Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 4 MARCH 2003

08:00 G1.001 Structural and Morphological Understanding and Property Optimization of Technologically Important Polymeric Materials

Andrew J. Lovinger (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

08:36 G1.002 Enhanced Polymer Properties via Structural Control

Edwin L. Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:12 G1.003 Molecular Manipulation and Molecular Coding on the Nano-Length Scale via Crystal Templates

Stephen Cheng (Maurice Morton Institute and Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909)

09:48 G1.004 Observation and Analysis of Polymer Crystal Structures at the Stem Level. Implications Regarding Polymer Crystallization Processes.

Bernard Lotz (Institut Charles Sadron, 67083 Strasbourg, France)

10:24 G1.005 High Resolution Imaging of Defect Structures in Polymer and Organic Molecular Crystals

David Martin (The University of Michigan)

08:00 G2.001 Atomistic Simulations of Bulk Metallic Glasses: Mechanical Properties

Nicholas Bailey, Jakob Schiotz, Karsten Jacobsen (CAMP, Dept of Physics, Technical University of Denmark)

08:12 G2.002 Mesoscopic Theory and Modeling of Deformation and Shear Localization in Non-crystalline Materials*

Mo Li, Guang-Ping Zheng (School of Materials Science and Engineering)

08:24 G2.003 Energy landscapes and fracture in disordered systems

Daniel Lacks (Tulane University)

08:36 G2.004 Rearrangement processes and the deformation of glassy materials

Anaël Lemaître (Department of physics, UC Santa Barbara)

08:48 G2.005 Shear yielding of amorphous glassy solids: Effect of temperature and strain rate

Joerg Rottler, Mark O. Robbins (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218)

09:00 G2.006 Shear Induced Reconfigurations of Amorphous Molecular Systems

Craig Maloney, Anaël Lemaître (Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara)

09:12 G2.007 Spontaneous Localization of Strain in a Molecular Dynamics Model of an Amorphous Solid

Michael Falk (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan)

09:24 G2.008 FUNDAMENTAL PUZZLES IN THEORIES OF DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE

James S. Langer (Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:00 G2.009 Energetic processes in the shear-transformation-zone theory of plastic deformation

L. Pechenik, J. S. Langer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:12 G2.010 Dynamics of Plastic Deformation

Lance O. Eastgate (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853), James S. Langer (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

10:24 G2.011 A hybrid QM-MD method to study brittle fracture in vitreous silica

Krishna Muralidharan, Pierre Deymier, Joseph Simmons, Carlos Taylor, Keith Runge, Piotr Rozyczko

10:36 G2.012 A technique for the creation of aperiodic large-scale glass and supercooled liquid systems

Yunfeng Shi, Michael L Falk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

10:48 G2.013 Landau Theory for Shape Memory Polycrystals

R. Ahluwalia, T. Lookman, A. Saxena, R.C. Albers (Los Alamos National Lab.)

08:00 G3.001 Research and Development Strategies in the Semiconductor Industry

Allen Bowling (Texas Instruments Inc.)

08:36 G3.002 Scaling of MOSFETs for future technology generations: Circuit and device scaling, front end processing issues, and advanced MOSFET structures

Peter Zeitzoff (International SEMATECH, 2706 Montopolis Drive, Austin, TX)

09:12 G3.003 Materials Issues and Impact on Reliability of Cu/Low k Interconnects

Paul S. Ho (The University of Texas at Austin)

09:48 G3.004 Limits of Measurement Technology for the Semiconductor Industry

Alain Diebold (International SEMATECH, Austin, TX)

10:24 G3.005 Accuracy and precision in x-ray reflectometry analyses of semiconductor materials

Richard Matyi (NIST)

08:00 G4.001 Vortex Phases of Rapidly Rotating Trapped Bose Gases

Gordon Baym (Department of Physics, University of Illinois)

08:36 G4.002 A Superfluid Gyroscope

Christopher Foot (University of Oxford)

09:12 G4.003 Quantum Hall States in Rotating Spin-1 Bose Systems

Nicholas Read (Yale University)

09:48 G4.004 Vortex Lattices in Bose Gases Under High Rotation Speeds

Peter Engels (JILA / University of Colorado)

10:24 G4.005 Textures in rotating spin-1 Bose gases

Erich Mueller (Ohio State University)

08:00 G5.001 Local density of states modulation and quasiparticle interference in Bi-2212

Dung-Hai Lee (University of California, Berkeley)

08:36 G5.002 Periodic Density of States Modulations in Superconducting BSCCO

Aharon Kapitulnik (Depts. of Applied Physics and Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305)

09:12 G5.003 Quasiparticle Interference in Bi-2212

J.C .Seamus Davis (LASSP, Dept. of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.)

09:48 G5.004 Competing degrees of freedom in the physics of high temperature superconductors

Alessandra Lanzara (University of California, Berkeley and Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley)

10:24 G5.005 Anisotropic electromagnetic response of cuprates in the regime of spin/charge stripe order

Michael Dumm (1. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany)

08:00 G6.001 Magnetic Properties of Disordered Interacting Electrons

Dietrich Belitz (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403)

08:36 G6.002 Fluctuation conductivity in a phase glass: A 2D Bose metal*

Philip Phillips (Loomis laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, Il. 61801)

09:12 G6.003 The Ordering Instability of Weakly-Interacting Electrons in a Dirty Metal

Chetan Nayak (UCLA)

09:48 G6.004 A generic phase diagram for superconductivity near the metal/insulator transition

Michael Osofsky (Naval Research Laboratory)

10:24 G6.005 Interactions and Disorder in Quantum Dots: A New Large-g Approach

Ganpathy Murthy (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky)

08:00 G7.001 X-ray microdiffraction from single antiferromagnetic domains in chromium

Eric D. Isaacs (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

08:36 G7.002 Quantum Phase Transition in a Simple Spin Density Wave

Thomas Rosenbaum (University of Chicago)

09:12 G7.003 The breakdown of the electron: a study of the heavy fermion quantum critical point

Catherine Pepin (SPhT, CEA-Saclay, France)

09:48 G7.004 New Magnetic Excitations in the Spin-Density-Wave of Cr

Haruhiro HIRAKA (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan)

08:00 G8.001 Carrier Dynamics in Self-Organized Quantum Dots and Their Application to Infrared Detectors and Sources

Pallab Bhattacharya (University of Michigan)

08:36 G8.002 Self-assembled columnar quantum dots for infrared detector applications

John Little, Stefan Svensson, Wendy Sarney, Kim Olver, Steve Kennerly (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD)

08:48 G8.003 Two-Color Background Limited InAs/InGaAs Dots-in-a-Well Detectors

Sanjay Krishna, Sunil Raghavan, Greg von Winckel, Paul Rotella (Affiliation), Andreas Stintz (Center for High Technology Materials, EECE Dept, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM), Dang Le (Affiliation), Christian Morath (Air Force Research Lab (VSSS), Albuquerque, NM), Steve Kennerly (Army Research Laboratory (SEDD), Adelphi. MD), University of New Mexico Collaboration, AFRL Collaboration, ARL Collaboration

09:00 G8.004 Hybrid Exciton State in Quantum Dot- Dendrite System: The Green Functions

Huong T. Q. Nguyen, Joseph L. Birman (Physics Dept., City College of NY, CUNY)

09:12 G8.005 Optical spectroscopy of quantum dots in external fields

Alfred Forchel (University of W|rzburg)

09:48 G8.006 A Plasmon Laser in Nanostructures

P. Bakshi, K. Kempa (Boston College)

10:00 G8.007 THz photoconductivity resonances with plasmon modes in double quantum well field effect transistors

M.C. Wanke, J.A. Simmons, M.P. Lilly, J.L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratories), X.G. Peralta, S.J. Allen (Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, UCSB), P.J. Burke, J.P. Eisenstein (Department of Physics, Caltech)

10:12 G8.008 Computer Modeling of the Electromagnetic Properties of Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetectors

K. Ming Leung, Theodore Tamir (Polytechnic University), Chung-Hsiang Lin (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC), Kwong-Kit Choi (Army Research Laboratory), Polytechnic University Collaboration, Industrial Technology Research Institute Collaboration, Army Research Laboratory Collaboration

10:24 G8.009 Update on Single-Pixel-Polarimeter Modeling and Fabrication

Mario Serna (Air Force Reserach Labs, Space Vehicles Directorate)

10:36 G8.010 Comparative Investigation of Optical Pumping Injection Cavity Lasers Using Variable Wavelength Excitation

L. J. Olafsen, T. C. McAlpine, K. R. Greene, M. R. Santilli, D. C. Tanner (University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, KS), W. W. Bewley, C. L. Felix, I. Vurgaftman, J. R. Meyer, M. J. Yang (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), H. Lee, R. U. Martinelli (Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ)

10:48 G8.011 Surface-Emitting Photonic-Crystal Distributed-Feedback Lasers

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

08:00 G9.001 Atomic multipoles in macromolecular simulations

Thomas Darden (National Institute of Environmental Health Sc)

08:36 G9.002 Electrostatic multipoles for large-scale biomolecular simulations

Christopher Roland, Celeste Sagui, Jung Goo Lee (Department of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC), Thomas Darden (National Institute for Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park (RTP))

08:48 G9.003 Protein Unfolding: Rigidity Lost

Andrew Rader, Brandon M. Hespenheide, Leslie A. Kuhn, M.F. Thorpe (Michigan State University), Department of Physics amp; Astronomy Collaboration, Department of Biochemistry amp; Molecular Biology Collaboration, Center for Biological Modeling Collaboration

09:00 G9.004 Variety of the Molecular Conformation in Peptide Nano-Rings and Nano-Tubes

Hajime Okamoto, Tsutomu Nakanishi, Yukiko Nagai, Maki Kasahara, Kyozaburo Takeda (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Waseda Univ., Tokyo, JAPAN)

09:12 G9.005 Vibrational Dynamics of a Heme Protein Mimic

B M Leu, J T Sage (Northeastern University), M Z Zgierski (National Research Council of Canada), G R A Wyllie, W R Scheidt (Univ of Notre Dame), W Sturhahn, E E Alp (Argonne Natl Lab), S M Durbin (Purdue Univ)

09:24 G9.006 Dynamics of Large-Scale Fluctuations in Native Proteins.

Burak Erman (Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey), Albert Erkip (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)

09:36 G9.007 Self-trapped States in Proteins

Robert Austin (Princeton University), Xie Aihua (Oklahoma State University), Lex van der Meer (FOM Rijnhuizen, Nieuwegein, Holland)

09:48 G9.008 Protein Conformational State Observed through Terahertz Spectroscopy

J.Y. Chen, S. E. Whitmire, D. Wolpert, A. G. Markelz (Physics Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY), J. R. Hillebrecht, J. Galan, R. R. Birge (Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut)

10:00 G9.009 Protein under tension and mechanical unfolding

Tongye Shen (Dept. of Chemistry amp; Biochemistry, UCSD), Larry Canino (Dept. of Physics, UCSD), Peter G. Wolynes (Dept. of Chemistry amp; Biochemistry, UCSD), J. Andrew McCammon (HHMI and Dept. of Chemistry amp; Biochemistry, UCSD)

10:12 G9.010 All-Atom Models of Protein Folding and Domain Swapping

Apichart Linhananta (Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada)

10:24 G9.011 Early event of protein folding studied by time-resolved photoacoustic calorimetry

Wunshain Fann (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica and Department of Physics, University of National Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C.), Hsin-Liang Chen (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica and Department of Physics, University of National Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C.), Jen-Tse Huang, Pei-Yeh R. Chen, Chung Tien Lee, Sunney I. Chan (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C.)

10:36 G9.012 Ultrafast protein folding in cages and zippers

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

10:48 G9.013 Phase Diagram for a Model of Globular Proteins

Daniel L. Pagan (Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015), M. E. Gracheva (School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455), James D. Gunton (Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015)

G9.014 A New DFT/QM-MM Approach Designed for the Treatment of LargeMolecular Systems: Insights and Applications

Damian Scherlis (DMSE-MIT), Marcelo Marti, Alejandro Crespo, Dario Estrin (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Adrian Roitberg (Quantum Theory Project and Department of Chemistry, University of Florida), Pablo Ordejon (ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

08:00 G10.001 Experimental studies of RNA folding

Sarah A. Woodson (Johns Hopkins University)

08:36 G10.002 Statistical mechanics of secondary structures formed by random RNA sequences

Ralf Bundschuh (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University)

09:12 G10.003 Statistical Mechanics of RNA folding: importance of alphabet size

Ranjan Mukhopadhyay (NEC Research Institute)

09:48 G10.004 RNA folding, neutral networks, and the evolution of ribozymes

Erik Schultes (Whitehead Institute)

08:00 G11.001 Ultrafast Heterodyne Detected Infrared Multidimensional Vibrational Echo Studies of Hydrogen Bond Dynamics

Michael D. Fayer (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University)

08:36 G11.002 Hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water studied with vibrational echo peak shift spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations

Christopher Fecko, Joel Eaves, Joseph Loparo, Phillip Geissler, Andrei Tokmakoff (Department of Chemistry, MIT)

08:48 G11.003 Solvation, Spectroscopy and Friction in Supercritical Fluids

Mark Maroncelli (Penn State University)

09:24 G11.004 Ultrafast Electron Localization and Solvation Dynamics in Ice Layers on Cu(111)

Uwe Bovensiepen, Cornelius Gahl, Christian Frischkorn, Martin Wolf (Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

09:36 G11.005 TBD

Harry W.K. Tom (University of California-Riverside)

10:12 G11.006 Photo-Detrapping of the Hydrated Electron via the Conduction Band and p-States

Young Jong Lee, Tak Kee, Paul Barbara (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)

08:00 G12.001 Potential Modulated Surface Mobility and Molecular Self-Assembly at Electrode Interfaces

Eric Borguet (University of Pittsburgh)

08:36 G12.002 Organosulfur monolayers on and between gold surfaces

Annabella Selloni (Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA)

09:12 G12.003 Asymmetric electron transmission across asymmetric alkanethiol bilayer junctions

Michael Galperin (P.M. Gross Chemical Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0349, U.S.A.), Abraham Nitzan (School of Chemistry, the Sackler Faculty of Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel), Slawomir Sek (Department of Chemistry, Warsaw University, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland), Marcin Majda (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Perkeley, CA 94720-1460, U.S.A.)

09:24 G12.004 Interfacial Electronic Structure amp; Morphology of OLED Material Tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (III) (Alq3) on Cu(111)

Wei Zhao, Wei Wei, Lozano Jose, John M. White (Dept. of Chem. amp; Biochem., University of Texas at Austin)

09:36 G12.005 Atomic and Electronic Structures of Electrode-Molecule-Electrode Systems at Zero Bias: a Periodic DFT Study

Simone Piccinin, Annabella Selloni, Roberto Car, Giacinto Scoles (Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544)

09:48 G12.006 TBD

Helmuth M?hwald (Max Planck Institute fur Kollid und)

10:24 G12.007 Self-Assembly of Thiolated ssDNA on Gold

D. Y. Petrovykh (Physics Dept., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD and Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), H. Kimura-Suda, M. J. Tarlov (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), L. J. Whitman (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

10:36 G12.008 Vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy of amino acids adsorbed at the air/water interface

Na Ji, Y. R. Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

10:48 G12.009 Electronic structure of DNA polynucleotides under the chemical-doping condition investigated by PES and NEXAFS

Masashi Furukawa (RIKEN, Wako amp; ISIR, Osaka), H. S. Kato (RIKEN, Wako), M. Taniguchi (ISIR, Osaka), T. Hatsui, N. Kosugi (IMS, Okazaki), T. Komeda, Maki Kawai (RIKEN, Wako), T. Kawai (ISIR, Osaka)

08:00 G13.001 The configuration space of vibrated granular rings.

Zahir A. Daya, Michael K. Rivera, Eli Ben-Naim, Robert E. Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:12 G13.002 A fluidized granular medium as an instance of the Fluctuation theorem

Narayanan Menon, Klebert Feitosa (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts)

08:24 G13.003 Anisotropy induced vortex formation in vibrated granular material

Arshad Kudrolli, Daniel Blair (Clark University)

08:36 G13.004 Hysteresis, memory and creep in a wealy vibrated granular column

Paul Umbanhowar (Northwestern University), Martin van Hecke (Leiden University)

08:48 G13.005 Experimental Amplitude Measurements of a Vertically Oscillated Granular Layer

Lucas Koerner, Paul Umbanhowar (Northwestern University)

09:00 G13.006 Studies of granular segregration in a mixed-grain vibrofluidized bed

M. Klein, L.L. Tsai, M.S. Rosen, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian)

09:12 G13.007 NMR Experiments on a Three-Dimensional Vibrofluidized Granular Medium

Chao Huan, Xiaoyu Yang, D. Candela (University of Massachusetts Amherst), R. W. Mair, R. L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

09:24 G13.008 Depletion force driven segretation in a vibrated, bidisperse granular layer

Paul Melby, Alexis Prevost, David A. Egolf, Jeffrey S. Urbach (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, 37th and O St NW, Washington, DC, 20057)

09:36 G13.009 Granular size separation investigated by MRI: The role of air-granule interactions

Matthias E. Möbius (The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, IL 60637), Gregory S. Karczmar (The Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, IL 60637), Sidney R. Nagel, Heinrich M. Jaeger (The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, IL 60637)

09:48 G13.010 Density dependent segregation in a granular system

Gustavo Gutiérrez, Oliver Pozo, Leonardo Reyes (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela), Ricardo Paredes V. (Centro de Física, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela), James Drake, Edward Ott (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA)

10:00 G13.011 Gases, liquids and crystals in granular segregation

Pedro M. Reis, Tom Mullin (University of Manchester, UK), Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics Team

10:12 G13.012 Wavy Radial Segregation Patterns in a Rotating Drum

Gustavo Gioia, Kimberly Hill (Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois), Deepak Amaravadi (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois)

10:24 G13.013 Travelling Waves in Axial Segregation: Concentration and Angle Measurements

Zeina A. Khan, Wayne A. Tokaruk, Stephen W. Morris (University of Toronto)

08:00 G14.001 Characterization of Nanofluidic Entropic Trap Array for DNA Separation

Jongyoon Han (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:36 G14.002 Microfabricated magnetic traps for single molecule manipulation and measurement

Elizabeth Mirowski, John Moreland, Stephen Russek (NIST Boulder, CO), Michael Donahue (NIST Gaithersburg, MD)

08:48 G14.003 Toward Quantum-limited Displacement Detection

Matthew LaHaye (The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, UMDCP), Benedetta Camarota, Alex Hutchinson, Olivier Buu, Keith Schwab (THe Laboratory for Physical Sciences, UMDCP), LPS Team

09:00 G14.004 Dielectrophoretic assembly and characterization of carbon nanotube nanoelectromechanical systems

S. Evoy (Dept. of Elec. amp; Sys. Eng.), M. Riegelman, H. Bau (Dept. of Mech. Eng. amp; Appl. Mech., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Y. Gogotsi (Dept. of Mat. Eng., Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

09:12 G14.005 Heat Transport by Thermo-Tunneling - Prospects for a new cooling technology

Thomas Kenny (Stanford University)

09:48 G14.006 Observation and Electromechanical Actuation of Higher-Order Buckling Eigenmodes of NEMS

Stephen Carr, Martin Wybourne (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College)

10:00 G14.007 Spectroscopic scheme to prepare mechanical Fock states using a Cooper-pair Box

Elinor Irish (University of Rochester), Keith Schwab (Laboratory for Physical Sciences)

10:12 G14.008 Ultrasensitive displacement measurements of nano-mechanical resonators using single electron transistors

Robert Knobel, Andrew Cleland (iQUEST and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:24 G14.009 Fabrication of Ultrafloppy Single-Crystal Silicon Cantilevers for Use as Force Probes in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Neil E. Jenkins, Lauren DeFlores, Jack Allen, Tse Nga Ng, William Silveira, Erik Muller, Sean Garner, Jahan Dawlaty, Seppe Kuehn, John A. Marohn (Cornell University)

10:36 G14.010 THE MEMS FLUX CONCENTRATOR: A DEVICE FOR IMPROVING MAGNETIC SENSORS

Alan Edelstein, Gregory Fischer (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)

10:48 G14.011 Development of Ultra-Sensitive Cantilever Magnetometers with Integrated Samples

Michelle Chabot, John Moreland (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO)

08:00 G15.001 INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING AND AB INITIO THEORY INVESTIGATION OF 3-d TRANSITION METALS

B.C. Larson, J.Z. Tischler (ORNL), P. Zschack (UIUC-MRL), I.G. de Gurtubay (Univ. Basque Country, and DIPC), Wei Ku (Univ. CA, Davis), A.G. Eguiluz (Univ. TN, Knoxville and ORNL)

08:12 G15.002 Electronic Transition of Vanadium Impurities in Different Alkali Hosts

Funing Song, Gerd Bergmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484)

08:24 G15.003 Inelastic x-ray scattering investigation of electron-hole excitations in Sc and Cr.

J.Z. TISCHLER, B.C. LARSON (ORNL), P. ZSCHACK (Univ. of Illinois-MRL), A.G. EGUILUZ(*), O.D. RESTREPO (Univ. Tennessee, and ORNL), I.G. GURTUBAY(**), J.M. PITARKE (Univ.Basque Country, and DIPC), WEI KU (Univ. California,Davis)

08:36 G15.004 Green function technique as an alternative to the density functional approach

K.D. Belashchenko (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), V.P. Antropov (Ames Laboratory), N.E. Zein (Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute")

08:48 G15.005 Self-Interactions and Local Moments

Walter Harrison (Stanford University)

09:00 G15.006 Combining FLEX and QMC calculations: A novel approach to the Hubbard model

Jim Hague (Dept. of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH / Materials and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN), Mark Jarrell (Dept. of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH), Thomas Schultess (Materials and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)

09:12 G15.007 Electronic structure, phase transitions and diffusive properties of elemental plutonium

Arun Setty, B. R. Cooper (Department of Physics, West Virginia University)

09:24 G15.008 Electronic Structure and Energetics of RCo5H4 and RCo5 (R=La, Pr)

J. F. Herbst, Jr. Hector (GM Ramp;D Center)

09:36 G15.009 Spin Dynamics in Nonlinear Optics of a Homogeneous Electron Gas

Torsten Andersen (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 530, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden), Ole Keller (Institute of Physics, Aalborg University, Pontoppidanstræde 103, DK-9210 Aalborg Øst, Denmark), Wolfgang Hübner (Department of Physics, Kaiserslautern University, Box 3049, D--67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany), Börje Johansson (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 530, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden)

09:48 G15.010 Electronic Structure Calculations for LaNi5 and LaNi5H7: Energetics and Elastic Properties

Jr. Hector, J. F. Herbst, T. W. Capehart (GM Ramp;D Center)

10:00 G15.011 Spin-charge density wave instability in a polarized two-dimensional electron gas

Juana Moreno, D. C. Marinescu (Department of Physics, Clemson University)

10:12 G15.012 Nonquasiparticle states in half-metallic ferromagnet NiMnSb

Liviu Chioncel, Mikhail I Katsnelson (Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Box 530, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.), Robert A de Groot, Alexander I Lichtenstein (Univ. of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands)

10:24 G15.013 Self-Consistent Modifications to the Electron Density of States due to the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals

Fatih Dogan, Frank Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

10:36 G15.014 Calculation of optical absorption in hot metals: Al and Bi

John E. Klepeis, Lorin X. Benedict (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

10:48 G15.015 Optical characterization of polished Mo2C foil.

Jacob Grimes, W. Geerts, A. Bandyopadhyay, Gutierrez, K. Radican, N. Rivera (Southwest Texas State Univ.), P. Holland (Sematech International, Tx), J. Givens (Innovative Materials Group Inc., Tx), Ted Oyama (Virginia Polytechnic Inst., Va)

G15.016 Casimir force between dissimile metals

Ricardo Decca (Department of Physics, IUPUI), Daniel López (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill), Ephraim Fischbach (Department of Physics, Purdue University), Dennis Krausse (Department of Physics, Wabash College)

08:00 G16.001 Schottky barriers in carbon nanotube transistors

Richard Martel (Physical Sciences, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, NY 10598)

08:36 G16.002 Ballistic transport in nanostructures: a combined Car-Parrinello and maximally-localized Wannier functions approach

Young-Su Lee (DMSE, MIT), Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (Department of Physics, NCSU and Computational Science and Mathematics Division, ONRL), Nicola Marzari (DMSE, MIT)

08:48 G16.003 Shot noise in parallel atomic wires from first principles

Johan Lagerqvist, Yu-Chang Chen, Massimiliano Di Ventra (Virginia Tech)

09:00 G16.004 Local heating in nanoscale conductors from first principles

Yu-Chang Chen, Mike Zwolak, Massimiliano Di Ventra (Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

09:12 G16.005 Conductance through small-area gallium/graphite contacts

A. Y. Ogbazghi (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology), C. Berger (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology and CNRS, Grenoble), W. A. de Heer, P. N. First (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:24 G16.006 Towards Engineered Energy Flows in Quantum Dot Assemblies

Scott A. Crooker (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos)

10:00 G16.007 Transport Properties of Nanoparticle Arrays

Janice Trinidad (The University of Texas at Austin), Elena Bascones (ETH-Hoenggerberg), Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin)

10:12 G16.008 Excitation-power dependent photo-induced luminescence activation and intermittency in dilute quantum dot thin films

Artjay Javier, Geoffrey Strouse (UC Santa Barbara)

10:24 G16.009 Capacitance Spectroscopy of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots using Single-Electron Transistors

Kevin D. Osborn, Mark W. Keller, Richard P. Mirin (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder)

10:36 G16.010 Electron Transport Properties of Ge nanowires

Tobias Hanrath (University of Texas - Austin, Dept. of Chemical Engineering), Saiful I. Khondaker, Zhen Yao (University of Texas - Austin, Dept. of Physics), Brian A. Korgel (University of Texas - Austin, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

10:48 G16.011 Fabrication and characterization of dopant nanowires in silicon

J. S. Kline, K.-F. Chen, R. Chan, M. Feng, J. R. Tucker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), M. A. Zudov, R.-R. Du (University of Utah), J.-Y. Ji, J. C. Kim, T.-C. Shen (Utah State University)

08:00 G17.001 Ford Prize Break

08:36 G17.002 Self-Assembled and Micro-Contact Printed Monolayers to Direct Surface Diffusion

Carla Heitzman, Huilin Tu, Sudha Srinivasan, Paul Braun (University of Illinois, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

08:48 G17.003 Surface Morphology of Annealed Polystyrene and Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Thin Film Blends and Bilayers

M. Harris, G. Appel, H. Ade (Dept. of Physics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695)

09:00 G17.004 Coarsening of Droplets on the Surface of a Structured Fluid Film

Peter F. Green (Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Asutin), Ratchana Limary (Materials Science and Eng., University of Texas at Austin)

09:12 G17.005 The Effect of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes on Thin Film Dewetting

J. S. Koo, K. Shin, K. E. Geckeler (Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), S. Ge, S. Li, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov (SUNY at Stony Brook)

09:24 G17.006 Interface mediated growth of thin pentacene films on the silicon substrates

Jerzy T. Sadowski, Tadaaki Nagao, Toshio Sakurai (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Ruud M. Tromp (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA)

09:36 G17.007 Smoothing Polymer Surfaces by Solvent-Vapor Exposure

Mitchell Anthamatten (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Steven A. Letts, Robert C. Cook

09:48 G17.008 Direct Ellipsometric Measurement of Vapor Films When Water Meets a Hydrophobic Surface

Adele Poynor (Department of Physics UIUC), Ashis Mukhophadyay, Steve Granick (Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

10:00 G17.009 Effects of Alternating Hydrogenated and Protonated Segments in polymers on their Wettability.

Dennis Smith, Rakchart Traiphol, Gang Cheng, Dvora Perahia (Department of Chemistry and The School of Material Science and Engineering Program Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973)

10:12 G17.010 Dewetting of Thin Film Blends Containing Block Copolymer: Effects of Non-Adsorbing Block Length and Substrate Hydrophobicity

Ana C. Costa, Russell J. Composto (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Mat. Sci. amp; Eng.), Petr Vlcek (Inst. of Macrom. Chem., Prague)

10:24 G17.011 Block Copolymer Adsorption to the Substrate from a Homopolymer Melt Film: Effects of Non-Adsorbing Block Length and Adsorbing Block-Substrate Interactions

Russel J. Composto, Ana C. Costa (Mat. Sci. amp; and Eng., Univ. of Pennsylvania), Mark Geoghegan (Phys. amp; Astronomy, Univ. of Sheffield)

10:36 G17.012 Particle adsorption on surfaces with grafted polyelectrolites

Igal Szleifer (Purdue University)

10:48 G17.013 Surface Diffusion and Jamming of Adsorbed Polymers

Jiang Zhao, Steve Granick (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)

08:00 G18.001 Ford Prize Break

08:48 G18.002 Principles that Govern the Performance of Molecular Motors

Jon Eide (UC Berkeley, Department of Chemical Engineerging), Arup Chakraborty (UC Berkeley, Department of Chemical Engineerging and Chemistry), George Oster (UC Berkeley, Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology & ESPM)

09:00 G18.003 FILAMENT TWIST IN F-ACTIN BUNDLES

Tommy Angelini (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Lori Sanders (Department of Materials Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Gerard Wong (Departments of Materials Science, Physics, and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:12 G18.004 Counterion Dynamics on Condensed F-Actin Rods

Lori K. Sanders, Thomas E. Angelini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jay X. Tang (Indiana University), Gerard C.L. Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:24 G18.005 Anomalous diffusion of thermally driven tracer particles in F-Actin networks

Ian Y. Wong, Margaret L. Gardel (Department of Physics amp; DEAS. Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138), Eric R. Weeks (Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322.), Megan T. Valentine (Department of Physics amp; DEAS. Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138), Andreas R. Bausch (Lehrstuhl für Biophysik - E22, Technische Universität München, Garching, GERMANY), David A. Weitz (Department of Physics amp; DEAS. Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138)

09:36 G18.006 Internal friction within F-actin bundles crosslinked by multivalent ions

Olena Rudko, Thomas Angelini (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Chee Xiong (Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago), John Marko (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago), Gerard C.L. Wong (Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Bioengineering,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:48 G18.007 Cell adhesion on nanotopography

Irene Tsai, Masahiro Kimura, Rebecca Stockton, Bruce Jacobson, Thomas Russell (university of Ma. Amherst PSE)

10:00 G18.008 Synthetic Cell Elements from Block Copolymers. Dynamic Aspects

Dennis Discher (Univ. Pennsylvania), Frank S. Bates amp; Paul Dalhaimer Collaboration

10:12 G18.009 Silk Fibroin under Osmotic Stress

Sungkyun Sohn, Helmut H. Strey, Samuel P. Gido (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

10:24 G18.010 Microrheology, stress fluctuations and active behavior of living cells

Andy W.C. Lau, Brenton D. Hoffman, John C. Crocker, Tom C. Lubensky (UPenn)

10:36 G18.011 Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Composite Actin Networks

Margaret Gardel (Harvard University), Jennifer Shin (M.I.T.), L. Mahadevan (Cambridge University), Paul Matsudaira (M.I.T.), D.A. Weitz (Harvard University)

10:48 G18.012 Cytoskeleton rheology and fluctuations with magnetic twisting cytometry

Gladys Massiera, Brenton Hoffman, John Crocker (University of Pennsylvania: Chemival and Biomolecular Engineering)

08:00 G19.001 Switching dynamics of double barrier Josephson junction based qubit gate

Serhii Shafranjuk, Ivan Nevirkovets, John Ketterson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois 60208)

08:12 G19.002 A dc SQUID qubit and the observation of macroscopic quantum coherence

Roger Koch (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598), John Kirtley, James Rozen, Jonathan Sun, George Keefe, Frank Milliken, Chang Tsuei, David DiVincenzo

08:24 G19.003 Suppression of Quasiparticle Tunneling in Bloch Transistors

Michio Watanabe, Yoshinobu Aoyagi (Semiconductors Lab., RIKEN and CREST-JST, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, JAPAN)

08:36 G19.004 Possible realization of an ideal quantum bit in a non-abelian symmetry system

Lev Ioffe, Ruslan Usmanov (Rutgers University, Department of Physics amp; Astronomy), Mikhail Feigel'man (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)

08:48 G19.005 RFSET detection of charge states of a Cooper pair box

Carlos Sanchez, Akshay Naik (Laboratory for Physical Sciences/University of Maryland), Keith Schwab, Marc Manheimer (Laboratory for Physical Sciences)

09:00 G19.006 Decoherence in flux qubits due to 1/f noise

T.L. Robertson, D.J. Van Harlingen, B.L.T. Plourde, P.A. Reichardt, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley)

09:12 G19.007 Entanglement and Quantum Correlations in Capacitively-Coupled Junction Qubits

R. C. Ramos, A. J. Berkley, H. Xu, M. A. Gubrud, F. W. Strauch, P. R. Johnson, A. J. Dragt, J. R. Anderson, C. J. Lobb, F. C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland)

09:24 G19.008 Are soliton domain walls topologically protected against decoherence?

John H. Miller Jr. (Dept. of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204)

09:36 G19.009 Quadratic Quantum Detection

Rusko Ruskov, Alexander N. Korotkov (University of California, Riverside), Wenjin Mao, Dmitri V. Averin (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

09:48 G19.010 Entanglement of a qubit with a single oscillator mode

Gregory Levine (Hofstra University), V. N. Muthukumar (Princeton University)

10:00 G19.011 Quantum trajectories and quantum measurement process by a single-electron transistor

Hsi-Sheng Goan (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

10:12 G19.012 Formation of integrated single atom arrays

Thomas Schenkel (E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jeffrey Bokor (University of California, Berkeley), Dieter H. Schneider (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Arun Persaud, Sang Joon Park, Joakim Nilsson (E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:24 G19.013 Thermal activation and quantum tunneling in a superconducting persistent-current qubit

Kenneth Segall, Terry P. Orlando, Donald Crankshaw, Daniel Nakada, Bhuwan Singh, Janice Lee (MIT), Lin Tian (University of Innsbruck), Leonid S. Levitov, Seth Lloyd (MIT), Sergio O. Valenzuela, Nina Markovic, Michael Tinkham (Harvard University)

10:36 G19.014 Qubit entanglement via a nanomechanical resonator

A. N. Cleland (Department of Physics and iQuest, UC Santa Barbara), M. R. Geller (Department of Physics, University of Georgia, Athens GA)

10:48 G19.015 Quantum Noise Effects in Dual Computational Basis Coupled Waveguide Qubits*

M.J. Gilbert, Richard Akis, D.K. Ferry (Arizona State University), Nanostructures Research Group Collaboration

G19.016 Dissipationless destruction of the Kondo effect by decoherence

V. V. Dobrovitski (Ames Laboratory), H. A. De Raedt (University of Groningen, Dept. of Physics), M. I. Katsnelson (Uppsala University, Dept. of Physics), B. N. Harmon (Ames Laboratory)

G19.017 Tunneling measurement of quantum spin oscillations

Marina Hruska (University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Lev N. Bulaevskii, Gerardo Ortiz (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

08:00 G20.001 Planar Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies of the Splitting vs. Non-splitting of the Zero-Bias Conductance Peak in YBCO Thin Films

P.J. Hentges, L.H. Greene (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois), Glenn Westwood, Walter Klemperer (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois)

08:12 G20.002 Cantilever-Andreev-Tunneling (CAT) Rig Construction and its Application to Planar Tunneling Spectroscopy of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5

W. K. Park, J. E. Elenewski, H. Aubin, L. H. Greene (Department of Physics and the Fredrick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson (Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics, LANL)

08:24 G20.003 Inelastic Tunneling Spectroscopy in a D-wave Superconductor

Alexander Balatsky, Artem Abanov, Jian Xin Zhu (Theory Div, MS B 262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

08:36 G20.004 Effects of Spin Collective Mode in the STM Tunneling Spectra of D-Wave Superconductors

A. V. Balatsky, Jian-Xin Zhu (Theoretical Division, MS B262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Jun Sun, Qimiao Si (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892)

08:48 G20.005 Tunneling in Bi2212: Eliashberg Analysis of Spectral Dip Feature

John Zasadzinski, Liam Coffey (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616), Zikri Yusof (Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL 60439), Paola Romano (INFM and Universita' del Sannio, Benevento, Italy)

09:00 G20.006 Tunneling Spectroscopy on Current-Carrying High-Tc Nanostructures

Joe Ngai, John Wei, Frank Chen, Doug Perovic (University of Toronto)

09:12 G20.007 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Electronic Standing Waves on Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta Surface

Michael Vershinin, Shashank Misra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Yasushi Abe, Yoichi Ando (CRIEPI and Dept. of Physics, Tokyo University of Science), Ali Yazdani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:24 G20.008 Resonant Tunneling in 214 Superconductors

A.A. Abrikosov (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439)

09:36 G20.009 Theory of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+x Cross-Whisker Josephson Junctions

Richard Klemm (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme)

09:48 G20.010 Josephson Current and Josephson Product Demonstrated by Means of Measurement in an Inhomogeneous Superconductor

Hyun-Tak Kim (ETRI in Korea)

10:00 G20.011 Manipulating Distribution Functions to Control the \pi-State in a SNS Josephson Junction

M S Crosser, F Pierre, Norman O Birge (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

10:12 G20.012 Fractional ac Josephson effect in p- and d-wave superconductors

Hyok-Jon Kwon (University of Maryland, College Park), K. Sengupta (Yale University), Victor M. Yakovenko (University of Maryland, College Park)

10:24 G20.013 Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Electronic Inhomogeneity in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta

J. E. Hoffman, K. Swamy, K. McElroy, K. M. Lang, D.-H. Lee (University of California, Berkeley), H. Eisaki, S. Uchida (University of Tokyo), J. C. Davis (University of California, Berkeley)

08:00 G21.001 Bulk Superconductivity in PuCoGa_5 at 18.5 K

J. D. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

08:36 G21.002 Superconductivity in Compressed K, Rb and Cs

D. A. Papaconstantopoulos (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), L. Shi (George Mason University, Fairfax VA), M. J. Mehl (NRL)

08:48 G21.003 Oxygen-isotope effect on the phonon density of states of optimally doped La_1.85Sr_0.15CuO_4

JAE-HO CHUNG, TAKESHI EGAMI (University of Pennsylvania), ROBERT McQUEENEY (Los Alamos National Laboratory), DAVID MANDRUS (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), KAZIMIERZ CONDER (Paul-Scherrer Institute)

09:00 G21.004 Synthesis and Properties of Hole-Doped Li_1-xBC

L. Zhao, P. Klavins, Kai Liu (University of California - Davis)

09:12 G21.005 Lattice modulations in optimally doped YBCO superconductor

ZAHIRUL ISLAM (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), S. Sinha (U of CA, San Diego), J. Lang, D. Haskel, D. Lee, G. Srajer, D. Haeffner, U. Welp (ANL), S. Moss (U of Houston (UH)), Z. Zhang (UH), P. Wochner (Max-Planck Institut), W. Hardy (U of British Columbia)

09:24 G21.006 Anomalous Phonon Dispersion in V_3Si

Mohana Yethiraj (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:36 G21.007 Change in local structures with X on Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 studied by DAFS

Jun'ichiro Mizuki (Synchrotron RadiationResearch Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Yusuke Azuma (Faculty of Science, Kwanseigakuin University), Tadahiro Akao (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Yasuo Nishihata (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Center), Hikaru Terauchi (Faculty of Science, Kwanseigakuin University), Hiroshi Furubayashi, Takahito Terashima (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University), Mikio Takano (Institute fro Chemical Research, Kyoto University)

09:48 G21.008 Elastic Tensor of YNi_2B_2C

Patrick Rourke, J. Paglione, Filip Ronning, Louis Taillefer (University of Toronto), K. Kadowaki (University of Tsukuba)

10:00 G21.009 Optical and Superconductivity studies of multilayered MgB2 Thin Films

Jafar Amirzadeh (Morris College, Sumter, SC), Michael Bleiweiss (Navy Prep.School, New Port, RI), Ming Yin (Benedict College, Columbia, SC), Ray Tsu (UNCC, Charlotte, NC), Willard Sharp (Affiliation), Timir Datta (Inst. Supreconductivity, USC, Columbia, SC)

10:12 G21.010 Faceting in YBCO [001] High-Angle Tilt Boundaries and Critical current Densities

Siu-Wai Chan (Dept. of Appl. Phys. amp; Appl. Maths, Columbia University), Qiang Jin (Columbia U. now @ Micron Technologies), Jack W. H. Tsai (Columbia U. now @ Maxtor), Steven Tidrow (Army Research Lab), Qidu Jiang (Texas Instrument)

10:24 G21.011 YBa_2Cu_4O_8: A model system for grain boundary studies

Gertjan Koster, Theodore Geballe

10:36 G21.012 The interplay between dislocations, precipitates and superconductivity of high T_C thin films

Y.C. Liao, M.K. Wu, C.C. Chi (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC)

G21.013 Synthesis, properties and retention of two superconducting gaps in Tc \sim 20 K, carbon doped MgB_2

R. A. Ribeiro, S. L. Bud'ko, C. Petrovic, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy - Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011), M. Avdeev, J. D. Jorgensen (Argonne National Laboratory, Division of Materials Science, Argonne IL 60439)

G21.014 Effect of the out-of-plane misorientation on the critical current of YBa2Cu3Od-7 thick films

Rose Lynn Emergo, Judy Wu (Univ. of Kansas), David Christen, Tolga Aytug, M Paranthaman (Oak Ridge National laboratory), Univ. of Kansas Team, Oak Ridge National laboratory Collaboration

08:00 G22.001 Surface-related emission in highly luminescent CdSe quantum dots studied by time-decay photoluminescence measurements

Xiaoyong Wang, Jiayu Zhang, Min Xiao (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas), Lianhua Qu, Xiaogang Peng (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas)

08:12 G22.002 Homogeneous absorption lineshape in CdSe nanocrystals

Serguei Goupalov (Georgia Tech amp; Ioffe Institute), Robert Suris (Ioffe Institute), Philippe Lavallard (Universite Paris 6 et 7), David Citrin (Georgia Tech)

08:24 G22.003 Dark Excitons in CdS Nanocrystals

Zhonghua Yu, Donald O'Connor, Paul Barbara (Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin), Jingbo Li, Lin-Wang Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), The Barbara Group Team, NERSC Collaboration

08:36 G22.004 Tunnel-coupled quantum dots: Atomistic Theory of Quantum Dot Molecules and Arrays

Garnett W. Bryant, J. Aizpurua (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), W. Jaskolski, Michal Zielinski (UMK, Torun, Poland)

08:48 G22.005 Current detectation of superradiance in a double-dot system

Chen Yueh-nan, Chuu Der-San (Department of electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)

09:00 G22.006 Interlevel electromagnetic response of systems of spherical quantum dots

Victor Bondarenko (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA), Miroslaw Zaluzny (M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland), Yang Zhao (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA)

09:12 G22.007 Ge quantum dots grown via buffer layer assisted growth

A.-P. Li, K. Yoo, M. F. Chisholm, H. H. Weitering, Z. Zhang, J. F. Wendelken (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), F. Flack, M. G. Lagally (Materials Science and Engineering Dept., U. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706)

09:24 G22.008 Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Nanostructure Optical Properties

Andrew Williamson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jeffrey Grossman Collaboration, Randolph Hood Collaboration, Aaron Puzder Collaboration, Giulia Galli Collaboration

09:36 G22.009 Light activated reactions in Si quantum dots.

Fernando Reboredo, Giulia Galli, Eric R. Schwegler (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:48 G22.010 BRILLOUIN SCATTERING IN A QUANTUM DOT CRYSTAL

Olga L. Lazarenkova, Alexander A. Balandin (Nano-Device Laboratory, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Univ of California – Riverside, Riverside, California, USA)

10:00 G22.011 Silicon nanocrystals doped by Au and Au-thiolates

Zachary Helms, Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University), Munir Nayfeh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:12 G22.012 Photoluminescence of Silicon Nanostructures Fabricated using Anodic Aluminum Oxide Templates and Self-Limiting Oxidation Techniques

P. R. Larson, A. M. Elliot, J. C. Keay, M. B. Johnson (University of Oklahoma, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA), M. Keil (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel), X. Wang, M. Xiao (University of Arkansas, Department of Physics, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA)

10:24 G22.013 Pseudopotential calculation of the spectroscopic shifts due toCharged Excitons in self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots

Gabriel Bester, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401)

10:36 G22.014 Biexciton recombination rates in self-assembled quantum dots

John Shumway (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Michael Wimmer (Universitaet Regensberg), Selva Nair (ECAN, University of Toronto)

G22.015 Structural and optical properties of erbium doped self-assembled InAs quantum dot structures

Jie Zhu, Mengbing Huang (Dept. of Phys., SUNY-Albany), Serge Oktyabrsky (School of NanoScience and NanoEngineering, SUNY-Albany), Dept. of Phys. Team, School of NanoScience and NanoEngineering Team

08:00 G23.001 Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE edge: Collective modes

Hoang Nguyen (Physics Department, University of Kentucky), Yogesh Joglekar (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Ganpathy Murthy (Physics Department, University of Kentucky)

08:12 G23.002 Edge reconstructions in fractional quantum Hall systems.

Yogesh Joglekar (University of Kentucky, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Hoang Nguyen, Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky)

08:24 G23.003 Telegraph Noise and Fractional Statistics in the Quantum Hall Effect

Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania)

08:36 G23.004 Disorder effects on stripe phases in quantum Hall systems

Mei-Rong Li (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky; Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Canada), H. A. Fertig (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky), R. Cote (Department de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada), Hangmo Yi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea)

08:48 G23.005 A Renormalization Group Study of Quantum Anisotropic Phases with Sliding Symmetry

Michael Lawler, Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:00 G23.006 Strongly Correlated Fractional Quantum Hall Line Junctions

Efrat Shimshoni (Rutgers University), Ulrich Zülicke (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)

09:12 G23.007 Effects of Double Point Contacts in Quantum Hall Line Junctions

Kim Eun-Ah, Eduardo Fradkin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green St. , Urbana, IL 61801-3080, USA)

09:24 G23.008 K-matrices for quantum Hall states and beyond

Eddy Ardonne (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL)

09:36 G23.009 Reconstruction of Fractional Quantum Hall Edges: Numerical Studies

Xin Wan, Kun Yang (Florida State University), E. H. Rezayi (California State University)

09:48 G23.010 Field Theoretical Description of Quantum Hall Edge Reconstruction

Kun Yang (Florida State University)

10:00 G23.011 Transport properties of a two-dimensional electron liquid at high magnetic field

Roberto D'Agosta, Roberto Raimondi (NEST-INFM and Universita' di Roma Tre), Giovanni Vignale (University of Missouri-Columbia), Stefano Roddaro, Vittorio Pellegrini, Fabio Beltram (NEST-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Giorgio Biasiol, Lucia Sorba (NEST-INFM and Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM, Trieste)

10:12 G23.012 Ratchet effect in Luttinger liquids

Dmitri Feldman (Argonne National Laboratory), Stefan Scheidl (Universitaet zu Koeln), Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory)

G23.013 Merons in a finite quantum Hall system

M.V. Milovanovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia)

08:00 G24.001 Above-room-temperature ferromagnetism in GaSb/Mn digital alloys*

H. LUO (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

08:36 G24.002 Magnetotransport properties of GaSb/Mn digital alloys with different number of layers

M. Cheon, G.B. Kim, C.J. Meining, X. Chen, S. Wang, H. Luo, B.D. McCombe (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, T. Wojtowicz, J.K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Department of Physics Collaboration, Department of Physics Collaboration

08:48 G24.003 Electrically controlled ferromagnetism in GaSb/Mn digital alloys

G.B. Kim, M. Cheon, S. Wang, X. Chen, H. Luo, B.D. McCombe (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, T. Wojtowicz, J.K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Department of Physics Collaboration, Department of Physics Collaboration

09:00 G24.004 The effects of annealing on structure and magnetic properties of GaSb/Mn digital alloys*

X. CHEN, M. CHEON, S. WANG, G.B. KIM, H. LUO, B.D. McCOMBE, S. KIM, Y.L. SOO, Y.H. KAO (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), X. LIU, Y. SASAKI, T. WOJTOWICZ, J.K. FURDYNA (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Department of Physics Collaboration, Department of Physics Collaboration

09:12 G24.005 Spacer-dependent Transport and Magnetic Properties of Digital Ferromagnetic Heterostructures

Ted Kreutz, Giovanni Zanelatto, Elisabeth Gwinn (Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara), Art Gossard (Department of Materials, University of California Santa Barbara)

09:24 G24.006 Carrier concentrations and anomalous Hall coefficients in digital GaMnAs heterostructures

William Allen, Ted Kreutz, Beth Gwinn (iQUEST and Department of Physics, UCSB)

09:36 G24.007 Independent Electronic and Magnetic Doping of Digital Ferromagnetic Heterostructures

Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, J. A. Schuller, C. S. Gallinat, T. C. Kreutz, R. C. Myers, R. K. Kawakami, A. C. Gossard, D. D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

09:48 G24.008 Strain-engineered Ferromagnetism in Digital (Ga,Mn)As Heterostructures

J.A. Schuller, E. Johnston-Halperin, C.S. Gallinat, R.C. Myers, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106)

10:00 G24.009 The anomalous Hall effect and carrier density in ferromagnetic digital GaAs/Mn alloys

M. Na, G. Acbas, G. Kim, X. Chen, S. Wang, M. Cheon, H. Luo, B.D. McCombe (Department of Physics and CAPEM, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, J.K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA)

10:12 G24.010 Ferromagnetic Ordering of Mn in Mn/GaAs Digital Alloys and (Mn, Ga)As Alloys Studied by X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure

Y.L. Soo, G. Kioseoglou, S. Kim, X. Chen, H. Luo, Y.H. Kao (SUNY at Buffalo), H.-J. Lin, H.H. Hsieh, T.Y. Hou, C.T. Chen (SRRC,Taiwan), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, J.K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

10:24 G24.011 Anisotropy of Magnetization in GaAs/Mn digital alloys *

S. WANG, X. CHEN, M. CHEON, G.B. KIM, H. LUO, B.D. McCOMBE (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), X. LIU, Y. SASAKI, T. WOJTOWICZ, J.K. FURDYNA (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Department of Physics Collaboration, Department of Physics Collaboration

10:36 G24.012 Magnetic and transport properties of InAs/Mn digital alloys

G Acbas, G. B. Kim, X Chen, S Wang, M Cheon, H Luo, B.D McCombe (Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo,Buffalo,NY), Y Susaki, X Liu, J.K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of NotreDame, Notre Dame, In, USA)

10:48 G24.013 Effects of Thermal Annealing on Long- and Short-Range-Order Structures and Magnetic Properties of Mn/GaAs Digital Alloys

Y.H. Kao, Y.L. Soo, S. Kim, X. Chen, H. Luo (SUNY at Buffalo), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, J.K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

08:00 G25.001 Molecular dynamics simulation of thermal transport properties of clathrate materials

Jianjun Dong (Auburn University)

08:36 G25.002 First principles calculations of thermodynamical properties of cage-like silicon clathrate materials

Deslippe Jack (Auburn University, and Clemson University), Jianjun Dong (Auburn University)

08:48 G25.003 Conduction-electron-mediated Magnetism in Copper-doped Germanium Clathrates

Yang Li, Weiping Gou, Ji Chi, Jr. Ross (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

09:00 G25.004 Study of Rattling Atoms in Type I and Type II Clathrate Semiconductors.

Charles W. Myles (Texas Tech University), Jianjun Dong (Auburn University), Otto F. Sankey (Arizona State University)

09:12 G25.005 Thermal properties of silicon clathrate Si136

J. Gryko (Jacksonville State Univ.), G. S. Nolas, M. Beekman (Univ. South Florida), Jr. Lamberton, T. M. Tritt (Clemson Univ.), P. F. McMillan (Univ. College London)

09:24 G25.006 NMR, DSC and Electrical Conductivity Studies of Germanium Clathrate Compounds

Jan Gryko (Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265), George H. Nolas (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., PHY114, Tampa, FL33620-5700), Robert F. Marzke (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504)

09:36 G25.007 Semiconductiong Properties of Clathrates Ba8@Ge43: ab initio Study

Haruki Eguchi (Research Laboratory, Ishikawajima-Harima Industry Co. Ltd, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 235-8501 Japan), Kazuo Tsumuraya, Hiroyuki Takenaka (Meiji Universiy, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Kawasaki 214-8571 Japan), Akihiko Suzuki (Research Laboratory, Ishikawajima-Harima Industry Co. Ltd, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 235-8501 Japan), Katsumi Tanigaki (Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Osaka-City University, Osaka, 558-8585 Japan)

09:48 G25.008 Pressure Effect of Seebeck Coefficient for Tin Clathrates

Feng Chen (TcSAM, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002), Kevin L. Stokes (AMRI, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148), George S. Nolas (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620), C. W. Chu (TcSAM, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002)

10:00 G25.009 Mechanism of Clathrate Formation through Binding Nature of Si-X and Ge-X dimers: ab initio Study

Kazuo Tsumuraya (Meiji Universiy, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Kawasaki 214-8571 Japan), Haruki Eguchi (Research Laboratory, Ishikawajima-Harima Industry Co. Ltd, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 235-8501 Japan), Hiroyuki Takenaka (Meiji Universiy, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Kawasaki 214-8571 Japan), Akihiko Suzuki (Research Laboratory, Ishikawajima-Harima Industry Co. Ltd, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 235-8501 Japan)

10:12 G25.010 Electronic Structure of K_2Bi_8Se_13

Daniel Bilc, S. D. Mahanti (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing), M. G. Kanatzidis (Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing), Paul Larson (Naval Research Laboratory, Center for Computational Materials Science, Washington)

10:24 G25.011 GeTe-based Thermoelectric Materials

Jeff Sharp (Marlow Industries, Inc.)

10:36 G25.012 Synthesis and Measurements of the Thermoelectric Properties of the Quasi-2D system, TiS_2

Ed Abbott, Joe Kolis (Dept. of Chemistry, Clemson University), Nathan D. Lowhorn, Will Sams, Terry M. Tritt (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University)

G25.013 Raman scattering studies of filled and unfilled skutterudites and clathrates for thermoelectric applications

C. Kendziora (Code 6375, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375), G. S. Nolas (Department of Physics, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL), D. Mandrus, B. C. Sales (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

08:00 G26.001 New Perspectives for Resonance Raman Scattering in Carbon Nanotubes

Ado Jorio (Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais)

08:36 G26.002 Resonance Raman Scattering in Carbon Nanotubes: Temperature Dependence

J. Menendez (Arizona State University), J.M. Calleja, H. van der Meulen (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), K McGuire, A.M. Rao (Clemson University)

08:48 G26.003 Raman spectroscopy on isolated carbon nanotubes with small

Antonio Souza Filho (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Grace Shou, Georgii Samsonidze (MIT), Ado Jorio (UFMG), Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT), Riichiro Saito (UEC-Japan), Anna Swan (BU), UFC Collaboration, MIT Collaboration, UFMG Collaboration, UEC Collaboration

09:00 G26.004 High-Resolution Near-Field Raman Microscopy of Carbon Nanotubes

Achim Hartschuh, Lukas Novotny (University of Rochester, The Institute of Optics, Rochester, NY 14627)

09:12 G26.005 Anisotropic Raman scattering in the k space of graphite and carbon nanotubes

A. Grüneis (UEC, Japan), R. Saito (UEC, CREST, JST, Japan), Ge.G. Samsonidze (MIT), M.A. Pimenta, A. Jorio (UFMG, Brazil), A.G. Souza Filho (UFC, Brazil), M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus (MIT)

09:24 G26.006 NEW PHYSICS FROM SEMICONDUCTING AND METALLIC ENRICHED SAMPLES OF SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES

Ge.G. Samsonidze, S.G. Chou, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT), D. Chattopadhyay, F. Papadimitrakopoulos (U. Connecticut)

09:36 G26.007 Simultaneous Raman scattering and fluorescence on Single wall carbon nanotubes

Adelina Santos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept Phys), Grace Shin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept Chem), Georgii Samsonidze (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept Elect Engn amp; Comp Sci), Gene Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Bitter Natl Magnet Lab), Mildred Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept Phys and Dept Elect Engn amp; Comp Sci), Steve Cronin (Havard University, Dept Applied Science), Antonio Souza (Universidade Federal do Ceara, Dept de Fisica), Marcos Pimenta (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Dept de Fisica), Anna Swan, Selim Ünlü (Boston University, Dept Elect amp; Comp Engn), Bennett Goldberg (Boston University, Dept Phys)

09:48 G26.008 Pressure dependence of the radial mode frequency in carbon nanotubes

Uma Venkateswaran, D. Masica (Oakland University), G. Sumanasekara (Univ. of Louisville), P. Eklund (Penn State Univ.)

10:00 G26.009 Temperature Dependence of Radial Breathing Mode Raman Frequency of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Nachiket Raravikar, Pawel Keblinski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Apparao Rao (Clemson University), Mildred Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Linda Schadler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute), Pulickel Ajayan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

10:12 G26.010 Conductivity Study of Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites via Raman Spectroscopy

Bin Chen, Julie P. Harmon, LaNetra M. Clayton, Patricia Muisener, Jing Li, Meyya Meyyappan

10:24 G26.011 Infrared and optical transmittance of free-standing single-wall carbon nanotube films

K. Kamaras (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, Budapest, Hungary H 1525), M. Nikolou, Z. Chen, A.G. Rinzler, David B. Tanner (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611)

10:36 G26.012 Critical wetting transition of Ortho-Hydrogen on SWNTs

Oliver Tschauner (University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dept. of Physics; Geophysical Laboratory/Center of High Pressure Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington), Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, Eugene Gregoryanz (Geophysical Laboratory/Center of High Pressure Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington), Eunja Kim (University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dept. of Physics)

G26.013 ADDRESSING INDIVIDUAL POINTS IN THE BRILLOUIN ZONE OF GRAPHITE BY RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ON ISOLATED SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES

Ge.G. Samsonidze (MIT), R. Saito (UEC, CREST, JST, Japan), A. Jorio (UFMG, Brazil), A.G. Souza Filho (UFC, Brazil), A. Grüneis (UEC, Japan), M.A. Pimenta (UFMG, Brazil), G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT)

08:00 G27.001 Reversibility window analogue in pressurised silica glass

Trachenko Kostya, Dove Martin T (Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

08:12 G27.002 Polyamorphic Transitions in Simulated Silica Glass

Liping Huang (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois), John Kieffer (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan)

08:24 G27.003 Novel approach for modeling binary glasses using models of tetrahedral amorphous semiconductors

De Nyago Tafen, David Drabold (Ohio University, Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy)

08:36 G27.004 Correlation between spatial heterogeneity and local dynamics

Ritwik Bhatia, Grigori Medvedev, David Corti, James Caruthers (Purdue University)

08:48 G27.005 Phonons in supercooled liquids and the Boson-Peak

Victor Martin-Mayor (Departamento de Fisica Teorica I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040 (Spain)), Tomas Grigera, Giorgio Parisi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma-I00185 (Italy)), Paolo Verrocchio (Departamento de Fisica Teorica I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040 (Spain))

09:00 G27.006 First-principles derived potentials to study glass transitions

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Don M. Nicholson (Computational Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mike Widom, Yang Wang, Marek Mihalkovic (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center)

09:12 G27.007 The Electronic and Structural Properties of KDP: Effect of Hydrogen Defects

Nicholas Kioussis (Department of Physics, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330)

09:48 G27.008 Efficient monte carlo simulation of complex materials : a tight-binding approach.

Parthapratim Biswas, David Drabold (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University)

10:00 G27.009 Density Functional Study of C_28-derived Molecular Solids

Nichols Romero, Jeongnim Kim, Richard Martin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:12 G27.010 Diamondoids as functional building blocks for nanotechnology

Noejung Park (R.I.S.T.), Mina Yoon, Savas Berber (Michigan State University), Gregory McIntosh (Seoul National University), Syogo Tejima, Hisashi Nakamura (R.I.S.T.), Eiji Osawa (NanoCarbon Res. Inst.), David Tomanek (Michigan state university)

10:24 G27.011 Onset of Percolation in Carbon Nanotube Suspensions and Composites

R.D. Morris (USRA/RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA), D. Anez, S. French, V. Sobolev, M. Foygel (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA)

10:36 G27.012 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Heat Transfer between Liquid and Carbon Nanotube

Sergei Shenogin, Rahmi Ozisik, Pawel Keblinski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

08:00 G28.001 Static and dynamic magnetic studies of magnetic nanoparticles embedded in a polymer matrix

J.L. Wilson, P. Poddar, H. Srikanth (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL), L. Clayton, K. Mohamed, J. Harmon (Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL), G. Markovich (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel), T. Hyeon (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea)

08:12 G28.002 Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in thin iron films: phonon and magnon contributions in the time-resolved MOKE

P. Guderian, T. Kampfrath, M. Muenzenberg, R. G. Ulbrich (IV. Phys. Inst., Goettingen University), B. Sass, F. Leuenberger, W. Felsch (I. Phys. Inst., Goettingen University, Germany), J. S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

08:24 G28.003 Magnetization Reversal of Individual Cylindrical Iron Nanoparticles

Yongqing Li, Peng Xiong, Stephan von Molnár (MARTECH and Dept. of Physics, Florida State University), Yuzo Ohno, Hideo Ohno (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

08:36 G28.004 Dynamic Magnetization and RF Susceptibility in Nanocomposite Materials

Srikanth Hariharan (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL)

09:12 G28.005 Spin dynamics in ferromagnetic metal nanoparticles

Carlo Canali (Kalmar University, Sweden), Aleksander Cehovin (Lund University), Allan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)

09:24 G28.006 Oriented Co Nanoparticles in a Single-Crystal Alumina Matrix

L.A. Boatner, C.W. White, T.E. Haynes, J.R. Thompson, K.D. Sorge, J.D. Budai (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN 37831), A. Meldrum (University of Alberta, Canada), Smart Surface Nanocomposites Collaboration

09:36 G28.007 Magnetic Anomalies in Permalloy Nanoparticles

Young Sun, Myron Salamon (Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kimberly Garnier, Robert Averback (Department of Material Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:48 G28.008 Effect of Hydrogen Absorption On Magnetic Moment of Ni_n Clusters

N. O. JONES, C. ASHMAN, S. N. KHANNA (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284), M. R. PEDERSON (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

10:00 G28.009 Orbital And Spin Magnetic Moments Of Co_n (1

SHIV N. KHANNA (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. 23284), T. BARUAH (Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057), M. R. PEDERSON (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

10:12 G28.010 Magnetic properties of organic molecule coated Mn nanoparticles.

Joe Losby, Sanjay Mishra (The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN), Sujoy Roy, Nausad Ali (Souther Illinois University, Carbondale, IL)

10:24 G28.011 Dynamic susceptibility of superparamagnetic particles

William Coffey (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland), Yuri Kalmykov (Centre d’Etudes Fondamentales, Université de Perpignan, 52, Avenue de Villeneuve), Sergey Titov (Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

10:36 G28.012 Optical Second Harmonic Generation at Transition-Metal Oxides Surfaces

Oleksandr Ney (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle, Germany), Wolfgang Hübner (Kaiserslautern University, Germany)

10:48 G28.013 Assembly of FePt nanoparticles by chemical reduction within nanochannels

Yucheng Sui, David J. Sellmyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0111)

08:00 G29.001 Anisotropic magnetoresistance in Co nanocontacts

Maria I Montero, Randy K Dumas (University of California San Diego, Physics Department, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, U.S.A.), Waldemar A A Macedo (Laboratório de Física Aplicada, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, 30123-970 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil), Ivan K Schuller (University of California San Diego, Physics Department, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, U.S.A.)

08:12 G29.002 Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Nanocontacts

O. Ozatay, P. Chalsani, N.C. Emley, I.N. Krivorotov, R.A. Buhrman (Cornell University,Ithaca,NY)

08:24 G29.003 Resonant tunneling in magnetic nanojunctions

Ildar Sabirianov, Andrei Sokolov, Evgeny Tsymbal, Bernard Doudin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111)

08:36 G29.004 Magnetoresistance of half-metallic nanocontacts

Michael Coey (Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.)

09:12 G29.005 Conductance through Co and Ni nanocontacts within First-principle Approach

Ashok Solanki (University of Nebraska at Lincoln), Renat Sabiryanov (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Evgeny Tsymbal, Sitaram Jaswal (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)

09:24 G29.006 Magnetic properties of finite Co chains on Pt(111)

Bence Lazarovits (CMS, TU Vienna, Austria), Laszlo Szunyogh (Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungray), Peter Weinberger (CMS, TU Vienna, Austria)

09:36 G29.007 Electric Transport in Magnetic Nanowires

S. Lee, D. Natelson (Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy), K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

09:48 G29.008 In-situ monitoring of quantum conductance in electrodeposited magnetic point contacts

Cheol-Soo Yang, John Thiltges, Bernard Doudin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE 68588-0111), Mark Johnson (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 20375)

10:00 G29.009 Measurements of the Spin Dependent Two-step Fermi Distribution

Armando Anaya, Dragomir Davidovic (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

10:12 G29.010 Room Temperature Domain Wall Pinning in Bent Nickel Nanowires

D.M. Silevitch, M. Tanase, C.L. Chien, D.H. Reich (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University)

10:24 G29.011 Spin accumulation and magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic domain walls

Maxim Dzero, Lev Gor'kov (CM/T, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), Anatolii Zvezdin, Konstantin Zvezdin (Institute of General Physics, Moscow, Russia)

10:36 G29.012 Magnetoresistance of Domain wall confined by magnetostatic interaction

Sonali Mukherjee, R.W. Chantrell, U. Nowak, Eric Boerner, S. Khizroev, D. Litvinov (Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, PA)

10:48 G29.013 Spin Dynamics of Buried Ultra-Thin Magnetic Layers

Justin Shaw (University of Arizona), Sukmock Lee (Inha University), Charles Falco (University of Arizona)

08:00 G30.001 Competition between ferro- and antiferro-magnetism in FePt

G. Brown (Oak Ridge Nat Lab and Florida State Univ), T.C. Schulthess, A. Janotti, G.M. Stocks (Oak Ridge Nat Lab), B. Kraczek, D.D. Johnson (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

08:12 G30.002 Partial Order and Its Important Effect on the Energetic, Magnetic and Structural Properties of Alloys

D.D. Johnson (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), A.V. Smirnov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:24 G30.003 Structural Defects Energies in CoPt-type Alloys and the Effects of Processing Temperature

Brent Kraczek, Duane J. Johnson (Depts. of Physics and Mat. Sci. and Engr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801), Andrei V. Smirnov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:36 G30.004 Coexistence of ferro- and antiferromagnetic order in Mn-doped Ni_2MnGa

Jussi Enkovaara (Laboratory of Physics, P.O. Box 1100, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland), Oleg Heczko (Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, P.O. Box 2200, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland), Andres Ayuela, Risto M. Nieminen (Laboratory of Physics, P.O. Box 1100, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland)

08:48 G30.005 Theory of Transition-Metal Substitutions in High-Temperature Rare Earth-Cobalt Magnets

A. Kashyap, R. Skomski (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, USA), R. Sabiryanov (Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182-0266,USA), S.S. Jaswal, D.J. Sellmyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, USA)

09:00 G30.006 Non-enhancement of magnetic moments on transition metal impurities by alkali metal hosts

B.R. SAHU (Department of Physics University of Texas at Austin), LEONARD KLEINMAN (Department of physics University of Texas at Austin)

09:12 G30.007 Wannier Function Study of Insulating Ferromagnetism

Wei Ku (Department of Physics, University of California Davis)

09:48 G30.008 Magnetic Properties of Al, V, Mn and Ru impurities in Fe-Co Alloys

S. C. Deevi, B.V. Reddy (Research Center, Chrysalis Technologies Incorporated, Richmond, VA 23234), S. N. Khanna (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284)

10:00 G30.009 Ab-initio evaluation of domain wall resistivities in permalloy

Peter Weinberger (CMS, TU Vienna, Austria)

10:12 G30.010 Quantitative Theory of Invar-like Anomalies in DyCo_2 and HoCo_2

Sergei Khmelevskyi, Peter Mohn (Center of Computational Materials Science,Vienna University of Technology , A1060 Vienna, Austria)

10:24 G30.011 Towards an understanding of Steel: first-principles to tight-binding

M. J. Mehl, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), Y. Mishin (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax VA)

10:36 G30.012 The Role of Magnetic Structure in Reduced Diffusion in FeMn Amorphous Alloys.

Don Nicholson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Yang Wang (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Mike Widom (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:48 G30.013 Non-collinear magnetic structure of Fe-based bulk amorphous metals

Yang Wang (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213), Mike Widom (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213), Don Nicholson (Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), Siddartha Naidu, Marek Mihalkovic, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213)

08:00 G31.001 Classical and Quantum Aging in a Disordered Ising Magnet

C. Ancona-Torres, S. Ghosh, T.F. Rosenbaum (Department of Physics and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), G. Aeppli (NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ)

08:12 G31.002 Non-linear dynamics in spin fluids

S. Ghosh, T. F. Rosenbaum (Department of Physics and James Franck institute, University of Chicago), G. Aeppli (NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ)

08:24 G31.003 Spatially heterogeneous ages in glassy dynamics

Claudio Chamon (Boston University), Horacio Castillo (Boston University and Ohio University), Leticia Cugliandolo (ENS Paris and LPTHE Jussieu), Jose Luis Iguain (LPTHE Jussieu and Universite de Montreal), Malcolm Kennett (Princeton Univ. and Cambridge Univ.)

08:36 G31.004 Spin relaxation in Dy and Ho oxides

G. Lawes (LANL), B.S. Shastry (IIS), R.C. Cava (Princeton University), A.P. Ramirez (LANL)

08:48 G31.005 Observation of Multiple Spin Relaxation Processes in Dysprosium Titanate

Andrew Cornelius, Brian Yulga, Brian Light (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Jason Gardner (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

09:00 G31.006 Lu_2V_2O_7-x: A New System Of Oxygen-Deficient Compounds

G.T. Knoke, J.M. Hill, D.C. Johnston (Ames Lab. and Dept. Phys. amp; Astron., Iowa State U., Ames, IA 50011)

09:12 G31.007 Magnetic Behavior of Ternary Insulating Co/Mn/Fe Dichloride Dihydrate

G.C. DeFotis, C.D. Wallo, R.L. Smith, D.B. Bodkin, G.L. Mirabilio, T.R. Leftwich, A.D. Slansky (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795)

09:24 G31.008 New Spin Glass Systems in Magnetic B_12 Boron Cluster Compounds

Takao Mori (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and PRESTO-JST Corporation)

09:36 G31.009 Magnetic Reversal and Relaxation in a Quasi-1D Fractal Cluster Glass

S. J. Etzkorn (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University), Wendy Hibbs, Joel S. Miller (Department of Chemistry, University of Utah), A. J. Epstein (Departments of Physics and Chemistry, The Ohio State University)

09:48 G31.010 Monte Carlo studies of the one-dimensional Ising spin glass with power-law interactions

Helmut G. Katzgraber (Theoretische Physik, ETH Hoenggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland), A. Peter Young (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064)

10:00 G31.011 Elastic Constants of the Pyrochlore Cd_2Re_2O_7

David Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Veerle Keppens, Michael A. McGuire (The University of Mississippi), Rongying Jin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jian He (The University of Tennessee)

10:12 G31.012

10:24 G31.013 High Field NMR study of a 2D frustrated SrCu_2(BO_3)_2

Raivo Stern (NICPB (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics), Tallinn, Estonia), Kazuyoshi Yoshimura (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan), Hiroshi Kageyama (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan), Hanna Dabkowska, Bruce D. Gaulin (Department of Physics and Astronomy,  McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada), Charles P. Slichter (Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Arneil Reyes, Philip Kuhns, William G. Moulton (NHFML, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, Florida)

G31.014 Magnetic anisotropy and electronic transport properties in the single-crystalline compounds of EuCu_2Ge_2 and EuCu_2Si_2

Rhyee Jong-Soo, Cho B. K. (K-JIST, Gwang-ju, South Korea), Ri H-. C. (Korea Basic Science Institute, Dae-jon, South Korea), Korea Basic Science Institute Collaboration

G31.015 Optical properties of the molecular complex K_6[V_15 As_6O_42(H_2O)]8H_2O

Janice Musfeldt, Jongwoo Choi, Lelon Sanderson (University of Tennessee), Paul Kogerler (Ames Laboratory)

08:00 G32.001 Growth and characterization of hybrid (TMTSF)_2ClO_4 - (TMTSF)_2PF_6 bicrystals

Heon-Ick Ha, Jeong-Il Oh, M.J. Naughton (Boston College)

08:12 G32.002 Magnetic upper critical field in accurately-aligned (TMTSF)_2ClO_4

Jeong-Il Oh, M.J. Naughton (Boston College)

08:24 G32.003 FET measurements of TMTSF and (TMTSF)2PF6 single crystals.

Moon-Sun Nam (Department of Physics, Princeton University), Arzhang Ardavan (Department of Physics, Oxford University, U.K.), P. M. Chaikin (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

08:36 G32.004 F-wave versus P-wave Superconductivity in Organic Conductors

Robert Cherng (Massachusetts Insitute of Technology), Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

08:48 G32.005 Coexistence of Superconductor and Spin density wave insulator in (TMTSF)2PF6

I.J. Lee, P.M. Chaikin (Department of Physics, Princeton University,Princeton, NJ 08544), S.E Brown (Department of Physics and Astronomy,UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095), M.J. Naughton (Department of Physics,Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167)

09:00 G32.006 Far-infrared studies of correlation effects in layered organic conductors and superconductors (BEDT-TTF)_2X

Michael Dumm, Natalia Drichko, Jakob Barz, Martin Dressel (1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany)

09:12 G32.007 Inhomogeneities in the normal metal phase of (TMTSF)_2PF_6 and the effects of disorder

W. Yu, F. Zamborszky, S. E. Brown (UCLA), I. J. Lee, P. M. Chaikin (Princeton)

09:24 G32.008 Giant Thermoelectric Oscillations at Magic Angles in (TMTSF)_2PF_6

Weida Wu, Injae Lee, P. M. Chaikin (Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA)

09:36 G32.009 (TMTSF)_2X: Mott physics in a "metallic" system

John Hopkinson, Karyn Le Hur (Universite de Sherbrooke)

09:48 G32.010 ^13C NMR study of the charge ordering in Q1D (TMTTF)_2SCN

Shigeki Fujiyama, Toshikazu Nakamura (Institute for Molecular Science)

10:00 G32.011 Pressure-induced antiferromagnetism in an ambient pressure layered organic superconductor beta-(BDA-TTP)2SbF6

Yuri Sushko, Oleg Naumenko (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506), T. Mizutani (Nanotechnology Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba 305-8568,Japan and Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan), K. Ishida (Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan;), M. Tokumoto (Nanotechnology Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba 305-8568,Japan; Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan; CREST, JST, Japan), J. Yamada (Himeji Institute of Technology, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan)

10:12 G32.012 Observation of nodes in the high-frequency Shubnikov-de Haas effect in several highly two-dimensional organic conductors

A.E. Kovalev, S. Hill, S. Takachashi (Dept. of Physics, UF, Gainesville, FL, 32601), S. Uji (NRIM, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-003, Japan), K. Kawano, M. Tamura (Toho University,Funabashi, 274-8510, Japan), T. Naito (Hokkaido University, Sapporo,060-0810, Japan), H. Kobayashi (IMS, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan), J.S. Schlueter (Materials Science Division, ANL, Argonne, IL 60439), N.D. Kushch (IPCP RAS, Chernogolovka, 142432, Russia)

10:24 G32.013 Microwave studies of the organic conductor \lambda-(BETS)_2Fe_xGa_1-xCl_4(x=1, 0.37)

S. TAKAHASHI, A. E. KOVALEV, S. HILL (Univ. of Florida), D. B. ENGEL, L. K. MONTGOMERY (Indiana Univ.), S. UJI (NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan), M. TOKUMOTO (AIST, Tsukuba, Japan), A. KOBAYASHI (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), H. TANAKA, H. KOBAYSHI (IMS, Okazaki, Japan)

10:36 G32.014 Comparison of the Fermi-surface topologies of \kappa -(BEDT-TTF)_2Cu(NCS)_2 and its deuterated analogue

R. A. Edwards (Oxford University Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom), John Singleton, Charles Mielke (NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), A. Narduzzo, A. Ardavan (Oxford University Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom), J. A. Schlueter (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA)

10:48 G32.015 Anomolous behavior of the quasiparticle scattering rates of the layered superconductor \kappa -(BEDT-TTF)_2Cu(NCS)_2

John Singleton, Charles Mielke (NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), W. Hayes (Oxford University Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom), J. A. Schlueter (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA)

08:00 G33.001 Artificial Surface-Mounted Molecular Dipolar Rotors

Josef Michl (University of Colorado, Boulder)

08:36 G33.002 Biological modification and biologically-directed assembly of carbon nanotubes

Robert Hamers (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)