Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 29 MAY 2004

08:00 S1.001 Manipulation of molecules with electric fields

Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany)

08:30 S1.002 Decelerating heavy molecules: how and why

E. A. Hinds (Imperial College London)

09:00 S1.003 Zeeman relaxation in collisions of molecules and "shaped" atoms with He

Roman Krems (CUA and ITAMP, Department of Physics, Harvard University)

09:30 S1.004 Creating ultra-cold polar molecules by photoassociation in a mixed species magneto-optical trap

Nicholas Bigelow, Chris Haimberger, Jan Kleinert, Mishkatul Bhattacharya (University of Rochester)

10:00 S1.005 Three challenges of AMO physics: From Bose-Fermi mixtures to quantum spin glasses and quantum spin liquids

Maciej Lewenstein (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, 30167 Germany)

08:00 S3.001 High-Order Harmonic Generation from Argon Ions up to 250 eV

Emily Gibson, Ariel Paul, Nick Wagner, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440), Ivan Christov (Department of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

08:12 S3.002 Quantum Optics with Single Optical Cycles

G. G. Paulus (Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843), F. Lindner, H. Walther (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, 85748 Garching, Germany), A. Baltuska, E. Goulielmakis (TU Wien, Gusshausstr. 27, 1040 Vienna, Austria), M. Lezius (Universitaet Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6040 Innsbruck, Austria), F. Krausz (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, 85748 Garching, Germany)

08:24 S3.003 Quantum Path Selection Using Attosecond Pulse Trains

Mette Gaarde, Kenneth Schafer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803), Arne Heinrich, Jens Biegert, Ursula Keller (Physics Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland)

08:36 S3.004 Free-Induction Decay and Dynamic Spectral Hole Burning in Rb Vapor

Krishna Myneni, Michael E. Crenshaw, Shawn D. Pethel (U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command)

08:48 S3.005 Dynamic optical bistability in resonantly-enhanced Raman scattering

I. Novikova, A.S. Zibrov, D.F. Phillips, A. Andre, M.D. Lukin, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Department of Physics, Harvard University)

09:00 S3.006 Non-linear Polarization Rotation in Ultra-Cold Sodium

Justin K. Nash (EO Sensors Division, Naval Air Systems Command), Charles L. Adler (Dept. of Physics, St. Mary's College of Maryland), Frank A. Narducci (EO Sensors Division, Naval Air Systems Command and Dept. of Physics, St. Mary's College of Maryland)

09:12 S3.007 Vortex based information storage in Bose-Einstein condensates

Zachary Dutton (National Institute of Standards amp; Technology (Gaithersburg, MD)), Janne Ruostekoski (Dept. of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield, UK))

09:24 S3.008 Modulation-induced frequency shifts in Coherent Population Trapping clocks

D.F. Phillips, I. Novikova, C.Y.-T. Wang, M. Crescimanno, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

09:36 S3.009 Direct measurement of plasma formation in a solid due to intense laser propagation

Jennifer Tate, Douglass Schumacher (The Ohio State University)

09:48 S3.010 Excitonic Light Emitted by a Plasma

Sorin Mosor, Sangam Chatterjee, Claudia Ell, Galina Khitrova, Hyatt Gibbs (University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ), Walter Hoyer, Mackillo Kira, Stephan Koch (Philipps University, Marburg, Germany), Heinrich Stolz (University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany), John Prineas (University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)

10:00 S3.011 Observation of a fast information velocity in a slow-light medium

Daniel Gauthier (Duke University, Dept. of Physics, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708), Michael Stenner, Mark Neifeld (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721)

10:12 S3.012 Resonant four-wave mixing with slow light

Hoonsoo Kang, Gessler Hernandez, Yifu Zhu (Florida international university)

10:24 S3.013 Observation of six-wave mixing at low light intensities

Hoonsoo Kang, Gessler Hernandez, Yifu Zhu (Affiliation)

08:00 S4.001 Progress Toward an Neutral Yb Frequency Standard

Claire Cramer, Tao Hong, Warren Nagourney, Norval Fortson (University of Washington)

08:12 S4.002 Absolute Frequency Measurement of ^1S_0 - ^3P_1 Clock Transition in Ultra-Cold Strontium

Martin M Boyd, Thomas H. Loftus, Tetsuya Ido, Andrew D. Ludlow, R. Jason Jones, Jun Ye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder CO, 80309-0440)

08:24 S4.003 A more precise atomic mass of ^4He\thinspace: Ongoing reduction of uncertainties for the UW-PTMS

David Pinegar, Steven Zafonte, Seth Van Liew, Jr. Van Dyck (University of Washington, Seattle)

08:36 S4.004 A millimeter-scale atomic frequency reference

Peter Schwindt (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder), John Kitching, Svenja Knappe (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Li-Anne Liew (Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Vishal Shah (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder), John Moreland (Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Leo Hollberg (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology)

08:48 S4.005 Polarizing 3He for neutron spin filters

W.C. Chen, T.R. Gentile (NIST), D. Hussey, X. Tong, Y. Yan, W.M. Snow (Indiana University), E. Babcock, T.G. Walker (University of Wisconsin - Madison), J. Baker, F. Dias, L. Kutua, A. Yue, G.L. Jones (Hamilton College)

09:00 S4.006 Electron transport through atomic and molecular chains – length effects

P. S. Krstic, X. -G. Zhang, J. C. Wells, M. D. Barnes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:12 S4.007 Vortex Buckyball

Bharat Khushalani (University of Southern California)

09:24 S4.008 Cumulant Dynamics of Quantum Accelerator Modes

R. Bach (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland), M.B. d'Arcy (Atomic Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8423), S.A. Gardiner (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440), K. Burnett (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom)

09:36 S4.009 Nonlinear dynamics with trapped charged particles

Ian Garrick-Bethell (MIT Center for Space Research), Thomas Clausen, Reinhold Blumel (Wesleyan University)

09:48 S4.010 Field quantization in dielectrics

Michael Crenshaw (US Army RDECOM)

10:00 S4.011 Absolute Phase Measurement of Ultrashort Pulses by Asymmetric Ionization

Andre D Bandrauk, Stephane Chelkowski (Université de Sherbrooke)

10:12 S4.012 Time Resolved Fano Resonances

M. Wickenhauser (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology), J. Burgdoerfer (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology), F. Krausz (Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology), M. Drescher (Faculty of Physics, University of Bielefeld)