Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 26 MAY 2004

13:30 C1.001 Intrinsic Electron Conduction Mechanisms in Molecules

Mark Reed (Yale University)

14:06 C1.002 Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Polymer Nanostructures

Jack C. Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:42 C1.003 Experimental Challenges Facing Quantum-Dot-Based Spin Qubits

Charles Marcus (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

15:18 C1.004 Nanoparticle Enhanced Spectroscopies

Peter Nordlander (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University)

13:30 C2.001 Quantum Key Distribution

Richard Hughes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:06 C2.002 Toward quantum control of light using atomic memory

Mikhail Lukin (Physics Department, Harvard University)

14:42 C2.003 Quantum Information Processing Using Photons

James Franson (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723)

15:18 C2.004 Quantum measurement and feedback with atomic spins

Hideo Mabuchi (California Institute of Technology)

13:30 C3.001 Vibrational relaxation and elastic scattering in ultracold alkali-dialkali collisions

Goulven Quemener, Pascal Honvault, Jean-Michel Launay (PALMS, UMR CNRS 6627, University of Rennes, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France)

13:42 C3.002 Ultracold Collisions Induced by Frequency-Chirped Light

M. J. Wright, P. L. Gould (University of Connecticut), S.D. Gensemer (Bates College), J. Vala (University of California at Berkeley), R. Kosloff (Hebrew University, Israel)

13:54 C3.003 Photoassociation spectroscopy of cold alkaline earth atoms near the intercombination line

Roman Ciurylo, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova, Paul Julienne (NIST)

14:06 C3.004 Heteronuclear Ionizing Collisions at Ultracold Temperatures

C.I. Sukenik, M.K. Shaffer, H.C. Busch (Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)

14:18 C3.005 Generalized Pseudo-potentials for Higher Partial Wave Scattering and Applications to Trapped Atoms

Rene Stock, Andrew Silberfarb, Ivan H. Deutsch (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131), Eric L. Bolda (Atomic Physics Division, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

14:30 C3.006 Partial-wave interference from the scattering of ultra-cold atoms

Nicholas Thomas, Niels Kjærgaard (University of Otago), Paul Julienne (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Andrew Wilson (University of Otago)

14:42 C3.007 Determining scattering lengths from spectroscopy on trapped pairs of atoms

Sanjiv Shresta, Eite Tiesinga, Carl Williams (Atomic Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)

14:54 C3.008 Limits on Universality in Ultracold Three-Boson Recombination

J.P. D'Incao (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University), H Suno (RIKEN), B.D. Esry (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University)

15:06 C3.009 Ultracold three-body recombination in reduced dimensions

B.D. Esry (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University), Chris H. Greene (Dept. of Physics and JILA, Univ. of Colorado)

15:18 C3.010 Tuning the interactions of spin-polarized fermions using quasi-one-dimensional confinement

Brian E. Granger (Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053), Doerte Blume (Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164)

15:30 C3.011 S-state supression of inelastic collisions in non-S-state atoms

Cindy Hancox, S. Charles Doret, Matthew Hummon, John Doyle (Harvard University)

15:42 C3.012 Buffer gas cooling and trapping of atoms with small effective magnetic moments

Robert Michniak, Jack Harris, Scott Nguyen (Department of Physics, Harvard University and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138), Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT, and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, Ma 02139), John Doyle (Department of Physics, Harvard University and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138)

15:54 C3.013 Magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling of Mn

Scott V Nguyen, S. Charles Doret, Jack G. E. Harris (Department of Physics, Harvard University, and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02138), Joel Helton, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT, and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02139), Robert Michniak, John M Doyle (Department of Physics, Harvard University, and Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02138)

16:06 C3.014 Multiplet Structure of Feshbach Resonances in non-zero partial waves

Christopher Ticknor, John L. Bohn (JILA)

16:18 C3.015 Feshbach resonances with large background scattering length: impact of open-channel resonances

Bout Marcelis, Eric van Kempen, Boudewijn Verhaar, Servaas Kokkelmans (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

13:30 C4.001 Photoionization Study of the Iron Isonuclear Sequence

M.F. Gharaibeh, S.W.J. Scully, E.D. Emmons, A. Aguilar, A.M. Covington, R.A. Phaneuf (University of Nevada, Reno), A. Müller (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany), A.L.D. Kilcoyne, J.D. Bozek, A.S. Schlachter (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), G. Hinojosa, C. Cisneros, I. Álvarez (Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico)

13:42 C4.002 Disentangling Double-Photoionization Processes of Lithium

R. Wehlitz (Synchrotron Radiation Center, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison), M.M. Martinez (Univ. of Washington, Seattle), J.B. Bluett (Synchrotron Radiation Center, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison), D. Luki\'c (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia), S.B. Whitfield (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Wisconsin--Eau Claire)

13:54 C4.003 Vibrationally resolved K-­shell photoionization of CO with circularly polarized light: an ultrasensitive probe of the molecular potential

T. JAHNKE, L. FOUCAR, J. TITZE, R. WALLAUER, W. ARNOLD, O. JAGUTZK, L. Ph. H. SCHMIDT, A. CZASCH, A. STAUDTE, M. SCHÖFFLER, H. SCHMIDT-BÖCKING, R. DÖRNER (IKF U. Frankfurt), S. K. SEMENOV, N. A. CHEREPKOV (State U. of Aerospace Instrumentation, St. Petersburg), T. OSIPOV, E. P. BENIS, A. ALNASER, C. L. COCKE (Kansas State U.), M. H. PRIOR (Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.)

14:06 C4.004 A Complete Determination of Photoelectron Partial Wave Probabilities by Polarization Analysis of the Fluorescence from an Excited Xe Photoion

Kenneth McLaughlin (Loras College), Orhan Yenen, Duane Jaecks, Timothy Gay (University of Nebraska), Kayvan Aflatooni (Fort Hays State University)

14:18 C4.005 Breakdown of the Franck-Condon approximation in vibrationally resolved photoionization of H_2

John D. Bozek, Sophie Canton (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 C4.006 Dissociation dynamics of hydrogen molecular ions in ultrafast intense laser fields

Pengqian Wang, Jiangfan Xia, Kevin D. Carnes, A. Max Sayler, Mark A. Smith, Itzik Ben-Itzhak (Kansas State University)

14:42 C4.007 Cold collisions between atomic Rubidium and molecular OH

Heather Lewandowski, Eric Hudson, Jason Bochinski, Jun Ye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado)

14:54 C4.008 Measurements of Isotope, Hyperfine, and Alignment Dependence in Rubidium Energy Pooling Collisions

S. Johnson, A. Gallagher (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

15:06 C4.009 Production of Liquid Hyperpolarized Xenon by Phase Exchange

B. Saam, T. Su, S.W. Morgan, G.L. Samuelson, G. Laicher (Dept. of Physics, University of Utah)

15:18 C4.010 Hybrid Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping

Earl Babcock (University of Wisconsin Madison), Ian Nelson, Steve Kadlececk, Bastiaan Driehuys (Amersham Health), F.W. Hersman (University of New Hampshire), L.W. Anderson, T.G. Walker (University of Wisconsin Madison)

15:30 C4.011 Reducing Relaxation of Hyperpolarized ^129 Xe during Cryogenic Separation

B. Patton, N. N. Kuzma, W. Happer (Princeton University)

15:42 C4.012 High-Resolution Spectra of Ho L X Rays Produced in Collisions with Heavy Ions

V. Horvat, J. M. Blackadar, R. L. Watson, A. N. Perumal, Y. Peng (Cyclotron Institute and Department of Chemistry, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843)

15:54 C4.013 TWO-PHOTON KNOCKING-OUT OF TWO ELECTRONS OF THE 2S-SHELL OF THE ARGON ATOM

S.A. Novikov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA)