Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 27 MAY 2004

Session G1. Undergraduate Research Presentations.

Thursday morning, 10:30, Sabino, Marriott University Park Hotel

10:30 G1.001 HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY IN THE INFRARED AND FAR-INFRARED REGIONS
Brooke Chuzles (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
10:50 G1.002 Eavesdropping and dimensionality in a time-frequency based protcol for quantum key distribution
Rebecca Cremona (Brown University)
11:10 G1.003 The relevance of Boltzmann theory for light scattering in random media
Matthew Narter, S. Menon, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560 USA)
11:30 G1.004 Self-referencing interferometric measurement of microradian wedge angles
Rebecca Olson (Brigham Young University)
11:50 G1.005 On the Use of Siegert Pseudostates in Quantum Scattering Theory
Jeffrey Shainline (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA)
12:10 G1.006 Study of Target Heating by Laser Generated Electrons for Fast Ignition
Casey Streuber (University of California, Davis, Department of Applied Science)

Session G2. Hot Topics.

Thursday morning, 10:30, Pima, Marriott University Park Hotel

10:30 G2.001 Observation of Entanglement between a Single Atom and a Single Photon
Boris Blinov (FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan)
11:06 G2.002 Two Frontiers in Quantum Gases: Fast Rotating Bose Gases and Spinor Bose Condensates.
Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho (Physics Department. The Ohio State University)
11:42 G2.003 Making condensates with a Fermi gas of atoms
Deborah Jin (NIST, JILA)
12:18 G2.004 Coulomb Explosion Imaging: Molecular Dynamics Exposed
III Hill (University of Maryland)

Session G3. Atoms in Optical Lattices.

Thursday morning, 10:30, Madera, Marriott University Park Hotel

10:30 G3.001 Transition from a strongly interacting 1D superfluid to a Mott insulator
Thilo Stöferle, Henning Moritz, Christian Schori, Michael Köhl, Tilman Esslinger (Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland)
10:42 G3.002 Transport in a 1-d Bose gas near the superfluid to Mott-insulator transition.
Chad Fertig, Ken O'Hara, John Huckans, James Porto, William Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Bruno Laburthe-Tolra (Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers), Steven Rolston (University of Maryland)
10:54 G3.003 Structural phases of a rotating condensate in optical lattice
Han Pu (Rice University), Leslie Baksmaty (University of Rochester), Su Yi (Rice University), Nicholas Bigelow (University of Rochester)
11:06 G3.004 Stochastic dynamics of finite-temperature Bose-condensed atoms in an optical lattice
Lorenzo Isella, Janne Ruostekoski (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, UK)
11:18 G3.005 Fractional quantum Hall states in optical lattices
Anders Sørensen (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Ehud Altman, Eugene Demler, Mikhail Lukin (Harvard)
11:30 G3.006 Bragg Spectroscopy of ultracold atoms loaded in an optical lattice
Ana Maria Rey (University of Maryland College Park, NIST), P. Blair Blakie (NIST), Guido Pupillo (University of Maryland College Park, NIST), Carl J. Williams (NIST), Charles Chark (Affiliation)
11:42 G3.007 Superfluid density of spinor condensates in an optical lattice
Bryan Nelsen, Justin English (Georgia Southern University), Charles W. Clark (NIST), Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University and NIST)
11:54 G3.008 Exploring the Limit of Raman Sideband Cooling in Optical Lattices.
Kim Fook Lee, Worawarong Rakreungdet, Poul S. Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona)
12:06 G3.009 How to initialize a register for quantum computing using neutral atoms in an optical lattice
Guido Pupillo, Gavin K. Brennen, Ana Maria Rey (Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8410, USA. and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.), Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8410, USA.)
12:18 G3.010 1D and 2D optical lattices on a chip for quantum computing
Katharina Christandl, Rajani Ayachitula, Gregory P. Lafyatis (The Ohio State University, Department of Physics), Seung-Cheol Lee, Jin-Fa Lee (The Ohio State University, Department of Electrical Engineering)
12:30 G3.011 1-dimensional calcium FORT
Jared Daily, Elizabeth Cummings, Dallin Durfee, Scott Bergeson (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)
12:42 G3.012 Quantum control of atomic qubits in a 3D optical lattice.
Worawarong Rakreungdet, Kim Fook Lee, Poul S. Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona)

Session G4. Fundamental Symmetries and Precision Measurements.

Thursday morning, 10:30, Canyon A&B, Marriott University Park Hotel

10:30 G4.001 First Measurement of an Antihydrogen Velocity and the First Laser-Controlled Production of Slow Antihydrogen
Cody H. Storry (Harvard University), ATRAP Collaboration
10:42 G4.002 Resolution of the Orthopositronium Lifetime Puzzle
R.S. Vallery, P.W. Zitzewitz, D.W. Gidley (University of Michigan)
10:54 G4.003 Precision Atomic Mass Spectrometry at FSU
Matthew Redshaw, Wei Shi, Juliette Victoria, Edmund Myers (Florida State University)
11:06 G4.004 Time reversal invariance violation in atoms and nuclei and search for physics beyond the Standard modeld
Victor Flambaum, Jacinda Ginges (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia)
11:18 G4.005 Exerimental Program to measure the Electric Dipole Moment of Radium-225
E. Schulte, I. Ahmad, K. Bailey, D. Bowers, R. Holt, Z.-T. Lu, T. O'Connor, D. Potterveld, N. Scielzo (Argonne National Laboratory)
11:30 G4.006 Progress towards testing CPT and Lorentz symmetry using a self-compensated K-^3He co-magnetometer.
T. Kornack, T. Jackson, M. V. Romalis (Princeton University)
11:42 G4.007 Space tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan University), Robert Bluhm (Colby College), Alan Kostelecky (Indiana University), Charles Lane (Berry College), Matthew Mewes (Indiana University)
11:54 G4.008 Satellite-based clock-comparison tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry
Charles Lane (Berry College), Neil Russell (Northern Michigan University), Robert Bluhm (Colby College), Alan Kostelecky (Indiana University)
12:06 G4.009 Amplification of small spin precession using non-linear magnetic dipolar interactions in liquid ^129Xe.
Micah Ledbetter, Michael Romalis (Princeton University)
12:18 G4.010 High precision calculations of isotope shift for many electron atoms
Julian Berengut, Vladimir Dzuba, Victor Flambaum (School of Physics, University of NSW, Sydney, 2052, Australia), Mikhail Kozlov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188300, Russia)
12:30 G4.011 Inconsistencies between lifetime and polarizability measurements in Cs
Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware), Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg)
12:42 G4.012 Precise measurements of light-shifts in a single trapped ^138Ba^+ ion
Jeff Sherman, Timo Koerber, Anna Markhotok, Ed Meyer, Warren Nagourney, Norval Fortson (University of Washington)