Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 22 MARCH 2004

08:00 A1.001 Microwave-Induced Oscillations and Dissipationless States

Michael Zudov (University of Utah)

08:36 A1.002 Zero-resistance states induced by electromagnetic waves in a 2DEG

Ramesh G. Mani (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Max-Planck-Institut FkF, Stuttgart, Germany)

09:12 A1.003 Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas

Adam Durst (Yale University)

09:48 A1.004 Dynamical Symmetry Breaking as the Origin of the Zero-Resistance State in an ac-Driven System

Anton Andreev (University of Colorado)

10:24 A1.005 Current flow anomalies in the irradiated 2DEG

R.L. Willett (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

08:00 A2.001 Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Molecular Bose Gas

Randall Hulet (Rice University)

08:36 A2.002 Feshbach resonances in ultracold atomic gases

Georg Morten Bruun (Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark)

09:12 A2.003 Correlated states of ultra cold atoms.

Ehud Altman (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

09:48 A2.004 Atomic quantum dots embedded in a Bose-Einstein-Condensate

Wilhelm Zwerger (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria)

08:00 A3.001

08:24 A3.002 The Impact of Synchrotron Radiation on Brazil and South America

Jose Brum (Director, LNLS)

08:48 A3.003 The SESAME Project and Scientific Cooperation in the Middle East

Dincer Ulku (Hacettepe University)

09:12 A3.004 The Construction of the Siam Photon Laboratory and Its Ripple Effects

Takehiko Ishii (National Synchrotron Research Center)

09:36 A3.005 Panel Discussion: The Imperative for Freedom, Openness and International Cooperation in Science

George Atkinson (Department of State), Neal Lane (Rice University), Ernest Moniz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ray Orbach (Office of Science, Department of Energy)

08:00 A4.001 Opportunities for condensed matter research at the NHMFL

Jack E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

08:36 A4.002 Opportunities for Condensed Matter Research at the Advanced Photon Source

J. Murray Gibson (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois 60439)

09:12 A4.003 Opportunities for condensed matter research at the SNS

K. W. Herwig (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:48 A4.004 Opportunities for Condensed Matter Research at the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (http://www.nnin.org)

Sandip Tiwari (Cornell University)

10:24 A4.005 Opportunities for Condensed Matter Research at the TRIUMF Muon Spin Resonance User Facility

Sydney Kreitzman (TRIUMF)

08:00 A5.001 Feasible Architectures for Molecular Electronics

Philip J. Kuekes (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

08:36 A5.002 Molecular Materials and Devices

Cherie Kagan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

09:12 A5.003 Intrinsic Electron Conduction Mechanisms in Molecules

Mark Reed (Departments of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Yale University)

09:48 A5.004 Molecular and Nanowire Nanoelectronics

M. Meyyappan (NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology)

10:24 A5.005 Signal Processing in Atomistic Systems

Jorge Seminario (University of South Carolina)

08:00 A6.001 Magnetic quantum tunneling and quantum coherence in manganese-based single-molecule magnets

Stephen Hill (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611)

08:36 A6.002 Magnetic Quantum Tunneling in Single Molecule Magnets: Mn-12 and Others

Enrique del Barco (Physics Department - New York University. 4 Washington Place. New York, NY 10003)

09:12 A6.003 Density Functional Theory of Molecular Magnets

Mark Pederson (Center for Computational Materials Sciences, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

09:48 A6.004 Microwave radiation from molecular clusters

Javier Tejada (University Barcelona (Spain))

10:24 A6.005 Experiments on Photon-Assisted Tunneling in Molecular Nanomagnets

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (Lab. L. Neel, CNRS, Grenoble, France)

08:00 A7.001 Principles of virus self-assembly:NOTE:Alternatively, Robijn Bruinsma or Bill Gelbard, all of whom collaborated on this work. But I already proposed another invited session on with Bruinsma as a speaker, 'Teaching Biological Physics'

Joe Rudnick (UCLA)

08:36 A7.002 Theory of polymorphism in bacterial flagella

Thomas Powers (Division of Engineering, Brown University)

09:12 A7.003 Mechanics of microtubules and viral capsids

Christoph F. Schmidt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. Physics)

09:48 A7.004 Mechanics of DNA Packing in Viruses

Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology)

10:24 A7.005 Structure of self - assembled two-dimensional spherical crystals

Andreas R. Bausch (Lehrstuhl fuer Biophysik E22, TU Muenchen, Germany)

08:00 A8.001 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Spontaneous Formation of Unilamellar Vesicles: Potential Vehicles for Drug Delivery

John Katsaras (National Research Council)

08:36 A8.002 Transition Temperatures of Phospholipid Bilayers Under Pressure

T. A. Harroun, M.-P. Nieh, M. J. Watson (National Reseach Council, SIMS, Chalk River, Canada), V. A. Raghunathan (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India), G. Pabst (IBR, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria), M. R. Morrow (Department of Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada), J. Katsaras (National Reseach Council, SIMS, Chalk River, Canada)

08:48 A8.003 Structural Phase Behavior of Model Biomimetic Membranes -- ``Bicelles''

M.-P. Nieh (NRC (Canada), SIMS, NPMR), V. A. Raghunathan (Raman Research Institute), M. Chakrapani, T. A. Harroun, J. Katsaras (NRC (Canada), SIMS, NPMR)

09:00 A8.004 Monte Carlo simulation of lipid bicelle phase behavior

Frank Y. Jiang, James T. Kindt (Department of Chemistry, Emory University)

09:12 A8.005 Neutron Scattering: A Powerful and Versatile Methodology for Research on Bio, Soft and Nanophase Materials

John H. Root (National Research Council)

09:48 A8.006 Phase-sensitive Neutron Reflectometry Studies of a Biomineralization Peptide

Ursula Perez-Salas, Susan Krueger (NIST), Wendy Shaw (Battelle Labs), Chuck Majkrzak, Norm Berk (NIST)

10:00 A8.007 Single-Residue Sensitivity in Neutron Reflectivity and Resonant X-ray Reflectivity from Langmuir Monolayers of Synthetic Peptides

Joseph Strzalka (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania), Sushil Satija (Center for Neutron Research, NIST), Elaine DiMasi (NSLS, Brookhaven National Lab), Ivan Kuzmenko, Thomas Gog (CMC CAT, APS, Argonne National Lab), J. Kent Blasie (U. Pennsylvania and CMC CAT)

10:12 A8.008 X-ray reflectivity study of in situ polymerized phospholipid Monolayers

Kwangmeyung Kim, Youngro Byun, Do Young Noh, Kwanwoo Shin (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea), Chulhee Kim (Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Inchon 402-751 Korea)

10:24 A8.009 Collapse of Langmuir Monolayers Spread on Calcium Solutions: A hydrophobic dimer at the air-water interface

Sam Dahlke (Ames Lab Iowa State University), Alex Travesset (Iowa State University and Ames Lab), David Vaknin (Ames Lab Iowa State University)

10:36 A8.010 Dynamics of Pinned Biological Membranes

Lawrence Lin (UCSB Department of Physics), Frank Brown (UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

08:00 A9.001 The Compositional Adjustment of Amino Acid Substitution Matrices

Yi-Kuo Yu, John Wootton, Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH)

08:12 A9.002 Investigating the roles of dimensionality in the helix-coil transition in random walk protein models using the method of Lee-Yang zeros

Apichart Linhananta (Department of Physics, Lakehead University)

08:24 A9.003 How fast is protein stable from unfolded to folded state?

Chia-Ching Chang, Po-Yen Lin, Xu-Chen Yeh (Dept. Physics, National Dong Hwa Univ. Taiwan)

08:36 A9.004 Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on the Mechanical Unfolding of Ubiquitin

Haibo Peng, Fan-chi Lin, Jian-Min Yuan, Guoliang Yang (Department of Phyisics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Chia-Lin Chyan (Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)

08:48 A9.005 Studies on the Hydrogen Bonding Properties of Carboxylic and Amide Groups and Their Vibrational Spectral Markers for Structural Characterizations

Beining Nie, Jerrod Stutzman, Lorand Kelemen, Aihua Xie (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078)

09:00 A9.006 Single Molecule Dynamics of Adenylate Kinase

Lucas Watkins (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley), Haw Yang (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Biophysical Graduate Group, Uniersity of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:12 A9.007 Low Frequency Light Scattering Spectroscopy of Lysozyme in Solution

Alfons Schulte, Guo Yu (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2385, USA), Wolfgang Doster, Ronald Gebhardt (Physik Department E13, Technische Universitaet München, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

09:24 A9.008 Protein Thermodynamics from the 3D Topological Structure of the Native State

Gregory Wood, Sargis Dallakayan, Donald Jacobs (Physics and Astronomy Department, California State University, Northridge CA 91330)

09:36 A9.009 Can a Protein Function in the Crystalline State?

Kelemen Lorand, Aihua Xie (Dept. of Physics, Oklahoma State Univ.), Wouter Hoff, Andrew Phillip (Dept. of Biochemistry amp; Mol. Biology, Univ. of Chicago)

09:48 A9.010 Vibrational Characterization of NO Interaction with Heme Proteins

JT Sage, WQ Zeng, BM Leu, GY Georgiev, DW Wharton (Northeastern Univ), W Sturhahn, EE Alp (Argonne Natl Lab)

10:00 A9.011 Quantitative analysis of autophosphorylation of CaMKII

Mee Choi, Julia Shifman, Stefan Mihalas, Mary Kennedy (California Institute of Technology)

10:12 A9.012 Why are proteins charged molecules? The role of electrostatics in the stability, activity and processing of proteins

Jeffrey Carbeck (Princeton University)

10:24 A9.013 Sensitivity of Terahertz dielectric response to heme protein oxidation state

Jing-Yin Chen, Joe Knab, John Cerne, Andrea Markelz (Physics Department, University at Buffalo)

10:36 A9.014 Protein-Ligand Binding Detected by Terahertz Spectroscopy

J. Knab, J.Y. Chen, M. Mader, A. Markelz (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

10:48 A9.015 Kinetic Model for 1D aggregation of yeast ``prions''

Kay Kunes, Daniel Cox, Rajiv Singh (Dept of Physics, University of California Davis)

11:00 A9.016 Protein Stability on gold nanospheres

Jonathan H. Teichroeb, James A. Forrest (Department of Physics and Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1)

08:00 A10.001 Quantum Cascade Photonic Crystal lasers

Federico Capasso (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138,)

08:36 A10.002 Third Harmonic Generation in a Quantum Cascade Laser with Monolithically Integrated Optical Nonlinearity

Trinesha S. Mosely, Claire Gmachl (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs), Alexey Belyanin (Texas Aamp;M University), Deborah L. Sivco, Milton L. Peabody, Alfred Y. Cho (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs)

08:48 A10.003 Magnetic field tuning of MIR quantum cascade lasers

Oleksiy Drachenko (Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Pulsés, 31432 Toulouse, France), Dmitry Smirnov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310), Jean Leotin (Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Pulsés, 31432 Toulouse, France), Angela Vasanelli, Hideaki Page, Carlo Sirtori (Laboratoire Central de Recherches Thales, 91404 Orsay, France)

09:00 A10.004 Linear and nonlinear THz gain in a biased semiconductor superlattice

Aizhen Zhang, Dawei Wang, Marc M. Dignam (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6)

09:12 A10.005 Terahertz beam generation and amplification in a nonlinear optical medium

Dong Ho Wu (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

09:24 A10.006 Plasma Instabilities in Quantum Well Structures at Low Current Densities.

P. Bakshi, K. Kempa, C. Du (Boston College)

09:36 A10.007 Coherent control of intersubband optical bistability in quantum wells

Harshani O. Wijewardane, Carsten A. Ullrich (University of Missouri-Rolla)

09:48 A10.008 Design of Room Temperature GaN/AlGaN THz Quantum Cascade Lasers

Greg Sun (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Boston), Richard Soref (Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory)

10:00 A10.009 Optically excited THz generation from InN thin films

Ricardo Ascazubi, Ingrid Wilke (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York), Kyle Denniston (SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, New York), Hai Lu, William Schaff (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

10:12 A10.010 Intersubband Transitions in Narrow InAs/AlSb Quantum Wells

D. C. Larrabee, J. Kono (Rice University), Y. Nakajima, M. Nakai, S. Sasa, M. Inoue (Osaka Institute of Technology), J. Li, C. Z. Ning (NASA Ames Research Center)

08:00 A11.001 Spectroscopic study of nitrogen-induced bound states in GaAsN alloys

Zakia Yaiche, Richard Leonelli (Département de physique, Université de Montréal, and RQMP)

08:12 A11.002 The origin of the E_+ transition in GaAs_1-xN_x from ab-initio calculations

Vladimir Timoshevskii, Nassima Madini, Michel Côté (Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, CANADA, et Réseau Québécois de Matériaux de Pointe)

08:24 A11.003 Nitrogen induced evolution of host electronic states in GaPN: Resonant Raman scatteting study

S. Yoon (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401), M. Ruebhausen, B. Schulz (Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany), J. F. Geisz, A. Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)

08:36 A11.004 Evidence for large configuration-induced bandgap fluctuations in GaAsN alloys

Ghaouti Bentoumi, Vladimir Timoshevskii, Nassima Madini, Michel Côté, Richard Leonelli (Département de physique, Université de Montréal, and RQMP), Jean-Nicolas Beaudry, Patrick Desjardins, Remo A. Masut (Département de génie physique, École Polytechnique de Montréal, and RQMP)

08:48 A11.005 Bismuth Surfactant Effect on Photoluminescence in the Dilute Semiconductor GaN_xAs_1-x

D. A. Beaton, E.C. Young, T. Tiedje, S. Tixier (University of British Columbia)

09:00 A11.006 Enhanced nitrogen incorporation in GaNAs films grown with a bismuth surfactant

Erin Young (Dept. Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia), Sebastien Tixier, Thomas Tiedje (Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia)

09:12 A11.007 Progress in Ultrahigh Resolution Semiconductor Spectroscopy Using Isotopically Enriched 28Si

M. L. W. Thewalt, T. A. Meyer, D. Karaiskaj (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada), M. Cardona (Max-Planck Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany), E. E. Haller, III Ager (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley)

09:24 A11.008 Photoluminescence spectra of ultra-pure isotopically enriched silicon

J. W. Ager III (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), I. D. Sharp, C. Y. Liao, E. E. Haller (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley), M. L. W. Thewalt (Simon Fraser University), H. Riemann (Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Berlin, Germany)

09:36 A11.009 Isotopic effects in the indirect excitonic transitions of isotopically enriched Si.

S. Tsoi (Purdue U.), H. Alawadhi (U. of Sharjah, UAE), X. Lu (Purdue U.), J. W. Ager III (LBNL), C.Y. Liao (LBNL and U. of California, Berkeley), H. Riemann (IKZ, Berlin), E.E. Haller (LBNL and U. of California, Berkeley), S. Rodriguez, A.K. Ramdas (Purdue U.), Purdue U. Team, U. of Sharjah Team, LBNL Team, U. of California Team, IKZ Team

09:48 A11.010 Pressure-tuning of anharmonic Raman line-shapes in 64Zn34S, 68Zn32S, and natural ZnS

R Tallman, B Weinstein (Physics Dept SUNY at Buffalo), J Serrano, R Lauck, M Cardona (Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart), A Cantarero, N Garro (Dept. of Physics and Materials Science), T Ritter (Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, UNC Pembroke)

10:00 A11.011 Evaluation of the electronic band structure of a new semiconductor ternary using Ge, Si, and Sn

Candi S. Cook (Arizona State University), Stefan Zollner (Motorola), Jose Menendez, A.V.G. Chizmeshya, Pavan Aella, John Tolle, John Kouvetakis (Arizona State Univeristy)

10:12 A11.012 Optical Properties of Graphite

William Karstens (Saint Michael's College), David Y. Smith (University of Vermont and Argonne National Laboratory)

10:24 A11.013 Optical Characterization of GaAsBi

Sebastien Francoeur (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado), S. Tixier, E.C. Young, T. Tiedje (University of British Columbia, Canada), A. Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado)

10:36 A11.014 Detection of ultrafast transient shift and injection currents in wurtzite semiconductors

N. Laman, M. Bieler, J. E. Sipe, H. M. van Driel (Dept. of Physics, U. of Toronto)

10:48 A11.015 Carrier dynamics in amorphous semiconductors probed by time-resolved THz spectroscopy

A.V.V. Nampoothiri, S.L. Dexheimer (Washington State University)

08:00 A12.001 Tunneling into Pr_2-xCe_xCuO single crystals in the normal and superconducting states.

R.L. Greene, M.M. Qasilbash, M.C. Barr, Hamza Balci, Yoram Dagan (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA)

08:12 A12.002 Competing Orders and Quasi-particle Spectroscopy of Cuprate Superconductors

C.-T. Chen, N.-C. Yeh (Physics Dept., Caltech, USA), M.-S. Park, K.-H. Kim, S.-I. Lee (Physics Dept., Pohang Univ., Korea)

08:24 A12.003 Eliashberg Analysis of Tunneling Spectra in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta

J.F. Zasadzinski, L. Coffey (Illinois Institute of Technology)

08:36 A12.004 Magnetic field dependence of the tunneling conductance into (110) oriented YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta films.

C. P. Hill (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA), R. Beck, G. Leibovitch, G. Deutscher (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978), R. L. Greene, Yoram Dagan (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA), School of Physics and Astronomy Collaboration

08:48 A12.005 Planar Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies of Splitting vs. Non-splitting of the Zero-Bias Conductance Peak in YBCO Thin Films

P. J. Hentges, C. T. Lesher, L. H. Greene (Dept. of Physics, UIUC), G. Westwood, W. G. Klemperer (Dept. of Chemistry, UIUC)

09:00 A12.006 Andreev States in a d-wave superconducting quantum wires

A. Bobkov (Lebedev Physical Insititute, Leninsky Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia), L-Y Zhu (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, FL), S-W Tsai (Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215), Tamara Nunner (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, FL), Yuri Barash (Lebedev Physical Insititute, Leninsky Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia), P.J Hirschfeld (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, FL)

09:12 A12.007 Exchange Field Effect on the Andreev Bound State of High T_c Superconductors

Mario Freamat, K.-W. Ng (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055)

09:24 A12.008 Probing Phase Fluctuations in Cuprate Superconductors with \emphd-wave Andreev Interference

J. Y.T. Wei, J. Ngai, P. Morales (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

09:36 A12.009 Zero-bias conductance peak in tunneling spectroscopy of hybrid superconductor junctions

Chung-Yu Mou (Physics Department, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC)

09:48 A12.010 Current Dephasing of the Superconducting Order Parameter in YBa_2Cu_3O_6+x

J. Ngai, P. Morales, V. Pribiag (Affiliation), J.Y.T. Wei (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

10:00 A12.011 A Simple Model for Point Contact Conductance Between a Superconductor Exhibiting Two-Gap Behavior and a Normal Metal

Jr. Dolan (Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL), Charles W. Smith (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, ME)

10:12 A12.012 Point contact spectroscopy of heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5

W.K. Park, B.F. Wilken, A.N. Thaler, L.H. Greene (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801), J.L. Sarrao, J.D. Thompson (Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

10:24 A12.013 Point-contact tunneling in low-dimensional unconventional superconducting junctions

C. J. Bolech, T. Giamarchi (University of Geneva)

10:36 A12.014 Tunneling Spectroscopy of a Superconductor Carrying a Supercurrent

Degang Zhang, C.S. Ting (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204), C.-R. Hu (Department of Physics, Texas A amp; M University, College Station, TX 77843)

10:48 A12.015 Crossed Andreev Reflection in a D-wave Superconductor with Two Quantum Point Contacts

Saburo Takahashi, Taro Yamashita, Sadamichi Maekawa (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)

08:00 A13.001 Pairing Correlations in the 2D t-J Model

W. O. Putikka (Physics Department, Ohio State University)

08:12 A13.002 Correlation Between Tc and t'/t: Perspective from First-Principle WannierFunctions

Wei Ku (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory), D. Kasinathan, W. E. Pickett, R. T. Scalettar (Physics Department, University of California at Davis)

08:24 A13.003 Quantum destruction of stiffness in diluted antiferromagnets and superconductors

Noah Bray-Ali (University of California at Berkeley, Physics Department), Joel Moore (University of California at Berkeley, Physics Department and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Materials Science Division)

08:36 A13.004 Interlayer tunnelling redux

Sudip Chakravarty (University of California, Los Angeles), Klaus Voelker, Hae-Young Kee (University of Toronto)

08:48 A13.005 Electron-hole asymmetry in cuprates and the validity of one-band Hubbard model

Alexandru Macridin (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio), George Sawatzky (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), Mark Jarrell (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio), Thomas Maier (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:00 A13.006 Mott Insulator to Superconductor via Super-Rotations

Stewart Barnes (University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL33124)

09:12 A13.007 Fermi surface evolution and two-band RVB pairing in the antiferromagnetic state for the electron-doped t-t'-t''-J model

Qingshan Yuan (Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204), Yan Chen (Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong), T. K. Lee (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529), C. S. Ting (Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204)

09:24 A13.008 The formation of stripes and the enhancement of pairing in the anisotropic t-J model

K. J. E. Vos, J. M. Tipper (University of Lethbridge)

09:36 A13.009 Incipient order in the t-J model at high temperatures

Leonid P Pryadko (UCR), Steven A. Kivelson, Oron Zachar (UCLA)

09:48 A13.010 Interplay of Electron-Phonon Interaction and Electron Correlation in High Temperature Superconductivity

Sumio Ishihara (Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 Japan), Naoto Nagaosa (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656 Japan)

10:00 A13.011 Chemistry and topology of electron-phonon interactions in high-temperature superconductors

J. C. Phillips (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, N. J., 08854-8019)

10:12 A13.012 The low-energy phase-only action in a superconductor: a comparison with the XY model

Lara Benfatto (Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland), Alessandro Toschi, Sergio Caprara (Department of Physics, University of Rome ``La Sapienza'', and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM) - SMC and Unity of Rome 1, I-00185 Rome, Italy)

A13.013 NEGATIVE ISOTOPE EFFECT IN SUPERCONDUCTIVITY FROM NON-RETARDED REPULSIVE INTERACTION

J.D. Fan, Yuriy Malozovsky (Southern University and Aamp;M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813)

08:00 A14.001 Effect of Disorder, Dissipation, and Thermal Fluctuations on the Transport Properties of Quantum Hall Bilayers

E. Rossi (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), A. A. Burkov (Dept. of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara), Y. N. Joglekar (Los Alamos National Laboratory), A. H. MacDonald (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

08:12 A14.002 Giant Counter-Flow Conductivity in a Bilayer Quantum Hall System at \nu_T = 1

M. Kellogg, J.P. Eisenstein (Caltech), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Labs)

08:24 A14.003 Thermopower of interacting double-layer hole systems near \nu = 1.

S. Melinte, S. Faniel, V. Bayot (Cermin, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), E. Tutuc, M. Shayegan (Departement of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544)

08:36 A14.004 Low-bias Tunnelling in Quantum Hall Bilayers

Robert L Jack (Theoretical Physics, Univ of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK), Derek K K Lee (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK), Nigel R Cooper (Cavendish Laboratory, Univ of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK)

08:48 A14.005 Stabilization of a bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnet via density imbalance

I.B. Spielman, M. Kellogg, J.P. Eisenstein (Caltech), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Laboratories)

09:00 A14.006 Excitonic-Condensation Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Bilayers

Jung-Jung Su, A.H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)

09:12 A14.007 Tunneling, dissipation, and superfluid transition in quantum Hall bilayers

Ziqiang Wang (Boston College)

09:24 A14.008 Bethe ansatz study of the reentrant soliton lattice melting in bilayer quantum Hall system

K. Moon, S. Park (Dept. of Physics and IPAP, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea), C. Ahn (Dept. of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea), J. Yeo (Dept. of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea), C. Rim (Dept. of Physics, Chonbuk National University, Chonju 561-756, Korea), B.H. Lee (Dept. of Physics, Sogang University, C.P.O. Box 1142, Seoul 100-611, Korea)

09:36 A14.009 Numerical Study of Drag in the Quantum Hall Regime

Kentaro Nomura, Allan MacDonald (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin)

09:48 A14.010 Coulomb drag and counterflow measurements in strongly correlated GaAs hole bilayers

E. Tutuc, M. Shayegan (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University)

10:00 A14.011 Anomalous Increase in Electron Drag in Intermediate Magnetic Fields

Tony Ragucci, Sanghun An, Thomas Gramila (Ohio State University, Physics Dept.), Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

10:12 A14.012 Correlation Effects in the Coulomb Drag between Strongly Interacting Systems

R. Pillarisetty, H. Noh, E. Tutuc, E.P. De Poortere, D.C. Tsui, M. Shayegan (Princeton University)

10:24 A14.013 Coulomb drag between quantum wires by small momentum transfer

Pustilnik Michael (Georgia Institute of Technology), Eugene Mishchenko (Harvard University), Leonid Glazman (University of Minnesota), Anton Andreev (University of Colorado at Boulder)

10:36 A14.014 New Low-Field Magneto-Quantum Oscillations of the Phonon-Drag Thermoelectric Power in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

S. K. Lyo*, J. Zhang**, R. R. Du**, J. A. Simmons*, J. L. Reno* (Sandia National Labs* and U. of Utah**)

08:00 A15.001 CORRELATION OF EXCESS ENTHALPY AND ^4He PRODUCTION: A REVIEW

M. H. Miles (Department of Chemistry, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA 91750, USA)

08:12 A15.002 Comparison of Theory and Experiment for the Phonon Exchange Model

Peter Hagelstein (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)

08:24 A15.003

08:36 A15.004 On X-ray Emission from Highly Loaded Hydrides

George H. Miley (Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il, 61821 USA), Heinrich Hora (Dept. of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), Nie Luo, Andrei Lipson (Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il, 61821 USA)

08:48 A15.005 E-Field Asymmetry and Energy Transfer in Cold Fusion Heating

Talbot Chubb (Research Systems, Inc., 5023 N. 38th ST., Arlington, VA 22207)

09:00 A15.006 LENR/"Cold Fusion" and Modern Physics: A Crisis Within a Crisis

Eugene F.e Mallove (New Energy Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 2816, Concord, NH 03302-2816, USA)

09:12 A15.007 ^4He Without \gamma Rays in Cavitationally Induced "Sonofusion"

Roger Stringham (First Gate Energies,PO Box 1230 Kilauea, HI 96754)

09:24 A15.008 The Need for Control in Condensed Matter Nuclear Heat Production

Michael C.H. McKubre (Director, Energy Research Center, SRI International, Menlo Park CA)

09:36 A15.009 Role of Electronic Structure In Ion Band State Theory of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Scott Chubb (Research Systems, Inc., 9822 Pebble Weigh Ct., Burke, VA 22015-3378)

08:00 A16.001 Electron properties of carbon nanotubes in a periodic potential

Dmitry S. Novikov (Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics, Princeton University)

08:12 A16.002 First-principles calculations of quantum transport in a single molecule using the Green's function method

Nobuhiko Kobayashi (Nanotech. Res. Inst. AIST), Taisuke Ozaki (Res. Inst. Comp. Sci. AIST), Kenji Hirose (NEC), Katsunori Tagami, Masaru Tsukada (Univ. Tokyo)

08:24 A16.003 Nonequillibrium properties of the electronic structure of boron nitride nanotubes under an electric field

Jay D Sau (Department of physics,University of California Berkeley), Marvin L Cohen (University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:36 A16.004 Electric shot noise and heat current fluctuations in quantum point contacts in a magnetic field

A.G. Scherbakov, E.N. Bogachek, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332)

08:48 A16.005 Conductance of a quantum wire in the Wigner crystal regime

Konstantin Matveev (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:00 A16.006 Electron Interactions, Excitons and Carbon Nanotube Fluorescence Spectroscopy

E.J. Mele, C.L. Kane (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

09:12 A16.007 Green function theory of magnetoplasmons in coaxial cylindrical geometries

Manvir S. Kushwaha (Institute of Physics, University of Puebla, Mexico), B. Djafari-Rouhani (Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Lille-I, France)

09:24 A16.008 Atomic and Electronic Structures of C_60+BN Nanopeapods from ab initio Pseudopotential Calculations

Andrea Trave, Filipe Ribeiro, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:36 A16.009 Electronic structures of metallofullerene peapods

Minoru Otani (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo), Susumu Okada, Atsushi Oshiyama (Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba)

09:48 A16.010 Calculation of the figure of merit for carbon nanotubes based devices

Ashok Vaseashta (Department of Physics, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755)

10:00 A16.011 Computational modeling of electron-phonon scattering in carbon nanotubes

A. Svizhenko, M. P. Anantram (Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, MS: 229-1, Moffett Field, CA, 94035)

10:12 A16.012 Coulomb drag effect between two parallel quantum wires

Pedro Schlottmann (Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306)

10:24 A16.013 A finite Luttinger Liquid: spectral density and wavefunctions

Sebastian Eggert, Fabrizio Anfuso (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

10:36 A16.014 SPATIAL FIELD AND INTENSITY CORRELATIONS IN QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL WIRES

Gabriel A. Cwilich (Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, 10033)

08:00 A17.001 Mesoscopic Thermal and Thermoelectrical Transport in Individual Carbon Nanotubes

Philip Kim (Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027)

08:36 A17.002 Transport and superconductivity in carbon nanotubes

Reinhold Egger (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)

09:12 A17.003 Magnetoresistance of single-walled carbon nanotubes

J. Vavro, J. M. Kikkawa, J. E. Fischer (University of Pennsylvania)

09:24 A17.004 Magnetism in all-carbon nanostructures with negative Gaussian curvature

Noejung Park (R.I.S.T.), Mina Yoon, Savas Berber (Michigan State University), Jisoon Ihm (Seoul National University), Eiji Osawa (NanoCarbon Research Institute), David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

09:36 A17.005 Unconventional magnetic behavior in all carbon nano-foam

John Giapintzakis, John Androulakis (IESL-FORTH, PO Box 1527, Vassilika Vouton, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece), A.V. Rode (Affiliation), E.G. Gamaly, A.G. Christy, J.G. Fitz Gerald, T. Hyde, R.G. Elliman, B. Luther-Davies (Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia)

09:48 A17.006 Electric Field-Dependent Magneto-resistance and Hall Measurements in Thin Graphite Crystallites

Yuanbo Zhang, Joshua Small, Philip Kim (Department of Physics, Columbia University)

10:00 A17.007 Electronic structure of capped finite single-wall carbon nanotubes in an external magnetic field

James Simrall, Ming Yu, Lei Liu, Chakram Jayanthi, Shi-Yu Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA)

10:12 A17.008 Evidence for 2D electron gas behavior in ultrathin epitaxial graphite on a SiC substrate

Claire Berger, Zhimin Song, Tianbo Li, Phillip First, Jean Bellissard, Walt de Heer (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

10:24 A17.009 Localization and Quantization in Covalently-bonded Carbon-nanotube Junctions

Fabrizio Cleri (Fabrizio Cleri, Ente Nuove Tecnologie, Energia e Ambiente, ENEA, Italy), Pawel Keblinski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Inkook Jang, Susan S. Sinnott (University of Florida, Gainesville)

08:00 A18.001 Gaussian Velocity Distributions in Avalanches

Mark Shattuck (The Benjamin Levich Institute, City College of New York)

08:36 A18.002 Longitundinal instability of a dense granular flow on a rough inclined plane

Tamas Borzsonyi, Robert Ecke (Los Alamos National Lab)

08:48 A18.003 Towards a Theory of Diffusion in Dense Granular Flows

Chris Rycroft, Jaehyuk Choi, Martin Z. Bazant (Department of Mathematics, MIT)

13:27 A18.004 Granular Temperature in Shear Granular Flows

Gregg Lois, Anael Lemaitre, Jean Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara)

09:12 A18.005 Can the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics describe a shear-induced crystallized granular flow?

Evgeniy Khain, Baruch Meerson (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

09:24 A18.006 Pattern scaling in axial segregation

Christopher R.J. Charles, Zeina S. Khan, Stephen W. Morris (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto)

09:36 A18.007 Subdiffusion of segregated granular materials in a long rotating drum

Zeina S. Khan, Wayne A. Tokaruk, Stephen W. Morris (University of Toronto Physics Department)

09:48 A18.008 Interpenetration of Initially-Segregated Granular Mixtures in Horizontal Drum Mixers

James Flaten, Rachel Amantis (Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA)

10:00 A18.009 The Brazil nut problem

Dora Huerta, Jesus Ruiz-Suarez (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Cinvestav Merida, Merida Yucatan, Mexico)

10:12 A18.010 Growth of channels driven by seepage erosion.

Alexander Lobkovsky (MIT), Bill Jensen, Arshad Kudrolli (Clark University), Daniel Rothman (MIT)

10:24 A18.011 NMR investigations of gas transport in fluidized beds

R. Wang, J. Ng, M. Rosen, R. Mair, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian), D. Candela (UMass)

10:36 A18.012 Linear response to vulcanization in a driven flow of a self-organized segregated system: interacting lattice gas computer simulation

ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi and Naval Researcl Laboratory), Joe Gettrust (Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center)

A18.013 Fluidization in vibrated two-species granular media

M. Klein, L. Tsai, M. Rosen, T. Pavlin, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian), D. Candela (UMass)

08:00 A19.001 Variation in the cubic Landau coefficient for electroconvection in an annular fluid film

V. B. Deyirmenjian, Zahir A. Daya, Stephen W. Morris (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

08:12 A19.002 Finite Amplitude Thermal Convection of Viscoelastic Fluids

Zhenyu Li, Roger Khayat (Department of Mechanical and Materials Engieering, the University of Western Ontario)

08:24 A19.003 The Linearized Analysis of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability for Elastic Materials

JeeYeon N. Plohr (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:36 A19.004 Synchronization of an Array of Miniature Acoustic Engines

Young Sang Kwon, Orest G. Symko (University of Utah, Department of Physics)

08:48 A19.005 Supersonic Discrete Kink-Solitons and Suprasonic Moving Discrete Breathers with "Magic" Wavenumber Sinusoidal Patterns in Anharmonic Lattices

Yuriy Kosevich (Instituto de Investigacion en Comunicacion Optica, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, 78000 San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., Mexico), Ramaz Khomeriki (Department of Physics, Tbilisi State University, 380028 Tbilisi , Republic of Georgia), Stefano Ruffo (Dipartimento di Energetica "Sergio Stecco" Universita di Firenze, I-50139 Firenze, Italy)

09:00 A19.006 Kinks and Rotons in a Magnetic Cactus: Dynamical Phyllotaxis.

Cristiano Nisoli, Nathaniel Monroe Gabor, Vincent Henry Crespi, Julian Decatur Maynard (Pennsylvania State University)

09:12 A19.007 A New Position-Space Renormalization-Group Approach for Non-Equilibrium Systems and its Application to the Three-State Driven Lattice Gas

Ivan T. Georgiev (Dept. of Physics, Virginia Tech), Susan R. McKay (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Maine)

09:24 A19.008 The 3A \rightarrow \ell A reaction-diffusion system in one dimension

Melinda M. Gildner, Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee (Bucknell University)

09:36 A19.009 Totally asymmetric exclusion processes with spatially periodic hopping rates

Greg Lakatos (UBC), Anatoly Kolomeisky (Rice), Tom Chou (UCLA)

09:48 A19.010 Phase Coexistence in Driven One-Dimensional Transport

Erwin Frey, Andrea Parmeggiani, Thomas Franosch (Hahn-Meitner-Institut)

10:00 A19.011 Recent results for the two species model

Edward Lyman, B Schmittmann (Virginia Tech Physics Department)

10:12 A19.012 Nonequilibrium Ising/Bloch Wall Dynamics near a Boundary

Anniruddha Yadav, Dana A. Browne (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803)

08:00 A20.001 Electronic Raman scattering in the heavy-fermion compounds CeMIn_5, ( M = Rh, Ir and Co)

H. Martinho, P.G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori (Instituto de Fisica ``Gleb Wataghin'' UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brazil.), N.O. Moreno, V. Fritsch, J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, U.S.A.)

08:12 A20.002 Anisotropic short-range magnetic correlations in Ce_0.6La_0.4RhIn_5

V. F. Correa, R. Tung, P. G. Pagliuso, N. O. Moreno, J. L. Sarrao, A. H. Lacerda (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

08:24 A20.003 X-ray absorption studies of the local structure and electronic configuration in CeIr_1-xRh_xIn_5

Million Daniel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Nevada Las Vegas), Corwin H. Booth (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Andrew L. Cornelius (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Sang-Wook Han (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:36 A20.004 Heat capacity studies of Ce and Rh site substitution in the heavy fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn_5: Short-range magnetic interactions and non-Fermi-liquid behavior

Brian E. Light, Ravhi S. Kumar, A. L. Cornelius (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas), P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao (Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos)

08:48 A20.005 Studies on Single crystals CePdGa_6 and Ce_2PdGa_12

Han-Oh Lee (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310), Satoru Nakatsuji (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502), Nelson Moreno (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), Robin Macaluso (Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803), Bradly Carter (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310), Julia Chan (Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803), Zachary Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310)

09:00 A20.006 Anomalous Magnetic Ground States of CeGe_x with 1.55\lex\le2.0

J.A. Zan, Tan Yuen, C.L. Lin (Temple University), Jing Li, X.-Y. Huang (Rutgers University)

09:12 A20.007 Ce3Pt2Pb4: a new quasi-two dimensional ferromagnet

M.C. Aronson, Dmitry Sokolov (The University of Michigan), Julia Chan, Jasmine Millican (Louisiana State University), Zachary Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), The University of Michigan Team, Louisiana State University Collaboration, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Collaboration

09:24 A20.008 Thermal Expansion and Magnetostriction of the Heavy Fermion Borocarbide YbNi2B2C

G.M. Schmiedeshoff, S.M. Hollen (Occidental College), V.F. Correa, A.H. Lacerda (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.C. Cooley (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M.A. Avila, S.L. Bud'ko, P.C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University)

09:36 A20.009 Magnetic Field Induced Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in YbAgGe Single Crystal

Sergey L. Bud'ko (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University), Emilia Morosan, Paul C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University)

09:48 A20.010 Low Temperature Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of YbAg(Ge_1-xSi_x) Single Crystals

Paul C. Canfield, Yuri Janssen (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University), Sergey L. Bud'ko (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University)

10:00 A20.011 Spin density wave Antiferromagnetism in FeGe_2 and Fe_1-yCo_yGe_2

Song Guo, John DiTusa, David Young, Nathan Henderson, Julia Chan (Louisiana State University)

10:12 A20.012 THz Measurement of Scattering Lifetime in CaRuO_3 Films

Saeid Kamal, J. Steven Dodge (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6), Dong-Min Kim, Chang-Beom Eom (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706)

10:24 A20.013 Lattice Disorder and Size-Induced Kondo Behavior in CeAl_2 and CePt_2+x

C. H. Booth (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California), S.-W. Han (Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea), E. D. Bauer (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico), P.H. Huang, Y.Y. Chen (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan), J.M. Lawrence (Physics Department, University of California, Irvine)

10:36 A20.014 Size and temperature dependence of valence and magnetic properties in CePt2

Yang-Yuan Chen, P. H. Huang, Y. K. Chang, M. N. Ou (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115 ROC), S.W. Han, C.H. Booth (Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720-8175)

10:48 A20.015 Thin film growth and spin polarized tunneling studies of CeSix

Patrick LeClair, Jagadeesh Moodera, John Philip (MIT)

08:00 A21.001 Dielectric properties of crystalline and amorphous transition metal oxides and silicates

Gian-Marco Rignanese (Unité de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1 Place Croix du Sud, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; and Research Center on Microscopic and Nanoscopic Materials and Electronic Devices (CERMIN), Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.)

08:36 A21.002 First-principles quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculation of transition metal oxides CaCu_3Ti_4O_12 (CCTO) and BaTiO_3.

Prasenjit Sen, Lucas K Wagner, Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)

08:48 A21.003 Energy barriers in PZT at the MPB

Monica Ghita, Marco Fornari (Dept. of Physics, Central Michigan University), David J. Singh (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory)

09:00 A21.004 A Semiclassical Theory of Glasses

Walter A. Harrison, John R. Jameson (Stanford University)

09:12 A21.005 Properties of thin HfO_2 films

A.A. Demkov, D. Triyoso, R. Gregory, Peter Fejes (Motorola, Inc.)

09:24 A21.006 Wannier Function Description of the Electronic Properties of Brookite TiO_2.

M. Posternak, A. Baldereschi (EPF--Lausanne, Switzerland), H. Krakauer (College of William and Mary)

09:36 A21.007 ELECTROSTATIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE INTERFACE PHASE FOR CRYSTALLINE OXIDES ON SILICON

Rodney McKee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge, TN), Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli (North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC), Fred Walker (University of Tennesee; Knoxville, TN)

09:48 A21.008 Crystalline oxides on semiconductors: A structural transition of the interface phase

F. J. Walker (University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN), Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli (North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC), C. A. Billman (Penn State University, College Park, PA), R. A. McKee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge, TN)

10:00 A21.009 The Interface Phase and the Schottky Barrier for a Crystalline Dielectric on Silicon

Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli (North Carolina State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), F.J. Walker (University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), R.A. McKee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

10:12 A21.010 Simulation of SrTiO3 epitaxial growth on the Si(001) surface

Ivan Yakovkin (Institute of Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 46, Kiev 03028, Ukraine), Maciej Gutowski (Chemical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352), Institure of Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Collaboration

10:24 A21.011 Dielectric Tunability of SrTiO_3 with Epitaxial Constraints

David Vanderbilt, Armin Antons, J.B. Neaton, Karin M. Rabe (Dept. of Physics and Astron., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ)

10:36 A21.012 COBRA Studies of PbTiO3-SrTiO3 Heterointerfaces

C. Cionca (Applied Physics, University of Michigan), C-B Eom, D-M Kim (Materials Scienceamp;Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Y Yacoby (Racah Institute of physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem-Israel), D. Walko (APS, Argonne National Lab), R. Clarke (Applied Physics, University of Michigan)

10:48 A21.013 Epitaxially strained [001]-(PbTiO_3)_1(PbZrO_3)_1 superlattice and PbTiO_3 from first principles

Claudia Bungaro, Karin M Rabe (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ)

08:00 A22.001 Pure pre-wavy instability in bent core nematic liquid crystals

J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli (Kent State University), K. Fodor-Csorba (Research Institute for Solid State Physics)

08:12 A22.002 Phase Separation of Binary Mixtures of Liquid Crystals

Roland Ennis, Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242)

08:24 A22.003 Optical control of laser induced chaotic dynamics in nematic liquid crystals

E. Brasselet, B. Doyon, L. J. Dubé (Département de Physique, de Génie Physique, et d'Optique, Université Laval, Cité Universitaire, Québec, Canada G1K7P4)

08:36 A22.004 Using linear viscoelasticity to assess flow-alignment of nematic liquid crystals

L.R.P. de Andrade Lima, A.D Rey (McGill University)

08:48 A22.005 Twist elasticity and anchoring in a lamellar nematic phase

Neha M. Patel, M.R. Dodge, Min Hua Zhu, Rolfe Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106-7079 USA), Carsten Tschierske, Marko Prehm (Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Organic Chemistry, 06120 Halle, Germany)

09:00 A22.006 Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

Louis A Madsen, Theo J Dingemans, Michi Nakata, Edward T Samulski (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry)

09:12 A22.007 Isotropic-Nematic Transition in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers: Lattice Model with Quenched Disorder

Jonathan V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

09:24 A22.008 OPTO-MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF NEMATIC ELASTOMERS: SHAPE CHANGES AND DYNAMICS

Tibor Toth-Katona, Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH ,44242), Heino Finkelmann (Institut fur Makromolekulare Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, D-79104 Freiburg German), Liquid Crystal Institute Collaboration, Institut fur Makromolekulare Chemie Collaboration

09:36 A22.009 Acousto-optic effect in nematic liquid crystals

Viktoria Greanya, Anthony Malanoski, Mark Spector, Brian Weslowski, Jonathan Selinger (Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory)

09:48 A22.010 Optical Chemical Sensing using Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB

Elias Feresenbet, Devanand Shenoy (Code 6900, Naval Research Laboratory)

10:00 A22.011 Uniaxial Alignment of Metalloporphyrazine in Columnar Mesophases Using Rotating External Magnetic Field

Jihwan Lee, Sung-Min Choi (KAIST, Rep. of Korea), Brian D. Pate (The Ohio State Univ.), Young-Soo Han, Baek-Seok Seong (KAERI, Rep. of Korea)

A22.012 ABSORPTION EFFECTS IN LIQUID CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES

J. Adrian Reyes-Cervantes (Instituto de Física Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

08:00 A23.001 Current-Induced Magnetization Precession at Single Interfaces

M.D. Stiles (National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD), Jiang Xiao, A. Zangwill (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)

14:15 A23.002 Polarization Factors and Spin-Transfer Torque in Magnetic Tunneling Junctions

John Slonczewski (RSM Emeritus, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, NY)

08:24 A23.003 Spin transfer in nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions

G. D. Fuchs, N. C. Emley, P. Braganca, I. Krivoritov (School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University), S. Kiselev, J. Sankey, D. C. Ralph (Dept. of Physics, Cornell University), R. A. Buhrman (School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University)

08:36 A23.004 Current driven Domain Wall motion

Vincent Cros (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES and Université Paris Sud)

09:12 A23.005 Theory of Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion

Gen Tatara (Osaka University)

09:48 A23.006 Current-Induced Magnetization Precession in Magnetic Multilayers

Jiang Xiao, A. Zangwill (Georgia Institute of Technology), M.D. Stiles (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

10:00 A23.007 Dynamical States in Nanomagnets Driven by Spin-Transfer Torques

J.C. Sankey, S.I. Kiselev, I.N. Krivorotov, N.C. Emley, M. Rinkoski, R.A. Buhrman, D.C. Ralph (Cornell University)

10:12 A23.008 Switching of Magnetic Nano-pillars by Spin Polarized Current in Sub Nano-second Regime

A Tulapurkar (NanoElectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan, and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan), T Devolder (Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, UMR 8622 CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Bâtiment 220, 91405 Orsay, France), K Yagami (MSNC, Semiconductor Technology Development Group, SONY Corp., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan), P Crozat, C Chappert (Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, UMR 8622 CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Bâtiment 220, 91405 Orsay, France), A Fukushima, Y Suzuki (NanoElectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan, and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan)

10:24 A23.009 Spin-Transfer Torques in the Superparamagnetic Limit

Ilya Krivorotov, Nathan Emley, Jack Sankey, Sergey Kiselev, D. C. Ralph, R. A. Buhrman (Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cornell University)

10:36 A23.010 Orbital and Spin contributions to the g-tensors in metal nanoparticles

Carlo M. Canali (Kalmar University, Sweden), Aleksander Cehovin (Lund University, Sweden), Allan H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)

10:48 A23.011 Spin polarization measurements in La_1-x(Ba, Ca, Sr)_xMnO_3 using point contact Andreev Reflection

J. Sanders, G. T. Woods, H. Srikanth (University of South Florida, Department of Physics, Tampa, Fl.), B. Dabrowski (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois, Dekalb, Il 60115)

A23.012 Spin Current in Spin-Orbit Coupling Systems

Jiangping Hu (ucla), Bogdan Bernevig, Wu Congjun (Stanford)

08:00 A24.001 Unusual magnetic transition and its consequences

Alexei Abrikosov (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

08:12 A24.002 Experimental and Numerical Study of Susceptibilities of Single- and Double-Layer Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

Guichuan Yu, Owen Vajk, Martin Greven (Stanford University)

08:36 A24.003 Resonating valence bond states for two-dimensional fractional spin liquid on the triangular lattice

Seiji Yunoki, Sandro Sorella (SISSA and INFM, via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy)

08:48 A24.004 Orbital-selective Mott transitions in the degenerate Hubbard model

Akihisa Koga, Norio Kawakami (Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan), T.M. Rice, Manfred Sigrist (Theoretische Physik, ETH-Honggerberg, Zurich 8093, Switzerland)

09:00 A24.005 Magnetic short range order effects in the itinerant magnets

Vladimir Antropov (Ames Laboratory)

09:12 A24.006 Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Small Clusters

Gayanath Fernando (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT), James Davenport (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY), Armen Kocharian (California State University, Northridge, CA)

09:24 A24.007 Realization of the Bose-Fermi Kondo model in a magnetic quantum dot

Stefan Kirchner, Lijun Zhu, Qimiao Si, Doug Natelson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005)

09:36 A24.008 Quantum-critical behavior of itinerant ferromagnets

Andrey Chubukov (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI), Catherine Pepin (SPhT, CEA-Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Jerome Rech (SPhT, CEA-Saclay, France / CMT, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ)

A24.009 Order parameter fluctuations and structures in the 2d Ising Model

Peter Holdsworth, Maxime Clusel (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon), Jean-Yves Fortin (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg)

08:00 A25.001 Origin of the Paramagnetic State in the Quantum Paramagnet Tb_2Ti_2O_7

Hamid R. Molavian (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1), Adrian Del Maestro (Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, USA), Michel J. P. Gingras (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1)

08:12 A25.002 Finite field phase diagram of gadolinium titanate pyrochlore - Gd_2Ti_2O_7

Matthew Enjalran (Department of Physics, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven, Connecticut 06515), Michel J.P. Gingras (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas Street W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1Z8), Adrian Del Maestro (Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06520)

08:24 A25.003 Novel Dynamics in Pure and Diluted Dy_2Ti_2O_7

J. Snyder, B. G. Ueland, A. Mizel, P. Schiffer (Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University), J. S. Slusky, H. Karunadasa, R. J. Cava (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University)

08:36 A25.004 Magnetic Ordering in the Spin-Ice Candidate Ho_2Ru_2O_7

C.R. Wiebe (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University and Dept. of Physics, Columbia University), J.S. Gardner (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory and NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland), S.J. Kim, G.M. Luke (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University), A.S. Wills (Department of Chemistry, University College London), J.E. Greedan (Dept. of Chemistry, McMaster University), I. Swainson (NPMR, NRC, Chalk River), Y. Qiu, C. Jones (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland)

08:48 A25.005 Spin Relaxation Processes in the Frustrated Ising System Ho_2Ru_2O_7

Andrew Cornelius (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Jason Gardner (Brookhaven National Laboratory amp; NIST Center for Neutron Research)

09:00 A25.006 An investigation of the causes of zone boundary scattering in spin ice.

Tom Fennell, Taras Yavors'kii, Michel Gingras (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada)

09:12 A25.007 Study of a tricritical point in the pyrochlore Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Peter Holdsworth, Emmanuel Loyer (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)

09:24 A25.008 Pyrochlore frustration by the slice

Hong Yao, Oleg Tchernyshyov (Physics and Astronomy Dept., Johns Hopkins University), Roderich Moessner (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure)

09:36 A25.009 Spin liquid correlations in frustrated classical magnets

S. V. Isakov (Stockholm University), R. Moessner (Ecole Normale Supérieure), S. L. Sondhi (Princeton University)

09:48 A25.010 Ground-state selection from anharmonic zero-point energy in the pyrochlore antiferromagnet

Uzi Hizi, Christopher L. Henley (Cornell University)

10:00 A25.011 Spin fluctuations in the presence of competing dipolar and Zeeman interactions

Adrian G. Del Maestro (Yale University), Michel J.P. Gingras (University of Waterloo amp; The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)

10:12 A25.012 Crystal Field Excitations in a Frustrated Heavy Fermion System, Pr_1.2Bi_0.8Ru_2O_7

Joost van Duijn, Collin Broholm (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD), Devashibhai Adroja, Toby Perring, Mark Adams (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), N. Hur, S-W. Cheong (Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ)

10:24 A25.013 A Field-Induced Re-Entrant Novel Phase and A Ferroelectric-Magnetic Order Coupling in HoMnO_3

B. Lorenz, A. P. Litvinchuk (Dept. of Physics and TCSAM, University of Houston), M. M. Gospodinov (Inst. of Solid State Phys., Bulgarian Acad. Sci., Sofia), C. W. Chu (Dept. of Physics and TCSAM, University of Houston)

10:36 A25.014 Dielectric Anomaly of Spin-Frustrated RMnO_3 Crystals

H. Kuwahara, K. Noda, J. Nagayama, S. Nakamura (Dept. of Phys. Sophia Univ.)

16:54 A25.015 Dynamical obstruction in a constrained system and its realization in lattices of superconducting devices

Claudio Castelnovo (Physics Department, Boston University), Pierre Pujol (Laboratoire de Physique, Groupe de Physique Théorique de l'École Normale Supérieure), Claudio Chamon (Physics Department, Boston University)

08:00 A26.001 Uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy of Ga1-xMnxAs

U. Welp, V. Vlasko-Vlasov, A. Menzel, H. D. You (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory), X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna (Physics Department, University of Notre Dame), T. Wojtowicz (University of Notre Dame and Institute of Physics, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)

08:12 A26.002 Annealing, Thickness, and x Dependences of the \mboxGa_\mbox1-x \mboxMn_x \mboxAs Depth Profile

B. J. Kirby (Univ. of Missouri), J. A. Borchers (NIST), J. J. Rhyne (Los Alamos Natl. Lab.), S. G. E. te Velthuis (Argonne Natl. Lab.), K. V. O'Donovan (NIST), A. Hoffmann (Argonne Natl. Lab.), T. Wojtowicz (Polish Acad. of Sci. and Univ. of Notre Dame), X. Liu, W. L. Lim, J. K. Furdyna (Univ. of Notre Dame)

08:24 A26.003 Ferromagnetic and random spin ordering in diluted magnetic semiconductors

Alexei Kaminski, Victor Galitski, Sankar Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland)

09:36 A26.004 A Lattice Mean Field Theory of Ferromagnetism in Two dimensional Diluted magnetic semiconductors

E. H. Hwang, Donald Priour Jr, S. Das Sarma (University of Maryland)

09:48 A26.005 Dynamical mean-field study of the double exchange model for spin-degenerate carrier bands

J. Moreno (Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati), R. S. Fishman (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:00 A26.006 Dynamical Mean Field Study of Ferromagnetism in Ga_1-xMn_xAs

Karan Aryanpour (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA), Juana Moreno (Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC), Mark Jarrell (Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH), Randy Fishman (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)

10:12 A26.007 Dynamics of photo-induced magnetization rotation in ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As

Hiro Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yasuyoshi Mitsumori (Communications Research Laboratory), Akira Oiwa (PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency), Fujio Minami (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:24 A26.008 Signatures of anisotopic exchange interactions in diluted magnetic semiconductors

Malcolm Kennett (Cambridge University), Chenggang Zhou (Princeton University), Xin Wan (University of Karlsruhe), Mona Berciu (University of British Columbia), RN Bhatt (Princeton University)

10:36 A26.009 Exact asymptotic form of the exchange interactions between shallow centers in doped semiconductors

Pavel Krotkov, Lev Gor'kov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32310)

10:48 A26.010 Griffiths phase in diluted magnetic semiconductors

Victor Galitski, Alexei Kaminski, Sankar Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland)

A26.011 Exchange Biasing of the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Ga_1-xMn_xAs

M.B. Stone, K.F. Eid, K.C. Ku, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802)

A26.012 Coherently photoinduced ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors

J. Fernandez-Rossier (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Unviersidad de Alicante, Spain.), C. Piermarocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University), PC Chen (Department of Chemistry University of California Berkeley.), A. H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), L. J. Sham (Department of Physics, University of California San Diego)

A26.013 Magnetocaloric effects in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

P. Kumar (University of Florida)

08:00 A27.001 Optical evidence for a spin-filter effect in the charge transport of Eu_0.6Ca_0.4B_6

L. Degiorgi (ETH Zurich and PSI Villigen), A. Perucchi, G. Caimi, H.R. Ott (ETH Zurich), A.D. Bianchi, Z. Fisk (NHMFL-FSU, Tallahassee)

08:12 A27.002 Surface relaxation and surface excitations in lanthanum hexaboride

Rene Monnier (Laboratorium fuer Festkoerperphysik, ETHZ), Bernard Delley (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)

08:24 A27.003 Ab initio calculation of optical constants from visible to x-ray energies

M. P. Prange, G. Rivas, A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr (U. of WASHINGTON)

08:36 A27.004 BEEM as a Probe for Electron - Hole Scattering in Metals

A.C. Perrella, P.G. Mather, R.A. Buhrman (Cornell University, Ithaca NY)

08:48 A27.005 Probing lattice dynamics via impurities with nuclear resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Michael Y. Hu (HP-CAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015), Philip D. Mannheim (Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269), E. Ercan Alp, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Thomas S. Toellner (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

09:00 A27.006 TPD, ESD and AES investigation of electron irradiation effects on DES/Ge(100) at 90K

J. Lozano, D. Early, P. Petrany, Jr. Craig, P. Wang (Affiliation), K. R. Kimberlin (Department of Physics, Bradley University)

09:12 A27.007 Characterization of non-crystalline phases of LLDPE`s using calorimetry to strain the samples

Hong Phuong-Nguyen (Chemistry Dept.,Uqam,Montreal,H3C 3P8, Ca), Ilyes Jedidi, Fabien Chola, Genevieve Delmas (id)

09:24 A27.008 Indium growth on Si(100) by femtosecond pulsed laser deposition

M. Hafez, M. Hegazy, H. Elsayed-Ali (Old Dominion University)

09:36 A27.009 Achievement of Ferromagnetism in Silicon through Mn Ion Implantation

Chaffra Awo-Affouda, Martin Bolduc, Andrew Stollenwerk, James Raynolds, Mengbing Huang, Vincent LaBella (University at Albany-SUNY, School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering)

09:48 A27.010 Metal-semiconductor phase transition of order arrays of VO2 nanocrystals

Rene Lopez, Jae Suh, Leonard Feldman, Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt University)

10:00 A27.011 Bridgman Growtth of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 for Photovoltaic Cells

Hui Du, Clifford Champness, Ishiang Shih, Terence Cheung (Electrical amp; Computer Engineering Dept., McGill University, Montreal, Canada.)

10:12 A27.012 Seaweed to Dendrite Transition in Directional Solidification

Quanyong Wang (McGill University), Nikolas Provatas, Mikko Haataja (McMaster University), Martin Grant (McGill University), Department of Physics(McGill) Collaboration, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering(McMaster) Collaboration

10:24 A27.013 Development of a new class of sputter-deposited nanostructured Cu-refractory metal alloys

Kendrick Walker, Wilbur Walters (Jackson State University)

A27.014 Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Characterization of Nanostructural Features in Reactor Steels

Stephen Glade (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Brian Wirth (University of California Berkeley, Department of Nuclear Engineering), Palakkal Asoka-Kumar, Philip Sterne (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Matthew Alinger, George Odette (University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering)

08:00 A28.001 Density-functional calculation of the liquid deuterium Hugoniot

Michael P. Desjarlais (Sandia National Laboratories)

08:36 A28.002 Deuterium Hugoniot up to 120 GPa (1.2 Mbar).

W.J. Nellis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R.F. Trunin, A.I. Bykov, R.I. Il'kaev (Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Sarov)

08:48 A28.003 Phase transitions in dense hydrogen

Stanimir Bonev, Eric Schwegler (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Burkhard Militzer (Carnegie Institution of Washington), Tadashi Ogitsu, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:00 A28.004 Unusual optical properties of shocked deuterium at 13 GPa

N. C. Holmes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:12 A28.005 Phase Transitions in Metals under Isentropic Compression

Marina Bastea (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:24 A28.006 High Pressure - High Temperature Emissivities

Jeffrey Nguyen, Neil Holmes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:36 A28.007 Observation of a Laser-Driven-Shock Induced Phase Transition in KTP

Jon Eggert, Peter Celliers, Damien Hicks, David Bradley, Steve Moon, Gilbert Collins (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:48 A28.008 Tailored Dynamic Thermodynamic Paths: Implications for Planetary Isentropes

Jeffrey Nguyen, Daniel Orlikowski, Frederick Streitz, John Moriarty, Neil Holmes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:00 A28.009 Structural property of the itinerant ferromagnetic metal CoS_2 under high pressure and low temperature

Akihiko Machida, Tetsu Watanuki, Tomohiro Ikeda, Katsutoshi Aoki (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Japan), Yutaka Moritomo (Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Japan)

08:00 A29.001 Effects of Contact Time and Polarity Level on Adhesion

Hugh Brown (university of Wollongong), Emmanuel Girard-Reydet (INSA-Lyon)

08:12 A29.002 Systematic Adhesion: Controlling Interfacial Strength through Patterning

Alfred Crosby, Mark Hageman, Andrew Duncan (Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts)

08:24 A29.003 Scaling Micro-Mechanical Properties in Soft Multiphase Gels Based on Methodology and Interfacial Interactions

Phillip Cole, Joseph Lenhart, John Emerson (Sandia National Laboratories), Jeffrey Koberstein (Columbia University)

08:36 A29.004 Microstructure of Hydrophobically Modified Alkyl Acrylamide Hydrogels

Jun Tian, Thomas A. P. Seery (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269), Derek L. Ho (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), R. A. Weiss (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269)

08:48 A29.005 Dynamics around the sol-gel transition in thermoreversible polymer gels

Johan Mattsson, Bivash Dasgupta (Department of Physics and DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA), Aleksandar Matic, Rikard Bergman (Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE 412 96 Goteborg, Sweden), Bo Nystrom (Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway), David A Weitz (Department of Physics and DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA)

09:00 A29.006 Viscoelastic Behavior and Adhesion of Ionic Alginate Hydrogels

Rebecca Webber, Kenneth Shull (Northwestern University)

09:12 A29.007 Environmentally Responsive Hydrogels with Tunable Rigidity Constructed Via Peptide Folding and Consequent Self-Assembly

Darrin Pochan, Bulent Ozbas (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware), Rajagopal Karhtikan, Joel Schneider (Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware)

09:24 A29.008 Understanding Thermal Gelation of Methyl-Cellulose

Inna Shechtman, Moshe Gottlieb (Chemical Eng. Dept., Ben Gurion University, 84105 Beer Sheva, Israel)

09:36 A29.009 Temperature-sensitive size of microgel particles

Barbara Frisken, Yong Sun, Jun Gao (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6), Arthur Bailey (Scitech Instruments, North Vancouver BC V7J 2S5)

09:48 A29.010 Small Angle Neutron Scattering Measurements of the Temperature-Dependent Structure of Colloidal Microgel Particles

Thomas G Mason (University of California- Los Angeles), Min Y Lin (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

10:00 A29.011 Molecular Dynamics of Networks Undergoing Crosslinking

Dana R. Rottach (University of New Mexico), John G. Curro, Gary S. Grest, Aidan P. Thompson (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:12 A29.012 Strain Induced Structural Properties of Nematic Elastomers

Fan Zhang, Paul Heiney (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104), Amritha Srinivasan, Jawad Naciri, Banahalli Ratna (Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Lab, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Code 6950, Washington D.C. 20375)

10:24 A29.013 Orientational Order, Thermodynamics and Mechanical Properties of Nematic Elastomers

Folusho Oyerokun, Kenneth Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:36 A29.014 Elasticity and Photoelasticity Relationships of Real Elastomeric Networks by Molecular Simulation

Kapileswar Nayak, Hemant Nanavati (Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Mumbai–400076, India)

10:48 A29.015 Simulations on swelling and deformation of polymer model networks

Michael Lang, Dietmar Goeritz, Stefan Kreitmeier (University of Regensburg, Institute for exp. and appl. Physics, Polymer Physics, 93040 Regensburg, Germany)

08:00 A30.001 Structure and Thermodynamics of Model Polymer Nanocomposites

Justin B. Hooper, Kenneth S. Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:12 A30.002 Investigating Filler Reinforcement and Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior in Polymer Composites

Zhiyong Zhu, Shi-Qing Wang, Ernst von Meerwall (University of Akron)

08:24 A30.003 The Effect of Mobile Nanoparticles on Phase Separation Dynamics in Thin Film Polymer Blends

Russell J. Composto, Hyun-joong Chung, Andreas H. Taubert, Ranjan Deshmukh (Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, LRSM, Univ of Pennsylvania, PA19104)

08:36 A30.004 Compatibilizing Bulk Polymer Blends by Using Organoclays

Mayu Si, Dilip Gersappe (Stony Brook University), Wenhua Zhang (Polymer Divisions, NIST), Harald Ade (University of North Carolina), Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov, Gregory rudomen (Stony Brook University), Bradley Schwartz (Syosset High School), Robert Fisher (Hanc High School)

08:48 A30.005 In situ x-ray scattering measurements of clay particle orientation in PP nanocomposites under shear flow

Laura Dykes, Wesley Burghardt, Kosmas Kasimatis, John Torkelson (Northwestern University)

09:00 A30.006 Anomalous Diffusion of Pentane and Toluene in a Composite of Polymer and Nanoparticles

Alan Jones, JunYan Zhong, Guoxing Lin (Clark University)

09:12 A30.007 Kinetic Stability to Static Annealing of the Well-Exfoliated State of Polyproplyene-Clay Nanocomoposites Produced via a Novel, Solid-State Process

Kosmas G. Kasimatis, John M. Torkelson (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

09:24 A30.008 Nanosecond relaxation in polymer electrolyte nanocomposites

Saboungi Marie-Louise (CRMD, 45071 Orléans, France), David L. Price (CRMHT, 45071 Orléans, France), Luis J. Smith (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), Jean-Marc Zanotti (Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne Nat. Lab., Argonne, IL 60439 and Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif/Yvette cedex, France), Michel Armand (Joint International Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Montreal QC H3C 3J7 Canada)

09:36 A30.009 Molecular weight effects on the rheology of polymer/clay dispersions

Hossein Baghdadi, Heidi Sardinha, Surita Bhatia (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

09:48 A30.010 Effect of nm-thin Inorganic Layered Fillers on the Crystallization of Polymer Composites

Evangelos Manias (Penn State University), H. Nakajima, Z-M. Wang, J-Y. Huh

10:00 A30.011 Radial Dependence of Spin-Cast Polymer/Clay Nanocomposite Film Thickness

Jun Li (Physics Dept., Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY), Avtar Singh (Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY), Scott Schiffman (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Deepak Kapoor, Steven Schwarz (Physics Dept., Queens College, Flushing, NY), Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Materials Science, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY)

10:12 A30.012 Tuning Polymer Nanocomposite Morphology: Magnetic and AC Electric Field Manipulation of Epoxy - Montmorillonite (Clay) Suspensions

Richard Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory), Hilmar Koerner (University of Dayton Research Insitute), J. David Jacobs (University of Cincinnati), John Busbee (Air Force Research Laboratory), Edwin Hampton, Derrick Dean (Tuskegee University)

10:24 A30.013 Thermal Stability and Flammability of Polypropylene/Montmorillonite Composites

Ming-Shu Yang, Huai-Li Qin, Shi-Min Zhang, Charles C. Han (State Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Joint laboratories of Polymer Science amp; Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing 100080 (PR China))

10:36 A30.014 Gas Barrier Behavior of Polystyrene-Clay Nanocomposites

Sergei Nazarenko (Department of Macromolecular Science - Case Western Reserve University), Paulo Meneghetti, Kanokorn Photinon, Syed Qutubuddin (Department of Chemical Engineering - Case Western Reserve University)

08:00 A31.001 Counterions surrounding DNA: new measurements using anomalous x-ray scattering

Lois Pollack (Cornell University)

08:36 A31.002 Distribution of Counterions Near Discretely Charged Rods

Mark L. Henle, Christian D. Santangelo, Deena M. Patel, Philip A. Pincus (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

08:48 A31.003 Electrophoretic Mobility Measurements Suggest No Charge Inversion For A System of Charged Rods and Their Divalent Counterions

Qi Wen, Jay Tang (Department of Physics, Brown University)

09:00 A31.004 Direct observation of charge inversion by multivalent ions

Koen Besteman, Marcel Zevenbergen, Hendrik Heering, Serge Lemay (Delft University of Technology, Department of Nanoscience), Molecular Biophysics Team

09:12 A31.005 ION MEDIATED INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RANDOMLY CHARGED POLYPEPTIDE RODS

Tommy E. Angelini (Physics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), Gerard C. L. Wong (Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), Enrico Bellomo (Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara), Jungyeon Hwang (Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles), Timothy Deming (Chemsitry, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara)

09:24 A31.006 A comparison of co-ion and counterion behavior on condensed polyelectrolytes and condensed polyampholytes

Olena Rudko, Thomas E. Angelini (Physics Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Gerard C. L. Wong (Materials Science and Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:36 A31.007 Anomalous counterion condensation of hydrophobic polyelectrolytes

Claudine Williams, Wafa Essafi, Damien Baigl, Physique des Fluides Organises Team

09:48 A31.008 Thermoreversible crosslinking of polyelectrolyte chains

Alexander Ermoshkin, Alexander Kudlay, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)

10:00 A31.009 Manning Condensation: Beyond the Limiting Laws

Qingbo Yang (Physics Department, Columbia University), Ben O'Shaughnessy (Chemical Engineering Department, Columbia University)

10:12 A31.010 Accuracy Analysis and Systematic Improvements of the Generalized Born Solvation Model

Grigori Sigalov, Alexey Onufriev (Virginia Tech)

10:24 A31.011 Salt-induced Collapse and Reexpansion of Highly-Charged Flexible Polyelectrolytes

Pai-Yi Hsiao, Erik Luijten (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

10:36 A31.012 New Distributed Multipole Methods for Accurate Electrostatics in Large-Scale Biomolecular Simulations

Celeste Sagui, Christopher M Roland (North Carolina State University), Thomas A Darden (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

10:48 A31.013 The Generalized Born solvation model: What is it?

Alexey Onufriev (Virginia Tech)

08:00 A32.001 Co/Cu(001) Heteroepitaxy: An Accelerated Molecular-Dynamics Simulation Study

Kristen Fichthorn, Radu Miron (The Pennsylvania State University)

08:12 A32.002 Quasicontinuum Monte Carlo Simulation of Surface Growth

Jason P. DeVita, Leonard M. Sander, Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)

08:24 A32.003 Island-Size Distribution and Capture Numbers in 3D Nucleation

Feng Shi, Jacques Amar (University of Toledo)

08:36 A32.004 Geometrical effects in the ballistic aggregation of thin films

Kevin Robbie, Kevin Musselman, Kate Kaminska, Gisia Beydaghyan (Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6)

08:48 A32.005 Predictive Models for Nanostructure Evolution during Epitaxial Thin Film Growth

Jim Evans (Iowa State University)

09:24 A32.006 Vacancies in homoepitaxially grown Ag(001): a diffuse x-ray scattering study

C. Kim, K. Li, P. F. Miceli (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia), R. Feng, E. H. Conrad (Georgia Inst. of Technology)

09:36 A32.007 Effects of strain on the critical island size and island morphology in submonolayer epitaxial growth

Giridhar Nandipati, Jacques Amar (University of Toledo), Jerry Tersoff (IBM Watson)

09:48 A32.008 Determination of the basic time scale in kinetic Monte Carlo simulations by comparison with cyclic voltammetry experiments

Ibrahim Abou Hamad, Per Arne Rikvold (Center for Materials Research and Technology, Department of Physics, and School of Computaional Science and Information Technology, Florida State University), Gregory Brown (Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:00 A32.009 TIME-DEPENDENT DIFFUSION FIELDS AND CAPTURE ON RECTANGULAR SUBSTRATES

John A. Venables, Pu Yang (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University)

10:12 A32.010 Surface Modes and Film Growth

Alexandra TEN BOSCH (CNRS)

10:24 A32.011 Evolution of textured GaAs surfaces during Cl_2 etching and MBE growth

Jens Schmid (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia), Anders Ballestad, Richard Mar, Tom Tiedje (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC)

10:36 A32.012 Phase-Field Modeling of Elasticity, Plasticity, and Phase Segregation in Binary Heteroepitaxial Film Growth

Joel Berry, Ken Elder (Oakland University), Nikolas Provatas (McMaster University)

10:48 A32.013 A phase-field model of island growth in epitaxy

Bang-Gui Liu (Institute of Physics amp; Center of Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, 100080 Beijing, P. R. China)

11:00 A32.014 Mound formation and coarsening in epitaxial thin film growth

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Chandan Dasgupta (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA.)

08:00 A33.001 Dislocation Arrangements in Pentacene Thin Films

B. Nickel (Princeton University), R. Barabash (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.), R. Ruiz (Vanderbilt University), N. Koch, A. Kahn (Princeton University), L.C. Feldman, R.F. Haglund (Vanderbilt University), G. Scoles (Princeton University)

08:12 A33.002 Methylthiolates self-assembled on Au(111): in-situ X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Photoemission Characterization of the Interface

Loredana Casalis (Elettra Synchrotron Laboratory, Trieste Italy), Mehemet Fatih Danisman (Princeton University), Bert Nickel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany), Gianangelo Bracco (INFM and University of Genova, Genova, Italy), Valentina de Renzi (INFM and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy), Albano Cossaro, Alberto Verdini (TASC-INFM Laboratory, Trieste, Italy), Alberto Morgante (University of Trieste and TASC-INFM Laboratory, Trieste, Italy), Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University, and ELETTRA Synchrotron Laboratory, Trieste, Italy)

08:24 A33.003 Spin polarization of pentacene adsorbates studied by spin-polarized metastable deexcitation spectroscopy (SPMDS)

Taku Suzuki, Mitsunori Kurahashi, Xin Ju, Yasushi Yamauchi (National Institute for Materials Science)

08:36 A33.004 Investigating pentacene growth using x-rays: a substrate comparison

Alex Mayer, Ricardo Ruiz, George Malliaras (Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University), Hua Zhao (Affiliation), Randall Headrick (Dept. of Physics, University of Vermont), Alexander Kazimirov (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source)

08:48 A33.005 Low Energy Electron Diffraction and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Metallo-Phthalocyanine Thin Films

T. S. Ellis, K. T. Park (Baylor University), S. Hulbert (National Synchrotron Light Source), M. D. Ulrich (Army Research Office), J. Rowe (North Caroline State University and Army Research Office)

09:00 A33.006 Adsorption of C_60 on Ge(111) - the 13^1/2\times13^1/2 structure

T.-L. Lee, J. Zegenhagen (ESRF, France), X. Torrelles, J. Rius, O. Bikondoa, P. Ordejon, E. Machado (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain)

09:12 A33.007 Characterization and manipulation of azobenzene molecules by STM

Matthew Comstock, Armen Kirakosian, Jongweon Cho, Michael Crommie (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:24 A33.008 Surface Stress, Kinetics, and Structure of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers

Michel Godin (McGill University), P.J. Williams (Acadia University), Olivier Laroche, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, L.Y. Beaulieu, R.B. Lennox, Peter Grütter (McGill University)

09:36 A33.009 Beyond STM: high resolution imaging of a prototypical molecule-insulator system with NC-AFM

S.A. Burke, J.M. Mativetsky, R. Hoffmann, P. Grutter (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)

09:48 A33.010 DFT study of alkylsilanes adsorption on the Au(111)

Yunqing Chen, Bradford Orr (Department of Physics, University of Michigan), Mark Banaszak Holl (Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan)

10:00 A33.011 Self-Assembled Monolayer Pattern Evolution via Substrate Strain-Mediated Spinodal Decomposition: Alkysilane on Au(111)

Kevin Schneider, Wei Lu, Daniel Fosnacht, Mark Banaszak Holl, Brad Orr (University of Michigan)

10:12 A33.012 Structural relaxation of an adlayer in presence of adsorbate-induced reconstruction: C_60/Cu(111)

Woei Wu Pai, C. L. Hsu (Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan), M. C. Lin, K. C. Lin (Department of Physics, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

10:24 A33.013 Structure and dynamics within monolayer films of phenylene oligomer molecules adsorbed onto graphite

Edward Kintzel, Kenneth Herwig (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Inmaculada Peral (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

10:36 A33.014 Resonant soft x-ray emission study of electronic structure near the Fermi level in copper phthalocyanine

K.E. Smith, J.E. Downes, C. McGuinness, P.A. Glans, Y. Zhang, T. Learmonth (Department of Physics, Boston University)

08:00 A34.001 Stationary Points on the XONO (X=F, OH and OCH_3) Potential Energy Surface

John F. Stanton (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Texas)

08:36 A34.002 MATRIX SPECTROSCOPY OF THE CH3OOO RADICAL VIA A HYPERTHERMAL NOZZLE

Evan B. Jochnowitz, Xu Zhang, G. Barney Ellison (University of Colorado), Mark R. Nimlos (University of Colorado and NREL)

08:48 A34.003 A Device to Study Gas-Phase Ion Reactions of Organic Radicals and Diradicals

Xu Zhang, Veronica M. Bierbaum, G. Barney Ellison, Shuji Kato (University of Colorado)

09:00 A34.004 MATRIX SPECTROSCOPY OF PEROXYL RADICALS VIA A HYPERTHERMAL NOZZLE

Evan B. Jochnowitz, Xu Zhang, G. Barney Ellison (University of Colorado), Mark R. Nimlos (University of Colorado and NREL)

09:12 A34.005 What we Think We Might Possibly Know About VOC Structure and Organic Nitrate Yields, and Why we Should Care

Paul Shepson (Purdue University)

09:48 A34.006 Effect of dynamical cross-links on the incoherent scattering of a single macromolecule

Lorin Gutman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University), Jianshu Cao (Massachusetts Insititute of Technology), Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University)

10:00 A34.007 Solvent Dependent Studies of Conformational Relaxation in cis-1,3,5-Hexatriene with Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

Ahmasi Harris (Department of Applied Physics, University of Michigan), Roseanne Sension (Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan)

10:12 A34.008 Structure of hydrophobic solvation of benzene and hexafluorobenzene from first principles

Markus Allesch (Department of Theoretical Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 84559), Eric Schwegler, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 84559)

10:24 A34.009 Photochemical Reaction Dynamics of Halooxides and Nitrosyl Halides

Philip Reid (Department of Chemistry, University of Washington)

08:00 A35.001 Dissociation of a Product of a Surface Reaction in the Gas Phase: Xenon Difluoride Reaction with Si

S. T. Ceyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:36 A35.002 First Principles Methods used to Identify Promising Heterogeneous Catalysts

Manos Mavrikakis (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

08:48 A35.003 On the Mechanism of Low Temperature Water Gas Shift Reaction: Insights Derived from First Principles

Manos Mavrikakis (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

09:00 A35.004 Surface Specific Desorption Spectroscopy

Kenneth Beck, Alan Joly, Matthias Henyk, Wayne Hess (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Peter Sushko, Alex Shluger (University College - London), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energetic Processes Lab Collaboration, University College - London's Condensed Matter Theoretical Lab Collaboration

09:12 A35.005 Photochemistry of CO_2 on Pt(111): Harnessing Åscale Molecular Acceleration Towards a Surface

Robert Zehr, Ian Harrison (Chemistry Depertment, University of Virginia)

16:06 A35.006 Break

09:36 A35.007 Dynamics of the spin transition in the adsorption of hydrogen atoms on metals

Stephen Holloway (Surface Science Centre, University of Liverpool, UK), David Bird

10:12 A35.008 Vibrational State Resolved Dissociative Chemisorption of Methane on Ni(100)

Heather Abbott, Alex Bukoski, Ian Harrison (Chemistry Department, University of Virginia)

10:24 A35.009 First-Princples Extrapolation Method for Accurate CO Adsorption Energies on Metal Surfaces

Sara Mason (University of Pennsylvania), Ilya Grinberg (Universityof Pennsylvania), Andrew Rappe (University of Pennsylvania)

10:36 A35.010 First-Principles Study of Coverage Dependent CO Overlayer Formationamp;oslash;n Metal Surfaces

Andrew Rappe, Sara Mason, Ilya Grinberg (University of Pennsylvania)

10:48 A35.011 State Specific Studies of D\(_2\) Interacting with Cu(100) and Pd(111)

Leah Shackman, Greg Sitz (University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department)

08:00 A36.001 QDIP vs. QWIP: Theory and Experiment

Manijeh Razeghi (Northwestern University)

08:36 A36.002 Can we use an embedded self assembled QD to cool a nano-mechanical resonator?

Chiou-Fu Wang, Ignacio Wilson-Rae (Physics Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara), Antonio Badolato (ECE Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara), Junji Urayama (Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH, Zurich), Sequoyah Aldridge, Andrew Cleland (Physics Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara), Pierre M. Petroff (ECE, Material Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara), Atac Imamoglu (Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH, Zurich), Evelyn L. Hu (ECE, Material Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara)

08:48 A36.003 Static and dynamic spectroscopy of whispering gallery mode lasers with interface fluctuation quantum dots

W. H. Wang, S. Ghosh, F. Mendoza, D. D. Awschalom, N. Samarth (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, UC-Santa Barbara and Materials Research Institute, Penn State University.)

09:00 A36.004 Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Individual Quantum Dot Molecules

B. D. Gerardot, S. Strauf, P. M. Petroff (University of California, Materials Department, Santa Barbara, CA 93107 USA), M. J. A. de Dood, A. Bychkov, D. Bouwmeester (University of California, Physics Department, Santa Barbara, CA 93107 USA)

09:12 A36.005 Surface plasmon whispering gallery modes

Igor Smolyaninov, Christopher Davis (ECE Dept., University of Maryland)

09:24 A36.006 Polarization measurements of a single charged quantum dot

Eric Stinaff, Allan Bracker, Daniel Gammon, Morgan Ware (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)

09:36 A36.007 Laser induced nanoparticle formation in single crystal CaF2

L. Cramer, S. C. Langford, J. T. Dickinson (Washington State University)

09:48 A36.008 Photon flux switching in 2-D photonic crystals

X. Wang, K. Kempa (Boston College)

10:00 A36.009 Optical response of structured arrays of noble-metal nanoparticles

R. F. Haglund, R. Lopez, M. D. McMahon, L. C. Feldman, A. B. Hmelo, R. H. Magruder, A. McCommons, K. E. Schriver, R. A. Weller, J. Xu (Vanderbilt University)

10:12 A36.010 Coherent control of tunneling in a quantum dot molecule

J. M. Villas-Boas (UFSCar - Brazil and Ohio University), A. O. Govorov, S. E. Ulloa (Ohio University)

08:00 A37.001 Spectroscopy of large inductance flux qubit

T.L. Robertson, T. Hime, S. Linzen, B.L.T. Plourde, P.A. Reichardt, C.E. Wu, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), F.K. Wilhelm (LMU Munich)

08:12 A37.002 Back-action of RC-shunted SQUID on three-junction flux qubit

T. Hime, S. Linzen, B.L.T. Plourde, P.A. Reichardt, T.L. Robertson, C.E. Wu, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), F.K. Wilhelm (LMU Munich)

08:24 A37.003 Variable coupling scheme for entangling flux qubits

B.L.T. Plourde, J. Zhang, T.L. Robertson, T. Hime, S. Linzen, P.A. Reichardt, C.E. Wu, K.B. Whaley, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), F.K. Wilhelm (LMU Munich)

08:36 A37.004 Decoherence of flux qubits due to hot quasiparticles in readout SQUID

P.A. Reichardt, T. Hime, S. Linzen, B.L.T. Plourde, T.L. Robertson, C.E. Wu, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), F.K. Wilhelm (LMU Munich)

08:48 A37.005 Materials Research for Improved Josephson Junction Qubits

R. McDermott, K.B. Cooper, D.A. Hite, S. Nam, R.W. Simmonds, M. Steffen, D.P. Pappas, J.M. Martinis (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305)

09:00 A37.006 An Improved Josephson Phase Qubit

R. W. Simmonds (NIST), K. B. Cooper, D. A. Hite, R. McDermott, S. Nam, M. Steffen, D. P. Pappas, J. M. Martinis

09:12 A37.007 Amplifying Quantum Signals with an RF-Driven Josephson Junction

I. Siddiqi, R. Vijay, F. Pierre, C.M. Wilson, M. Metcalfe, C. Rigetti, L. Frunzio, M.H. Devoret (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University)

09:24 A37.008 Resonant Readout of a Superconducting Persistent Current Qubit with SQUID Josephson Inductance

Janice C. Lee, T. P. Orlando (MIT), William D. Oliver (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

09:36 A37.009 A dc SQUID qubit using a dc SQUID readout

Roger Koch, John Kirtley, James Rozen, George Keefe, Frank Milliken, Guido Burkard, David DiVincenzo, Chang Tsuei (IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)

09:48 A37.010 Effect of microwave resonances on Josephson phase qubits

M. Steffen (NIST), K.B. Cooper, R. McDermott, R.W. Simmonds, D.A. Hite, S. Nam, D.P. Pappas, J.M. Martinis

10:00 A37.011 Characterization of tunnel barriers for Josepson-junction qubits by conducting atomic force microscopy

K.M. Lang (NIST amp; Colorado College), D.A. Hite, R.W. Simmonds, R. McDermott, D.P. Pappas, John M. Martinis (NIST), Colorado College Team

10:12 A37.012 Correlating quantum decoherence and material defects in a Josephson qubit

D.A. Hite, R. McDermott, R.W. Simmonds, K.B. Cooper, M. Steffen, S. Nam, D.P. Pappas, J.M. Martinis (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

10:24 A37.013 Bifurcation Amplification in an RF-Driven Josephson Junction

R. Vijay, I. Siddiqi, C.M. Wilson, F. Pierre, M. Metcalfe, C. Rigetti, L. Frunzio, M.H. Devoret (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University)

10:36 A37.014 Study of Hopf bifurcation in a driven Josephson junction

K. Sengupta (Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120), A. G. Green (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrew's, North Haugh, U.K.), S. M. Girvin (Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120)

08:00 A38.001 Accurate QMC calculation of a realistic two electron double quantum dot.

Dyutiman Das (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Richard M. Martin (University of Illinois), L. Zhang, J. P. Leburton (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois)

08:12 A38.002 Application of Auxilliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo in Real Materials

Hendra Kwee, Shiwei Zhang, Henry Krakauer, Eric J. Walter (College of William and Mary)

08:24 A38.003 Generalized directed loops for quantum Monte Carlo

Fabien Alet, Stefan Wessel, Matthias Troyer (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

08:36 A38.004 Adaptive and Correlated Sampling in Diffusion Monte Carlo

Lucas K Wagner, Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)

08:48 A38.005 Quantum Monte Carlo and exact diagonalization wave functions for planar quantum dots in magnetic fields

A. D. Guclu, C. J. Umrigar (Cornell University)

09:00 A38.006 Quantum Monte Carlo Study on periodic systems

Ryo Maezono (National Institute for Materials Science), Mike Towler, Richard Needs (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

09:12 A38.007 A new estimator for nuclear forces in Quantum Monte Carlo

Simone Chiesa, David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Shiwei Zhang (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia)

09:24 A38.008 Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo for Fermions with Contact Interaction

Evgueni Bourovski, Nikolay Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

09:36 A38.009 Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for fermions with non-local interactions

Vladimir Savkin (University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Alexey Rubtsov (Department of Physics, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia), Alexander Lichtenstein (University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

09:48 A38.010 Optimized Non-Orthogonal Localized Orbitals for Linear Scaling Quantum Monte Carlo calculations

Andrew Williamson, Fernando Reboredo, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:00 A38.011 A Monte Carlo Model of Liquid Bridge Instabilities

Adriano M. Alencar (Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University), Sergey Buldyrev (Dept. of Physics and Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University)

10:12 A38.012 New Quantum Monte Carlo Approach to the Holstein Model

Martin Hohenadler, Hans Gerd Evertz, Wolfgang von der Linden (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria)

10:24 A38.013 Coupled Quantum Monte Carlo and Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Jeffrey Grossman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)

10:36 A38.014 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of Hydrogen-Helium Mixtures

Burkhard Militzer (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

08:00 A39.001 Diffusion-Engineered Single-Photon Spectrometer Using Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

Veronica Savu, Luigi Frunzio, Daniel Prober, Christopher Wilson, Aryesh Mukherjee (Yale University)

08:12 A39.002 Thermal Efficiency of a Transition-Edge Bolometer for Prompt-Phonon Pulses

J P Harrison, R Horn (Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6)

08:24 A39.003 Effect of position noise in scanning SQUID microscopy

Su-Young Lee (Center For Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland), S Chatraphorn (Physics Department, Chulalongkorn University, BangKok 10330, Thailand), J Matthew, Fred Wellstood (Center For Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)

08:36 A39.004 Magnetic Field Sampling using a Pulsed Hysteretic SQUID

S.P. Kwon (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland), C.P. Vlahacos (Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland), A.J. Berkley, M.A. Gubrud, F.C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland), A. Cawthorne (Neocera Inc.), Center for Superconductivity Research Collaboration, Neocera Inc. Collaboration

08:48 A39.005 Noise Temperature of the Microstrip SQUID Amplifier

Darin Kinion (LLNL), Roy Therrien, John Clarke (UCB and LBNL)

09:00 A39.006 In vivo MRI in Microtesla Magnetic Fields using a SQUID-Detector

Michael Mößle, Whittier Myers, SeungKyun Lee, Nathan Kelso, Alexander Pines, John Clarke (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

09:12 A39.007 Tissue contrast images using spin-lattice relaxation time dispersion in magnetic fields of the order of 100 \muT obtained with a SQUID-based MRI scanner

SeungKyun Lee, Michael Mössle, Whittier Myers, Nathan Kelso, Robert McDermott, Andreas Trabesinger, Alexander Pines, John Clarke (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

09:24 A39.008 Development of a Low-Noise SQUID-Based Microtesla MRI System

Whittier Myers, Michael Mößle, SeungKyun Lee, Nathan Keslo, Alexander Pines, John Clarke

09:36 A39.009 A Three-Channel DC SQUID System Using Time-Domain Multiplexing

Matthias Korn, Michael Mueck (Institute of Applied Physics, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany), Chas Mugford, Jan Kycia (Department of Physics and the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1 Canada)

09:48 A39.010 Simulation of the initial response of a high Tc thin film submitted to a voltage source

Serge Reymond (Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University), Louis Antognazza, Michel Decroux, Oystein Fischer (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Geneva)

10:00 A39.011 Optimisation of YBCO thin film design for fault current limiter application

Louis Antognazza, Michel Decroux, Serge Reymond, Mathieu Therasse (DPMC, University of Geneva, Switzerland), Makan Chen, Willi Paul (ABB Switzerland, Corporate Research, Baden-Dättwil), Oystein Fischer (DPMC, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

10:12 A39.012 Reduction of AC losses in striated coated superconductors.

G. A. Levin, P. N. Barnes (Propulsion Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, 2645 Fifth St. Bldg. 450, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH 45433), M. Sumption (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.)

10:24 A39.013 Magnetism and ferromagnetic loss in Ni-W textured substrates for coated conductors

A.O. Ijaduola^+, * Thompson^+ (^+Dep’t of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and ^*Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab, Oak Ridge, TN), A. Goyal^*, C.L.H. Thieme (American Supercond. Corp., Westborough, MA), K. Marken (Oxford Inst. Supercond. Tech., Carteret, NJ)

10:36 A39.014 Input Impedance of the Microstrip SQUID Amplifier

Darin Kinion (LLNL), John Clarke (UCB and LBNL)