 in the First Overtone Region at 77, 201 and 295 K*

P. G. Gillard, E. van Nostrand, C. Stamp, S. Paddi Reddy (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

11:12 R4.012 Energy Transfer in Li(3p) + Ar, H2, and CH4 Collisions: A comparative Study

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

09:00 R5.001 Electron Emission Rates and Target Current for a Cooled LiNbO-3 Crystal vs. Time, Temperature and Pressure

S.M. Shafroth, Sarah Bedair, Hugon Karwowski (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255), J.D. Brownridge (State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6016)

09:12 R5.002 Energetic (>100 keV) Electron and Positive-ion Beams Produced by Heated or Cooled LiNbO3 Crystals in Dilute Gases: Dependence of Beam-Energy on Pressure

James Brownridge, Sol Raboy (State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6016), Stephen Shafroth, Thomas Clegg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255)

09:24 R5.003 100 Picosecond Timing Resolution Detection of Annihilation Photons

Victor Irby (Department of Physics, University of South Alabama)

09:36 R5.004 Swept Standing Wave Detection of Microscopic Particles.

G. W. Sherman, C. C. Bradley (Texas Christian University)

09:48 R5.005 A 1 Watt Injection-Seeded Ti:sapphire Laser

E. A. Cummings, M. S. Hicken, S. D. Bergeson (Brigham Young University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Provo, UT 84602-4640)

10:00 R5.006 Pulsed Laser Ablation and Deposition with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Free Electron Laser

Anne Reilly, Chris Allmond (Physics Department, College of William and Mary), Michelle Shinn (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)