Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 27 MAY 2004

13:30 H1.001 Some reflections on the ``crossover'' problem

Anthony Leggett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:00 H1.002 New frontiers with ultracold gases

Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms)

14:30 H1.003 Atom-molecule coherence in atomic gases

Henk Stoof (Utrecht University)

15:00 H1.004 Quasiparticles and collective modes in the BCS-BEC crossover region

Allan Griffin (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

15:30 H1.005 Ultra-Cold Fermions: From Molecule Bose-Einstein Condensation to BCS Pairing

C. Salomon (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)

13:30 H2.001 A kinematically complete study of helium double ionization by proton impact

Daniel Fischer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

14:06 H2.002 Spectroscopy of highly charged ions - QED, atomic-nuclear interactions, and the generalized Breit interaction

Peter Beiersdorfer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:42 H2.003 Collision processes with vibrationally excited hydrogen molecules and molecular ions

Predrag S. Krstic (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:18 H2.004 Selective Excitation of Triply-Excited States of Three-Electron Ions Observed in Ion-Atom Collisions

Patrick Richard (J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State Univ.)

13:30 H3.001 Cavity QED with optically transported atoms

kevin fortier, jacob sauer, ming shien chang, chris hamley, michael chapman (Georgia Institute of Technology)

13:42 H3.002 Cavity QED with External Trapping Potentials

Perry Rice, Mambwe Mumba, Dyan Jones (Miami University)

13:54 H3.003 Onset of Intermediate Coupling Between a Single Quantum Dot and a Mode of a Photonic Crystal Nanocavity

Greg Rupper, Claudia Ell, Sangam Chatterjee, Joshua Hendrickson, Jianfeng Xu, Galina Khitrova, Hyatt Gibbs (Optical Science Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), Tomoyuki Yoshie, Axel Scherer (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), Oleg Shchekin, Dennis Deppe (Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, TX)

14:06 H3.004 Photonic-Corral-Like Quantum Ring Lasers

OĦŻDae KWON (Pohang University of Science amp; Technology)

14:18 H3.005 Fabrication of a GaAs/AlGaAs ion trap for quantum computing

Martin Madsen, Winfried Hensinger, Daniel Stick, Chris Monroe (FOCUS Center and University of Michigan Department of Physics), Keith Schwab (Laboratory of Physical Sciences, University of Maryland)

14:30 H3.006 Universal entanglement dynamics in quantum chaotic systems

S. Ghose, B.C. Sanders (Quantum Information Science Group, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada), X. Wang (Dept. of Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), I.H. Deutsch (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A.)

14:42 H3.007 Time Dependent Entanglement of Two Qubits in the Presence of Spontaneous Emission

Jin Wang, Herman Batelaan, Hong Gao, Anthony F. Starace (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

14:54 H3.008 Collapse and revival of entanglement

Vladimir Malinovsky (MCTP amp; FOCUS Center, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), Ignacio Sola (Departamento de Quimica Fisica I, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain)

15:06 H3.009 Critical fluctuations and entanglement in the nondegenerate parametric oscillator

Peter Drummond (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), Kaled Dechoum (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil), Margaret Reid (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), Subhash Chaturvedi (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)

15:18 H3.010 Dynamical Creation of Entanglement by Homodyne-Mediated Feedback

Jin Wang, Anthony F. Starace (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Howard M. Wiseman (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia), Gerard J. Milburn (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

15:30 H3.011 State tomography by continuous measurement

Andrew Silberfarb, Ivan H. Deutsch (University of New Mexico)

15:42 H3.012 All Linear Optical Quantum Memories and Repeaters

Jonathan Dowling, Robert Gingrich, Pieter Kok, Hwang Lee, Farrokh Vatan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

15:54 H3.013 Geometric Phase for a System coupled to a Reservoir

Karl-Peter Marzlin, Shohine Ghose, Barry C. Sanders (University of Calgary)

13:30 H4.001 Microwave observations of the dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms

K. Afrousheh, P. Bohlouli Z., D. Vagale, M Fedorov, A Mugford, J. D. D. Martin (Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 CANADA)

13:42 H4.002 Characterization of Quasi One-Dimensional Rydberg Atoms Using Oriented, Half-Cycle Pulses

J.C. Lancaster, W. Zhao, F.B. Dunning (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University), C.O. Reinhold (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), J. Burgdörfer (Vienna University of Technology)

13:54 H4.003 Evolution Dynamics of a Dense, Frozen Rydberg Gas to Plasma

Duncan Tate (Colby College), Wenhui Li, Michael Noel, Michael Robinson, Paul Tanner, Thomas Gallagher (University of Virginia), Daniel Comparat, Bruno Laburthe Tolra, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Pierre Pillet (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton)

14:06 H4.004 Rydberg bands of electronic states in arrays of parallel nanowires

Brian E. Granger (Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053), H. R. Sadeghpour (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian CFA, Cambridge, MA 02138), D. Segal, P. Kral, M. Shapiro (Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel)

14:18 H4.005 Path Integral Monte Carlo Studies of molecular para-hydrogen clusters

Kwangsik Nho, Doerte Blume (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

14:30 H4.006 Simulations of Anti-hydrogen formation

F. Robicheaux (Auburn University)

14:42 H4.007 Image-Potential States and Charge Carrier Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes

Mikhail Zamkov, Nathan Woody, Shan Bing, Himadri Chakraborty, Arifa Habib, Zenghu Chang, Thumm Uwe, Patrick Richard (James R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2604)

14:54 H4.008 Measurement of the Time Evolution of Coherent Excitation (STIRAP)

H. A. Camp, M. A. Gearba, M. Shah, B. D. DePaola (J. R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University), S. R. Lundeen (Dept. of Physics, Colorado State Univ.), R. Bredy (Univ. Lyon, France)

15:06 H4.009 Determination of the dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of Ba+ by study of high-L, n=9 and 10 Rydberg states of Ba

E.L. Snow, R.A. Komara, M.A. Gearba, W.G. Sturrus, S.R. Lundeen (Colorado State University)

15:18 H4.010 Measurement of the polarizabilityof Mg-like Si2+ by study of the fine structure of high-L Rydberg states of Si+

R.A. Komara, M.A. Gearba, S.R. Lundeen (Colorado State University), C.W. Fehrenbach (Kansas State Universtiy)

13:30 H4.011 Stark-induced X-ray emission from one and two-electron Rydberg ions: Theory and Experiment

M.A. Gearba, R.A. Komara, S.R. Lundeen (Colorado State University), C.J. Verzani, C.W. Fehrenbach, B.D. DePaola (Kansas State University)