Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 28 MAY 2004

08:00 L1.001 Atoms in half-cycle pulses: a laboratory for wavefunction tailoring, coherent control, and quantum chaos

Joachim Burgdoerfer (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology)

08:36 L1.002 Imaging an Ultracold Neutral Plasma

Thomas C. Killian (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University)

09:12 L1.003 Local blockade of Rydberg excitation in an ultracold gas

Robin Côté (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, 2152 Hillside Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046)

09:48 L1.004 Guiding Center Drift Atoms in Antihydrogen Production

Thomas M. O'Neil (University of California at San Diego)

08:00 L2.001 Signal Enhanced Coherent Population Trapping Spectroscopy

Yuan-Yu Jau, Eli Miron, Amber Post, Nicholas Kuzma, William Happer (Princeton University)

08:12 L2.002 High Pressure CPT Signals using Intensity Modulated Light

Amber Post, Yuan-Yu Jau, Eli Miron, Michael Romalis, Nicholas Kuzma, William Happer (Princeton University)

08:24 L2.003 Optical frequency measurements of D_2 line in ^133Cs

V. Gerginov, C. E. Tanner (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670), S. Diddams, A. Bartels, L. Hollberg (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway M.S. 847, Boulder CO 80305)

08:36 L2.004 Precise Measurement of the J=0 to J=2 Fine Structure Interval in the 2P Triplet State of Helium

Marc Smiciklas, David Shiner (University of North Texas)

08:48 L2.005 Two-photon spectroscopy in francium

E. Gomez, G. D. Sprouse (SUNYSB), S. Aubin (U. Toronto), L. A. Orozco (UMD)

09:00 L2.006 Observation of large recoil-induced asymmetries in saturation spectra of ultracold neutral atoms

Chris Oates, Guido Wilpers (Affiliation), Leo Hollberg (NIST-Boulder Labs)

09:12 L2.007 Magneto Optical Trap Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy

Hai Nguyen (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2601), Richard Bredy, Alina Gearba, How Camp, Mudesha Shah, Takaaki Awata, Brett DePaola

09:24 L2.008 Relativistic configuration-interaction perturbation-theory calculations of E1 rates of forbidden and allowed transitions for light berylliumlike ions.

Igor Savukov (Princeton University)

09:36 L2.009 Multipole transition wavelengths and rates between 3l^-15l' excited and ground states in nickel-like ions

A. S. Shlyaptseva, U. I. Safronova (University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557)

09:48 L2.010 La2 Satellites in X-Ray Emission spectra of higher Z elements

Surendra Poonia (Research Scientist (X-Ray Spectroscopy))

10:00 L2.011 Quadrupole resonances and "q-reversal" effect in nondipole effects in Ca, Ca+, and Ca2+

Valeriy DOLMATOV, Nicholas COLEMAN (University of North Alabama)

08:00 L3.001 Sagnac interferometry based on ultra-slow polaritons in cold atomic vapors

Michael Fleischhauer, Frank Zimmer (Fachbereich Physik, Univ. of Kaiserslautern)

08:12 L3.002 Nonadiabatic effects in the operation of a of a cold atom accelerometer

James Stickney, Alex Zozulya (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

08:24 L3.003 Phase resolution in matter wave interferometry.

Markku Jääskeläinen (Optical Sciences Center, the University of Arizona), Weiping Zhang (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing and Optical Sciences Center, the University of Arizona), Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, the University of Arizona)

08:36 L3.004 Diffraction of ultra-cold fermions off of quantized light fields: Standing waves versus traveling waves

Dominic Meiser, Chris P. Search, Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721)

08:48 L3.005 Phase coherence in molecular micromasers with inter-well tunneling

Takahiko Miyakawa, Chris Search, Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, The University of Arizona)

09:00 L3.006 Dispersion control of matter waves propagating through periodic microstructures

M.W.J. Bromley, B.D. Esry (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

09:12 L3.007 Higher Order Multivariate Statistics in the Intensity Fluctuations For a Heavily Saturated Amplified Spontaneous Emission

Biman Das (Department of Physics, SUNY Potsdam), Eli Drake, John Jack, Mark Cianciosa (SUNY Potsdam)

09:24 L3.008 No Missing Orders in Atom Diffraction from Material Gratings

Alex Cronin, John Perreault (University of Arizona)

09:36 L3.009 Using Atomic Diffraction of Na from Material Gratings to Measure Atom-Surface Interactions

John Perreault, Alex Cronin (University of Arizona), Tim Savas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:48 L3.010 Dispersion Compensation for Atom Interferometry

Alex Cronin (University of Arizona), Tony Roberts, Martin Tiberg, Dave Pritchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:00 L3.011 Confined-atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates

Y. Shin, A.E. Leanhardt, T.A. Pasquini, M. Saba, C. Sanner, A. Schirotzek, D.E. Pritchard, W. Ketterle (Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139)

10:12 L3.012 Measurement of |\psi(x)|^2 and |\psi(p_x)|^2 Distributions in Atomic Diffraction*

Stephen J. Friedman, Hong Gao, Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

08:00 L4.001 Natural orbitals and Schrodinger cat states of Bose-Einstein Condensates in multiple wells

Khan W Mahmud, Mary Ann Leung, William P Reinhardt (University of Washington)

08:12 L4.002 Effective one-component Gross-Pitaevskii equation for dynamics of two-component Bose condensates

Zachary Dutton, Charles Clark (National Institute of Standards amp; Technology (Gaithersburg, MD))

08:24 L4.003 From short to long distances with Gell-Mann--Low Renormalization group

Vanja Dunjko, Maxim Olshanii (University of Southern California)

08:36 L4.004 Monopole core instability and Alice rings in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

Janne Ruostekoski (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, UK), James Anglin (Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02139)

08:48 L4.005 Inhomogeneous vortex lattices: core structure, nucleation and dissipation

Leslie Baksmaty, Govind Krishnaswami, Sungjuong Woo, Stephen Choi, Nicholas Bigelow (University of Rochester and Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

09:00 L4.006 Theoretical confirmation of Feynman's hypothesis on the creation of circular vortices in Bose–Einstein condensates

Eryk Infeld, Andrzej Senatorski (Soltan Institute)

09:12 L4.007 Solitons acceleration in Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interaction

Matt Kalinski (Utah State University and University of Ulm)

09:24 L4.008 Ground state of a dipolar spin-1 condensate

Su Yi (Rice University), Li You (Georgia Institute of Technology), Han Pu (Rice University)

09:36 L4.009 Three-Body Losses in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases

Yeong E. Kim, Alexander L. Zubarev (Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group, Department of Physics, Purdue University)

09:48 L4.010 Effect of a potential step or impurity on the Bose-Einstein condensate mean field

Brian Seaman, Murray Holland, Lincoln Carr (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0440, USA)

10:00 L4.011 Hybrid Lagrangian Variational description of spinor condensates in optical lattices

Justin English, Bryan Nelsen (Georgia Southern University), Charles W. Clark (NIST), Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University and NIST)

10:12 L4.012 Elastic scattering losses in the four-wave mixing of Bose Einstein

Marek Trippenbach, Jan Chwedenczuk (Warsaw University), Kazimierz Rzazewski (Polish Academy of Sciences)