Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 22 MAY 2003

13:30 H1.001 Coherences and correlations in an ultracold Bose gas

Heather Lewandowski (JILA, NIST)

14:00 H1.002 Quantum computation and multiparticle entanglement with trapped atoms and ions

Anders S. Sørensen (ITAMP, Harvard Smitsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge Ma 02138)

14:30 H1.003 Bose-Einstein Condensates with Tunable Atom-atom Interactions

Jacob Roberts (NIST, Gaithersburg)

15:00 H1.004 Chaos-Assisted Tunneling in Atom Optics

Daniel A. Steck (Theoretical Division (T-8), Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 H1.005 Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Lincoln D. Carr (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dept. de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure)

13:30 H2.001 Quantum State Resolved Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics with IR Lasers

David Nesbitt (JILA/NIST, Univerisity of Colorado)

14:00 H2.002 Small-scale Soft X-Ray Lasers Excited by Fast Discharges and Applications

Jorge J. Rocca (Colorado State University)

14:30 H2.003 Nonlinear Optical Physics

Robert W. Boyd (Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627)

15:00 H2.004 Applications of coherent terahertz radiation

Daniel Grischkowsky (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078)

13:30 H3.001 Photoionization of two-electron ortho-atoms

Camilo Ruiz Méndez, Luis Plaja, Javier R. Vazques de Aldana (Universidad de Salamanca), Luis Roso (Univerisdad de Salamanca), Departamento de Física Aplicada Team

13:42 H3.002 Perturbative Analysis of the (\gamma,2e) Process in He: Angular Distributions and Circular Dichroism

ANDREI Y. ISTOMIN, ANTHONY F. STARACE (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), N. L. MANAKOV (Voronezh State University, Russia)

13:54 H3.003 Two-photon double ionization of Helium

Hugo W. van der Hart, Liang Feng (Department of Applied Mathematics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom)

14:06 H3.004 Double and Triple Photoionization of Li Atoms

James Colgan, M. S. Pindzola (Auburn University)

14:18 H3.005 Very-High Resolution J-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscoy of Laser-Excited Sodium Atoms

Francois WUILLEUMIER, Denis CUBAYNES, Jean Marc BIZAU (LIXAM and LURE, University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), Michael MEYER (LURE, University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), Sophie CANTON, John BOZEK, Bruce RUDE (Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, CA,USA), Eugene KENNEDY (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland), Nora BERRAH (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)

14:30 H3.006 Triple Photoionization of Neon and Argon Near Threshold

Jaques B. Bluett (Synchrotron Radiation Center, Univ.\ of Wisconsin--Madison), Dragan Luki\'c (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), Ivan A. Sellin (Dept.\ of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Tennessee--Knoxville), Scott B. Whitfield (Dept.\ of Physics and Astronomy, Univ.\ of Wisconsin--Eau Claire), Ralf Wehlitz (Synchrotron Radiation Center, Univ.\ of Wisconsin--Madison)

14:42 H3.007 Dipole Autoionizing Resonances in Dipole-Quadrupole Photoionization Interferencies

Valeriy Dolmatov (University of North Alabama, Florence, AL 35632), Arkadiy Baltenkov (Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA), Steven Manson (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA)

14:54 H3.008 Fano Lineshapes Revisited

U. Eichmann (Max Born Institute and Institut fur Atomare Physik und Fachdidadktik), T. Gallagher (Max Born Institute and University of Virginia), R. Konik (University of Virginia)

15:06 H3.009 UNIFIED AND SELF-CONSISTENT TREATMENT OF PHOTOIONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION OF Fe XXI

Sultana Nahar (Ohio State U.)

15:18 H3.010 Studies of Simultaneous Three-electron Decay and of Triply Excited Resonances in K-shell Photodetachment of He^-

R.C. Bilodeau, G. Turri, N. Berrah (Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, MI 49008), G.D. Ackerman, A. Aguilar, J.D. Bozek (ALS-LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94720)

15:30 H3.011 Lifetime of a K-shell vacancy in carbon produced by photo-excitation of a carbon ion

A. S. Schlachter, M. M. Sant'Anna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), A. M. Covington, M. F. Gharaibeh, G. Hinojosa, R. A. Phaneuf, E. Emmons, S. Scully (University of Nevada, Reno), A. Aguilar (University of Nevada, Reno, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), I. Alvarez, C. Cisneros (UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico), A. Mueller (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen, Germany), B. M. McLaughlin (ITAMP, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Queen's University Belfast)

15:42 H3.012 Coherent Control of H^- Detachment with Few-cycle Pulses

S.X. Hu, Anthony F. Starace (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

13:30 H4.001 Attosecond Control of Molecular Electron Wave Packets

Andre D Bandrauk (Cananda Research Chair,Universite de Sherbrooke), Stephane Chelkowski (Universite de Sherbrooke)

13:42 H4.002 Nonsequential ionization in molecular fragments

Chunlei Guo, Kevin Wright (The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester)

13:54 H4.003 Suppression of non-sequential ultra high field ionization for deeply bound states in atoms

Barry Walker, Enam Chowdhury, George Ongadi, Anthony DiChiara (University of Delaware)

14:06 H4.004 Rescattering Ionizattion of D2 in Intense Laser Field

A.S. Alnaser, E.P. Benis, T. Opisov, A. Wech, C. Wyant, J Stuhlman, E. Edgu-Fry, Z. Zhang, B. Shan, C.L. Cocke (Physics Department-Kansas State University)

14:18 H4.005 Electron Spectra from Non-Sequential High Field Ionization

Emily R. Peterson, Philip H. Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center, Physics Department, University of Michigan)

14:30 H4.006 Electron dynamics and molecular Coulomb explosion: critical radius vs dynamic screening

Kun Zhao, III Hill (University of Maryland)

14:42 H4.007 Ionization Rate as a Function of Intensity in a Femtosecond Laser Field

Howard Camp, Richard Bredy, Hai Nguyen, Takaki Awata (Department of Physics, Naruto University of Education, Takashima Naruto-cho, Naruto, Tokushima 772-0022, Japan), Brett DePaola (J. R. Macdonald Lab, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 U.S.A.)

14:54 H4.008 Selective excitation of VUV transitions in N_2 with ultra-short infrared light pulses

Ryan Coffee, George Gibson (University of Connecticut)

15:06 H4.009 Predicting intense-field photoionization of atoms and molecules from their linear photoabsorption spectra in the ionization continuum

Cornelis Uiterwaal (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Behlen Lab CC, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111), Christoph Gebhardt, Hartmut Schröder, Karl-Ludwig Kompa (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)

15:18 H4.010 Plateau Effects in Laser-Assisted Electron-Atom Scattering

M. V. FROLOV, ANTHONY F. STARACE (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), A. V. FLEGEL, N. L. MANAKOV (Voronezh State University, Russia)

15:30 H4.011 Extreme Multiphoton Coupling in Molecular Systems

George Gibson (University of Connecticut)

15:42 H4.012 Muonic Molecules in SuperIntense Laser Fields

Andre D Bandrauk (Canada Research Chair,Universite de Sherbrooke), Stephane Chelkowski (Universite de Sherbrooke)

15:54 H4.013 New insights on the dynamics of atomic ionization in strong laser fields

Alfred Maquet, Richard Taïeb, Valérie Véniard, Joseph Wassaf (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.)

13:30 H5.001 Experimental demonstration of a robust, high-fidelity geometric two ion-qubit phase gate*

Dietrich Leibfried, Brian DeMarco, Volker Meyer, David Lucas, Murray Barrett, Joe Britton, Wayne Itano, Branislav Jelenkovic, Chris Langer, Till Rosenband, David Wineland (NIST, Boulder CO 80305)

13:42 H5.002 Sympathetic cooling of ^9Be^+ and ^24Mg^+ for quantum logic

Murray Barrett, Tobias Schaetz, Brian DeMarco, Joe Britton, John Chiaverini, Wayne Itano, Brana Jelenkovic, John Jost, Chris Langer, Dietrich Leibfried, Volker Meyer, Till Rosenband, David Wineland

13:54 H5.003 A Quantum Computer Architecture for Nonlocal Interactions

Carl Williams (NIST), Gavin Brennen (NIST/Univ. Maryland), Song Daegene (NIST)

14:06 H5.004 Pushing Around Cold Trapped Ions

David Moehring, Russell Miller, Boris Blinov, Christopher Monroe (FOCUS Center and University of Michigan Department of Physics)

14:18 H5.005 Fast control of trapped ion qubits using shaped optical pulses

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

14:30 H5.006 High-Fidelity Manipulation and Detection of Trapped Ion Qubits

Louis Deslauriers, Boris Blinov, Kathy-Anne Brickman, Patty Lee, Christopher Monroe (FOCUS Center and University of Michigan Department of Physics)

14:42 H5.007 Quantum Zeno subspace and entangled Bose-Einstein

Mei Zhang, Li You (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332-0430)

14:54 H5.008 Information transport in 1D quantum cellular automata

Gavin K. Brennen, Jamie E. Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:06 H5.009 Recovering classical chaotic dynamics from coupled quantum systems through continuous measurements

Paul M. Alsing (High Performance Computing Education and Research Center, Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131), Shohini Ghose, Ivan Deutsch (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131), Salman Habib, Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Affiliation), Kurt Jacobs (Theoretical Division T-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545), University of New Mexico Collaboration, Los Alamos National Laboratory Collaboration

15:18 H5.010 Continuous measurement and Entanglement with traveling wave probes

Andrew Silberfarb, Ivan H. Deutsch (University of New Mexico)

15:30 H5.011 Physical limitations on quantum nonlocality in the detection of photons emitted from positron/electron annihilation

Victor Irby (University of South Alabama)

15:42 H5.012 Sideband Cooling and qubit initialization in a 3D Optical Lattice

Worawarong Rakreungdet, Lori Harrison, Poul Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona)