Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 22 MAY 2003

10:30 G1.001 Ultra-cold collisions of metastable alkaline-earth atoms

Andrei Derevianko (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557)

11:00 G1.002 Production of ultracold polar molecules via photoassociation

David DeMille (Physics Department, Yale University)

11:30 G1.003 Electric field control of ultracold polar molecules

John Bohn (JILA, University of Colorado)

10:30 G2.001 Multiple Thresholds and Nonclassical Photon Statistics in the Cavity QED Microlaser

Christopher Fang-Yen, Chung-Chieh Yu, Abdulaziz Aljalal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sangkeun Ha (University of Wisconsin), Wonshik Choi, Kyungwon An (Seoul National University), Ramachandra Dasari, Michael Feld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:42 G2.002 Loading a high-finesse optical cavity from an optical atomic conveyor

J. A. Sauer, K. M. Fortier, M. Mukai, M. S. Chang, C. D. Hamley, M. S. Chapman (Georgia Inst. of Technology)

10:54 G2.003 Information velocity in `fast light' optical pulse propagation

Daniel J. Gauthier, Michael D. Stenner (Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, NC 27708)

11:06 G2.004 Multiphoton electromagnetically induced transparency

Lingling Wen, Hoonsoo Kang, Yifu Zhu (Florida international university), Ying Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

11:18 G2.005 Normal or anomalous dispersion and gain in a resonant coherent medium

Hoonsoo Kang, Lingling Wen, Yifu Zhu (Florida International University)

11:30 G2.006 Spatial squeezing and transverse modes in intracavity second harmonic generation

O.-K. Lim, M Saffman (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

11:42 G2.007 Gaussian quantum phase-space methods

Joel Corney, Peter Drummond (ACQAO, Physics Department, University of Queensland)

11:54 G2.008 Measurements of the “Orbital” Geometric Phase of Light.

E.J. Galvez, P.R. Crawford, H.I. Sztul, M.J. Pysher, P.J. Haglin, R.E. Williams (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University)

12:06 G2.009 Controlling Optical Bistability and Multistability with Three-Level Atoms inside an Optical Cavity

Min Xiao, Amitabh Joshi (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701)

10:30 G3.001 Stroboscopic Wave Packets

J. M. Caraher, P. H. Bucksbaum (University of Michigan, Department of Physics, FOCUS Center)

10:42 G3.002 Observation of Hopf Bifurcation in Parametrically Driven Trapped Atoms

Kihwan Kim, Heung-Ryoul Noh, Hyun-Ji Ha, Wonho Jhe (School of Physics and Center for Near-field Atom-photon Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea)

10:54 G3.003 Uniform evaluation of fidelity decay in the Fermi-golden-rule and Lyapunov regimes

Jiri Vanicek, Eric Heller (Harvard University)

11:06 G3.004 Fractal Escape Times and the Chaotic Ionization of Hydrogen in Parallel Fields

K.A. Mitchell, S.K. Knudson, J.B. Delos (College of William and Mary)

11:18 G3.005 Quantum localization in the three-dimensional kicked Rydberg atom

E. Persson, S. Yoshida, X.-M. Tong, C.O. Reinhold, J. Burgdorfer (Vienna University of Technology, Kansas State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:30 G3.006 Filtered Optical Feedback Induced Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers

Michael Carter, Gautam Vemuri (Dept. of Physics, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indianapolis), Mirvais Yousefi, Daan Lenstra (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Alexis Fischer (University of Paris XIII, Villetaneuse, France)

11:42 G3.007 A new electro-optic device for generating high-speed chaos

Daniel J. Gauthier, Jonathan N. Blakely, Lucas Illing (Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, NC 27708)

11:54 G3.008 Quantum Orbits Theory of High-Order Harmonic Generation

Dejan B. Milo\vsevi\'c (Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 35, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Wilhelm Becker (Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, 12489 Berlin, Germany)

10:30 G4.001 Investigation of Atom-Molecule Coherence in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Eleanor Hodby, Sarah Thompson, Neil Claussen, Carl Wieman (JILA, Boulder, CO)

10:42 G4.002 Coherent Molecular Effects in a Bosenova

Josh Milstein, Murray Holland (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)

10:54 G4.003 The nature of Feshbach molecules in Bose-Einstein condensates

Thorsten Koehler (University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom), Thomas Gasenzer (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany), Paul Julienne (Atomic Physics Division, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 8423, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8423), Keith Burnett (University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom)

11:06 G4.004 Soluble renormalised model of atom-molecular Feshbach resonance: comparison to experiment

Peter Drummond, Karen Kheruntsyan (Australian Center for Quantum-Atom Optics, The University of Queensland)

11:18 G4.005 Amplification of Local Instabilities in a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions

Jit Kee Chin, Johannes Vogels, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:30 G4.006 Observation of Feshbach resonances in 87Rb

S. Duerr, A. Marte, T. Volz, J. Schuster, G. Rempe (MPI for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany), E. van Kempen, B. Verhaar (Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

11:42 G4.007 Effects of Feshbach resonance on ultracold Rb gases.

Vladimir A. Yurovsky, Abraham Ben-Reuven (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University.)

11:54 G4.008 Cold Bose Gases near Feshbach Resonances

Alexander Zubarev, Yeong Kim (Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

12:06 G4.009 Quantum pair correlation in the Feshbach-resonance-induced atomic filamentation of a propagating atom laser beam

Weiping Zhang, Chris Search, Han Pu, Pierre Meystre, Ewan Wright (University of Arizona)

10:30 G5.001 ^81Kr-dating with an MOT

X. Du, K. Bailey, P. Mueller, T. P. O'Connor, Z.-T. Lu (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory), L. Young (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

10:42 G5.002 Sub-femtotesla Multi-channel Atomic Magnetometer

I.K. Kominis, T.W. Kornack (Princeton University), J.C. Allred (University of Washington), M.V. Romalis (Princeton University)

10:54 G5.003 Investigation of a rubidium-argon dual species magneto-optical trap

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

11:06 G5.004 Polarizing Helium-3 by Spin-Exchange Collisions with Potassium and Cesium

Guodong Wang, Wenjin Shao, Emlyn Hughes (W.K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, CA 91125)

11:18 G5.005 Results on Spin-exchange Rate Measurements between ^129Xe and Alkali Metals

Wenjin Shao, Guodong Wang, Emlyn Hughes (California Institute of Technology)

11:30 G5.006 NMR spectroscopy of hyperpolarized ^129Xe at high fields: Maintaining spin polarization after optical pumping.

Brian Patton, Nicholas N. Kuzma, Natalia V. Lisitza, William Happer (Princeton University Physics Department, Princeton, New Jersey)

11:42 G5.007 Nuclear Spin Relaxation of Polycrystalline ^129Xe at Low Fields

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