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)