Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 23 MAY 2003

13:30 N1.001 Adiabatic Floquet Representation for Atoms in an Intense Laser Field

Jesús Hernández (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory and Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506)

13:50 N1.002 Non-diffusive effects in the interaction of laser fields in highly scattering dielectric media*

Allen Lewis (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560 USA)

14:10 N1.003 Schrödinger cat states of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double well potential

Heidi Perry (University of Washington)

14:30 N1.004 Photoionization of Multiply Charged Fe3+

Olga Ovchinnikov (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

14:50 N1.005 Systematic Studies of Rb Optical Pumping at Low Buffer Gas Densities

J.P. Reyes (Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0111)

15:10 N1.006 Controlled transitions between atomic soliton states

Brian Swingle (Georgia Tech)

13:30 N2.001 Precise phase control of short pulses

Jun Ye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado)

14:00 N2.002 Optimal pulse compression to single-cycle regime

Misha Ivanov (Femtosecond Program, NRC Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa ON K1A 0R6)

14:30 N2.003 Linear and Nonlinear Pulse Shaping for Control and Automated Learning in Quantum Systems

Randy Bartels (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO USA)

15:00 N2.004 Carier-envelope phase controll of OPA output

Takayoshi Kobayashi (Dept. of Phys. Univ. of Tokyo)

13:30 N3.001 Atomic and Molecular Properties from Astronomers' Sky Spectra

David L. Huestis, Tom G. Slanger, Philip C. Cosby (SRI International), Georgio Tachiev, Charlotte Froese Fischer (Vanderbilt University)

13:42 N3.002 High resoluton spectrum of xenon ions at 13.4 nm*

Joseph Reader, Sergey Churilov, Yogi N. Joshi (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:54 N3.003 Relativistic many-body calculations of excitation energies and transition rates from core-excited states in copperlike ions

A.S. Shlyaptseva (University of Nevada, Reno), U.I. Safronova, W.R. Johnson (University of Notre Dame)

14:06 N3.004 Ab initio energies and transition rates of argon

Igor Savukov (Princeton University)

14:18 N3.005 Unusually large polarizabilities of excited states in barium

Chih-Hao Li, Simon Rochester, Dmitry Budker (University of California at Berkeley)

14:30 N3.006 Measurement of Cesium 6P3/2 and 6S1/2 Static Dipole Polarizabilities in a Cold Atom Fountain

Jason Amini (LBNL and Dept. of Physics, U.C. Berkeley), Harvey Gould (LBNL)

14:42 N3.007 Determination of the polarizability of Na-like Silicon by study of the fine structure of high-L Rydberg states of Si2+

R.A. Komara, M.A. Gearba, S.R. Lundeen (Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523), C.W. Fehrenbach (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

14:54 N3.008 Indirect spin orbit interaction in high-L Rydberg states with ^2S_1/2 cores

E.L. Snow, R.A. Komara, M.A. Gearba, S.R. Lundeen (Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523)

15:06 N3.009 Systematic study of Stark-induced X-ray emission from H-like and He-like ions after charge capture by bare and hydrogenic ions from a Rydberg target

M.A. Gearba, R.A. Komara, S.R. Lundeen (Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523), C.J. Verzani, C.W. Fehrenbach, B.D. DePaola (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

13:30 N4.001 Experimental effort in laser-cooling molecules

Michael D. Di Rosa, Robert K. Sander, David J. Vieira, Steven J. Buelow (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:42 N4.002 Stark deceleration of neutral OH molecules

J. R. Bochinski, E. R. Hudson, H. J. Lewandowski, Jun Ye (JILA, University of Colorado, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, 80309)

13:54 N4.003 Phase Space Manipulations of Cold Molecular Packets

E.R. Hudson (JILA, University of Colorado), J. R. Bochinski, H.J. Lewandowski (JILA, NIST), Jun Ye (JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado)

14:06 N4.004 Sources and studies of cold molecular NO

Eric Abraham, Bryan Bichsel, Neil Shafer-Ray (University of Oklahoma)

14:18 N4.005 Molecule formation in an Bose-Einstein condensate

P. Julienne, E. Tiesinga (National Institute of Standards and Technology), T. Koehler (Oxford University)

14:30 N4.006 Recombination of fermionic atoms in ultracold three-body collisions

Hiroya Suno, Brett D. Esry (Department of Physics, Kansas State University), Chris H. Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado)

14:42 N4.007 Atom-Molecule Laser Fed by Stimulated Three-Body Recombination

Bogdan Borca, Josh W. Dunn, Chris H. Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

14:54 N4.008 Calculation of hyperspherical adiabatic eigenvalues

James Sternberg (University of Tennessee), J.H. Macek (University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:06 N4.009 Beyond Fermi pseudopotential: a modified GP equation

Haixiang Fu, Yuzhu Wang (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics), Bo Gao (University of Toledo)

15:18 N4.010 Proposed Near-Unit-Efficient Raman Creation of a Stable Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate

Matt Mackie (Helsinki Institute of Physics), Juha Javanainen (University of Connecticut)

13:30 N5.001 Instabilities of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

Oliver Morsch, Matteo Cristiani, Nicola Malossi, Jorg Helge Muller, Donatella Ciampini, Emmanuel Courtade, Marco Anderlini, Mattia Jona-Lasinio, Riccardo Mannella, Ennio Arimondo (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa)

13:42 N5.002 Numerical simulations of one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in the optical lattice

Matt Kalinski (Department of Quantum Physics, University of Ulm)

13:54 N5.003 Damping of Condensate Modes in a Uniform 1D Optical Lattice

Shunji Tsuchiya (University of Toronto and Waseda University), David Luxat, Allan Griffin (University of Toronto)

14:06 N5.004 Damping of condensate modes of trapped atoms in an optical lattice

D. L. Luxat (University of Toronto), S. Tsuchiya (University of Toronto and Waseda University), A. Griffin (University of Toronto)

14:18 N5.005 Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions

Markus Greiner, Olaf Mandel, Artur Widera, Tim Rom, Theodor Hänsch, Immanuel Bloch (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany)

14:30 N5.006 Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov-Popov approach to superfluidity of atoms in an optical lattice

Ana Maria Rey (University of Maryland, College Park and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Robert Roth (TU Darmstadt), Keith Burnett (Oxford University), Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University), Carl J. Williams, Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology), M*O*N*G*O Team

14:42 N5.007 Attractive Bose-Hubbard model with cold atoms

Michael Jack (NTT Basic Research Laboratories), Makoto Yamashita

14:54 N5.008 Effects of magnetic fields on wave-packet dynamics in an optical lattice

Natalya Morrow, Georg Raithel (FOCUS Center, Department of Physics, University of Michigan)

15:06 N5.009 Dynamics of Bose condensate in optical lattice: an effective mass approach

Han Pu (University of Arizona), Leslie Baksmaty (University of Rochester), Weiping Zhang (University of Arizona), Nicholas Bigelow (University of Rochester), Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona)

15:18 N5.010 Detection of a fractional fermion in an optical lattice

Juha Javanainen (U. of Connecticut), Janne Ruostekoski (U. of Hertfordshire, UK)

15:30 N5.011 An Omniscient Maxwell Demon

David S. Weiss (Penn State), Jiri Vala, Ashish V. Thapliyal, Simon Myrgren, Umesh Vazirani, K. Birgitta Whaley (U.C. Berkeley), DARPA QuIST Berkeley-Penn State Collaboration

15:42 N5.012 Quantum Process Tomography in an Optical Lattice

Stefan Myrskog, Jalani Fox, Samansa Maneshi, Aephraim Steinberg (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario)