Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 3 MARCH 2003

14:30 D1.001 Observation of Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson Tunnel Junction

Siyuan Han (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas)

15:06 D1.002 Coherent-State Manipulation and Readout of a Large-Area Josephson-Junction Qubit

John Martinis (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:42 D1.003 Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in SQUIDs and the Aharonov-Casher Effect

Jonathan Friedman (Department of Physics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002-5000)

16:18 D1.004 Manipulating the quantum state of an electrical circuit

Michel H. DEVORET (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University)

16:54 D1.005 Coherent quantum dynamics of a flux qubit

Hans Mooij (Delft University of Technology)

14:30 D2.001 Gibbs and Statistical Mechanics a Century Ago

Martin J. Klein (Yale University)

15:06 D2.002 Gibbs in Europe

Ole Knudsen (History of Science Dept., University of Aarhus, Denmark)

15:42 D2.003 Key concepts from Gibbs that empowered Van der Waals, Korteweg and Kamerlingh Onnes

Johanna Levelt Sengers (NIST)

16:18 D2.004 Reflections on Gibbs: From Critical Phenomena to the Amistad

Leo P. Kadanoff (The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago Il 60637)

14:30 D3.001 PREDICTING THE SELF-ASSEMBLY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DIBLOCK /NANOPARTICLE MIXTURES

Anna Balazs (Chemical Engineering Dept., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)

15:06 D3.002 Directed Self-Assembly in Thin Block Copolymer Films

Thomas P. Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003)

15:42 D3.003 Functional Nanostructured Materials Based on Polymerized Surfactant Liquid Crystal Assemblies Liquid Crystal Assemblies

Douglas Gin (Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (USA) 80309)

16:18 D3.004 Supramolecular Nanophases and Templating: Bone, Semiconductors and Magnets

Samuel Stupp (Northwestern University)

16:54 D3.005 Evolving Biomolecular Control and Assembly of Semiconductor and Magnetic Nanostructures

Angela Belcher (Dept. of Materials Science amp; Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

14:30 D4.001 Testing the fundamentals for molecular electronics

Horst Stormer (Columbia University)

15:00 D4.002 Nanopatterning and High Sensitivity Biodetection

Mark Hersam (Northwestern University)

15:30 D4.003 Nanoscale Materials and Devices - New Solutions for Information Technologies

Robert Buhrman (Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cornell University)

16:00 D4.004 Green Nanotechnologies: A new approach to emerging technology

Vicki Colvin (Rice University)

16:30 D4.005 Nanomaterials: The Substance of Nanotechnology

Richard W. Siegel (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

17:00 D4.006 Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications

R.M. Westervelt (Harvard University)

14:30 D5.001 Low-energy quasiparticles in the normal and superconducting states of electron and hole-doped cuprates.

Robert W. Hill (University of Toronto)

15:06 D5.002 Tunneling spectroscopy of n-doped cuprates

Amlan Biswas (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611)

15:42 D5.003 Evidence for a Gap in n-type Cuprates From Penetration Depth Measurements

Thomas Lemberger (Ohio State University)

16:18 D5.004 ARPES Studies of NCCO as a function of doping

N. Peter Armitage (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

14:30 D6.001 Anatomy of Spin-Transfer Torques

M. D. Stiles (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:06 D6.002 Quantitative Study of Magnetism Reversal by Spin-Polarized Currents

Frank Albert (Cornell University)

15:42 D6.003 Spin pumping magnetization dynamics and scattering theory

Brataas Arne (Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway)

16:18 D6.004 Gilbert Damping Due to Spin Pumping in Magnetic Multilayers

Bretislav Heinrich (Simon Fraser University)

16:54 D6.005 Magnetization precession by hot spin injection

Hans C Siegmann (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford Ca 94309, USA)

14:30 D7.001 Efficient Geometry-Based Modeling of Submonolayer Film Growth

Maozhi Li (Institute of Physical Research amp; Technology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011), Maria C. Bartelt (Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550), James W. Evans (Department of Mathematics, Ames Laboratory-USDOE, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011)

14:42 D7.002 Beyond-Mean-Field Rate Equation Theory for Island Formation during Submonolayer Deposition: Realistic Treatment of Spatial Aspects of Nucleation

James W. Evans (Iowa State University), Maria C. Bartelt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories)

14:54 D7.003 A variational approach to nonlinear dynamics of nanoscale surface modulations

Vivek Shenoy (Brown University)

15:06 D7.004 Novel Continuum Modeling of Crystal Surface Evolution

Daniel Kandel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

15:42 D7.005 Continuum description of profile scaling in nanostructure decay

Dionisios Margetis (M.I.T. Department of Mathematics), Michael J. Aziz, Howard A. Stone (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

15:54 D7.006 Scaling and Growth in the presence of point defects

Raffaele Vardavas, Christian Ratsch, Jennifer Garcia, Russel Caflisch (UCLA)

16:06 D7.007 THE INFLUENCE OF EDGE DIFFUSION ON THE GROWTH MODE ON VICINAL SURFACES

Christian Ratsch, Jennifer Garcia, Russ Caflisch (UCLA)

16:18 D7.008 Kinetic Length, Step Permeability and Kinetic Coefficient Asymmetry on the Si(111) (7x7) Surface

W.F. Chung, M.S. Altman (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

16:30 D7.009 Binding sites and energy stability of the high coverage q>1ML ordered phases of Pb on Si(111)

T.L. Chan, M. Hupalo, C.Z. Wang, K.M. Ho, M.C. Tringides (Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory USDOE)

16:42 D7.010 A reversible transition in the shape of 2-D Pb islands on Cu(111)

R. van Gastel (Sandia National Labs), J.B. Hannon (IBM Research Division), N.C. Bartelt, G.L. Kellogg (Sandia National Labs)

16:54 D7.011 Domain patterns and nucleation in cubic-tetragonal ferroelastics

A. E. Jacobs (Department of Physics, University of Toronto), S. H. Curnoe (Department of Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland), R. C. Desai (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

17:06 D7.012 Time-dependent capture numbers with repulsive pair interactions: Cu/Cu(111) and Ge/Si(001)

John A. Venables (Arizona State University, Dept of Physics amp; Astronomy), Harald Brune (EPFL, Institut de Physique des Nanostructures), Jeff Drucker (Arizona State University, Dept of Physics amp; Astronomy)

14:30 D8.001 Infrared Negative Luminescent Devices and Higher Operating Temperature Detectors

Tim Ashley (QinetiQ Ltd., St. Andrews Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3PS, UK)

15:06 D8.002 Light coupling for QWIPs

K.K. Choi, A.C. Goldberg (U.S. Army Research Laboratory), K.M. Leung, T. Tamir (Polytechnic University), M. Jhabvala (Goddard Space Flight Center), ARL Collaboration, Polytechnic U Collaboration, NASA Goddard Collaboration

15:18 D8.003 Electron capture in long-wave n-GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs)

Mazin A. Gadir, Paul Harrison (IMP, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK), Richard A. Soref (Sensors Directorate, AFRL/SNHC, Air Force Research laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA 01731, U.S.A.)

15:30 D8.004 Binary Superlattice QWIP for Long-Wavelength Broadband Detection

A. R. Ellis (Princeton University), K. K. Choi (U. S. Army Research Laboratory), D. C. Tsui (Princeton University), J. L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:42 D8.005 Absorption Saturation with Doping in p-QWIPs: Role of Continuum

F. Szmulowicz, J. E. Ehret, K Mahalingam, C. M. Hegde, J. S. Solomon, D. H. Tomich, G. Landis (Affiliation), G. J. Brown (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707,USA), T. Oogarah (Affiliation), H. C. Liu (Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa,Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada)

15:54 D8.006 LWIR Multispectral Enhanced Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors

Pradip Mitra, Francine Case, James McCurdy (Affiliation), Xavier Quinonez (Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control)

16:06 D8.007 Effect of Substrate Doping on Cavity Effects in Infrared Detectors

A. G. U. Perera, D. G. Esaev, S. G. Matsik (Georgia State University)

16:18 D8.008 Fabrication and testing of tunable antenna-coupled intersubband terahertz (TACIT) detectors

G. B. Serapiglia, Y. Dora, C. C. Cates, M .S. Sherwin (iQUEST and Physics Dept., UCSB), M. Hanson, A. C. Gossard (Materials Dept., UCSB), W. R. McGrath (JPL)

16:30 D8.009 Intersubband Transitions in Narrow InAs/AlSb Quantum Wells

D. C. Larrabee, M. Liang, S. M. Crankshaw, J. Tang, G. A. Khodaparast, J. Kono (ECE Dept., Rice University), Y. Nakajima, K. Ueda, O. Suekane, S. Sasa, M. Inoue (Osaka Institute of Technology), K. I. Kolokolov, J. Li, C. Z. Ning (NASA Ames Research Center)

16:42 D8.010 Interface bonding effects on antimonide-based detector performance

B. J. Moehlmann, W. H. Lau, M. E. Flatté (The University of Iowa)

16:54 D8.011 Density-Functional study of the Infrared Wavelength InAs/GaSb strained-layer superlattices

Sunita Thulasi (Affiliation), Sashi Satpathy (University of Missouri-Columbia)

17:06 D8.012 Photoluminescence and Lasing Dependences on MBE Growth Conditions for Mid-IR Antimonide Type-II "W" Structures

Chadwick Canedy, William Bewley, Chulsoo Kim, Igor Vurgaftman, Mijin Kim, Jerry Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory)

17:18 D8.013 Photoluminescence of ``W'' type-II quantum well lasers at high magnetic fields

C.J. Meining, K.A. Korolev, B.D. McCombe (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA), I. Vurgaftman, W.W. Bewley, J.R. Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5613, Washington, DC 20375, US), R.U. Martinelli, H. Lee (Sarnoff Corporation, CN 5300, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA)

14:30 D9.001 Modeling translation in \textitEscherichia coli using one dimensional lattice gases

Leah B. Shaw, James P. Sethna (Cornell Physics), Royce K.P. Zia (Virginia Tech Physics), Kelvin H. Lee (Cornell Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

14:42 D9.002 Giant Non-Universal Critical Index and Fluctuations in DNA Phase Transition

Mark Ya. Azbel' (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel)

14:54 D9.003 DNA Length Ranges Exhibiting Distinct Separation Mechanisms in Gel Electrophoresis

A. Beheshti, D. H. Van Winkle, R. L. Rill (Florida State University)

15:06 D9.004 Functionalization of carbon nanotube with biological molecules

Daxiang Cui (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research), Cengiz O. Ozkan (University of California, Riverside), Yong Kong, Huajian Gao (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research)

15:18 D9.005 Stiffness and stability of DNA nanotubes

Axel Ekani-Nkodo (Physics Department, University of California at Santa Barbara), Paul W. K. Rothemund, Nick Papadakis, Erik Winfree (Computer Science, and Computation and Neural Systems, California Intitute of Technology), Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson (Physics Department, University of California at Santa Barbara), UCSB Team, Caltech Team

15:30 D9.006 Factors influencing the measurement of DNA current-voltage characteristics

V. Soghomonian (Dept. Physics), B. Hartzell (Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry), D. Asare, H. Chen (Dept. Physics), B. McCord (Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry), J. J. Heremans (Dept. Physics, Ohio University)

15:42 D9.007 Correlated disorder and charge transport in DNA

Wei Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University), Sergio E. Ulloa (Department of Physics and Astronomy,and Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University)

15:54 D9.008 Conductance of dry DNA: Role of environment

Ch. Adessi (Affiliation), S Walch (NASA Ames Research Center, Eloret), M. P. Anantram (NASA Ames Research Center, CSC)

16:06 D9.009 Hopping Conductivity in Aperiodic Nucleotide Base Stacks

Janos Ladik (Chair for Theoretical Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander Univesity Erlangen-Nuremberg, Egerlandstr. 3, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany), Yuan-Jie Ye (Concurrent Pharmaceutical Inc., 1Broadway, Cambridge, Ma 02142, USA)

16:18 D9.010 Intrinsic dynamical disorder and charge transport in DNA

Kim Rasmussen (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), George Kalosakas (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Alan R. Bishop (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:30 D9.011 Theoretical band-gap tunneling states of DNA structures

James P. Lewis (Department of Physics and Astronomy; Brigham Young University), Hao Wang, Otto Sankey (Department of Physics and Astronomy; Arizona State University)

16:42 D9.012 Effect of Base Sequence and Hydration on the Electronic and Hole Transport Properties of Duplex DNA: Theory and Experiment

Robert N. Barnett, Charles L. Cleveland, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology), Edna Boone, Sriram Kanvah, Gary B. Schuster (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:54 D9.013 Ab initio Studies on Muonium Adducts of DNA and of Individual Nucleic Acid Molecules

E. Torikai (Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan; RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan), R. H. Scheicher, T. P. Das (State University of New York at Albany, Albany NY), F. L. Pratt (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK), K. Nagamine (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan; RIKEN)

17:06 D9.014 Oxygen adsorption of DNA

S Walch (NASA Ames Research Center, Eloret), M. P. Anantram (NASA Ames Research Center, CSC)

17:18 D9.015 A cesium atom with a two-base pair DNA

D. Cox, C. Y. Fong, R. R. P. Singh (Department of Physics, UC Davis), R. Endres (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), biophotonics Collaboration

17:30 D9.016 Up-down properties of microarray data allow blind prediction of gene function

Thomas M A Fink (Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France), Karen Willbrand (Ecole Normale Superieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France), Francois Radvanyi, Jean-Paul Thiery (Institut Curie)

14:30 D10.001 Simulating long timescale protein dynamics with distributed computing

Vijay Pande (Departments of Chemistry and Structural Biology, Stanford University)

15:06 D10.002 Single Molecule Fluorescence as a Probe of Protein Dynamics

Everett A. Lipman (Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health)

15:42 D10.003 Protein dynamics in the early stages of folding

Stephen J. Hagen (Physics Department, University of Florida, PO Box 118440, Gainesville FL 32611-8440 USA)

16:18 D10.004 Protein Unfolding: Skeletal Rigidity Lost.

Michael F. Thorpe (Michigan State University)

16:54 D10.005 Micromechanical Probes of Protein Conformational Dynamics

Giovanni Zocchi (UCLA)

14:30 D11.001 Femtosecond Electron Diffraction Observation of Ultrafast Temporal Structural Change in Metal Films

Zhao Hao, Hyuk Park, Chenggang Tao, Jianming Cao (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, Florida 32310)

14:42 D11.002 Multiparticle Electronic Dynamics in Transition from Zero to One Dimension in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Andrei Piryatinski, Sergei Tretiak (Theoretical Division, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory), V.I. Klimov (Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:18 D11.003 ELECTRON SOLVATION AND LOCALIZATION IN TWO DIMENSIONS

Charles B. Harris (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California, 94720 USA)

15:54 D11.004 ZERO TO ONE DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION AND MULTIPARTICLE INTERACTIONS

H. Htoon, J. A. Hollingworth, A. V. Malko, R. Dickerson, V. I. Klimov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

16:06 D11.005 Infinite Order Excitonic Bloch Equations for Asymmetric Semiconductor Nanostructures

Margaret Hawton (Dept. of Physics, Lakehead University), Marc Dignam (Dept. of Physics, Queen's University)

16:18 D11.006 High-Quantum-Efficiency Photoluminescence Induced by Multiphoton Absorption in Gold Nanoparticles

Francis Butterfield, Richard Farrer, Vincent Chen, Thomas Kempa, John Fourkas (Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467)

16:30 D11.007 Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Silver Nanoparticle Arrays

R. D. Averitt, J. Demsar, E. K. Woode, A. J. Taylor (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K. C. Beverly, J. R. Heath (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles)

16:42 D11.008 Photon Echo Studies of Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots

Vanessa M. Huxter, Mayrose R. Salvador, Gregory D. Scholes (University of Toronto)

16:54 D11.009 Quantum dynamics simulations of interfacial electron transfer in sensitized TiO_2 semiconductors

Luis G.C. Rego, Victor S. Batista (Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, 06520-8107)

14:30 D12.001 Thiol adsorption at gold surfaces: self-assembly, chiral recognition, and enantioselective adsorption at chiral surfaces.

Bjork Hammer (Department of Physics, University of Arhus, DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark)

15:06 D12.002 Adsorption Behavior of Thiols on Metal surfaces; A Density Functional Theory Study

Yashar Yourdshahyan, Andrew Rappe (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)

15:18 D12.003 The Structure of Dithiol Monolayers on Au(111).

M.C. Gallagher, A.R. MacDairmid (Lakehead University, ON, CANADA), J.T. Banks (Acadia University, NS, CANADA)

15:30 D12.004 New Insights for Self-Assembled Monolayers of Organothiols Revealed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Gangyu Liu (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA 95616)

16:06 D12.005 Coexistence of the Au(111) reconstruction and a striped phase SAM

S.B. Darling, A.W. Rosenbaum, Yi Wang, S.J. Sibener (The University of Chicago)

16:18 D12.006 One and two-photon photoemission studies of organic-thiol self-assembled monolayers on gold surfaces

S. W. Robey, C. D. Zangmeister, R. D. van Zee (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

16:30 D12.007 Monitoring Structural and Conformational Self Assembly of Organic Molecules on Surfaces by Imaging C-H Bond Directions

Jr. Yates (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry)

17:06 D12.008 X-ray Specular Scattering Study of the Structure of Dotriacontane Adsorbed on a Ag(111) Surface

H. MO, H. TAUB (University of Missouri-Columbia), S. N. EHRLICH (Brookhaven National Laboratory), U. G. VOLKMANN (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), F. Y. HANSEN (Technical University of Denmark)

14:30 D13.001 Evidence of Molecular Chaos for a Granular Gas Driven by a Mechanically Fluidized Bed

G. W. Baxter (Physics Department, Penn State Erie, Behrend College), J. S. Olafsen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas)

14:42 D13.002 2D Granular Gas Dynamics for an Experiment with Non-spherical Particles

Jesse Atwell, Nick Shea, Jeffrey S. Olafsen (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Kansas)

14:54 D13.003 Experimental comparison of continuum simulations of two-dimensional rotating granular flow

Mark Shattuck, Karen Lee (City College of the City University of New York)

15:06 D13.004 Experimental determination of the equation of state for inelastic hard spheres

Vernon Juliana, Mark Shattuck (City College of the City University of New York)

15:18 D13.005 Velocity Distributions in Inhomogeneous Granular Flow

Karen Lee, Mark Shattuck (City College of the City University of New York)

15:30 D13.006 Two Types of Scaling Behaviors in Coarsening of Granular Clusters.

Igor Aranson (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL), Maksim Sapozhnikov (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Jeffrey Olafsen (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS)

15:42 D13.007 Experimental study of path and time distributions in a granular gas

Daniel Blair, Arshad Kudrolli (Clark University)

15:54 D13.008 Distribution of velocity fluctuations for a 3D granular gas

Klebert Feitosa, Narayanan Menon (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

16:06 D13.009 Relaxation of a granular step: An experimental study

Saloome Siavoshi, Arshad Kudrolli (Dept. of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA.)

16:18 D13.010 Laminar Boundary Layer Granular Flow

Kimberly Hill, Gustavo Gioia, Vinay Tota (Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois)

16:30 D13.011 Stick-slip dynamics of sheared granular layers

Dmitri Volfson, Lev Tsimring (University of California, San Diego)

16:42 D13.012 Dynamics of grain avalanches.

Jean Rajchenbach (LMDH, Université P. et M. Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France)

14:30 D14.001 Temperature Dependence of the Susceptibility and Compressibility of the 2D Hubbard Model

Joseph Serene (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.), John Deisz (Department of Physics, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa), Daryl Hess (Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA)

14:42 D14.002 Orbital ordering and volume collapse in cerium

Gökhan Esirgen (University of Southern California), Andrew~K. McMahan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Richard~T. Scalettar (University of California, Davis)

14:54 D14.003 Pair State Analysis of the Hubbard Hamiltonian in One-Dimension

W. B. Hodge, N. A. W. Holzwarth, W. C. Kerr (Wake Forest University)

15:06 D14.004 Friedel oscillations in a two dimensional Fermi liquid

George Simion, Gabriele F. Giuliani, Department of Physics Collaboration

15:18 D14.005 Total Energies of Jellium Spheres Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory

Kris Delaney, P. Rinke (Department of Physics, University of York, UK), P. García-González (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), R. W. Godby (Department of Physics, University of York, UK)

15:30 D14.006 Fermi sea in a damped harmonic oscillator

Florian Marquardt (Departement Physik und Astronomie, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland), Dmitri Golubev (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany)

15:42 D14.007 Interaction corrections to transport coefficients of weakly disordered three-dimensional electron systems

Andrei Sergeev (ECE, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202), Michael Reizer (5614 Naiche Road, Columbus, Ohio 43213)

15:54 D14.008 Asymptotic Theory for Quantum Bose Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom

Misha Vishik (Department of Mathematics The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1082, U.S.A.), Gennady Berman (Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B213 Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.)

16:06 D14.009 Higher dimensional generalization of Fractional statistics

Bogdan Bernevig (Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139), Chyh-Hong Chern, Jiangping Hu (Department of Physics, Stanford University, McCullough Building, Stanford, California, 94305-4045), Nicolaos Toumbas (Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138), Shou-Cheng Zhang (Department of Physics, Stanford University, McCullough Building, Stanford, California, 94305-4045)

16:18 D14.010 Two quantum cluster approximations to study the 1D Falicov-Kimball model at criticality.

Orlando Gonzalez (Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221 / Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mark Jarrell, Thomas Maier (Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221), Matthias Hettler (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany)

16:30 D14.011 Dynamical Mean Field Theories in the Parquet Formalism

Sergey Pankov, Gabriel Kotliar, Giulio Biroli (Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854)

16:42 D14.012 Calculations of phonons in strongly correlated systems with dynamical mean field theory

Sergej Savrasov (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University)

16:54 D14.013 Strongly Correlated Superconductivity

Massimo Capone (Physics Department - University of Rome "La Sapienza" and INFM - Rome - Italy), Michele Fabrizio (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) and ICTP - Trieste - Italy), Claudio Castellani (Physics Department - University of Rome "La Sapienza" and INFM - Rome - Italy), Erio Tosatti (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) and ICTP - Trieste - Italy)

D14.014 Test of extended dynamical mean field theory with GWA on a 3D lattice model with non-local interactions

Ping Sun, Gabriel Kotliar (Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854), Alexander Lichtenstein Collaboration

14:30 D15.001 Frequency dependence of the onset voltage of electroconvection in the nematic liquid crystal N4

Xiaochao Xu (Dept. of Physics and iQUEST, University of California, Santa Barbara), Steve Bowers (iQUEST, University of California, Santa Barbara and Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA 93117), Kapil Bajaj, Guenter Ahlers (Dept. of Physics and iQUEST, University of California, Santa Barbara)

14:42 D15.002 Persistent global power fluctuations near a dynamic transition in electroconvection

T Toth-Katona (Kent State University), J.R. Cressman, W.I. Goldburg (University of Pittsburgh), J.T. Gleeson (Kent State University)

14:54 D15.003 Dislocation Driven Coarsening in Electroconvection

Carina Kamaga, Michael Dennin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine)

15:06 D15.004 Localized Traveling-Wave Electroconvection Patterns in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Produced by an Absorbed Laser Beam.

N. C. Giebink, S. R. Saucedo, E. R. Johnson, E. W. Miles, K. K. Vardanyan, D. R. Spiegel (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX)

15:18 D15.005 Localized structures in a vertically vibrated aqueous suspension of corn starch.*

Florian Merkt, Robert Deegan, Erin Rericha, Daniel Goldman, Harry L. Swinney (University of Texas at Austin)

15:30 D15.006 Experimental Investigation of Hexagon Stability in Two Frequency Forced Faraday Waves

Yu Ding, Paul Umbanhowar (Northwestern University)

15:42 D15.007 Local wave-director analysis of Küppers-Lortz unstable Raleigh-Bénard convection-patterns

Nathan Becker, Guenter Ahlers (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

15:54 D15.008 Horizontal movement of plumes in a cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard cell

Denis Funfschilling, Guenter Ahlers (Department of Physics and iQUEST, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA93106)

16:06 D15.009 Hydrodynamic Instabilities near the gas-liquid critical point

Arun Roy, John Hegseth (Department of Physics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148)

16:18 D15.010 Optical Pulsing in an Absorbing Liquid

Jacob Barnes (Anteon Corporation), Dean Evans, Shekhar Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory)

16:30 D15.011 Depinning transition in an harmonically forced extended oscillatory system

Jeenu Kim, Jysoo Lee (KISTI Supercomputing Center)

16:42 D15.012 Propagation of Nonlinear Schrodinger Solitons in an Electron-Phonon System

G. Lei, W. C. Kerr (Wake Forest Univ.), S. N. Kerr (Winston-Salem State Univ.)

16:54 D15.013 Rotating ringlike clusters of optical solitons

Anton Desyatnikov, Yuri Kivshar (Nonlinear Physics Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, ACT 0200 Canberra Australia)

17:06 D15.014 Fano resonances with discrete breathers

M. V. Fistul (Physikalisches Institut III, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany), S. Flach, A. E. Miroshnichenko (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany), V. Fleurov (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)

14:30 D16.001 Transport in Nanoscale Conductors from First Principles

Massimiliano Di Ventra (Virginia Tech)

15:06 D16.002 Theoretical study of Contact Effects in Current through an Organic Molecule

Jun Nara, Hiori Kino (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), Nobuhiko Kobayashi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), Masaru Tsukada (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo), Takahisa Ohno (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)Recently, the transport properties of single-organic molecules have attracted much attention. In analyzing their transport properties theoretically, it is important to include the realistic atomic configurati)

15:18 D16.003 Conductance through a single molecule: transport via HOMO or LUMO?

Johan Lagerqvist, Massimiliano Di Ventra (Virginia Tech)

15:30 D16.004 Electronic transport and vibrational modes in the smallest molecular bridge: H2 in Pt

Yamila Garcia, Juan Palacios, Enrique Louis, Angel Perez-Jimenez, Emilio SanFabian (Universidad de Alicante)

15:42 D16.005 Utilizing conjugated polymer and nanoscale metal contacts to inorganic semiconductors for current transport investigations

Frank Jones (Material Science Institute and the Department of Physics, University of Oregon), Mark Lonergan (Material Science Institute and the Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon)

15:54 D16.006 Properties of e-beam deposited Pt nano-interconnects

Lolita Rotkina (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:06 D16.007 Single electron transistors with individual gold colloidal nanoparticles

Saiful I. Khondaker, Kang Luo, Zhen Yao (Department of Physics, Texas Material Institute, and Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712)

16:18 D16.008 Quantum Size Effect in Conductivity of Multilayer Metal Films

I. V. Ponomarev (Department of Physics, Queens College of CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367), Alexander Meyerovich (Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881)

16:30 D16.009 W-Particle in Coupled Q-Wires as a Q-bit Carrier

Dmitri Romanov (Department of Physics amp; Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Temple University, Philadalphia, PA 19002), Leonid Shvartsman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

16:42 D16.010 Quantum Magneto-Oscillations in 2D: Effects of Interactions and Disorder

G. Martin, D. Maslov (University of Florida, Department of Physics), M. Reizer (Chemical Abstracts, Inc.)

16:54 D16.011 Perturbative expansion of quantum dot magnetisation at non-zero temperature: extracting a crossover scale

Christopher Hooley (Birmingham University, U.K.)

17:06 D16.012 Spin Split Effective Masses in a Partially Polarized 2D Fermi Liquid

Suhas Gangadharaiah (University of Florida), Eugene Sukhorukov (Universite de Geneve), Dmitrii Maslov (University of Florida)

17:18 D16.013 Effects of the RKKY interaction between Kondo impurities on electron transport in mesoscopic metals.

M. G. Vavilov, L. I. Glazman, A. I. Larkin (Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota)

14:30 D17.001 Edge singularity suppression in x-ray absorption spectra

L. W. Campbell (U. of Rochester), J. J. Rehr (U. of Washington)

14:42 D17.002 THE DIRECT CALCULATION OF SOLID AND LIQUID FREE ENERGIES OF METALS AND ALLOYS USING THE EMBEDDED ATOM METHOD

Xueyu Song (Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), James Morris (Metals and Ceramics Sciences, Ames Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy, Ames, IA 50011)

14:54 D17.003 Four arguments for zero Madelung potential in isomorphous disordered alloys

J. S. Faulkner, Silvia Pella, Aurelian Rusanu, Yevgeniy Puzyrev (Alloy Research Center, Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431)

15:06 D17.004 First-principles force fields for glass-forming alloys

III Goddard (California Institute of Technology)

15:18 D17.005 Ab initio calculations of core level shifts in random transition metal alloys: the complete screening picture

Igor A. Abrikosov, Weine Olovsson, Leonid V. Pourovskii (Physics Department, Uppsala University, Sweden), Börje Johansson (Physics Department, Uppsala University and Applied Materials Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

15:30 D17.006 Microscopic dynamics in molten binary metallic alloys

David J. Gonzalez, Malcolm J. Stott (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 3N6, Canada), Luis E. Gonzalez Collaboration, Jose M. Lopez Collaboration

15:42 D17.007 Electronic Structure Modeling as a Screening Tool for Molybdenum Alloy Development

Clint B. Geller (Bechtel Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, West Mifflin, PA), Erich Wimmer (Materials Design, Inc., Angel Fire, NM)

15:54 D17.008 Strong Fe-TiC bonding and the superior toughness of TiC modified steels

Joo-Hyoung Lee, Tatsuya Shishidou, O. Yu. Kontsevoi, A. J. Freeman, G. B. Olson (Northwestern University), Yu. N. Gornostyrev (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

16:06 D17.009 Negative yield stress temperature anomaly and structural stability of Pt_3Al

Yu.N. Gornostyrev (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia), A.F. Maksyutov (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia), O.Yu. Kontsevoi, A.J. Freeman (Northwestern University), M.I. Katsnelson (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia), A.V. Trefilov (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia)

16:18 D17.010 Effects of nitrogen on intergranular cohesion in iron: electronic structure modeling

Miyoung Kim, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern University), Clint B. Geller (Bettis Laboratory)

16:30 D17.011 Getting off the Bain path: Are there any metastable states of cubic elements?

Michael J. Mehl, Larry L. Boyer (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375-5000)

16:42 D17.012 A First-principles Model of Emitter Layer on Tungsten Cathodes

Kailash Mishra, Richard Garner (OSRAM SYLVANIA, Beverly, MA), Peter Schmidt (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)

16:54 D17.013 Non-equilibrium phenomena during pulsed laser induced thermal sputtering

Sebastiano Tosto (ENEA Casaccia, via Anguillarese 301, 00060 Roma, Italy)

17:06 D17.014 Molecular dynamics study of ablation of solids under femtosecond laser pulses

Danny Perez, Laurent J. Lewis (Département de physique et Groupe de recherche en physique et technologie des couches minces (GCM), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada)

D17.015 Exact Error Bound for O(N) TreeCodes

C.J. Tymczak (Los Alamos National Lab, Group T-14), Challacombe Collaboration

D17.016 Why are the 3d-5d compounds CuAu and NiPt stable, whereas the 3d-4d compounds CuAg and NiPd are not*

Ligen Wang, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)

D17.017 A NEW APPROACH TO THE CALCULATION OF THE VIBRATIONAL FORCE CONSTANT

Tolga Yarman, Kadir Akgungor (Isik University)

14:30 D19.001 Second-order to first-order ferromagnetic transition in pyrite (Co, Fe)(S, Se)2

Y.S. Hor, S. Guha, S.W. Cheong (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855)

14:42 D19.002 Magnetic Tweed in Ferroic Materials

A. Planes, T. Castan (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), A. Saxena (Los Alamos National Lab.)

14:54 D19.003 Evidence of nanoscale phase separation and ferromagnetic microdomains in manganites

Shigeo Mori (Osaka Prefecture University), Toru Asaka (Advanced Materials Labs.), Youichi Horibe (Osaka Prefecture University), Yoshio Matsui (Advanced Materials Labs.), Yutaka Moritomo (Nagoya University), C.H Chen (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), S-W Cheong (Rutgers University)

15:06 D19.004 MnAs: magnetic-field-induced structural phase transformation and associated magnetoresistance

Jorge Mira (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN), Francisco Rivadulla (Texas Materials Institute, ETC 9.102, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1063), Jose Rivas (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN), Alfonso Fondado, Roberto G. M. C. Caciuffo (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Fisica ed Ingegneria dei Materiali, Universita di Ancona, I-60131 Ancona, ITALY), F. Carsughi, Tatiana Guidi, John B. Goodenough (Texas Materials Institute, ETC 9.102, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1063)

15:18 D19.005 Metamagnetism in the antiferromagnetic correlated metal Ca_1-xSr_xRuO_4 for x=0.2

Luis Balicas, Satoru Nakatsuji, Donavan Hall, Zachary Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee-FL 32306, USA.), Yoshi Maeno (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan)

15:30 D19.006 Layer\-by\-layer growth and phase transitions of La_0.33Pr_0.3Ca_0.37MnO_3 thin films on SrTiO_3 and LaAlO_3 subtrates

M.A. Torija (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), J.X. Ma (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), E.W. Plummer (Oak Ridge National LAboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), J. Shen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:42 D19.007 Commensurate-Incommensurate Crossover of Charge Stripe in La2-xSrxNiO4

Kyoko Ishizaka (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo), Taka-hisa Arima (Ins. Mat. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba), Yoichi Murakami (Dept. of Phys., Tohoku Univ.), Ryoichi Kajimoto (Dept. of Phys., Ochanomizu Univ.), Hideki Yoshizawa (Ins. of Solid State Phys., Univ. of Tokyo), Yoshinori Tokura (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo, and Correlated Electron Research Center)

15:54 D19.008 Prospects for Quantum Criticallity in Perovskite SrRhO_3

David J. Singh (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:06 D19.009 Thermodynamic investigation of the metamagnetic transition in Sr_3Ru_2O_7

S. McCall, C.S. Alexander, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory*, Tallahassee FL), G. Cao (University of Kentucky, Lexington KY), P. Schlottmann (Florida State University, Tallahassee FL)

16:18 D19.010 ^99Ru NMR in URu_2Si_2 at Ambient Pressure

O. O. Bernal, M. Moroz (Physics Department, California State University, Los Angeles CA 90032), D. E. MacLaughlin (Physics Department, University of California, Riverside CA 92521), H. G. Lukefahr (Physics Department, Whittier College, Whittier CA 90601), J. A. Mydosh, A. A. Menovsky (Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

16:30 D19.011 Anisotropic properties of \textitRFe_2Ge_2 single crystals

M. A. Avila, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

16:42 D19.012 Anisotropic magnetic and electronic properties of the layered rare earth (R) tellurides RTe_2 and RTe_3

I. R. Fisher, N. Ru, K. Y. Shin (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, CA 94305-4045), V. Brouet (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Berkeley, CA 94720)

16:54 D19.013 Local structure studies of spin-glass and antiferromagnetic URh_2Ge_2

C. H. Booth, S.-W. Han (LBNL), S. Suellow (TU Braunschweig), J. A. Mydosh (Leiden University)

D19.014 Growth and characterization of \textitRFe_6Ge_6 single crystals

M. A. Avila, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

D19.015 Pressure-temperature-magnetic field phase diagram of the bilayered perovskites Sr3Ru2O7 and Ca3Ru2O7 probed by SQUID magnetometry and magnetotransport measurements.

Yuri Sushko, Oleg Naumenko, Bruno DeHarak, Gang Cao (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506)

14:30 D20.001 Structural Order Parameter and Electronic Structure of the Pyrochlore Superconductor Cd_2Re_2O_7.

I. A. Sergienko, S. H. Curnoe (Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

14:42 D20.002 Cerium's electronic volume instability and some non-equilibrium consequences

Michael E. Manley, Martin S. Piltch, Robert W. Carpenter, James L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:54 D20.003 Thermal Stabilization of the HCP Phase in Titanium

Sven P. Rudin (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Matt D. Jones (The State University of New York, Buffalo), Robert C. Albers (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 D20.004 Development of a new phase below the metal-insulator transition in the spinel compound CuIr2S4

Horibe Y. (Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, and Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855), Mori S. (Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531), Chen C. H. (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974), Ishibashi H. (Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, and Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855), Hor Y-S., Koo T-y, Kiryukhin V. (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855), Radaelli P. G. (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK), Cheong S-W. (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, and Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855)

15:18 D20.005 Structural phase diagram of Sr2-xCaxRuO4

Matthias Gutmann (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Chilton Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK), Paolo Radaelli, Laurent Chapon, David Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN37831, USA), Rongying Jin, Mark Lumsden

15:30 D20.006 Critical Phase Transitions of TbV_1-xAs_xO_4

M. J. Lewis, B. D. Gaulin, H. Dabkowska (McMaster University), J. van Duijn (Oxford University), D. R. Taylor (Queen's University)

15:42 D20.007 Phase transition in fast-ion conductor Na_3PO_4: molecular dynamics simulation studies

Wei-Guo Yin, Jianjun Liu, Chun-Gang Duan, W. N. Mei (Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182), R. W. Smith (Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182), J. R. Hardy (Department of Physics and Center for Electro-Optics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)

15:54 D20.008 Obtaining Microscopic Mechanisms of Reconstructive Phase Transitions in Crystalline Solids

Dorian Hatch, Harold Stokes (Brigham Young University), Dallas Trinkle (Ohio State University)

16:06 D20.009 Phonon Softening and Critical Exponents in SrTiO3

Martin Holt (Dept of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Peter Czoschke (Dept of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Hawoong Hong, Paul Zschack (Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), T.-C. Chiang (Dept of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

16:18 D20.010 Phase Diagram of Spin and Orbital Ordering in Perovskite-type Vanadates

SHIGEKI MIYASAKA, MASAYUKI IWAMA (Department of Applied Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), YOICHI OKIMOTO (Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan), HIROSHI OKAMOTO (Department of Advanced Materials Science, Univ. of Tokyo and CERC, AIST, Japan), YOSHINORI TOKURA (Department of Applied Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, CERC, AIST and ERATO, Japan)

16:30 D20.011 MAGNETIC NON-LINEARITY CAUSED BY JAHN-TELLER DISTORTION CORRELATION IN MANGANITES

Michael Kaplan (Chemistry and Physics Departments, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115), George Zimmerman (Physics Department, Boston University, 390 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215)

16:42 D20.012 Phase separation in oxygen doped La2-xSrxNiO4+d (0

Markus Hucker (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973), Monal Chand, Douglas Buttrey (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716), Tom Vogt, John Tranquada (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973), BNL Collaboration, UDEL Collaboration

16:54 D20.013 Structural Instabilities of the High-Temperature Phases in Metallic Plutonium

X. DAI (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University,Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019), S.Y. Savrasovb (bDepartment of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102-1982), G. Kotliar (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University,Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019), A. Migloric (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM), E. Abrahamsa (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University,Piscataway, NJ)

17:06 D20.014 Raman studies of 1T-TaS2

L.V. Gasparov (University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA), D.B. Tanner (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA), Q.-Y. Kang, G. Guntherodt (2. Physikalisches Institut RWTH Aachen, Germany), E.Ya Sherman (Institute for Theoretical Physics RWTH Aachen, Germany), H. Berger, R. Gaal, L. Forro, G. Margaritondo (Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

17:18 D20.015 Non-equilibrium Relaxation Analysis on Two-dimensional Melting

Hiroshi Watanabe, Satoshi Yukawa (Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), Yukiyasu Ozeki (Department of Physics, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Nobuyasu Ito (Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

D20.016 Three-dimensional Landau theory for multivariant stress-induced martensitic phase transformations

Valery Levitas (Texas Tech University, Lubbock,TX, USA), Dean Preston (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA), Dong-Wook Lee (Texas Tech University)

14:30 D21.001 Coexistence of bulk antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in the QED3 theory of copper oxides

Tamar Pereg-Barnea, Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia)

14:42 D21.002

14:54 D21.003 Impurity effects on d-density wave state

Amit Ghosal (McMaster University), Hae-Young Kee, Yong-Baek Kim (University of Toronto)

15:06 D21.004 Relationship Between Conventional Time Dependent Ginsburg-Landau (TDGL) Theory and a Mean Field Theory of the Cuprate Pseudogap

J. Stajic, A. Iyengar, K. Levin (U. Chicago)

15:18 D21.005 Orbital Isotropy of the Pseudogap Closing Field in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+y

L. Krusin-Elbaum (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), T. Shibauchi (Kyoto University, Japan), C.H. Mielke (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 D21.006 Upper Critical Magnetic Field of alpha-Uranium

G.M. Schmiedeshoff (Occidental College), C.H. Mielke, A. Christianson, A.H. Lacerda, E. Palm, S.T. Hannahs, T. Murphy (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), E.C. Gay, C.C. McPheeters (Argonne National Laboratory), D.J. Thoma, W.L. Hults, J.C. Cooley, A.M. Kelly, R.J. Hanrahan Jr., J.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:42 D21.007 Radio Frequency Penetration of Layered Superconductors in High Magnetic Field

Charles Mielke, Ross McDonald, John Singleton (NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), J.F. Ryan (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, England), NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory Collaboration, Oxford University Collaboration

15:54 D21.008 Magnetotransport measurement for optimally doped YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta in high magnetic fields up to 400 T using the electromagnetic flux compression system

TSUYOSHI SEKITANI, SATORU IKEDA, YASUHIRO H. MATSUDA, NOBORU MIURA (ISSP, University of Tokyo, JAPAN), YUH SHIOHARA (SRL-ISTEC, JAPAN)

16:06 D21.009 IR Hall angle response of single crystal Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8

G. S. Jenkins (hsgsj@glue.umd.edu), D. C. Schmadel, A. B. Sushkov (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park), H. D. Drew (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park), G. D. Gu (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY)

16:18 D21.010 Weak-Field Thermal Hall Conductivity in the Mixed State of d-Wave Superconductors

Adam C. Durst (Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ashvin Vishwanath, Patrick A. Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:30 D21.011 Understanding the ab-plane Conductivity in the Cuprates: Pseudogap Effects in the Superconducting Phase

Andrew Iyengar, Jelena Stajic, K Levin (James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)

14:30 D22.001 Mirrorless Lasing in a 3-D photonic Band-gap Material: Liquid Crystal Blue Phase II

Wenyi Cao (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University,Kent, OH 44240), Antonio Muñoz (Department of Physics, Universidad Autonoma, Mexico), Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Bahman Taheri (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240)

14:42 D22.002 Microwave Study of Photonic bands and gaps in model 3D crystals and quasi-crystals

Weining Man, Orion Crisafulli, Paul Chaikin, Paul Steinhardt (Physics Department, Princeton University)

14:54 D22.003 Strong Localization of a Photon at the Intersection of the Phase Slips in 2D Photonic Crystal with Incomplete Bandgap

V.M. Apalkov, M.E. Raikh (University of Utah)

15:06 D22.004 2-D THz photonic crystals fabricated by Deep Reactive Ion Etching in Si

Nathan Jukam, Mark Sherwin (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

15:18 D22.005 2D Photonic Band Gap Crystals Based on Periodic Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Zhifeng Ren, Dezhi Wang, Jingyu Lao, Wenzhi Li, Kris Kempa (Department of Physics, Boston College, Chesnut Hill, MA, USA), Brian Kimball, Diana Steeves, Michael Sennett (US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, Natick, MA, USA), Zhongping Huang, David Carnahan (NanoLab, Inc., Brighton, MA, USA), Jakub Rybczynski, Michael Giersig (Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Berlin, Germany), Pengfei Wu, D.V.G.L.N. Rao (UMass Boston, Boston, MA, USA)

15:30 D22.006 2D Photonic Crystal infiltrated by liquid crystal: response to applied electric field

J. HUMBERTO ARROYO-NUNEZ (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Puebla, Mexico), PETER HALEVI (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Puebla, Mexico and Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL), J. ADRIAN REYES-CERVANTES (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, D.F., MEXICO and Politecnico di Torino, ITALY)

15:42 D22.007 Near Field Light Patterns in Submicron Photonic Crystals

Leilei Yin, Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov, Ulrich Welp, Wai Kwok, Jon Hiller, Argonne National Laboratory Collaboration

15:54 D22.008 Penetration depth of evanescent modes for a frequency within band gap of photonic crystal

Tzong-Jer Yang, Young-Chung Hsue (Dept. of Electrophysics,National Chiao-Tung University,Hsinchu,Taiwan)

16:06 D22.009 Tunable optical response of 1D photonic crystals with free carriers

Adan S. Sanchez, Peter Halevi (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica. Apdo. Post. 51, Puebla, 72000, Mexico)

16:18 D22.010 Clusters bound by light-induced forces

Tsz-Fai (Jack) Ng, Zhi Fang Lin, Che Ting Chan, Ping Sheng (Physics Dept., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

16:30 D22.011 Optical properties of gold nanorings

P. Hanarp (Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden), J. Aizpurua (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), D. S. Sutherland (Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden), M. Kall, Garnett W. Bryant (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), F. J. Garcia de Abajo (Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian, Spain)

16:42 D22.012 FDTD Modeling of the Surface Plasmon Resonance for a Single Gold Nanosphere

Michael Haftel (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory)

16:54 D22.013 RADIATION DAMPING OF SURFACE PLASMON IN METALLIC NANOPARTICLES

Armen Melikyan, Hayk Minassian (State Engineering University of Armenia)

17:06 D22.014 Evaluation of Gold Colloidal Preparations for use in Micro-Raman Spectroscopy

Maritoni Litorja, David Dunmire, Angela Hight Walker (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))

17:18 D22.015 Theory of Melting and the Optical Properties of Gold/DNA Nanocomposites

Sung Yong Park, David Stroud (Department of Physics, Ohio State University)

14:30 D23.001 Berry Phases of Composite Fermions

Jainendra Jain, Gun Sang Jeon, Kenneth Graham (Pennsylvania State Univesity)

14:42 D23.002 Back to the FQHE ``Hierarchy'' near \nu = 1/3?: \nu = 3/8, 4/11 as FQHE states of Laughlin quasiparticles.

F. D. M. Haldane (Princeton), E. H. Rezayi (CSULA)

14:54 D23.003 Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall effect in the filling range 1/3<\nu<2/5

Chia-Chen Chang, Sdhanhsu Mandal, Jainendra Jain (Pennsylvania State University)

15:06 D23.004 Composite Fermion Landau Level Excitations at Filling Factors \nu \geq 1/3

I. Dujovne, A. Pinczuk (Columbia Univ., Bell Labs), Moonsoo Kang (Washington State Univ.), B.S. Dennis, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Labs)

15:18 D23.005 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in the Si/Si_1-xGe_x Heterostructure

K. Lai, W. Pan, D.C. Tsui (Princeton Univ.), Y.H. Xie (Univ. of California at Los Angeles)

15:30 D23.006 Collective Excitations at \nu \leq 1/3: Evidence of Crossover and Coexistence of Composite Fermion Flavors

C.F. Hirjibehedin, A. Pinczuk (Columbia Univ. and Bell Labs), B.S. Dennis, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Labs)

15:42 D23.007 Microwave spectroscopy on Wigner solid in 2DES with small filling factors: temperature dependence study and strong magnetic field behavior

L. W. Engel (National High Magnetic Field Lab., 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee FL 32310), Yong Chen, R. M. Lewis (NHMFL and Princeton University), D. C. Tsui (Princeton University), P. D. Ye (Agere Systems), L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Bell Labs)

15:54 D23.008 Reentrant Insulating Phase around \nu=1/3 Fractional Quantum Hall State in a Narrow Quantum Well

I YANG, W KANG (University of Chicago), S.T. HANNAHS (NHMFL), L.N. PFEIFFER, K.W. WEST (Lucent Technologies)

16:06 D23.009 Competition between Wigner Crystal and Composite Fermion Liquid

Michael Peterson, Sudhansu Mandal, Jainendra Jain (Pennsylvania State University)

16:18 D23.010 New results in the second Landau level around the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect state \nu=5/2

W. Pan (Princeton University and NHMFL), J.S. Xia, C. Vicente, E.D. Adams, N.S. Sullivan (University of Florida and NHMFL), H.L. Stormer (Columbia University and Lucent Technologies), D.C. Tsui (Princeton University), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. Baldwin, K.W. West (Lucent Technologies)

16:30 D23.011 Microwave resonance of Wigner crystal phase around integer quantum Hall effects

Yong Chen (NHMFL, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee FL 32310 and Princeton University), R. M. Lewis (NHMFL and Princeton University), L. W. Engel (National High Magnetic Field Lab.), D. C. Tsui (Princeton University), P. D. Ye (Agere Systems), L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Bell Labs)

16:42 D23.012 Microwave conductivity of a two--dimensional electron system near \nu=9/2

R.M. Lewis (NHMFL-FSU and Princeton University), Yong Chen (NHMFL and Princeton University), L.W. Engel (NHMFL-FSU), D.C. Tsui (Princeton University), P.D. Ye (NHMFL-FSU, Princeton University, and Agere), L.N. Pfeiffer (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs.), K.W. West (Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs)

16:54 D23.013 Orbital Magnetization Measurement of the Quantum Hall-Insulator Transition

Rich Faulhaber, HongWen Jiang (UCLA)

17:06 D23.014 Nodal Structure of the Composite Fermion Liquid

Kenneth Graham, Jainendra Jain (Pennsylvania State University)

17:18 D23.015 Rotating Wigner molecules and the N-electron problem in high magnetic fields

CONSTANTINE YANNOULEAS, UZI LANDMAN (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

14:30 D24.001 Magnetic Tunnel Transistors: A source of highly spin polarized electron current

Stuart S. P. Parkin (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center)

15:06 D24.002 The influence of the seed and spacer layer material on the giant magnetocurrent in magnetic tunnel transistors with a spin valve base

Sebastiaan van Dijken, Xin Jiang, Stuart S.P. Parkin (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California 95120)

15:18 D24.003 Hot Electron Spin Injection into GaAs using a Magnetic Tunnel Transistor with InGaAs Quantum Well Optical Detection

Roger Wang, Xin Jiang, Sebastiaan van Dijken, Robert Shelby, Roger MacFarlane, Stuart Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center, CA), Glenn Solomon, James Harris (Stanford University, CA)

15:30 D24.004 Theory of Magnetic Bipolar Transistors

Igor Zutic (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), Jaroslav Fabian (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karl-Franzens University, 8010 Graz, Austria), S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

15:42 D24.005 Non-ballistic spin field-effect transistor

John Schliemann, J. Carlos Egues, Daniel Loss (University of Basel, Switzerland)

15:54 D24.006 Spintronics of an InAs Surface Layer With Ferromagnetic Gates

James P. McGuire, Cristiano Ciuti, Lu J. Sham (U.C. San Diego, Dep't. of Physics), Edward T. Yu (U.C. San Diego, Dep't. of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

16:06 D24.007 Interface effects in Fe/AlGaAs Schottky barrier spinLEDs

R.M. Stroud, A.T. Hanbicki, G. Kioseoglou, O.M.J. van`t Erve, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), G. Itskos, R.. Mallory, M. Yasar, A. Petrou (SUNY Buffalo, Bufallo, NY)

16:18 D24.008 Bias Dependence of Spin Transport in Epitaxial Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures

A.F. Isakovic, B.D. Schultz, J. Strand, C. Adelmann, C.J. Palmstrom, P.A. Crowell (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

16:30 D24.009 Electrical Spin Injection from Fe Schottky Tunnel Contacts in GaAs Quantum Wells

G. Itskos, R. Mallory, M. Yasar, A. Petrou (State University of New York at Buffalo), A.T. Hanbicki, G. Kioseoglou, O.M.J. van 't Erve, C.H. Li, R.M. Stroud, R. Magno, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:42 D24.010 Electrical Spin Injection of m_j = +1/2 Electrons from an n-type Ferromagnetic Semiconductor: CdCr_2Se_4/AlGaAs/GaAs Spin-LEDs

R. Mallory, G. Itskos, M. Yasar, A. Petrou (State University of New York at Buffalo), A.T. Hanbicki, G. Kioseoglou, O.M.J. van 't Erve, C.H. Li, R. Goswami, G. Spanos, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:54 D24.011 In-situ conductance characterization of Fe/Ag multilayer contacts on GaAs

Dustin A. Hite, Stephen E. Russek, David P. Pappas (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

17:06 D24.012 Spin-polarized tunneling in hybrid metal-semiconductor magnetic tunnel junctions

S. H. Chun (Sejong University, Seoul, Korea), S. J. Potashnik, K. C Ku, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth (Penn State University, University Park.)

14:30 D25.001 Lattice instabilities and dielectric response of nanostructured ferroelectrics

Claudia Bungaro (Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ)

15:06 D25.002 First-principles Study of the Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of MgH<sub>2<sub>

Ashley Alford (Georgia Institute of Technology (currently at the Quantum Theory Project University of Florida)), Mei-Yin Chou (Georgia Institute of Technology)

15:18 D25.003 First Principles Studies of Transport Properties for Palladium Thin-films Loaded with Hydrogen

Nie Luo, George Miley, Andrei Lipson (University of Illinois)

15:30 D25.004 ATOMIC STRUCTURE AND THE COULOMB BUFFER AT A SrO/Si(100) INTERFACE

Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, and Computational Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN), William A. Shelton (Computational Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN), G. Malcom Stocks, Rodney McKee (Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)

15:42 D25.005 Pseudopotential Computations for Metal/Alumina Interfaces

Wenqing Zhang (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

16:18 D25.006 Real Space Pseudopotential Method for the Electronic Properties of Periodic Systems

James Chelikowsky, M.M.G. Alemany (University of Minnesota)

16:30 D25.007 New ab initio approach for high pressure systems, perturbative momentum-space pseudopotentials

Darren Segall (Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology), Tomas Arias (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University)

16:42 D25.008 Electronic and structural properties of hybrid materials based on the perovskite CsSnI_3

Michel Cote, Jean-François Chabot (Departement de physique, Universite de Montréal, Quebec, Canada), Groupe de recherche en physique et technologie des couches minces (GCM) Team

16:54 D25.009 Structure and Dynamics of Na Adsorption on Al(100)

Mikael Borg, Anders Mikkelsen, Edvin Lundgren, Johan Gustafson, Jesper N. Andersen (Dept. of Synchrotron Radiation Physics, Lund University, Sweden), Catherine Stampfl, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany), David L. Adams (Århus University, Denmark)

17:06 D25.010 First-principles study of vibrational and dielectric properties of C_3N_4 polymorphs

Gian-Marco Rignanese, Jean-Christophe Charlier, Xavier Gonze (Unité de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1 Place Croix du Sud, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; and Research Center on Microscopic and Nanoscopic Materials and Electronic Devices (CERMIN), Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.)

17:18 D25.011 Pseudopotential calculations of heterojunctions between silicon and its oxides

Blair Tuttle (PSU - Erie)

14:30 D26.001 Theoretical Study on Conductance versus Length for Carbon Nanotubes with Adsorbed Chemical Species

Lei Liu, C. S. Jayanthi, S. Y. Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292)

14:42 D26.002 Large scale O(N) ab initio quantum transport calculations: applications to carbon nanotube-metal cluster structures

Qingzhong Zhao (Departmetn of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606), Marco Nardelli (Departmetn of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606; Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6359), wenchang Lu, Jerry Bernholc (Departmetn of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606)

14:54 D26.003 Charge transport in carbon nanotubes with oxygen: a first-principles study

Yi Liu, Brian Larade, Guo Hong (McGill University)

15:06 D26.004 Environment Quantum Fluctuations and Luttinger Liquid Predictions for Nanotube Power Law IV Curves

Edouard Sonin (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

15:42 D26.005 First-Principles Properties of Narrow Carbon Nanotubes

J. W. Mintmire, I. Cabria (Oklahoma State University), C. T. White (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:54 D26.006 Modeling of carbon nanotube Schottky barrier modulation due to oxidation

Toshishige Yamada (NASA Ames Research Center)

16:06 D26.007 Theory of nanotube faraday cage

Elena Roxana Margine, Cristiano Nisoli, Aleksey Kolmogorov, Vincent H. Crespi (Pennsylvania State University)

16:18 D26.008 LITHIUM INTERCALATION INTO CHEMICALLY-ETCHED MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Heon-Cheol Shin, Meilin Liu (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA), B. Sadanadan, S. Chopra, A. M. Rao (Kinard Laboratory of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA)

16:30 D26.009 SYNTHESIS AND RAMAN CHARACTERIZATION OF BORON DOPED SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNTs)

K. McGuire, N. Gothard (Kinard Lab of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), P.L. Gai (DuPont Central Research amp; Development, Wilmington DE 19880), S.G. Chou, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139), A.M. Rao (Kinard Lab of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

16:42 D26.010 Boron-doped Carbon Nanotube Architectures

Pratibha L. Gai (DuPont, Central Research and Development Laboratories, Experimental Station, Wilmington DE 19880-0356; Department of Materials Science, University of Delaware.), K. McGuire, A. M. Rao (Clemson University, Kinard Laboratory for Physics, Clemson, SC 29634), M. S. Dresselhaus (Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139)

16:54 D26.011 Bromine-doped DWNTs: A Molecular Faraday Cage

Gugang Chen, Roxana Margine, Rajeev Gupta, Vincent Crespi, Peter Eklund (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802), Gamini Sumanasekera (Univ of Lousville, Louisville, KY 40292), Shunji Bandow, S Iijima (Dept of Materials Sci. and Engin., Meijo University, Tenpaku, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan)

17:06 D26.012 To what extent is a carbon nanotube a rolled up graphene sheet?

Hande Ustunel, Tomas Arias (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853(Cornell Center for Materials Research))

17:18 D26.013 Multiscale Simulations of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth: Continuum Calculations.

Sreekanth Pannala, Richard Wood (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

17:30 D26.014 Multiscale Simulations of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth: Electronic Structure

Jack C. Wells, B.G. Sumpter, R.F. Wood (ORNL)

17:42 D26.015 NMR study of electronic states at low temperature in doped single-wall carbon nanotubes

Hironori Ogata, Masato Mukaiyachi (Dept. of Materials Chemistry, Hosei University), Koji Ito (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mie University), Yahachi Saito (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mie University)

14:30 D27.001 Computer modeling of point defects and diffusion in ordered intermetallic compounds

Y. Mishin (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030)

15:06 D27.002 Huge Anisotropy in Grain Boundary Diffusion Rates for C in Ni: A Density Functional Study

Donald Siegel, John Hamilton (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:18 D27.003 Antisite-defect induced surface segregation in ordered NiPt

Leonid V. Pourovskii (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden), Andrei V. Ruban (Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark), Igor A. Abrikosov (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden), Borje Johansson (Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

15:30 D27.004 Stability of hydrogenated nanodiamonds and the growth of diamond films

Jean-Yves Raty (University of Liege), Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:42 D27.005 Rationale for the carbon-induced surface reconstruction of Ni(100)

Sergey Stolbov, Sampyo Hong, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

15:54 D27.006 Self-teaching kinetic Monte-Carlo simulation with EAM energetics: application to metal surfaces

Oleg Trushin (Academy of Sciences of Russia, Yaroslavl, Russia), Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University), Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

16:06 D27.007 MD Simulations of SiO_2 Nanorod Fracture as a Test of First-principles Potential Parameterization

Wuming Zhu, Carlos Taylor, A.R. Al-Derzi, K. Runge, R.J. Bartlett, S.B. Trickey (Quantum Theory Project, Departments of Physics and of Chemistry, P.O.Box 118435, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611-8435), Ting Zhu, Ju Li, S. Yip (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 24-208, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139), N.H. de Leeuw (School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX UK)

16:18 D27.008 Circular dichroism spectra of chiral gold nanoclusters

Ignacio L. Garzon (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 01000 Mexico,D.F.), Carlos E. Roman-Velazquez (Centro de Investigacion en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnologia Avanzada, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, 11500 Mexico, D.F., Mexico), Cecilia Noguez (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 01000 Mexico,D.F.)

16:30 D27.009 Tight-Binding Model for Calcium Clusters*

Estela Blaisten-Barojas, Guan Ming Wang (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030)

16:42 D27.010 Using Oxa Bowls as Novel Candidates for the Molecular Recognition of Alkali Metal Ions: A Theoretical Study

Steven L. Richardson (Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Research Center, Howard University, School of Engineering, Washington, DC 20059), Mark R. Pederson (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6390, Washington, DC 20375)

16:54 D27.011 The Shape Transition in Silicon Clusters

Koblar A. Jackson, Jennifer Boike, Mihai Horoi (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859), Indira Chaudhuri, Thomas Frauenheim (Theoretische Physik, Universität Paderborn, D33095 Paderborn, Germany)

17:06 D27.012 Multiscale Modelling of Small Molecules Absorbed in Zeolite-4A

N. A. Modine, Michael Chandross, Eugenio Jaramillo (Sandia National Laboratories)

17:18 D27.013 Plane wave, ultrasoft pseudopotential based QM/MM simulation of water-materials interactions

Kevin Leung (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque)

14:30 D28.001 Site-Specific Oxygen Stoichiometry: Tuning Magnetic and Electronic States of Layered Manganites and Cobaltites

John Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

15:06 D28.002 CONTROL OF MAGNETIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURES BY ATOMIC ARRANGMENT FOR CMR MANGANITES

B. Dabrowski, S. Kolesnik, O. Chmaissem, J. Mais (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL), J. D. Jorgensen (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)

15:18 D28.003 Structural and magnetic properties of Ho_0.1Sr_0.9CoO_3-\delta perovskites

Andrew Podlesnyak, Sabine Streule, Kazimierz Conder (Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETH Zürich amp; Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland), Natalia Golosova, Edward Mitberg (Institute for Metal Physics RAS, 620219 Ekaterinburg GSP-170, Russia.)

15:30 D28.004 Bond-Property Distribution Model for Magnetization and Resistivity of Mixed-Valent Manganites

Abhijit S. Ogale, U.P. Wad, S.B. Ogale, T. Venkatesan (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742)

15:42 D28.005 Understanding the Magnetic State in Bi0.125Ca0.875MnO3

Yuhai Qin, Trevor Tyson (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Hyungje Woo (Brookhaven National Lab.), Jianming Bai (Oak Ridge National Lab.), William Buyers (Chalk River Laboratories, NRC, Canada), S. W. Cheong (Rutgers University)

15:54 D28.006 A possible universal relationship between changes in local distortions and magnetization

Frank Bridges, Lisa Downward, Paul Chesler, Daliang Cao (UCSC), John J. Neumeier (Montana State)

16:06 D28.007 High Pressure Studies of Metal-Insulator-Transitions in Manganites: Effect on the Bandwidth

Congwu Cui, Trevor Tyson (Physics Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

16:18 D28.008 Charge ordered ferromagnetic phase in La_0.5Ca_0.5MnO_3

Neil Mathur (Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK)

16:54 D28.009 Heat capacity of naturally layered SrO(La_1-xSr_xMnO_3)_2 single crystals

Jiyeong Gu, Samuel D. Bader, John F. Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

17:06 D28.010 Neutron Investigation of Low Temperature Magnetization Steps in PCMO

F.M. Woodward, J.W. Lynn (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), M.B. Stone, P. Schiffer (Dept. of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16082), L.C. Chapon, D.N. Argyriou (Hahn-Meitner Institut, 14109 Berlin, Germany), J.F. Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60349), NIST Center for Neutron Research Collaboration, Dept. Physics Collaboration, Hahn-Meitner Institut Collaboration, Materials Science Division Collaboration

17:18 D28.011 Ultra-sharp magnetization steps and anomalous field cooling effect in perovskite manganites

R Mahendiran (Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, 104 Davey Lab, Penn State University, University Park, PA-16802-6300), A Maignan, S Hebart, C Martin, M Hervieu, B Raveau (Laboratoire CRISMAT, ISMRA, Universite de Caen, 6, Bolulevard du Marechal Juin, Caen Cedex, Caen -14050, France), J. F. Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), P Schiffer (Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, 104 Davey Lab, Penn State University, University Park, PA-16802-6300)

D28.012 Unquenched Orbital Magnetic Moments in Fe3O4 above the Verwey Transition

Guang-Yu Guo (Dept. of Physics, National Taiwaun Univ., Taipei 106, Taiwan), D. J. Huang (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan), H.-T. Jeng (Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan), C. F. Chang, H.-J. Lin, H. H. Hsieh, C. T. Chen (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan)

14:30 D29.001 Spin-reorientation in bcc-Co

Theodore L. Monchesky, John Unguris, Robert J. Celotta (Electron Physics Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology)

14:42 D29.002 An Investigation of the Magnetic Evolution of thin Fe and Co film growth on GaN

Philip Ryan, Robert Winarski, Dave Keavney, Richard Rosenberg, John Freeland (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:54 D29.003 Expitaxial Growth of Ferromagnetic Fe Overlayers on CH_3CSNH_2-passivated GaAs(100)-S(2x1) Reconstruction

E.D. Lu, H.T. Johnson-Steigelman, P.F. Lyman (Physics Department and Laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee, P. O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413)

15:06 D29.004 Shunt Effects In The Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR) Of Macroscopic And Mesoscopic Devices

S.A. Solin (Washington University), D.R. Hines (Affiliation), A.C.H. Rowe (NEC Labs America), J.S. Tsai (Affiliation), Yu A. Pashkin (NEC Fundamental Research Labs), S.J. Chung, N. Goel (Affiliation), M.B. Santos (U. of Oklahoma)

15:18 D29.005 Efficient spin injection into semiconductors and mechanism of ultrafast magnetic sensing

V.V. OSIPOV, Alexander BRATKOVSKY (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304)

15:30 D29.006 Mapping the spin-injection probability on the nanometer length scale

Vincent LaBella, James Raynolds (University at Albany-SUNY, School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering), Daniel Bullock, Zhao Ding, Paul Thibado (University of Arkansas, Department of Physics)

15:42 D29.007 Magneto-optical Effects in Ferromagnetic-based Spin Injection Devices

Steven Ruggiero, Anthony Williams, Carol Tanner (University of Notre Dame), John Moreland, William Rippard (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder)

15:54 D29.008 Robust room temperature spin injection through Fe|CrAs|GaAs structure

Xu P. X. (Institute of Physics, P.R. China), Zwierzycki M. (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Xia K. (Institute of Physics, P.R. China), Kelly P. J. (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Turek I. (Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Republic), Wang E. G. (Institute of Physics, P.R. China)

16:06 D29.009 Bias Voltage Dependence of Magnetocurrent in Magnetic Tunnel Transistors with GaAs and Si Collectors

Xin Jiang (Stanford University), Sebastiaan van Dijken (IBM Almaden Research Center), Roger Wang (Stanford University), Stuart Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center)

16:18 D29.010 Coherent spin valve phenomena and electrical spin injection in ferromagnetic/semiconductor/ferromagnetic junctions

Francisco Mireles (Centro de Ciencias de la Meteria Condensada - UNAM, 22800 Ensenada, BC, México), George Kirczenow (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, V5A 1S6, Canada)

16:30 D29.011 Interface resistances from first principles

M. Talanana, M. Zwierzycki, P.J. Kelly (University of Twente), K. Xia (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing), G.E.W. Bauer (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

16:42 D29.012 Spin current in ferromagnetic metals or semiconductors

S.Q. Shen (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong), X. C. Xie (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078)

16:54 D29.013 Spin Precession and Phase Coherence in Mesoscopic Systems

Martin Y. Veillette, Cristina Bena, Leon Balents (University of California at Santa Barbara)

17:06 D29.014 Effects of Rashba mechanism and AC gate in a narrow constriction

C.S. Chu, L.Y. Wang (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan), C.S. Tang (Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, P.O. Box 2-131, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan), J.Y. Chiu, Y.Y. Lin (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan)

14:30 D30.001 Combination of GW and DMFT methods for calculating total energies and spectra of strongly correlated material

Nikolay Zein (RNC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow), Sergey Savrasov (New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ), Gabriel Kotliar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, NJ)

14:42 D30.002 Calculations of Optical Properties of Real Materials using Dynamical Mean Field Theory

Viktor Oudovenko, Gunnar Palsson, Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University, NJ), Serguej Savrasov (New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ)

14:54 D30.003 Spin-dynamics simulations of the triangular antiferromagnetic XY model*

Kwangsik Nho, D.P. Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia)

15:06 D30.004 A nonmagnetic impurity in a 2D quantum critical antiferromagnet

Matthias Troyer (ETH Zurich)

15:42 D30.005 High Temperature Series Expansion for the t-t'-J-Model.

Mathias Körner, Matthias Troyer (ETH Zürich), William Putikka (Ohio State University, Mansfield)

15:54 D30.006 Periodic Anderson model in the high temperature regime via extended dynamical mean field theory

Ping Sun, Gabriel Kotliar (Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854)

16:06 D30.007 Atomic and Magnetic Order in Strongly Correlated Systems

Stanislav Petrovich Repetsky, Tatiana Dmitrievna Shatnii (Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University), Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University Team

16:18 D30.008 The Néel Order in a Spatially Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Yong-Qiang Wang, Hai-Qing Lin, Guang-Shan Tian

16:30 D30.009 Percolation transitions in two and three dimensional random field Ising magnets and diluted antiferromagnets

Eira Seppälä (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA), Mikko Alava (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

16:42 D30.010 Hysteresis in the Random Field Ising Model and Bootstrap Percolation

SANJIB SABHAPANDIT (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, USA), DEEPAK DHAR (TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, MUMBAI, INDIA), PRABODH SHUKLA (NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY, SHILLONG, INDIA)

16:54 D30.011 Anomalous thermal conductivity of frustrated Heisenberg spin-chains and ladders

Vicente Alvarez (Ann Arbor), Claudius Gros (University of the Saarland)

17:06 D30.012 \textitAb initio embedded cluster study of optical excitations below a gap of the NiO(001) surface

Khompat Satitkovitchai (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany), Wolfgang Hübner (Department of Physics, Kaiserslautern University, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany)

17:18 D30.013 Improvements in first-principles Hartree-Fock Investigation of the Origin of Muon Spin Rotation Frequency in the Ferromagnet \beta-Phase para Nitrophenyl Nitronyl Nitroxide (p-NPNN)

T. M. Briere (Institute of Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan), Junho Jeong, N. Sahoo, T. P. Das (Dept. of Physics, SUNY at Albany, Albany NY), S. Ohira (Muon Science Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan), K. Nishiyama, K. Nagamine (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan)

14:30 D31.001 Doping experiments on low-dimensional oxides

J. M. Hill, D. C. Johnston (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

14:42 D31.002 Doping of a One-dimensional Mott-Insulator: An Angular Resolved Photoemission Study

T. Valla, T. E. Kidd, P. D. Johnson, G. D. Gu, J. M. Tranquada (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:54 D31.003 Spectral Function in Mott Insulating Surfaces

Adrian Feiguin (Physics Department, University of California, Irvine), Luis Manuel, Claudio Gazza, Adolfo Trumper (Instituto de Fisica Rosario and Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)

15:06 D31.004 Spinons in a strongly correlated chain copper oxide

Hyungje Woo (Brookhaven National Laboratory amp; ISIS Facility, RAL), Igor Zaliznyak (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000), Collin Broholm (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218), Toby Perring, Christopher Frost (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, U.K.), Hidenori Takagi (ISSP and University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan and CREST-JST)

15:18 D31.005 Polarization dependence of spin excitations in weakly coupled spin chains.

Andrey Zheludev (ORNL), Stefane Raymond, Louis-Pierre Regnault (CEA Grenoble, France), Fabian Essler (BNL), Kazuhisa Kakurai (JAERI, japan), Takatsugu Masuda (ORNL), Kunimitsu Uchinokura (University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:30 D31.006 Dynamical Structure Factor of the anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain in a transverse magnetic field

Fabian Essler (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Lab), Jean-Sebastien Caux (Department of Physics, Oxford University)

15:42 D31.007 Thermal Conductivity of the Spin-chain Compound Ca_2Y_2Cu_5O_10

Jae-Hyuk Choi, Jiaqiang Yan, J. B. Goodenough, J. T. Markert (Department of Physics and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin)

15:54 D31.008 ^89Y NMR in the Spin-Chain Cuprate Ca_2+xY_2-xCu_5O_10

John T. Markert, Gergana I. Drandova, Troy C. Messina, Jae-Hyuk Choi, Javier F. Hernandez (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712)

16:06 D31.009 Experimental study of MnCl_3(C_12H_8N_2) - a~S~=~2 Heisenberg antiferromanetic chain*

E. \vCi\vzmár, J.-H. Park, S.J. Gamble, M.W. Meisel (Dept. Physics, Univ. Florida), B.H. Ward, D.R. Talham (Dept. Chemistry, Univ. Florida), J. van Tol, L.-C. Brunel (NHMFL), M. Orendá\vc, A. Feher (Inst. Physics, \vSafárik Univ., Slovakia), J. \vSebek (Inst. Physics, Acad. Sci. Czech Rep.)

16:18 D31.010 Tetramerisation of a frustrated spin-1/2 chain

Federico Becca (INFM-Democritos, National Simulation Centre, and SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Frederic Mila (Institut de Physique Théorique, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland), Didier Poilblanc (Groupe de Physique Théorique, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique,Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

16:30 D31.011 Magnetic Order and Moment Distribution in Doped Quasi-1D Antiferromagnets

Sebastian Eggert (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden), Ian Affleck (Boston University)

16:42 D31.012 Permutation-symmetric multicritical points in random antiferromagnetic spin chains

Kedar Damle (Rice University), David Huse (Princeton University)

16:54 D31.013 Order Parameter to Characterize Valence-Bond-Solid States in Quantum Spin Chains

Masaaki Nakamura (Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan), Synge Todo (Department of Applied Physics,Faculty of Science, Science University of Tokyo,Tokyo 162-8601, Japan)

17:06 D31.014 Magnetism of a New Spin-1 Material NaV(WO_4)_2

Takatsugu Masuda (Condensed Matter Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Uchinokura Kunimitsu (Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo)

17:18 D31.015 DMRG Study of Critical Behavior of the Spin-1/2 Alternating Heisenberg Chain

T. Papenbrock (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T. Barnes (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), D.J. Dean (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), M.V. Stoitsov (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria), M.R. Strayer (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

D31.016 Impurity-Induced Antiferromagnetic Phase in a Doped Haldane System Pb(Ni_1-xMg_x)_2V_2O_8

Takatsugu Masuda (Condensed Matter Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kunimitsu Uchinokura (Department of Advanced Materials Science, the University of Tokyo), Takashi Hayashi, Noboru Miura (ISSP, the University of Tokyo)

14:30 D32.001 Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Introduction, Dynamical Foundations and Applications

Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

15:06 D32.002 Geometrical foundation of statistical mechanics, phase- transitions and second law in 'Small' systems.

Dieter H.E. Gross (Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Germany)

15:42 D32.003 Incomplete Relaxation in a One-Dimensional Multi-Mass Gravitational System

Kenneth Yawn, Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)

15:54 D32.004 Dynamical Study of a First Order Gravitational Phase Transition

Peter Klinko, Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)

16:06 D32.005 Role of Angular Momentum Exchange in the Dynamics of Gravothermal Catastrophe

Bruce Miller, Peter Klinko (Texas Christian University)

16:18 D32.006 Elastic storage and dissipation in crumpling a thin cylinder

Hunter King, Clayton Lapointe, Narayanan Menon (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

16:30 D32.007 Experiments on ridge geometry in a folded sheet

Stephen Mirigian, Jon Celli, Narayanan Menon (Dept. of Physics, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

14:30 D33.001 The colorful fluorescence of semiconductor nano