Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 28 MAY 2004

13:30 N1.001 Precision Measurements: Testing the Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant

Steve Lamoreaux (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physics Division)

14:06 N1.002 Effects of variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks

Victor Flambaum (School of Physics, University of new South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia)

14:42 N1.003 Sensitive symmetry tests with diatomic molecules

David DeMille (Yale University, Physics Department)

15:18 N1.004 Measurement of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment using GdIG

Larry Hunter (Amherst College)

13:30 N2.001 Entanglement in Atomic/Molecular/Optical Systems

Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico)

14:00 N2.002 Entanglement and Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions*

John Chiaverini (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO USA)

14:30 N2.003 Optical Qubit Entanglement: Exploring the Limits

Paul Kwiat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

15:00 N2.004 Engineering entanglement with neutral atoms in optical lattices

Artur Widera (Physics Institute, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 7, 55128 Mainz)

15:30 N2.005 Experiments on entanglement of light and atomic ensembles

Eugene Polzik (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University)

13:30 N3.001 Formation of Quantum-Degenerate Sodium Molecules

Kaiwen Xu, Takashi Mukaiyama, Jamil Abo-Shaeer, Jit Kee Chin, Daniel Miller, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

13:42 N3.002 Converting an atomic Fermi gas into a long-lived molecular Bose gas

K. E. Strecker, G. B. Partridge, R. G. Hulet (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX, 77251)

13:54 N3.003 Feshbach resonance molecules from quantum Fermi gases

Karen Kheruntsyan, Peter Drummond (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

14:06 N3.004 Collisionless conversion of a degenerate Fermi gas into molecules in a Feshbach resonance

Juha Javanainen (U. of Connecticut), Matt Mackie (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

14:18 N3.005 Atom-molecule equilibration in a Fermi gas with resonant interactions

James E Williams (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), Tetsuro Nikuni (Tokyo University of Science), Nicolai Nygaard, Charles Clark (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)

14:30 N3.006 Kinetic Theory for Atom-Molecule Mixtures in a Resonant Fermi Gas

Nicolai Nygaard (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Tetsuro Nikuni (Tokyo University of Science), James E. Williams, Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

14:42 N3.007 Bose-Einstein Condensate of Trimers Dressed by Atom-Dimer Cooper Pairs

Matt Mackie, Jyrki Piilo (Department of Physics, University of Turku, Finland), Olavi Dannenberg (Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland)

14:54 N3.008 Three-boson problem near a narrow Feshbach resonance

Dmitry Petrov (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138)

15:06 N3.009 Feshbach resonance collisions in atomic waveguides

Vladimir Yurovsky (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel)

15:18 N3.010 Landau-Zener problem for trilinear systems

Artur Ishkhanyan (Engineering Center of Armenian National Academy of Sciences), Matt Mackie (Helsinki Institute of Physics), Andrew Carmichael, Phillip L. Gould, Juha Javanainen (U. of Connecticut)

15:30 N3.011 Energy-dependent scattering lengths and Feshbach resonances

Eite Tiesinga, Eric Bolda, Paul Julienne (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:42 N3.012 Feshbach Resonances in Na-Rb

M. Bhattacharya, S.B. Weiss, N.P. Bigelow (University of Rochester)

15:54 N3.013 Crossover from a Bose-Einstein Condensate of Molecules to a Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms

Christian H. Schunck, Claudiu A. Stan, Martin W. Zwierlein, Sebastian M. F. Raupach, Andrew J. Kerman, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

13:30 N4.001 Multiple-Pulse Control of Rotational Wavepackets in Molecules

Kevin F. Lee, P. W. Dooley (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada and Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University), I. V Litvinyuk (Department of Physics, Kansas State University), D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada)

13:42 N4.002 High harmonic emission for probing electronic structure and dynamics of molecules

J. Itatani, D. Zeidler, J. Levesque, M. Spanner (National Research Council, 100 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6), J.-C. Kieffer (INRS, University of Quebec, Varennes, P.Q., Canada), D.M. Villeneuve, P.B. Corkum (National Research Council, 100 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6)

13:54 N4.003 Optimal field control of a ring-opening reaction

E.C. Carroll (FOCUS Center and Applied Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), A.C. Florean, B.J. Pearson, A. Prociuk, P.H. Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center and Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), R.J. Sension (FOCUS Center and Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

14:06 N4.004 Vibrational mode coupling via an external field as a control mechanism in SRS

Svetlana Malinovskaya, Paul Berman, Philip Bucksbaum (MCTP, FOCUS Center, and Department of Physics, University of Michigan)

14:18 N4.005 Theory of detection of angular momentum states in Rydberg atoms using half-cycle pulses

Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor, ON, Canada), Haidan Wen, Philip Bucksbaum (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

14:30 N4.006 Extracting quantum dynamics from feedback learning algorithms through principal component analysis

Brett Pearson, James White, Phil Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center and Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

14:42 N4.007 DISCRETE SCALING LAWS FOR TRANSIENTLY LOCALIZED RYDBERG STATES

D.G. Arbo (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of technology, Austria), C.O. Reinhold (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN), J. Burgdoerfer (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of technology, Austria)

14:54 N4.008 Faraday Measurements and Nonlinear Spin Dynamics in Laser-Cooled Atomic Ensembles

Greg A. Smith, Souma Chaudhury, Poul S. Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)

15:06 N4.009 Dynamics of coherent accumulation in cold atoms probed by a femtosecond laser

Adela Marian, Matthew C. Stowe (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440), Daniel Felinto (Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics 12-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125), Jun Ye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

15:18 N4.010 Quantum control in an N-state degenerate system

Kh.Kh. Shakov, Kh.Yu. Rakhimov, A. Chalastaras, J.H. McGuire (Tulane U.)

15:30 N4.011 Quantum control in a 4-state degenerate system

D.B. Uskov (LSU), Kh.Kh. Shakov, Kh.Yu. Rakhimov, A. Chalastaras, J.H. McGuire (Tulane U.)

15:42 N4.012 Effects of non-degeneracy in a qubit

J.H. McGuire, Kh.Kh. Shakov, A. Chlastaras (Tulane U)