Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 12 APRIL 2003

08:00 A1.001 Femtosecond Four-Wave mixing for molecule based computation

Vadim Lozovoy, Igor Pastirk, Matthew Comstock, Katherine Walowicz, Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University)

08:12 A1.002 An Investigation of Radiation Trapping in Cold Atoms

Soo Kim, Matthew Beeler, Ron Stites, Laura Feeney, Samir Bali (Physics Dept., Miami University, Oxford, OH)

08:24 A1.003 Optical Data Storage in Photorefractive Barium Titanate

Neil Smith, Jan Yarrison-Rice (Physics Dept., Miami University)

08:36 A1.004 Role of autoionization and characteristic decay in core-electron energy-loss spectra in rare-earth metals

Kofi Nuroh (Dept. Of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Salem, OH 44460)

08:48 A1.005 Nonclassical Intensity Cross Correlations In Cavity Quantuelectrodynamics

Perry Rice, Joe Leach (Miami University Physics), Elliot Strimbu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

09:00 A1.006 Photon Statistics of a Cavity QED System with Quantized Center of Mass Motion

Joe Leach, Perry Rice (Dept. of Physics, Miami University)

08:00 A2.001 DEVELOPMENT OF AN ION BEAM ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE TO QUANTIFY GEL ELECTROPHORESIS

Lee Kiessel, Michael Pikaart (Hope College), Patrick Grant, Graham Bench (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Graham Peaslee (Hope College)

08:12 A2.002 Beam Geometry amp; Luminosity Model for Radio Emission of Pulsars

Stefan Coltisor, Peter Gonthier (Hope College), Undergraduate Summer Research 2003 Collaboration

08:24 A2.003

08:36 A2.004 Fingerprints of entangled states in reactions with rare isotopes

Carlos Bertulani (NSCL - MSU)

08:48 A2.005 Random Interactions, Order and Symmetry in a Simple Many-Fermion System

Declan Mulhall (Cal Poly), Alexander Volya (Argonne National Lab), Vladimir Zelevinsky (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Michigan State University)

09:00 A2.006 Discrete Methods for Canonical Ensembles

Scott Pratt (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Mich. St. Univ.)

09:12 A2.007 The Balance Function for p+p and Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Gary Westfall (Michigan State University), STAR Collaboration

09:24 A2.008 B-Meson signatures of Supersymmetry and U(2) flavor symmetry.

Shrihari Gopalakrishna, C.P. Yuan (Michigan State Universiy)

08:00 A3.001 Entropy crisis as the guiding force for the glass transition in a dimer system

Fedor Semerianov, P. D. Gujrati (The Department of Physics and The Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325)

08:12 A3.002 Resistless AFM-assisted nanolithography in polymer materials

Sergei F Lyuksyutov (Department of Physics, The University of Akron), Richard A Vaia, Shane Juhl (Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory), Pavel B Paramonov (Department of Physics, The University of Akron)

08:24 A3.003 Photoinduced Absorption Studies of Phenyl Disubstituted Polyacetylene

Cynthia Gedelian, Kim Coplin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Denison University)

08:36 A3.004 Molecular conformation and dynamics in ultrathin polymer films

E. K. Mann, S. V. Primak, T Jin, D Finotello (Kent State University, Department of physics), S Prosser (Univeresity of Toronto, Department of chemistry)

08:48 A3.005 Molecular Mobility in Ultrasonically Devulcanized Unfilled Polybutadiene Rubber

E. von MEERWALL, J.-S. OH, A. I. ISAYEV (Univ. of Akron)

09:00 A3.006 Transition to Entangled Diffusion in the Alkane-Polyethylene Melt System

N. Dirama, W. L. Mattice, E. von Meerwall (Univ. of Akron)

08:00 A4.001 Chaos in Quantum Mechanics: Implications for Quantum Information

Wm. C. McHarris (Michigan State University)

08:12 A4.002 Theory of Auditory Thresholds in Primates

Michael J. Harrison (Michigan State University)

08:24 A4.003 The quantum/classical interface: spin and qubits

William E. Baylis, Crystal Johnson (Department of Physics, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada)

08:36 A4.004 Core-mantle Mill Theory

Yikun Zhang (Freelance)

08:48 A4.005 A Numerical Study of the Entropy Density Function

William Newby, Adam Lark, John Spencer, Haowen Xi (Bowling Green State University), BG Universal Research Group Team

09:00 A4.006 Studying the Sagnac Effect with Ping

Chris Clymer, Michael Crescimanno (Youngstown State University)

09:12 A4.007 May the force be with you: student explanations of forces on charges in magnetic fields

Gordon Aubrecht (Department of Physics, Ohio State University at Marion), Cristian Raduta (Department of Physics, Ohio State University)

09:24 A4.008 Quantum Mechanics without the Hydrogen Atom

Chitra Rangan, Jens Zorn (FOCUS Center, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

09:36 A4.009 Building Bridges Towards Physics in the Undergraduate Discrete Math Class

Mihai Caragiu (Department of Mathematics, Ohio Northern University)

08:00 A5.001 Surprises in small silicon interstitial clusters

Kaden R.A. Hazzard, S. Barr, Y.-J. Du, D.A. Richie, J.-N. Kim, R.G. Hennig, J.W. Wilkins (The Ohio State University)

08:12 A5.002 Simulating the Si Cluster Growth Pattern

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

08:24 A5.003 SEM, EDS, and Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Carbide Crystals

Paul Thomas, Nadezhda Zelikovskaya, Jonathan Henry, Bahram Roughani (Affiliation), David Parker (Kettering University)

08:36 A5.004 Is There a Phase Transition in Zircon?

Kevin Pletzke, Herbert Jaeger (Department of Physics, Miami University)

08:48 A5.005 Direct Observation of Ordered Structure in a Two-Dimensional Electron System

S. Chakraborty, I. Kuljanishvili, I. J. Maasilta, S. H. Tessmer (Michigan State University), M. R. Melloch (Purdue University)

09:00 A5.006 Jet engine exit plane soot emissions

Donald Hagen, Philip Whitefield (University of MIssouri-Rolla)

08:00 A6.001 Spectroscopy of Macroscopic Quantum States of Two Capacitively-coupled Junctions

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

08:12 A6.002 Optical generation of many-spin entangled states in a quantum well

Jiming Bao, Andrea Bragas, Roberto Merlin (University of Michigan), Jacek Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

08:24 A6.003 Optical control of spin-spin interaction in semiconductors

Carlo Piermarocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-2320)

08:36 A6.004 Tuning the Entanglement for a 1D Magnetic System with Anisotropic Coupling and Impurities

Sabre Kais, omar Osenda, Zhen Huang (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

08:48 A6.005 Localization and antiresonant decoupling in disordered spin and qubit chains

L. F. Santos, M. I. Dykman (Michigan State University)

09:00 A6.006 Control of trapped ion qubits using optical pulses

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

09:12 A6.007 Towards Micro-fabricated Ion Trap Quantum Computing

Martin J. Madsen, Daniel Stick, Winfried K. Hensinger, Christopher Monroe (FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan)

09:24 A6.008 Clean Quantum Logic Gates with Trapped Ions

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

08:00 A7.001 Dirac-Heisenberg Spins and the Fermion Entanglement Question

Thomas Kaplan (Michigan State University)

08:12 A7.002 QUANTUM COMPUTER AND DYNAMICS OF OPEN QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS

Alexander Volya (Argonne National Laboratory), Vladimir Zelevinsky (Michigan State University)

08:24 A7.003 Quantum Computation with Optical Coherent States, Linear Interactions and Superposed Resources

T.C. Ralph, A. Gilchrist, G.J. Milburn (Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Department of Physics, University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia), W.J. Munro (Hewlett Packard Lbaoratories, Filton Road Stroke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8QZ, U.K.), S. Glancy (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46656, USA)

08:36 A7.004 Broken Ergodicity in a Rough Energy Landscape

Ulrich Zurcher (Physics Dept., Cleveland State University)

08:48 A7.005 Generalized Fourier Transforms and Isomorphic Hilbert Spaces for Entanglement

Muzaffer M. Tabanli (University of Texas Pan-American)

09:00 A7.006 Compute Quantum Corrections in Strong Interaction to All Orders in Perturbative Expansion

C.-P. Yuan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, USA), Shinya Kanemura (Department of Physics, Osaka University, Japan)