Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 24 MARCH 2004

08:00 N1.001 Antiferromagnetic Order as the Competing Ground State in electron-doped high-T_c superconductors

Pengcheng Dai (The University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:36 N1.002 Possible Evidence for Stripes in the Transport Properties of PLCCO

Yoichi Ando (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan)

09:12 N1.003 Recent Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies of the Electron-Doped Superconductor Nd_2-xCe_xCuO_4

Patrick Mang (Stanford University)

09:48 N1.004 Muon Spin Relaxation Studies of Single Crystal Electron-Doped Cuprates

Jeff Sonier (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada)

10:24 N1.005 A Hidden Pseudogap in Electron-doped Cuprates

L Alff (Universitdt zu Kvln)

08:00 N2.001 Adiabatic spin pumping in interacting quantum wires and mesoscopic systems

Prashant Sharma (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853)

08:36 N2.002 Pumping in an interacting quantum wire

Natan Andrei (Rutgers University)

09:12 N2.003 Adiabatic Pumping of Spin Currents with Quantum Dots

Eduardo R. Mucciolo (Duke University and University of Central Florida)

09:48 N2.004 Experimental Realization of a Quantum Spin Pump

Susan Watson (Middlebury College)

10:24 N2.005 Direct Manipulation and Measurement on Single Magnetic Domain Walls in Epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As Microdevices

Hongxing Tang (California Institute of Technology)

08:00 N4.001 Evidence for a multi-stage route followed in polymer crystallization

Gert Strobl (Institute of Physics, University Freiburg. Germany)

08:36 N4.002 Shifting Paradigms in Polymer Crystallization

M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts)

09:12 N4.003 Discovery of Reversible Crystallization of Macromolecules

Bernhard Wunderlich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN and ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN)

09:48 N4.004 Kinetics in melting of polymers

Sanjay Rastogi (Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. Chemical Engineering, P.O. Box 513, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

10:24 N4.005 Structure Formation in Supercooled Polymer Melts - Some Ideas from Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Slightly Coarse-Grained Models

Hendrik Meyer (Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS UPR22, 67083 Strasbourg, France)

08:00 N5.001 Hydrogen Storage: Where We Are Now and Where We Need to Go

George Thomas (Consultant, Sandia National Laboratories)

08:36 N5.002 Doped Sodium Aluminum Hydride: Fundamental Studies and Practical Development of a Promising New Hydrogen Storage Material

Craig Jensen (Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822)

09:12 N5.003 First principles computations to predict and understand H storage in metals and complex hydrides

Gerbrand Ceder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:48 N5.004 Metal-organic frameworks: A new hydrogen storage system

Omar Yaghi (University of Michigan)

10:24 N5.005 Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Structures

Richard Chahine (Hydrogen Research Institute, UQTR, QC, Canada)

08:00 N6.001 Decoherence in The Quantum Control of Molecular Processes

Paul Brumer (University of Toronto)

08:36 N6.002 Suppression of Spontaneous Emission and other Decay Processes by Optical Means

Moshe Shapiro (Depts. of Chemistry and Physics, The University of British Columbia)

09:12 N6.003 Slow and Fast Light in Room Temperature Solids: Fundamentals and Applications

Robert W. Boyd (Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627)

09:48 N6.004 Coherent Optical Control of Quantum Dots: Application to Quantum Computing

Duncan Steel (The University of Michigan)

10:24 N6.005 Coherent control of spin currents*

J.E. Sipe (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

08:00 N7.001 Agnes Pockels: Life, Letters and Papers

Christiane A. Helm (Institut fur Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitat, 17489 Greifswald, Germany)

08:36 N7.002 100 Years of Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface: Agnes Pockel’s Scientific Legacy

Charles Knobler (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569)

09:12 N7.003 Katharine B. Blodgett: Aunt, Friend and Physicist

Katharine Gebbie (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

09:48 N7.004 70 Years of Built-Up Films: Katharine Blodgett's Scientific Legacy

Daniel Schwartz (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder)

08:00 N8.001 Mathematical Models of Gene Regulation

Michael C. Mackey (McGill University, Department of Physiology)

08:36 N8.002 An approach for in vitro genetic networks assembly

Vincent Noireaux (The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021), Roy Bar-Ziv (The Weizmann institute of Sceince, Rehovot, 76100, Israel), Albert Libchaber (The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021), Libchaber lab Team

08:48 N8.003 Regulation and Fluctuation of a Genetic Element at the Single-Cell Level

Nitzan Rosenfeld (Weizmann Institute), Peter Swain (McGill University), Uri Alon (Weizmann Insititute), Michael Elowitz (Caltech)

09:00 N8.004 Identifying genetic networks in noisy and varied experimental data: The circadian clock in Arabidopsis thaliana

James Locke (Department of Physics), Andrew J. Millar (Department of Biology), Matthew S. Turner (Department of Physics, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK)

09:12 N8.005 The role of over-represented network motifs in noisy signal transmission

Gabor Balazsi, Radu Dobrin (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611), Barabasi Albert-Laszlo (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556), Zoltan Oltvai (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611)

09:24 N8.006 Network structure controls noise

Jayajit Das, Subhadip Raychaudhuri (University of California, Berkeley)

09:36 N8.007 Identification of lethal reactions in the Esherichia coli metabolic network: Graph theory approach

C.-M. Ghim, K.-I. Goh, B. Kahng, D. Kim (School of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea)

09:48 N8.008 Alternative designs of simple genetic switches

N.E. Buchler (Rockefeller University), T. Hwa (University of California, San Diego)

10:00 N8.009 Information-theoretic measures of biological network modularity

Chris Wiggins (Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics; Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University), Manuel Middendorf (Department of Physics, Columbia University), Etay Ziv (College of Physicians and Surgeons; and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University)

10:12 N8.010 Patterning the fly's eye: How to make a hexagonal lattice with genes

David Lubensky (BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University), Boris Shraiman (BioMaPS Institute and Physics Dept., Rutgers University)

08:00 N9.001 Delayed Random Walk with a Repulsive Origin

Tadaaki Hosaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Toru Ohira (Sony Computer Science Laboratories), John G. Milton (Dept. of Neurology, University of Chicago), Juan Luis Cabrera (Loboratorio de Fisica Estadistica, Centro de Fisica)

08:12 N9.002 Numerical studies of bacterial-carpet microflows

Greg Huber, Dan Tillberg (University of Massachusetts, Boston and Amherst), Thomas R. Powers (Brown University)

08:24 N9.003 Avoidance

Ricardo Garcia (University of Missouri at St. Louis), Elizabeth Caspari (Computerized Medical Systems, Inc.), Anke Ordemann (Unversity of Missouri at St. Louis), Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis)

08:36 N9.004 Population variability in the Active Brownian Particle model of Daphnia motions

Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis), Udo Erdmann, Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany), Anke Ordmann (University of Missouri at St. Louis)

08:48 N9.005 Noise induced coherent motion of colloid particles with hydrodynamic interaction

Udo Erdmann (Insitute of Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany), Benjamin Lindner (Physics Department University of Ottawa 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1N 6N5)

09:00 N9.006 Models of self-organization of microtubules under the influence of gravitational fields

Stephanie Portet (SLRI, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada), Jack Tuszynski (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada), John Dixon (Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK)

09:12 N9.007 The Knowledgeable Hungry Walker model: a description of primate foraging behavior

Denis Boyer (National University of Mexico), Gabriel Ramos-Fernández (Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan), Octavio Miramontes, Jose-Luis Mateos, Germinal Cocho, Hernán Larralde (National University of Mexico)

09:24 N9.008 Hydrodynamic interactions and swarming of water fleas

Bruno Eckhardt, Juergen Vollmer (Philipps-Universitaet Marburg), Attila Gergely (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Rumania)

09:36 N9.009 Passive Particle Dynamics in Active Bacterial Baths

Daniel T.N. Chen, Andy W.C. Lau, Tom C. Lubensky, Arjun G. Yodh (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

09:48 N9.010 A microscopic derivation of the hydrodynamic of active polymer solutions

M. Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse University), Tanniemola B. Liverpool (University of Leeds)

10:00 N9.011 Accurate Cell Division in Bacteria: How Does a Bacterium Know Where its Middle Is?

Martin Howard (Imperial College London), Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie University)

10:12 N9.012 Modeling spatial oscillations of Min proteins in round bacteria

Kerwyn Huang (Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ned Wingreen (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)

10:24 N9.013 A new model for Min protein oscillation in \textitEscherichia coliand a comparison between existing models

Simon de Vet, Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie University)

10:36 N9.014 Scaling law for Dictyostelium Discoideum mounds

Camilla Voeltz, Eberhard Bodenschatz (LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

10:48 N9.015 Bacterial Interaction with Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interfaces

Laura Pedri, Sophie Itier, Heidi Schraft (Lakehead University), Margaret Hawton (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay ON Canada)

11:00 N9.016 Pattern formation in cell membrane adhesion

Dennis Discher, A Hategan (Univ.Pennsylvania), K Sengupta, E Sackmann (Technical University of Munich)

08:00 N10.001 Recent Advances in III-Nitride UV Photonics

Hongxing Jiang (Kansas State University)

08:36 N10.002 III-Nitride Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes with Delta-Doping

K. H. Kim, Z. Y. Fan, M. L. Nakarmi, J. Li, S. X. Jin, J. Y. Lin, H. X. Jiang (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS)

08:48 N10.003 Photo- and Cathodoluminescence Studies of AlGaN Alloy Films

A. Yu. Nikiforov, V. Dierolf, O. Svitelskiy, G. S. Cargill III (Lehigh University), C. J. Collins, A. V. Sampath, G. A. Garrett, M. Wraback (U. S. Army Research Laboratory)

09:00 N10.004 Exact-Exchange-Based Quasiparticle Calculations of II-VI Compounds

Patrick Rinke, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin), Abdallah Qteish (Department of Physics, Yarmouk University, Irbid - Jordan), Jörg Neugebauer (Dekanat Physik, Universität Paderborn)

09:12 N10.005 Temperature dependence of photoluminescence in ZnO quantum wells

T. Makino, Y. Segawa (Photodynamics Research Ctr, RIKEN, Sendai, Japan), M. Kawasaki (Inst. for Materials Research, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan), H. Koinuma (Materials and Structures Lab., Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Yokohama, Japan)

09:24 N10.006 Experimental Evidence for Subsurface Diffusion of Nitrogen Adatoms during MBE Growth of GaN

S. King, S. H. Cheung, M. Harland, M. Weinert, L. Li (Department of Physics and laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53211)

09:36 N10.007 Energetics of Ga and N adatom diffusion on GaN(0001): effect of steady light excitation

N. Takeuchi, A. Selloni (Dept. of Chemistry, Princeton University), T. H. Myers (Dept. of Physics, West Virginia University), W. A. Doolittle (School of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), T. Moustakas (Dept. of Engineering, Boston University)

09:48 N10.008 Photoemission From Activated GaN

Zhi Liu (Department of Physics, Stanford University), Francisco Machuca, Piero Pianetta, William E. Spicer, R. F. W. Pease (Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University)

10:00 N10.009 Improved structural and electrical properties in GaN epilayers by employing a delayed coalescence method in the low temperature GaN buffer layer growth

Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik, Muhammad Jamil, James Grandusky (School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering, Univresity at Albany-SUNY)

10:12 N10.010 Nonequilibrium AlN on c-plane Al2O3 grown by Plasma Source MBE

Yuriy Danylyuk, Ivan Avrutsky, Gregory Auner, Ratna Naik (Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 U.S.A.), Vaman Naik (University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48120 U.S.A.)

10:24 N10.011 Cl etching of 6H-GaN (0001) in a bilayer-by-bilayer mode

Satoko KUWANO, Qizhen Xue, Yusuke ASANO, Yasunori FUJIKAWA (Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku-Univ.), Qikun Xue (State Key Laboratory for Surface Physics, Institute of Physics,The Chinese Academy of Sciences), Koji. S. NAKAYAMA (Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tadaaki NAGAO, Toshio SAKURAI (Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku-Univ.)

08:00 N11.001 Noise studies in high-sensitivity GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure Hall magnetometers

Jens Mueller, Yongqing Li, Peng Xiong, Stephan von Molnar (MARTECH and Physics Department, Florida State University), Yuzo Ohno, Hideo Ohno (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

08:12 N11.002 Quantized Conductance Observed in InSb Point Contacts

N. Goel, J. Graham (University of Oklahoma, NTT Basic Research Laboratories), J.C. Keay (University of Oklahoma), M.B. Santos (University of Oklahoma, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, CREST-Japan Science and Technology Corporation), K. Suzuki, S. Miyashita (NTT Basic Research Laboratories), Y. Hirayama (NTT Basic Research Laboratories, CREST-Japan Science and Technology Corporation)

08:24 N11.003 Anomalous Transport in Quantum Dot Arrays

DS Novikov (MIT/Princeton), M Drndic (MIT/UPenn), LS Levitov, MA Kastner, MV Jarosz, MG Bawendi (MIT)

08:36 N11.004 Interaction effects on shot noise

Markus Kindermann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), C.W.J. Beenakker (Leiden) Collaboration, Yu. V. Nazarov (Delft) Collaboration

08:48 N11.005 Characterization of Schottky Junctions of Nanometer size

A. A. Khajetoorians, Ho-Ki Lyeo, C. K. Shih (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin), Li Shi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin)

09:00 N11.006 Tunable nonlinear current-voltage characteristic in four-terminal ballistic nano-junctions

B. Hackens, L. Gence, G. Farhi, S. Faniel, C. Gustin, V. Bayot (CERMIN, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), X. Wallart, S. Bollaert, A. Cappy (IEMN, Cité scientifique, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France), B. G. Vasallo, J. Mateos, T. Gonzalez (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)

09:12 N11.007 Renormalization of impurity tunneling in MOSFETS

Dima Mozyrsky, Ivar Martin (Los Alamos National Laboratory), H.W. Jiang Collaboration

09:24 N11.008 Electrical Characterization of Boron-Carbon Thin Films

Manuel Diaz (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588), Shireen Adenwalla (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588), Ellen Day Collaboration, Andrew D. Harken Collaboration, Angela McMullen-Gunn Collaboration, Rekha Padmanabhan Collaboration, Brian W. Robertson Collaboration

09:36 N11.009 Defects and transport properties of molybdenum doped indium oxide

Yuki Yoshida (Colorado School of Mines), Timothy Gessert (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), David Wood (Colorado School of Mines), Timothy Coutts (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

08:00 N12.001 Scale invariant optical response in optimally doped Bi2212

Dirk van der Marel (Universite de Geneve)

08:36 N12.002 Investigation of Superconducting State of Sr_2RuO_4 by Far Infrared Spectroscopy

G.V. Sudhakar Rao, M. Reedyk (Department of Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada), N. Kikugawa, Y. Maeno (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan)

08:48 N12.003 YBa_2Cu_3O_7/PrBa_2Ga_0.1Cu_2.9O_7 superlattices studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry

D. Budelmann, J. Bäckström, R. Rauer, M. Rübhausen (Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg and Microstructure Advanced Research Center Hamburg, Germany), H. Rodríguez, H. Adrian (Department of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)

09:00 N12.004 Resonance mode in a detwinned Ortho-II YBa_2Cu_3O_6.50

Tom Timusk, Jungseek Hwang (McMaster University), Doug Bonn, Ruixing Liang, Walter Hardy (University of British Columbia)

09:12 N12.005 Doping dependence of the resonance mode in Bi-2212

Jungseek Hwang, Tom Timusk (McMaster University), Genda Gu (Broohaven National Laboratory), Martin Greven (Stanford University), Hiroshi Eisaki (AIST-Tskuba)

09:24 N12.006 Opening of a Partial Gap in the Optical Conductivity of (Pr,Ce)_2CuO_4

R.P.S.M Lobo, A. Zimmers, N. Bontemps (ESPCI, CNRS, France), C.P. Hill, R.L. Greene (CSR, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA), C.C. Homes (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

09:36 N12.007 Opposite signs of the FGT sum rule violation for the in-plane and c-axis optical conductivity of La_2-xSr_xCuO_4

A. KUZMENKO, I. SANTOSO, N. TOMBROS, H.J.A. MOLEGRAAF, D. VAN DER MAREL (Univ. of Geneve, Univ. of Groningen), M. GRUENINGER (Univ. of Cologne), S. UCHIDA (Univ. of Tokyo)

09:48 N12.008 A new method of extracting electron-boson spectral function \alpha^2F(ømega) from infrared and ARPES spectra using inverse theory

S.V. Dordevic, C.C. Homes, J.J. Tu, T. Valla, M. Strongin, P.D. Johnson, G.D. Gu ((Brookhaven National Lab)), D.N. Basov ((University of California, San Diego))

10:00 N12.009 Infrared optical properties of \boldmath HgBa_2CuO_4+\delta \unboldmath

C.C. Homes, S.V. Dordevic (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory), G. Yu (Department of Physics, Stanford), X. Zhao (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory), M. Greven (Department of Applied Physics, Stanford)

10:12 N12.010 A Systematic Infrared Study of Phonon Properties in Optimally-doped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta Single Crystals

Jiufeng Tu (The City College of New York), Christopher Homes, Genda Gu, Myron Strongin (BNL ^*)

10:24 N12.011 Time-resolved study of superconducting MoGe thin films

H. Tashiro, J.M. Graybeal, D.H. Reitze, D.B. Tanner (Univ. of Florida), G.L. Carr (Brookhaven Nat'l Lab.)

08:00 N13.001 Localized Bosonic Modes in Superconductors

Roy Nyberg, Dirk Morr (University of Illinois at Chicago)

08:12 N13.002 Effects of doping induced inhomogeneity in High T_c superconductors

Sen Zhou, Ziqiang Wang (Boston College)

08:24 N13.003 Quasiparticle scattering and local density of states in the d-density wave phase

Jiangping Hu, Sudip Chakravarty (UCLA), Chetan Nayak, Cristina Bena (UCSB)

08:36 N13.004 Hot Spots and Transition from d--Wave to Another Pairing Symmetry in the Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

Victor Yakovenko (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA), Victor Khodel, Mikhail Zverev, Haeyong Kang

08:48 N13.005 Magnetic structure and local moment formation induced by nonmagnetic impurities in high-T_c superconductors

Chunhua Li, Sen Zhou, Ziqiang Wang (Boston College)

09:00 N13.006 Lifshitz transition in d-wave superconductors

Sergio Botelho, C. A. R. Sa de Melo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:12 N13.007 Enhancement of d-wave Superconductivity by t' in the Two-Dimensional Extended t-J Model

Chi-Tin Shih (Department of Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung,Taiwan), Ting-Kuo Lee (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan), Robert Eder (Institut für Festkörperphysik, Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany), Chung-Yu Mou (Department of Physics, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chung Chen (Department of Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung,Taiwan)

09:24 N13.008 Low-energy quasiparticle excitations in dirty d-wave superconductors and the Bogoliubov-de Gennes kicked rotator

Inanc Adagideli (TU Delft), Philippe Jacquod (University of Geneva)

09:36 N13.009 Superconductivity in a two-dimensional hole-doped spin-orbital system

Bo Song, Yupeng Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:48 N13.010 Numerical study on charge density wave in CuO chains

Michiyasu Mori, Takami Tohyama, Sadamichi Maekawa (IMR, Tohoku University), Jose Riera (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)

10:00 N13.011 Renormalization group analysis of the anisotropic, 2D, extended Hubbard model

Ka-Ming Tam, Shan-Wen Tsai, David K. Campbell (Boston University)

10:12 N13.012 Renormalization-group analysis of interacting electrons in the presence of electron-phonon interactions

Shan-Wen Tsai, Antonio H. Castro Neto, Ka-Ming Tam, David K. Campbell (Boston University)

10:24 N13.013 Energy Dependent Local Density of States of Cuprate Superconductors Under a Strong magnetic Field

Hong-Yi Chen, C.S. Ting (Texas center for superconductivity, University of Houston, Tx 77204)

N13.014 On a Strong Coupling Theory of Superconductivity

Artem Abanov (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Boris Altshuler (Princeton University), Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin at Madison), Emil Yuzbashyan (Princeton University)

08:00 N14.001 The atomic force microscope and the quest to improve its spatial resolution

Franz J. Giessibl (Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, D 86135 Augsburg, Germany)

08:36 N14.002 Can AFM Phase Imaging Be Made Quantitative?

Matthew J. D'Amato (Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), Matthew S. Marcus (Physics Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), Robert W. Carpick (Engineering Physics Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), Mark A. Eriksson (Physics Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)

08:48 N14.003 Application of field ion microscopy (FIM) to sharp W tips suitable for molecular electronics studies

A.-S. Lucier, M. Orchard-Webb, H. Mortensen, Y. Sun, P. Grutter (Physics Dept., McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

09:00 N14.004 Integration of ion beams with scanning probes for single atom device formation

A. Persaud, S.J. Park, F.I. Allen, J.A. Liddle (E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), I. Rangelow (Kassel University, Germany), J. Bokor, D. H. Schneider, T. Schenkel (E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

09:12 N14.005 Toward Chemical Resolution and Atomic Manipulation with Dynamic AFM

Peter Dieska, Ivan Stich (Slovak University of Technology (FEI STU), Bratislava, Slovakia), Ruben Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

09:24 N14.006 Localized Impedance Measurement and Imaging Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Liz BAhl (CWRU), Massood Tabib-Azar (Case Western Reserve University), Advanced Devices Team

09:36 N14.007 Theory of Q-controlled Dynamic Force Microscopy

Hendrik Hölscher (Center for Nanotechnology, University of Münster, Germany), Boris Anczykowski (nanoAnalytics GmbH, Münster, Germany), Udo Schwarz (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University)

09:48 N14.008 Vibration/Acoustic Isolation Techniques for spectroscopic mapping STS

Jacob Alldredge (Cornell University), Emile Hoskinson (University of California at Berkeley), Joan Hoffmann (Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley), Thomas Harrd, Richard Packard (University of California at Berkeley), J.C. Davis (Cornell University)

10:00 N14.009 Measurement and Modeling of Single Electron tunneling to Interface States in SiO^2 and HfO^2 Detected by Electrostatic Force

Ezra Bussmann, Dong Jun Kim, Bob Armstrong, Clayton C. Williams (University of Utah Department of Physics)

N14.010 UHV STM/AFM/FIM for mechanical and electronic studies of single molecules

Yan Sun, Henrik Mortensen, Anne-Sophie Lucier, Sacha Schär, Peter Grutter (Physics Dept., McGill University, 3600 University St., Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T8)

N14.011 Dielectrophoretic Force Imaging of Biological Systems

Garth J. Simpson (Purdue University)

N14.012 Nanoelectromechanics of Piezoresponse Microscopy: Contact Properties, Fields below the Surface and Polarization Switching

S. V. Kalinin (Oak Ridge National Lab), J. Shin (U. of Tennessee), M. Kachanov, E. Karapetian (Tufts University), A. L. Gruverman (North Carolina State U.), A. P. Baddorf (Oak Ridge National Lab)

08:00 N15.001 Local atomistic structure model for Fe metallic glasses

Viatcheslav Y. Kazimirov, Despina Louca, Joseph Poon (University of Virginia, Physics Department)

08:12 N15.002 Free-Volume Changes in Bulk Metallic Glasses with Deformation

Stephen Glade (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Biraja Kanungo (The Ohio State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering), Palakkal Asoka-Kumar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Katharine Flores (The Ohio State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

08:24 N15.003 Effect of Increasing Disorder on the Critical Behavior of a Coulomb System

Lee Wong, Michael Overlin, Clare Yu (University of California, Irvine)

08:36 N15.004 Observation of the Non-coincidence Effect in Glass

John Schroeder (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Luu-Gen Hwa (Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC), Weimin Wu (Penn State University, State College, PA)

08:48 N15.005 Radial Distribution Function and Medium-range Order in Amorphous Materials

Arun Bodapati, Pawel Keblinski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), John Kieffer, Michael Falk (University of Michigan)

09:00 N15.006 Network rigidity and physical properties of amorphous SiO2 and GeO2 under pressure

Kostya Trachenko, Martin Dove (University of Cambridge, UK), Vadim Brazhkin (Insititue for High Pressure Physics, Russia)

09:12 N15.007 First in situ nanocalorimetry of structural relaxation in self-implanted a Si

Jean-François Mercure, Rachid Karmouch, Yonathan Anahory, Sjoerd Roorda, François Schiettekatte (Groupe de Recherche en Physique et Technologie des Couches Minces, Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 succ. centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7)

09:24 N15.008 Boson Peaks in Crystals and Glasses

James Krumhansl (Cornell/Dartmouth)

09:36 N15.009 Unconventional ab initio modeling of amorphous silicon and glassy chalcogenides

David Drabold, Parthapratim Biswas, De Nyago Tafen (Departmet of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens OH 45701)

09:48 N15.010 Reversibility window and the Germanate Anomaly^*

V. ROMPICHARLA, Tao Qu, S. MAMEDOV, P. BOOLCHAND (University of Cincinnati), M. MICOULAUT (University of Paris), Y. VAILLS (University of Orleans)

10:00 N15.011 Floppy to Stressed Rigid Transitions in Ternary As-S-I Glasses

Fei WANG, P. BOOLCHAND (University of Cincinnati,), K.A. JACKSON (Central Michigan University.)

10:12 N15.012 Aging, \ Reversibility\ Window\ and Fragility\ in Ge_xP_xSe_1-2x Bulk Alloy Glasses

Ping Chen, Swapnajit Chakravarty, P. Boolchand (University of Cincinnati), M. Micoulaut (University of Paris)

10:24 N15.013 Bimodal T_gs and Macroscopic Phase Separation in Ag-Ge-S bulk glasses^\ast

P. Boolchand, Fei Wang, U. Vempati (University\ of\ Cincinnati), M. Mitkova, M. Kozicki (Arizona\ State\ University)

10:36 N15.014 Molecular Structure of Ge_xP_xS_1-2x Bulk Alloy Glasses

U. VEMPATI, P. BOOLCHAND (University of Cincinnati)

10:48 N15.015 Effects of Rotation-Translation Coupling on the VV spectrum of Salol: observation of the ``VV dip''

Hepeng Zhang, Alex Brodin, Harish Barshilia, Guoqing Shen, Herman Cummins (City College of CUNY, NY 10031), Robert Pick (Universite P.amp;M. Curie, Paris, France), CCNY-Paris6 Collaboration

08:00 N16.001 Physical properties of nanowires and nanotubes by use of multi degree of freedom manipulation inside of a scanning electron microscope

Dmitriy Dikin, Xinqi Chen, Weiqiang Ding, Zebin Huang, Rodney Ruoff (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University)

08:12 N16.002 Substrate effects on carbon nanotubes

Gavi Begtrup, Masa Ishigami, Shaul Aloni (Affiliation), A. Zettl (Physics Department, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720)

08:24 N16.003 Electrostatic charge and interactions within carbon-nanotube nematic in electrolyte solution

Choong-seop Lee, Boris I. Yakobson (Rice University)

08:36 N16.004 Locally Addressable Tunnel Barriers in Carbon Nanotubes

Michael J. Biercuk, Nadya Mason, Jerry Moy Chow, Charles Marcus (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

08:48 N16.005 STM Spectroscopy of Suspended Carbon Nanotubes

B.J. LeRoy, S.G. Lemay, J. Kong, C. Dekker (Department of Nanoscience and DIMES, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)

09:00 N16.006 ELECTRON FIELD EMISSION FROM THE SIDEWALL OF INDIVIDUAL CURVED MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES

GUANGYU CHAI, LEE CHOW (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816)

09:12 N16.007 Resonant transport in crossed carbon nanotubes

Jinhee Kim (Electronic Device Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 305-600, Korea), Jeong-O Lee (Advanced Materials Team, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 305-600), Nam Kim (Electronic Device Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 305-600), Kicheon Kang (Department of Physics, Chonnam National Univ., Gwangju 500-757), Kyung-Hwa Yoo (Department of Physics, Yonsei Univ., Seoul 120-749), Ju-Jin Kim (Department of Physics, Chonbuk National Univ., Jeonju 561-756)

09:24 N16.008 Three-terminal transport measurement in Y junction multiwalled carbon nanotubes

B.R. Perkins, Dapeng Wang, D. Soltman, A. Zaslavsky, A. Yin, C. Papadopoulos, M. Tzolov, J.M. Xu (Brown University)

09:36 N16.009 Spatially resolved radiative electron-hole recombination from individual carbon nanotubes

Marcus Freitag (Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc, Huston, Texas), Jia Chen, James Tsang, Phaedon Avouris (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY), Qiang Fu, Jie Liu (Dept. of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC)

09:48 N16.010 h/e magnetic flux modulation of the energy gap in nanotube quantum dots

Ulas Coskun, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Smitha Vishveshwara, Paul Goldbart, Alexey Bezryadin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:00 N16.011 Conversion of surface tension energy of carbon nanotubes into visible light using a microwave field

James Roberts, Arkadii Krokhin, Zhou Ye, William Deering (University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203)

10:12 N16.012 Local Gate Control of a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot

Nadya Mason, Michael Biercuk, Charles Marcus (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

10:24 N16.013 Low-Temperature Scanned Probe Studies of Carbon Nanotubes

Markus Brink, Jun Zhu, Paul L. McEuen (Cornell University)

10:36 N16.014 Metal-semiconductor behavior of metallic carbon nanotubes adsorbed on hydrogenated Si(001) surfaces

Walter Orellana (Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo), R.H. Miwa Collaboration, A. Fazzio Collaboration

10:48 N16.015 In-Situ Manipulation of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

W. Mickelson, S. Aloni, B.C. Regan, A. Zettl (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley; Deaprtment of Material Sciences, LBNL)

08:00 N17.001 Experimental Evidence and Simulation of the Effect of the Catalyst on the Nucleation of C-Swnt

Patrick Bernier (CNRS)

09:36 N17.002 Selective Functionalization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes According to Electronic Structure

Michael Strano (Univeristy of Illinois)

09:12 N17.003 Watching Nanotubes Grow: In situ Photography of Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Growth During CVD

David B. Geohegan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Alex A. Puretzky, Ilia N. Ivanov, Stephen Jesse (Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., University of Tennessee), Gyula Eres (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:24 N17.004 Preparation of High Purity Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Phillip F. Britt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Sriram Viswanathan, Ilia N. Ivanov, Alex A. Puretzky (University of Tennessee), David B. Geohegan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:36 N17.005 Diameter-Selective Removal of SWNTs by Light-Assisted Oxidation

Minfang Zhang (CNT Project, JST), Masako Yudasaka (CNT Project, JST, NEC), Yuhei Miyauchi, Shigeo Maruyama (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Univ.), Sumio Iijima (CNT Project, JST, NEC, Meijo Univ.)

09:48 N17.006 Purification of Carbon Nanotubes by Magnetic Filtration

Y. Kim, D. E. Luzzi (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 N17.007 Growth and Characterization of Isolated Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes using Liquid Precursors

Young Chul Choi, Allen Parker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), Gayatri Kesker, J. Luo (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), A. M. Rao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

10:12 N17.008 Dispersing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Surfactants

Howard Wang (Michigan Technological University), Wei Zhou, Karen Winey, John Fischer (University of Pennsylvania), Derek Ho, Erik Hobbie, Charlie Glinka (National Institute of Standards and Technology), UPenn Materials Collaboration, NIST Materials Collaboration

10:24 N17.009 The effects of tube-wall functional groups on the dissolution of individual SWNTs

U.J. Kim (Department of Physics), C.A. Furtado (Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear CDTN/CNEN), H.R. Gutierrez, X. Liu, A. Gupta (Department of Physics), P.C. Eklund (Department of Physics amp; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University)

10:36 N17.010 Preferential deposition of Pt nanoparticles inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanohorns

Ryota Yuge, Toshinari Ichihashi, Yuichi Shimakawa, Yoshimi Kubo, Masako Yudasaka, Sumio Iijima (Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)

N17.011 The Structure and Growth of Single- and Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

J.M. Zuo, Min Gao (Dept. of Materials Sci. and Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ruth Zhang, L.A. Nagahara (Physical Sci Res. Lab. Motorola Res)

08:00 N18.001 Computation of twinning tendency in FCC metals

Noam Bernstein (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), Ellad B. Tadmor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

08:12 N18.002 Point defect dynamics in Vanadium(alloys)

David J. Srolovitz, Joerg Rottler, Roberto Car (Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540), Luis A. Zepeda-Ruiz (Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-353, Livermore, CA 94551)

08:24 N18.003 Void Growth and Coalescence in Dynamic Fracture of FCC and BCC Metals - Molecular Dynamics Study

Eira Seppälä (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

09:00 N18.004 Atomistic Simulation of Void Growth in BCC Metals

Robert E Rudd, Eira T Seppala, James Belak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:12 N18.005 Molecular Dynamics of Cross-Slip in Copper

Dan Mordehai (School of Physics and Astronomy, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel), Guy Makov (Department of Physics, NRCN, PO.Box 9001, Beer Sheva,Israel), Itzhak Kelson (School of Physics and Astronomy, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel)

09:24 N18.006 Study of nanoscale damage evolution using embedded atom method potentials

Gabriel Potirniche, Mark Horstemeyer (Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University), Phillip Gullet (Sandia National Laboratories)

09:36 N18.007 Atomistic Simulation Study of Size Effects in Plastic Deformation

Scott Weingarten, Robin Selinger (Catholic University Dept. of Physics)

09:48 N18.008 Continuum Theory of Dislocations: Yield Stress, Work Hardening, and Cell Walls

Surachate Limkumnerd, James Sethna (Cornell University)

10:00 N18.009 Statistical Underpinning of Dislocation Dynamics

Anter El-Azab (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA), Michael Zaiser (University of Edinburgh, UK)

10:12 N18.010 Does Continuum Contact Mechanics Describe Real Macro- or Nano-scale Contacts?

Binquan Luan, Mark O. Robbins (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:24 N18.011 CADD Modeling of Nanoscale Rough Surface Indentation

Donald K. Ward, M. Dewald, W. A. Curtin, K. S. Kim (Brown University)

10:36 N18.012 Incipient Mechanical Yield in Carbon Nanotubes: Two Competing Atomistic Routes

Traian Dumitrica, Ming Hua, Boris I. Yakobson (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251)

08:00 N19.001 Pressure-- and Field--Induced Magnetic Quantum Phase Transitions in TlCuCl_3

B. Normand (Uni. Fribourg), M. Matsumoto (Uni. Shizuoka), T. M. Rice, M. Sigrist (ETH-Zürich)

08:12 N19.002 Spin-liquid versus dimerized ground states in a frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Luca Capriotti (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara), Douglas J. Scalapino (Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara), Steven R. White (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine)

08:24 N19.003 First order phase transitions in weak ferromagnetic metals

Jason Jackiewicz, Kevin Bedell (Boston College)

08:36 N19.004 Magnetic transformation in \delta-Pu and \delta-Pu-Am

Alex Landa, Per Sóderlind (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.), Levente Vitos (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden), Andrei Ruban (Physics Department, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark)

08:48 N19.005 First-principles calculations for Pu and PuCoGa_5

Per Söderlind, Alex Landa (Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.), Babak Sadigh (Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.)

09:00 N19.006 Dome-shaped magnetic phase diagram of thermoelectric layered cobaltites

Jun Sugiyama (Toyota Central Ramp;D Labs., Inc.), Jess H. Brewer (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of British Columbia), Eduardo J. Ansaldo (TRIUMF), Hiroshi Itahara, Toshihiko Tani (Toyota Central Ramp;D Labs., Inc.), Masashi Mikami, Yusuke Mori, Takatomo Sasaki (Dept. of Electrical Eng. Osaka Univ.), Sylvie Hébert, Antoine Maignan (Laboratoire CRISMAT, CNRS/ISMRA)

09:12 N19.007 Angular dependent metamagnetism in TmAgGe

Emilia Morosan (Ames Laboratory, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Sergey L. Bud'ko (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Paul C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

09:24 N19.008 Magnetoresistance of BaVS3 under pressure

Neven Barisic, Helmuth Berger, Laszlo Forro (IPMC, Faculté Science de Base, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland), Istvan Kezsmarki, Gyorgy Mihaly (Department of Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary), Patrik Fazekas (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest 114, P.O.B. 49, H-1525 Hungary)

09:36 N19.009 A Crystallographic and magnetic Study of the Oxygen-Deficient Pyrochlore Lu_2V_2O_7-x

G.T. Knoke, J.M. Hill, D.C. Johnston (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011)

09:48 N19.010 Photo-induced Canted antiferromagnetic to Ferromagnetic transition in powder form of Pr_0.65Ca_0.35MnO_3

T. Otagiri^1, M. Arai^1, M. Kodaira^1, M. Izumi^1 (^1Lab. Appl. Phys., Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Technology), O. Yanagisawa^2 (^2Yuge National College of Maritime Tech.)

10:00 N19.011 Ferromagnetism of type-I and chiral germanium-iron clathrates

Yang Li, Weiping Gou, Ji Chi, Farit G. Vagizov, Jr. Ross (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University)

10:12 N19.012 Electric, Thermal and Magnetic Properties of CeSi_x with 1.60<x<2.0

Jesse S. Smith, J.A. Zan, C.L. Lin (Temple University), Jing Li (Rutgers University)

10:24 N19.013 High Pressure Resistivity Measurements of the Itinerant Ferromagnet Cobalt Disulphide

Samira Barakat (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK), Daniel Braithwaite (CEA-Grenoble, France), Patricia Alireza (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK), John Wilson (University of Bristol, UK), Jacques Flouquet (CEA-Grenoble, France), Gilbert Lonzarich (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)

10:36 N19.014 Specific Heat Anomalies in Hexagonal HoMnO3: Discovery of a New Low-Temperature Phase

Fei Yen, Bernd Lorenz (Department of Physics and TCSAM, University of Houston), M. M. Gospodinov (Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), C. W. Chu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Department of Physics and TCSAM, University of Houston; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:48 N19.015 Critical Slowing Down Measured from a 2D Ising System

M. J. Dunlavy (McMaster University), D. Venus

08:00 N20.001 Ordering and Phase Transition of the Potts Compass Model

Anup Mishra, Michael Ma (U. of Cincinnati), Fu-Chun Zhang (U. of Cincinnati and U. of Hong Kong), Lei-Han Tang (Baptist U of Hong Kong), Siegfried Guertler (Graz U. of Technology, Austria)

08:12 N20.002 Directional Ordering of Orbitall Fluctuations in Two Dimensions

Lei-Han Tang (Baptist U. of Hong Kong), Anup Mishra, Michael Ma (U. of Cincinnati), Fu-Chun Zhang (U. of Cincinnati, and U. of Hong Kong), Siegfried Guertler (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

08:24 N20.003 Phase Diagram of Disordered Quantum XY Model

Anand Priyadarshee, S. Chandrasekharan, H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

08:36 N20.004 Continuous ferromagnetic to valence-bond-solid transition in a quantum XY model with ring exchange

A. W. Sandvik (Boston University), D. J. Scalapino (UC Santa Barbara)

08:48 N20.005 Evidence for a Deconfined Quantum Critical Point in the Easy Plane J-K Model

Roger G. Melko, D. J. Scalapino (University of California, Santa Barbara), A. W. Sandvik (Abo Akademi University, Finland)

09:00 N20.006 The O(3) sigma model with Hedgehog Supression 1: Emergent Photons and New Transitions.

Olexei Motrunich (ITP, University of California, Santa Barbara.), Ashvin Vishwanath (MIT)

09:12 N20.007 The O(3) sigma model with Hedgehog Supression 2: Easy plane deformation and finite temperature properties.

Ashvin Vishwanath (MIT), Olexei Motrunich (ITP, University of California, Santa Barbara)

09:24 N20.008 Deconfined quantum critical points -I

T Senthil, Ashvin Vishwanath (MIT), Leon Balents (UCSB), Subir Sachdev (Yale University), Matthew Fisher (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

09:36 N20.009 Deconfined Quantum Critical Points - II

Leon Balents (UCSB), Todadri Senthil, Ashvin Vishwanath (MIT), Subir Sachdev (Yale), Matthew P. A. Fisher (KITP, UCSB)

09:48 N20.010 Dynamical generation of spin-orbit coupling

Shou-cheng Zhang (Affiliation), Congjun Wu (Department of Physics, Stanford University, CA 94-305)

10:00 N20.011 Fractionalization at a Critical Point

Bogdan Bernevig (Stanford university), Domenico Giuliano, Robert Laughlin (Stanford University)

10:12 N20.012 Geometrical Frustration, Magnetic and Orbital Ordering in Vanadium Spinels AV_2O_4

Yukitoshi Motome (RIKEN, Japan), Hirokazu Tsunetsugu (Yukawa Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto Univ., Japan)

10:24 N20.013 Interplay of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in Disordered Metals

James Acton, Ben Simons (Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

10:36 N20.014 Pressure-induced And Field-induced Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin Dimer Systems

Stephan Haas, Omid Nohadani (University of Southern California), Stefan Wessel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

08:00 N21.001 Polarity Discontinuities at Oxide Heterointerfaces and in Confined Systems

Harold Y. Hwang (Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan)

08:36 N21.002 Microwave Magnetoelectric Effects in Single Crystal YIG/PMN-PT Bilayers

S. Shastry, G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI), J. V. Mantese (Delphi Research Laboratory, Shellby Township, MI)

08:48 N21.003 First-Principles Study of Multiferroic BiMnO_3

Tatsuya Shishidou, Nobuyoshi Mikamo, Yoshitaka Uratani, Fumiyuki Ishii, Tamio Oguchi (ADSM, Hiroshima University, Japan)

09:00 N21.004 Magnetic properties of multiferroic BiFeO_3

Claude Ederer, Nicola Spaldin (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5130)

09:12 N21.005 X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of YMnO_3

D.-Y. Cho, S.-J. Oh, J.-S. Ahn (Center for Strongly Correlated Material Research, Seoul National University, Korea), J.-Y. Kim (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea), H.-M. Park (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea), S.-W. Cheong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Jersey)

09:24 N21.006 Bismuth Manganite: A ferroelectric-ferromagnetic and a nonlinear optical material

Alok Sharan, Venkatraman Gopalan, Darrell Schlom (Material Research Insititute, Pennsylvania State University,Univeristy Park, PA-16803(USA))

09:36 N21.007 Theory of Mott insulator/band insulator heterostructure

Satoshi Okamoto, Andrew Millis (Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, NY10027)

09:48 N21.008 Epitaxial growth of multiferroic materials on semiconducting systems

Agham-Bayan Posadas, Jeng-Bang Yau, Charles Ahn (Dept. of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)

10:00 N21.009 Computational investigation of magnetism and Piezoelectricity in wurtzite MnO

Priya Gopal (University of California, Santa Barbara.), Nicola Spaldin (University of California, Santa Barbara), Umesh Waghmare (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)

10:12 N21.010 Hot-Pressed Ferrite-Lead Zirconate Titanate Magnetoelectric Composites

C. P. DeVreugd, G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI), A. L. Micheli, J. V. Mantese (Delphi Research Laboratories, Shelby Township, MI 48315)

10:24 N21.011 Unique resistance switching properties of CMR thin films

Alex Ignatiev (University of Houston)

08:00 N22.001 Defect Arrays in Spherical Crystals

Mark Bowick (Syracuse University), David Nelson (Harvard University), Alex Travesset (Iowa State University)

08:12 N22.002 Computing arbitrary defect structures on arbitrary lattices on arbitrary geometries from arbitrary energies

Brian Allen (Iowa State University), Alex Travesset (Iowa State University and Ames Lab)

08:24 N22.003 Self Assembly of Complex Building Blocks

David Stucke, Vincent Crespi (Pennsylvania State University)

08:36 N22.004 Complexity from Convexity: Exotic Phases from Simple Potentials

Steven A. Kadlec (Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305-3328), Matthew A. Glaser, Paul D. Beale, Noel A. Clark (Department of Physics and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0390)

08:48 N22.005 Two-dimensional melting in a one dimensional periodic potential: structure of phases and scaling behavior

Julia M. Santos, Matthew A. Glaser, Leo Radzihovsky (Department of Physics and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0390)

09:00 N22.006 The fcc-bcc transition in screened-Coulomb (Yukawa) systems

Robert S. Hoy, Mark O. Robbins (Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics and Astronomy)

09:12 N22.007 Characterizing the Heterogeneity and Connectivity of Colloidal Particle Networks

Markus Hütter (Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, U.S.A.)

09:24 N22.008 Phase behaviour of polydisperse colloid-polymer mixtures

Moreno Fasolo, Peter Sollich (Department of Mathematics, King's College London)

09:36 N22.009 Stabilization of colloidal suspensions by charged nanoparticles

Jiwen Liu, Erik Luijten (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

09:48 N22.010 Structure and Melting of Two-Species Charged Clusters in a Parabolic Trap

Jeff Drocco (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Cynthia Olson Reichhardt (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Charles Reichhardt (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Boldizsar Janko (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

10:00 N22.011 Local melting and drag for a particle driven through a colloidal crystal

Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia J. Olson Reichhardt (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:12 N22.012 Quincke rotors in colloidal suspensions

Junjun Xiao (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New territories, Hong Kong), Jiping Huang (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany), Kin Wah Yu (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New territories, Hong Kong), Guoqing Gu (College of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062 China)

10:24 N22.013 Brownian Motion with a Space-dependent Diffusion Constant

Andy W.C. Lau, T.C. Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania)

10:36 N22.014 Applications of a stochastically derived Fluctuation Theorem: Transient and Steady state fluctuations of an optically trapped colloid.

James Reid, David Carberry, Genmaio Wang, Edith Sevick (Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA), Debra Searles (School of Science, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA), Denis Evans (Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA)

10:48 N22.015 Dynamics of a surfactant-covered drop and the non-Newtonian rheology of emulsions

Petia Vlahovska (Brown University), Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Michael Loewenberg (Yale University)

08:00 N23.001 High Magnetic Field EPR Investigations of Molecular Nanomagnets for Spintronics Applications

Brant Cage, Stephen Russek (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO), David Zipse, Micah North, Naresh Dalal (Dept. of Chemistry, Florida State University)

08:12 N23.002 Rare Earth-Collagen Oligopeptide Complexes

Robert Guertin, Regina Valluzzi, Terry Haas (Tufts Univ.)

08:24 N23.003 Transport properties of molecule-based V[TCNE]x magnetic films*.

Konstantin Pokhodnya (Ohio State University/ University of Utah), Arthur J. Epstein (Ohio State University), Joel S. Miller (University of Utah)

08:36 N23.004 Exchange Bias near Compensation Temperature for Inhomogeneous Fe/Gd Ferrimagnets

Ali R. Koymen, Sezen Demirtas (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA)

08:48 N23.005 Thermal self-assembly of Fe-Ge alloy nanostructures on Ge(111) and their magnetic properties

Changgan Zeng (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996), Maria Torija (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jian Shen (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), Hanno Weitering (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:00 N23.006 Photoinduced Magnetization in a Thin Fe-CN-Co Film.

Y.D. Huh, D.R. Talham (Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Florida), J.-H. Park, M.W. Meisel (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Florida)

09:12 N23.007 Magnetic structure of Laves type superlattices

H. Fritzsche, W. Buyers, Z. Yamani, Z. Tun (National Research Council Canada, SIMS, NPMR, Chalk River, ON, K0J 1J0, Canada), R. Cowley, R. Ward (Oxford Physics, Clarendon Lab, Parks Road, Oxford, UK)

09:24 N23.008 Magnetic switching and ferromagnetic resonance of nanoscale permalloy ring lattices

Wentao Xu, D. Watkins, Lance De Long (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055, U.S.A.), K. Rivkin, John Ketterson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.), Vitali Metlushko (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, U.S.A.)

09:36 N23.009 Metastable Magnetic Domain States of Co Dots on Ru(0001)

Haifeng Ding (Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439), Andreas Schmid (NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720), Dongqi Li (Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439)

09:48 N23.010 Ni-Substituted FePt Nanoparticles With Reduced fcc-fct Transformation Temperature

M. Zhou, Y. Zhang, Mike Bonder, G. Hadjipanayis (University of Delaware), D. Weller (Seagate Technology)

10:00 N23.011 Effects of Ni Substitution for Pt on the Magnetic Properties of FePt Nanoparticles

Hongli Wang, Yong Zhang, Huang Yunhe (Affiliation), George Hadjipanayis (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716)

10:12 N23.012 Growth and characterization of BSTO/Barium Hexaferrite multilayered films as tunable substrates for nanoparticles

N. A. Frey, R. Hajndl, P. Poddar, H. Srikanth (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL), N. J. Dudney (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)

10:24 N23.013 Oscillatory Exchange Bias for Fe/Gd Multilayers

Sezen Demirtas, Ali R. Koymen (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA), Hao Zeng (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA)

10:36 N23.014 Anomalous Switching of Nb/Ni Ferromagnetic/Superconducting Multilayers

Sergiy Kryukov, Wentao Xu, Lance De Long (University of Kentucky), E. Navarro, J. Villegas, E. Gonzalez, Jose Vicent (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

10:48 N23.015 Arrays of Nanoscopic Ferromagnetic Rings

Deepak Singh (Dept. of Physics, University of MAssachusetts, Amherst), Michael Thorn (Umass, Amherst), Andrei Ursache (UMASS, AMHERST), Ting Xu (POLYMER SCIENCE , UMASS-AMHERST), Mark Tuominen (UMASS - AMHERST), Thomas Russell (Umass - Amherst), James Goldbach (Umass -Amherst)

08:00 N24.001 Enhanced stability of charge and orbital order in bilayered (La,Sr) manganites with x > 0.5

Branton J. Campbell (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Brigham Young University), Dimitri N. Argyriou (Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany), John F. Mitchell, Ray Osborn (Materials Science Div., Argonne National Laboratory), Bachir Ouladdiaf, Chris D. Ling (Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France)

08:12 N24.002 Study of melting of charge-ordered phase in (Bi,Ca)MnO_3 and (Bi,Sr)MnO_3

A. Borissov, B-G. Kim, S-W. Cheong, V. Kiryukhin (Rutgers Univ.), J.P. Hill (BNL)

08:24 N24.003 Nature of Orbital Ordering in La_0.5Sr_1.5MnO_4 Studied by Soft X-ray Linear Dichroism

D. J. Huang, W. B. Wu (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, and Dept. of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan), G. Y. Guo (Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan), H.-J. Lin, T. Y. Hou, C. F. Chang, C. T. Chen (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan), A. Fujimori (Dept. of Complexity Science and and Engineering and Dept. of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan), T. Kimura (Dept. of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan), H. B. Huang, A. Tanaka, T. Jo (Dept. of Quantum Matters, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Japan)

08:36 N24.004 New insights into charge ordering phenomena in CMR oxides

Maria Varela (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

09:12 N24.005 Uniform periodicity in stripe phase La_1-xCa_xMnO_3 at arbitrary doping

Susan Cox, James Loudon, Tony Williams (University of Cambridge), Paul Attfield (University of Edinburgh), Peter Littlewood, Paul Midgley, Neil Mathur (University of Cambridge)

09:24 N24.006 Orbital ordering in charge transfer insulators

Maxim Mostovoy (Material Science Center, Groningen University, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands), Daniel Khomskii (II.Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicher Str.77, 50937 Koeln, Germany)

09:36 N24.007 Orbital ordering and magnetic inhomogeneities in La_1-xSr_xMnO_3 investigated by ESR

J. Deisenhofer, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl (EP 5, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Institute for Physics, Augsburg University, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany)

09:48 N24.008 Bond-centered vs site-centered charge ordering and ferroelectricity in manganites

Dmitry Efremov (Laboratory of Solid State Physics, Groningen University, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands), Jeroen van den Brink (Institut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands), Daniel Khomskii (II.Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, 50937 Koeln, Germany)

10:00 N24.009 Optical study on thermal development of ordering in La_2-2xSr_1+2xMn_2O_7

Jörg Kunze, Stefan Naler, Ralf Rauer, Joakim Bäckström, Rübhausen Michael (Insitut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany), John F. Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois)

10:12 N24.010 Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy of Charge-Ordered Domains in Nd_0.5Sr_0.5MnO_3

P. W. KOLB, D. B. ROMERO, H. D. DREW (Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740), Y. MORITOMO (CIRSE, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-01, Japan)

10:24 N24.011 Direct observation of high temperature electron localization effects in colossal magnetoresistive manganites

Charles Fadley, Mannella Mannella, Axel Rosenhahn, Corwin Booth, Stefano Marchesini, Masamitsu Watanabe, Brian Sell, Stephanie Ritchey (Materials science division, LBNL – Berkeley CA), Yasuhide Tomioka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) - Tsukuba - Japan)

10:36 N24.012 Dynamic Jahn-Teller phase at high temperatures in updoped LaMnO_3

Xiangyun Qiu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), Thomas Proffen (Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANSCE-12, MS H805, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545), Simon Billinge (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)

08:00 N25.001 Incommensurate Spin Order in the Frustrated Kagome Staircase Compound Ni3V2O8

M. Kenzelmann (Johns Hopkins University and NIST), G. Lawes (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N. Rogado (Princeton University), G. Jorge (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Q. Huang (NIST), S. Park (University of Maryland and NIST), R.J. Cava (Princeton University), A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman (Tel Aviv University), A.B. Harrris (University of Pennsylvania), T. Yildirim (NIST), C. Broholm (Johns Hopkins University and NIST), A.P. Ramirez (Bell Laboratories)

08:12 N25.002 Lattice field theory of the Kagome lattice quantum antiferromagnets with strong easy-axis anisotropy

Predrag Nikolic, Todadri Senthil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:24 N25.003 CORE theory of the Kagome Lattice: Spinless Spinwaves.

Assa Auerbach (Technion and Harvard University), Ranny Budnik (Technion)

08:36 N25.004 Spin-waves in antiferromagnetic Kagome lattice

Kittiwit Matan (Department of Physics, MIT), Daniel Grohol, Daniel G. Nocera (Department of Chemistry, MIT), Jin Hyung Cho (Pusan National University and MIT), Seung-Hun Lee (NIST, Maryland), Steve Nagler (HFIR, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Young S. Lee (Department of Physics, MIT)

08:48 N25.005 Static Impurities in the Kagome Lattice: Dimer Freezing and Mutual Repulsion

S. Dommange (IRRMA, Lausanne), M. Mambrini (Uni. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse), B. Normand (Uni. Fribourg), F. Mila (EPF Lausanne)

09:00 N25.006 Magnetic Ordering and Excitations in Kagome Planes of Fe-Jarosites

A. Brooks Harris (Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Taner Yildirim (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899)

09:12 N25.007 The spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4

Klaus Voelker, Yong Baek Kim (University of Toronto)

09:24 N25.008 Triangular Antiferromagnet in Strong Magnetic Field: Application to Cs_2CuCl_4

Martin Y Veillette, John Chalker (Physics Department, Oxford University, Oxford OX1-3PU, UK)

09:36 N25.009 Dimerized phase and transitions in a spatially anisotropic square lattice antiferromagnet

Oleg Starykh (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549), Leon Balents (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030)

09:48 N25.010 Quantum spin elementary excitations from classical dynamics in~a realization of the Rokhsar-Kivelson model

Christopher L. Henley (Cornell Univ.)

10:00 N25.011 Frustration-Induced Ordering in a Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnet

Tommaso Roscilde, Stephan Haas (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

10:12 N25.012 Magnetic Phase Diagram and Static Properties of Mn/Ni Dichloride Dihydrate

G.C. DeFotis, J.J. Christophel, D.K. Havey, M.L. Laccheo, S.D. Kosovych, D.B. Bodkin, T.E. Borsari (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795)

08:00 N26.001 Spin singlet formation in MgTi_2O_4: evidence of a helical dimerization pattern

Marek Schmidt (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom), William Ratcliff II (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA), Paolo Radaelli, Keith Refson (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom), Nicholas Harrison (Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AY, United Kingdom), Sang-Wook Cheong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA)

08:12 N26.002 Spin Waves in Stripe Ordered Systems

Erica Carlson (Dept. of Physics, Purdue University), Daoxin Yao, David Campbell (Depts. of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University)

08:24 N26.003 Spin wave spectrum of the 2d Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, K2V3O8

M.D. Lumsden, S.E. Nagler, B.C. Sales (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Tennant D.A. (University of St Andrews), McMorrow D.F. (Risoe National Laboratory), Lee S.-H. (National Institute of Science and Technology)

08:36 N26.004 Linear Spin Wave Theory Applied to NaNiO_2

Laura Filion, Catherine Kallin, A. John Berlinsky (McMaster University)

08:48 N26.005 Ordering and Spin Waves in NaNiO2: A Stacked Quantum Ferromagnet

M.J. Lewis, B.D. Gaulin, H.A. Dabkowska (McMaster University), Y. Qui, J.R.D. Copley (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

09:00 N26.006 Electron-Hole Response of NiO and CoO

J. Tischler, B.C. Larson ((ORNL(**))), A. G. Eguiluz(*), O. D. Restrepo(*) ((University of Tennessee and ORNL(**))), Wei Ku ((BNL)), P. Zschack ((UNICAT-APS/UIUC))

09:12 N26.007 Stoichiometry and Bonding Character of the Metamagnetic Antiperovskite Mn_3GaC

A. R. Moodenbaugh, L. H. Lewis, M.-H. Yu (BNL), D. A. Fischer, Derek W. Yoder (NIST)

09:24 N26.008 Raman study of the Verwey transition in magnetite at high-pressures and low-temperatures

L.V. Gasparov (University of North Florida), K. -Y. Choi, G. Guenthrodt (2. Physikalisches Instituit, RWTH-Aachen, Germany), H. Berger, L. Forro, G. Margaritondo (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland), V. V. Struzhkin, R. J. Hemley (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)

09:36 N26.009 Magnon Squeezing in FeF_2

Jimin Zhao, Roberto Merlin (FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109), David Lockwood (Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6)

09:48 N26.010 Spin-reorientation in ErFeO_3: zero field transitions, three-dimensional phase diagram, anisotropy of erbium magnetism

Ya.B. Bazaliy (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL), L.T. Tsymbal (O. Galkin Institute of Physics and Technology, National Academy of Science, Donetsk, Ukraine), G.N. Kakazei (Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH), A.I. Izotov (O. Galkin Institute of Physics and Technology, National Academy of Science, Donetsk, Ukraine), P. E. Wigen (Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

10:00 N26.011 Stability of the Surface Spin Flop Transition in a Finite Uniaxial Antiferromagnetic Superlattice

J.S. Jiang, Y. Ji, S. G. E. te Velthuis, G.P. Felcher, S.D. Bader (Argonne National Laboratory), P. Betti, A. Rettori, M.G. Pini (University of Florence)

10:12 N26.012 Neutron Diffraction Study of Antiferromagnetic Phase Transitions in an Ordered Pt3Fe(111) Film

G. J. Mankey, V.V. Krishnamurthy, I. Zoto (Center for Materials for Information Technology and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0209), J.L. Robertson (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6393), S. Maat, E. E. Fullerton (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120), I. Nwagwu, J. K. Akujieze (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois 60628)

10:24 N26.013 Magnetism in FeRh system

R. Y. Gu, V. P. Antropov, G. D. Samolyuk (Ames Labortory, Ames, IA 50011)

10:36 N26.014 Evidence for a Reorientation Transition in a Two-dimensional Dipolar Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model

Abdel-Rahman Abu-Labdel, John Whitehead, Keith De'Bell, Allan MacIsaac

10:48 N26.015 Effects of Dilution on the Magnetic Ordering of a Two-dimensional Lattice

Stefan Patchedjiev, John Whitehead (Memorial University), Keith De'Bell (University of New Brunswick), Mercer Jason (Memorial University)

08:00 N27.001 CRYOGENIC CABARET

Marcel A. R. LeBlanc (Physics Dept.,U.of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario,Canada,K1N6N5)

08:12 N27.002 A Summer School for High School students: a 15 years experience.

Nelson Zamorano (Physics Department, University of Chile)

08:24 N27.003 How can we help students appreciate physics education?

Jia-Ling Lin, Eman Zaki, Jason Schmidt, Don Woolston (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:36 N27.004 The Bohr Model and the Fifth Grade: A New Standards-Based Hands-On Physics Curriculum

Jeff Brock (Boston University Physics Dept.), Russell Springer (Newton Public Schools, Newton MA), Bennett Goldberg (Boston University Physics Dept.)

08:48 N27.005 Physics (and more) over the Internet: Supporting K-12 teachers through online professional development*

G.F. Tuthill (Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717), K. Obbink (Burns Telecom Center, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717)

09:00 N27.006 The inverse brachistochrone problem

Raul Gomez, Sandra Gomez, Vivianne Marquina (Faculty of Science, UNAM)

09:12 N27.007 Epistemic role of experimentality in physics: Should we pay attention to it in physics teacher education

Ismo T Koponen (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki)

09:24 N27.008 Expounding on physics: a phenomenographic study of physicists talking of their physics

Ake Ingerman (Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Shirley Booth (Department of Education, Lund University, Sweden)

08:00 N28.001 A Spectroscopic Link between Surface Structure and Local Chemical Reactivity

Alessandro Baraldi, Erik Vesselli, Giovanni Comelli, Renzo Rosei (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, ITALY and Laboratorio T.A.S.C.-I.N.F.M., S.S. 14 Km 163.5, 34012 Trieste, ITALY), Silvano Lizzit, Maya Kiskinova (Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14 Km 163.5, 34012 Trieste, ITALY), Karoliina Honkala, Jens K. Nørskov (Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics (CAMP), Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, DENMARK), Trieste Lyngby Team

08:12 N28.002 Electron-phonon scattering times in supported PdAg films and suspended PdAu films and wires

Yaun-Liang Zhong, Chii-Dong Chen (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, 115 Taipei, Taiwan), Juhn-Jong Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan)

08:24 N28.003 Observation of a crossover of the inelastic electron scattering in Sc_100-xAg_x thick films

Tsang-Chou Lee (Center for Nano Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Juhn-Jong Lin, Shao-Fan Chang (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

08:36 N28.004 Metal-molecule-semiconductor heterostructure devices

Saurabh Lodha (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA), David Janes

08:48 N28.005 The oxidation of Rh(111)

E Lundgren, A Mikkelsen, M Borg, J Gustafson, J Andersen (Department of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Institute of Physics, University of Lund, Sweden), L Köhler, G Kresse (Institut für Materialphysik and Centre for Computational Materials Science, Universität Wien, Austria.), J Yuhara (Department of Crystalline Materials Science, School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Japan.), M Schmid, P Varga (Institut für Allgemeine Physik, Technische Universität Wien, Austria), X Torrelles (Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (C.S.I.C), Spain), C Quiros (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)

09:00 N28.006 Unoccupied Electronic States of Ag/Al(100)

Patricio Häberle (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile), J. Francois Veyan (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile)

09:12 N28.007 On the Status of Superconductivity-Dependent Friction

M. Highland, J. Krim (Physics Department, North Carolina State University)

09:24 N28.008 Field-Induced Resistive Switching in Metal-Oxide Interfaces

S. Tsui, A. Baikalov, J. Cmaidalka, B. Lorenz, Y.Y. Sun, Y.Q. Wang, Y.Y. Xue (Texas Center for Superconducitivity and Advanced Materials, University of Houston), A.J. Jacobson (Department of Chemistry, University of Houston), L. Chen (Argonne National Laboratory), C.W. Chu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, University of Houston; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:00 N29.001 Predicting the Tube Diameter in Melts and Solutions

Scott Milner (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering)

08:12 N29.002 Chain Dynamics in Single Chain Limit by Rheological and Diffusion Measurements

Shi-Qing Wang, Shanfeng Wang (University of Akron)

08:24 N29.003 Viscosity and Normal Stress Coefficients of a Critical Gel

Daniel C. Vernon, Michael Plischke (Department of Physics, SFU)

08:36 N29.004 Transitional Flow Behavior of Entangled Polyisoprene Solutions

Amy Philips, Shi-Qing Wang (University of Akron)

08:48 N29.005 Rheological properties of polymers and polyelectrolytes

B. Ashok (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.), M. Muthukumar (Dept. of Polymer Science amp; Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.)

09:00 N29.006 Rheology of Living Bifunctional Polybutadienyl Dilithium Chains in Benzene: Viscoelastic Evaluation of Aggregate Lifetime

Hiroshi Watanabe, Yohei Oishi (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University)

09:12 N29.007 Nonlinear rheological response of branched polyethylenes: A K-BKZ description

Changping Sui, Gregory B. McKenna (Texas Tech University)

09:24 N29.008 Role of branch density on blending and rheological behavior of polymer melts

R. M. Kannan, Ajay Kulkarni (Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University)

09:36 N29.009 Measurements of Damping Function for Branched Polymer Melts

Daniel A Vega (Departamento de Fisica-UNSur. 8000 Bahia Blanca, Argentina), Scott T Milner (ExxonMobil Resamp;Eng, Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801 USA)

09:48 N29.010 Disentanglement of Polymer Melt to Produce Lower Viscosity Melts and Higher MFI for their pellets upon Subsequent Processing.

J.P. IBAR (EKNET Research Campus)

10:00 N29.011 Rheology and Microscopic Topology of Entangled Polymeric Liquids

R Everaers, C. Svaneborg (Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems), G. S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories), S. K. Sukumaran, A. Sivasubramanian, K. Kremer (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

10:12 N29.012 Stress-induced Disentanglement Transition in Simple Shear of Entangled Polymer Solutions

prashant Tapadia (Affiliation), Shi-Qing Wang (University of Akron)

10:24 N29.013 Dynamics On Multiple Length Scales In a Fragile Phase.

Nicholas Rosov (NIST Center for Neutron Research, 100 Bureau Drive, Bldg. 235/E124, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562), Uwe H. F. Bunz (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332), Yunfei Jiang, Dvora Perahia (Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634)

10:36 N29.014 Disentanglement of Polymer Melts using a Lab Dynamic Rheometer

J.P. IBAR (EKNET Research Campus)

10:48 N29.015 Deformation mechanisms and rheology of semi-syndiotactic polypropylenes

R. M. Kannan, Michael Sevegney, Gautam Parthasarthy (Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University), Allen Siedle (3M Corporate Research)

08:00 N30.001 Labeled counterion static and dynamic association to flexible polyelectrolytes

Vivek M. Prabhu, Eric J. Amis (Polymers Division, NIST), Nick Rosov, Dobrin Bossev (Center for Neutron Research, NIST)

08:12 N30.002 Counter-ion Distribution around Semiflexible Polyelectrolytes Undergoing Coil-Toroid-Rod Transitions

Zhaoyang Ou, M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

08:24 N30.003 Invariance of density correlations with charge density in polyelectrolyte solutions

James Donley (The Boeing Company), David Heine (Sandia National Laboratories), David Wu (Colorado School of Mines)

08:36 N30.004 Integral equation theory for polyampholyte solutions

Chwen-Yang Shew (Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island/CUNY, Staten Island, NY 10314), Bong June Sung, Arun Yethiraj (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706)

08:48 N30.005 Complexation in solutions of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes

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

09:00 N30.006 Phase Separation Kinetics of Polyelectrolyte Solutions

Sonoko Kanai, Deniz Kaya, Joseph McNamara, M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts)

09:12 N30.007 Polyelectrolyte-like behaviour of poly(ethylene-oxide) solutions with added monovalent salt

Jyotsana Lal (IPNS, Argonne National Laboratory. 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL, 60439), Ilhem-Faiza Hakem (Tlemcen University, Faculty of Sciences, Physics Department. Tlemcen, 13000, Algeria)

09:24 N30.008 Effect of Wettability and Ionic Strength on the Pattern Integrity of Multilayer Films

Kookheon Char, Jinhan Cho, Sangcheol Kim, Hongseok Jang (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National university, Korea)

09:36 N30.009 Processing and Cation Effects on Ionomer Morphologies

K. I. Winey, B. P. Kirkmeyer (Materials Science Dep't, Univ. of Pennsylvania), J.-S. Kim (Chosun Univ., Korea)

09:48 N30.010 Proton-exchange membrane materials based on blends of poly(ether ketone ketone) and poly(ether imide)

S. Swier, J. Gasa, M.T. Shaw, R.A. Weiss (Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269)

10:00 N30.011 Theoretical Study of counterion size effects on clustering in associating polymers

Kathleen Kolbet, Jared Bushey (Lebanon Valley College)

10:12 N30.012 The correlation between molecular and phase structure in highly ionic polymer

Lilin He, Dvora Perahia (Chemistry Department, Clemson University. Clemson, SC 29634-0973), Christopher J. Cornelius (Chem. and Bio Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM 87185)

10:24 N30.013 Conductivity enhancement of sulfonated poly(ether ketone ketone) blends using electric field structuring techniques

Jeffrey V. Gasa (Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA), Montgomery T. Shaw (Polymer Program and Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA)

10:36 N30.014 Segmental Dynamics and Ionic Conduction in Poly(vinyl methyl ether)-Lithium Perchlorate Complexes

Shihai Zhang, James Runt (Penn State University)

10:48 N30.015 Counterion Diffusion in Ionomers

Russell Walter (Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., University of Pennsylvania), Karen Winey (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania), Joon-Seop Kim (Chosun University, Korea), Russell Composto (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania)

08:00 N31.001 Chiral molecule adsorption on helical polymers

Maria D'Orsogna (Chemistry Department, Caltech, Pasadena, CA)

08:12 N31.002 Cold Unfolding of a Hydrophobic Chain: Simulations

Matthew Stone, Isaac Sanchez (University of Texas)

08:24 N31.003 Computer Simulation of Associating Ideal Chains

Sharon Loverde, Aleksander Ermoshkin, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University)

08:36 N31.004 Effects of Solvent Density on Square-well Chain Dimensions

James A. Porter, Jane E. G. Lipson (Dartmouth College)

08:48 N31.005 Competition between Particle Association and Phase Separation in Model Associating Fluids: Equilibrium Polymerization in Solution with Chemical Initiation and Thermal Activation

Jack Douglas (Polymers Division, NIST), Jacek Dudowicz, Karl Freed (James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago)

09:00 N31.006 Athermal polymer-colloid suspensions: polymer structure and induced depletion potentials

Manolis Doxastakis, Yeng-Long Chen, Orlando Guzman, Juan J. de Pablo (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

09:12 N31.007 Correlation effects of charged polyelectrolyte-colloid complexes

K.K. Cheng, K.W. Yu (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

09:24 N31.008 Double Layers and Inter-Particle Forces in Colloid Science and Biology: Analytic Results for the Effect of Ionic Dispersion Forces

Scott Edwards, David Williams (Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University)

09:36 N31.009 Predicting Interfacial Tension In Oil-Water-Surfactant Systems Using Lattice Self-Consistent Mean Field Model

Valeriy Ginzburg, Jozef Bicerano (Dow Chemical Company)

09:48 N31.010 A simple model for polymer chains in complex inhomogeneous environments: Rigid rods in harmonic potentials

Yong Chen (Chemistry Department, College of Staten Island/CUNY-Graduate Center), Chwen-Yang Shew (APS)

10:00 N31.011 The Effect of the Choice of Experimental Data on Polymer Blend Predictions

Michael Tambasco (Dartmouth Molecular Materials Group, Dartmouth College), Jane Lipson (Dartmouth College)

10:12 N31.012 Theory and MD Simulation of Polyolefin Blends

John G. Curro, Gary S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories), Eugenio Jaramillo (Los Alamos National Laboratory), David T. Wu, Huimin Li (Colorado School of Mines)

10:24 N31.013 Self-Assembly of Hollow Micelles from Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

An-Chang Shi (Affiliation), Lingyun Zhang (McMaster University)

10:36 N31.014 A comparison of results of amphiphilic self-assembly in NVT and NPT ensembles: effect of volume release due to packing constraints

Aniket Bhattacharya, Geuorgui Bourov (University of Central Florida)

10:48 N31.015 Characterization of Polymer Melts: Does the Choice of Experimental Data Make a Difference ?

J.E.G. Lipson, Michael Tambasco (Dartmouth College)

08:00 N32.001 DySi_2 Nanostructures on Si(001) studied by STM and TEM^*

Gangfeng Ye, J. Nogami, M.A. Crimp (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University)

08:12 N32.002 Atomic-wire arrays on Si : Atomic structure and stability of Ga/Si(112)-(6x1)

Paul C. Snijders, Sven Rogge (Delft University of Technology), Cesar Gonzalez, Ruben Perez, Jose Ortega, Fernando Flores (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Hanno H. Weitering (The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:24 N32.003 In-situ electron microscopy study of Ag nanocluster and nanowire growth

J.M. Zuo (Dept. Materials Sci and Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

09:00 N32.004 Dynamic observation of Ag nanostructures on Si (100) surfaces

Boquan Li, Wacek Swiech, Jian-Min Zuo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:12 N32.005 Self-doping of gold chains on silicon: A new structural model for Si(111)-(5\times2)-Au

Steven Erwin (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory)

09:24 N32.006 Plasmons in quantum wires on the Si(557)-5x2-Au surface

TADAAKI NAGAO (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, and PRESTO JST), SHIN YAGINUMA, TOSHIO SAKURAI (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), SHUJI HASEGAWA (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)

09:36 N32.007 The Strained Surface Structure of Ge Quantum Dots

Yasunori Fujikawa (Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)

10:12 N32.008 First-Principles calculation of surface stress evolution of Ge quantum dots

Guang-Hong LU, Martin CUMA, Feng LIU (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah)

10:24 N32.009 Effect of Surface-Energy and Wetting Interaction Anisotropy on Self-Organization of Quantum Dots

Margo Levine, Alexander Golovin (Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,Northwestern University)

10:36 N32.010 Periodic Quantum Dots in A Nanowire

H.R. Gutiérrez, K.W. Adu, U.J. Kim (Department of Physics), P.C. Eklund (Department of Physics amp; Department of Material Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University)

08:00 N33.001 Crystal Structure and Superconducting Properties of Tantalum Thin Films

Yongho Seo, Yongguang Qin, Kyungsoo Ahn, Kyusang Choi, Jongsoo Yoon (Physics, University of Virginia)

08:12 N33.002 Transport Study on Superconducting Tantalum Thin Films

Yongguang Qin, Yongho Seo, Jongsoo Yoon (Physics, University of Virginia)

08:24 N33.003 Ferromagnetic-normal metal interface properties by NMR

J. Lu, P. L. Kuhns, W. G. Moulton, M. J. R. Hoch, A. P. Reyes (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32306)

08:36 N33.004 Triplet pairings in the proximity effect of SF bilayer and SNF trilayer

Hyeonjin Doh, Han-Yong Choi (Dept. of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea)

08:48 N33.005 Electronic structure of a two--dimensional liquid metal: Pb/Cu(111)

Felix Baumberger (Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA), Anna Tamai, Matthias Muntwiler, Thomas Greber, Jürg Osterwalder (Physikinstitut der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich)

09:00 N33.006 Electronic transitions in Au-induced atomic chains on stepped Si surfaces

J.R. Ahn, H.W. Yeom (Center for Atomic wires and Layers, Yonsei University), H.S. Yoon, I.-W. Lyo (Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University), E.S. Cho, C.Y. Park (Bk21 Physics Research Division and Institute of Basic Science and CNNC, SungKyunKwan University)

09:12 N33.007 Aharonov-Bohm effect and plasma oscillations in superconducting tubes and rings.

I. A. Romanovsky, E. N. Bogachek, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430)

09:24 N33.008

09:36 N33.009 In-situ growth analysis of ultra-thin colossal magnetoresistance films

Darren Dale (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University), Aaron Fleet, J.D. Brock (School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University), Y. Suzuki (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley)

09:48 N33.010 Phase Transition Phenomena of La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 Thin Films

Takeshi Yanagida, Teruo Kanki, Bertrand Vilquin (ISIR, Osaka University), Hidekazu Tanaka (*ISIR, Osaka University, **PRESTO, JST), Tomoji Kawai (ISIR, Osaka University)

10:00 N33.011 Control of magnetism in SrRuO3 films by modulation of spin-orbit coupling through tunable strain

C. U. Jung (Tokura Spin Superstructure Project (SSS), ERATO, Tsukuba, 305-8562, Japan), Hiroyuki Yamada (Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), AIST, Tsukuba, 305-0046), M Kawasaki (CERC and Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan), Y. Tokura (SSS (ERATO), CERC, and Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan)

10:12 N33.012 Hall effect in strained La0.85Ba0.15MnO3 thin films

Teruo Kanki, Takeshi Yanagida, Bertrand Vilquin (ISIR, Osaka University), Hidekazu Tanaka (*ISIR, Osaka University, **PRESTO, JST), Tomoji Kawai (ISIR, Osaka University)

10:24 N33.013 Electrical and magnetic properties of YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta / La_2/3Ca_1/3MnO_3 bilayers

Felio Pérez (Universidad del Valle, Cali Colombia), Wilmer Saldarriaga, Katherine Gross, Luis Castro, Eval Baca, Maria Elena Gómez, Pedro Prieto (Universidad del Valle), Oswaldo Moran, Roland Hott (IFP-FZK), Thin Films Group Collaboration, IFP-FZK Collaboration

N33.014 Photo-induced magnetism and negative magnetic resistance in Pr_0.65Ca_0.35MnO_3 thin film.

T. Otagiri^1, M. Arai^1, M. Kodaira^1, M. Izumi^1 (^1Lab. Appl. Phys., Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Technology), O. Yanagisawa^2 (^2Yuge National College of Maritime Tech.)

08:00 N34.001 Probing single molecules by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Alfred J. Meixner (Center of Micro-/Nanochemistry and Engineering, Universität Siegen)

08:36 N34.002 Controlled Optical Pumping in Stokes and anti-Stokes Resonant Nanoshell Films

Joseph Jackson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University), Naomi Halas (ECE Department, Chemistry Department, Rice University)

08:48 N34.003 Photodesorption of NO from graphite surface mediated by Ag clusters

Kristina Wettegren, Bengt Kasemo, Dinko Chakarov (Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers and Göteborg University, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden)

09:00 N34.004 Dimerization in Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Mikael Käll (Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden)

09:36 N34.005 Building up three-dimensional nanoparticle arrays by means of covalent bonds

Markus Brunnbauer, Robert Barsotti, Francesco Stellacci (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)

09:48 N34.006 Single-molecule pump-probe detection: ultrafast dynamics in individual quantum systems

Erik M.H.P. Van Dijk, Jordi Hernando, Kobus Kuipers, María F. García-Parajó, Niek F. Van Hulst (Applied Optics Group, fac. of. Science amp; Technology, MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, Enschede 7500 AE, The Netherlands)

10:00 N34.007 Intensity enhancement and spectral fluctuations in single molecule Raman spectroscopy

Lewis Rothberg (University of Rochester)

10:36 N34.008 Scattering Spectra and Microscopy of Gold Nanorods

Colleen L. Nehl (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Jason H. Hafner (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX)

10:48 N34.009 Far-Infrared Absorption Studies of 1.5 nm Gold Nanoparticles

Xuandong Zhao, Young Hoon Kim (University of Cincinnati), Günter Schmid (Universität Essen)

08:00 N35.001 Disentangling density and temperature effects in the viscous slowing down of glassforming liquids

Christiane Alba-Simionesco (CNRS)

08:36 N35.002 Pseudospinodal interpretation of the glass transition

William Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory and Boston University), Harvey Gould (Clark University)

08:48 N35.003 Cooperative Length Scale in Glass-Forming Liquids

Brian M. Erwin, Ralph H. Colby (Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University)

09:00 N35.004 RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THERMAL ENERGY AND FREE VOLUME TO THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF STRUCTURAL RELAXATION IN GLASS-FORMING LIQUIDS

Riccardo Casalini (Chemistry Department, George Mason University, Faifax VA 22030, USA), C.Michael Roland (Chemistry Division, Naval Research Lab, Washington DC 20375, USA), Marian Paluch (Institute of Physics, Silesian University, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007, Katowice, Poland)

09:12 N35.005 Fluctuation-Dissipation Relationships in Facilitated Spin Models

Patrick Charbonneau, David R. Reichman (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University)

14:15 N35.006 What to be learned from glassy crystals?

Marc Descamps, Jean Francois Willart, Frederic Affouard (University Lille1, France)

09:36 N35.007 How molecules move near the glass transition temperature

M.D. Ediger (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA)

10:12 N35.008 Elucidating the structural nature of glass transition in supercooled water and methanol by nonlinear optical Rayleigh scattering

Minchul Yang, Susan M. Dounce, Hai-Lung Dai (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)

10:24 N35.009 Low-temperature specific heat of polymorphic ethanol

Miguel A. Ramos, Cesar Talon, Sebastian Vieira (Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, C-III, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, SPAIN)

10:36 N35.010 Thermal spectroscopy of glycerol and propylene glycol by means of a broadband photopyroelectric technique.

E.H. Bentefour, C. Glorieux (Laboratorium voor Akoestiek en Thermische Fysica, Departement Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.), M. Chirtoc (National Ramp;D Institute for Isotope and Molecular Technology, POB-700, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.), J. Thoen (Laboratorium voor Akoestiek en Thermische Fysica, Departement Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.)

10:48 N35.011 Fast relaxation in simple glasses as revealed by quasi-elastic light scattering.

S. V. Adichtchev (Physikalisches Institut, EPII, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, D-95440 Germany), N.V. Surovtsev (Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia), J. Wiedersich (2Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Physik Weihenstephan, Vöttinger Strasse 40, 85350 Freising, Germany), V.N. Novikov (The University of Akron, Department of Polymer Science, Akron, OH 44325-3909), E.A. Roessler (Physikalisches Institut, EPII, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, D-95440 Germany)

08:00 N36.001 Spin Qubits in Multi-Electron Quantum Dots*

Serguei Vorojtsov, Eduardo R. Mucciolo, H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

08:12 N36.002 Nuclear Spin Diffusion in Semiconductor Nanostructures: Effects of the Hyperfine Interaction

Changxue Deng, Xuedong Hu (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

08:24 N36.003 Additivity of decoherence measures for multiqubit quantum systems

Leonid Fedichkin, Arkady Fedorov, Vladimir Privman (Center for Quantum Device Technology, Clarkson University)

08:36 N36.004 Decoherence of Multiple Qubits Coupled to Bosonic and Fermionic Baths

Boris Ischi (Universite de Paris-Sud), Michael Hilke (McGill University), Martin Dube (Universite de Quebec a Trois Rivieres)

08:48 N36.005 Quantum control of localized spins using excitons in semiconductor quantum wells

Guillermo Quinteiro, Carlo Piermarocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Sciences, Michigan State University)

09:00 N36.006 Searching for spin coherence in single quantum dots

Petru Fodor (University of Pittsburgh), Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro (Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron, Campinas SP, Brazil), Jeremy Levy (University of Pittsburgh)

09:12 N36.007 Solid-state phase gate for photon pair

Wang Yao, Renbao Liu, L. J. Sham (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)

09:24 N36.008 Single qubit Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm in a quantum dot

Pablo Bianucci, Andreas Muller, Chih-Kang Shih (Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA), Qu-Quan Wang, Qi-Kun Xue (International Center for Quantum Structures, Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China), Carlo Piermarocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-2320, USA)

09:36 N36.009 Gate control of spin dynamics in III-V semiconductor quantum dots

Rogerio de Sousa, S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

09:48 N36.010 Quantum Computing Through Control of Spin-Orbit Coupling

D. Stepanenko, N. E. Bonesteel (Dept. of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University)

10:00 N36.011 Dirac-Heisenberg spins and the fermion entanglement question

Thomas Kaplan (Michigan State University)

10:12 N36.012 Multipulse NMR studies of several dipolar solids

Anatoly Dementyev, Dale Li, Kenneth MacLean, Yanquan Dong (Yale University Department of Physics), Rona Ramos, Sean Barrett (Yale University, Department of Physics)

10:24 N36.013 Relaxation of a Hole Spin in a Quantum Dot.

L.M. Woods (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620), T.L. Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), R. Kotlyar (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR 97214)

08:00 N37.001 Nanolithography of DNA for molecular electronics

Erez Braun (Israel Institute of Technology)

08:36 N37.002 Single-Component Molecular Metals for Molecular Electronics

Hisashi Tanaka, Madoka Tokumoto (NRI-AIST, CREST-JST), Hayao Kobayashi (IMS, CREST-JST), Akiko Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo)

09:12 N37.003 Theoretical modeling of conduction switching in photochromic molecules

Otto F. Sankey, Jun Li (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504), Gil Speyer (Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287)

09:24 N37.004 A conformational molecular switch

Ranjit Pati (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180), Shashi P. Karna (Army Research Laboratory, Weapons and Materials Directorate, ATTN: AMSRL-WM-BD, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5659)

09:36 N37.005 Control of field-induced switching at the surface of pentacene single crystals by organosilane self-assembled monolayers

J. Takeya (CRIEPI, Japan), T. Nishikawa (SEIKO EPSON, Co., Japan), S. Kobayashi, T. Takenobu (IMR, Tohoku University, Japan), C. Goldmann (ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland), T. Shimoda (SEIKO EPSON, Co., Japan), T. Mitani (JAIST, Japan), Y. Iwasa (IMR, Tohoku University, Japan), B. Batlogg (ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland)

09:48 N37.006 I-V characteristics of Chrysazine-type molecules

Angelica Zacarias, E. K. U. Gross (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

10:00 N37.007 Hole mobility of organic single crystal FETs: Rubrene, pentacene, and tetracene

C. Goldmann, S. Haas, C. Krellner, K.P. Pernstich, D.J. Gundlach, B. Batlogg (Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

10:12 N37.008 Amorphous-like Density of Gap States in Single Crystal Pentacene

Arthur Ramirez (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), David Lang (CISE, Columbia University), Xiaoliu Chi (Columbia University), Theo Siegrist, Mike Sergent (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

10:24 N37.009 Nanometer-spaced Electrodes for Ferrocene-based Single Molecule Electronics

S. A. Getty (Department of Physics and Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park), Lixin Wang, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Lawrence R. Sita (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park), M. S. Fuhrer (Department of Physics and Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park)

10:36 N37.010 Functionalization of Repetitive Polypeptides for Molecular Interconnect Applications

A. Carlsen, N. Rana, C. Kossow, D. Cheng (School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering, University at Albany - SUNY), C. Wells, K. Bousman, S. Ngo, S. Higashiya, J. Welch (Department of Chemistry, University at Albany - SUNY), J. Raynolds, K. Dunn, E. Eisenbraun, R. Geer, A. Kaloyeros (School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering, University at Albany - SUNY)

10:48 N37.011 Electrochemical Artifacts in the Transport Properties of Nanoscale Polyaniline Transistors

J. E. Grose, B. Ulgut, A. N. Pasupathy, H. D. Abruna, D. C. Ralph (Cornell University)

11:00 N37.012 Fabrication of Rubrene Single Crystal Field Effect Transistors

Roswitha Zeis, Kloc Christian (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ)

11:12 N37.013 Mechanically-Adjustable and Electrically-Gated Single-Molecule Transistors

A. R. Champagne, A. N. Pasupathy, D. C. Ralph (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)

11:24 N37.014 Coherent Control of Electric Currents- Coherent and Relaxation Regimes

Andre D Bandrauk (Universite de Sherbrooke), Kyrill Pronin (Biochemical Physics Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences)

08:00 N38.001 Formation of Rydberg-like electronic bands near suspended periodic arrays of linear nanoconductors

H. R. Sadeghpour (Center for Astrophysics - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

08:36 N38.002 Inverse band structure method via genetic algorithm for nanostructures

Kwiseon Kim, Wesley B. Jones, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

08:48 N38.003 First principle study of the connection between reactivity and electronic structure of nanostructured Pd surfaces

Sergey Stolbov, Faisal Mehmood, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

09:00 N38.004 First-principles all-electron calculation of the conductance of a single molecule.

Sergey Faleev, Francois Leonard, Derek Stewart (Sandia National Laboratories), Mark van Schilfgaarde (Arizona State University)

09:12 N38.005 Are hemispherical caps of boron-nitride nanotubes possible?

Rajendra R. Zope (Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, Washington DC 20052 and Code 6189, Theoretical Chemistry Section, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375.), B.I. Dunlap (Code 6189, Theoretical Chemistry Section, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375)

09:24 N38.006 Ab initio accuracy calculations for thousand atom colloidal nanosystems

Lin-Wang Wang, Jingbo Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:36 N38.007 Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of CdSe Nanocrystals: First-Principles Computations

Aaron Puzder, Andrew Williamson, Francois Gygi, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:48 N38.008 Structural, mechanical, and electronic properties of novel thiophene-based electroactive materials and devices from first-principles

Damian Scherlis (Materials Science and Engineering, MIT), Timothy Swager (Chemistry, MIT), Ian Hunter (Mechanical Engineering, MIT), Nicola Marzari (Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)

10:00 N38.009 Exploring the Local Nature of Transition-Metal Chemistry via Tunable Pseudopotentials

Cody Friesen, Nicola Marzari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:12 N38.010 Density functional study of structural properties of bimetallic gold-copper clusters

Eva M. Fernandez (Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain), Karo Michaelian (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico, D.F., Mexico), Luis C. Balbas (Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain), Ignacio L. Garzon (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico, D.F., Mexico)

10:24 N38.011 Ab-Initio Computations of the Structural Properties of Carbon Nanotubes under Uniaxial Strain

Anthony Pullen, G Zhao (Department of Physics, Southern University and A amp; M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813), L Yang (NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 230, Moffett Field, CA 94035), D Bagayoko (Department of Physics, Southern University and A amp; M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813)

10:36 N38.012 Ab-initio study of single-wall MoS_2 nanotube bundles

Matthieu J. Verstraete (PCPM unit Catholic University of Louvain, pl. Croix du Sud, 1 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium), Jean-Christophe Charlier (PCPM), Unite de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Materiaux Team

10:48 N38.013 Tight-Binding Analysis of Electron Transport in Porphyrin Molecules Connected to a Few Electrodes

Masashi Noda, Satoshi Watanabe (Dept. of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency)

08:00 N39.001 Physics and Chemistry of Micromechanical Sensing

Thomas Thundat (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:36 N39.002 A MEMS Device for Measuring the Physical Properties of Fluids

Christopher Harrison, Eric Donzier, Anthony R.H. Goodwin, Frederic Marty, Oliver C. Mullins, Olivier Vancauwenberghe (Schlumberger-Doll Research Laboratories, 36 Old Quarry Road, Ridgefield CT 06877)

08:48 N39.003 Nanomechanical Resonator by Bonding Silicon-On-Insulator to Glass Wafers for integrated bio-electronic circuits

Hyun Kim, Robert Blick (Laboratory for Molecular Scale Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706)

09:00 N39.004 Classical dynamics of a nano-mechanical resonator coupled to a single electron transistor

Andrew Armour (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom), Miles Blencowe, Yong Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755)

09:12 N39.005 Using fundamental studies of friction to predict the performance of MEMS devices

Robert W. Carpick, Erin E. Flater, Mark D. Street, Can K. Bora, Michael E. Plesha (Engineering Physics Dept., University of Wisconsin - Madison), Alex D. Corwin, Maarten P. de Boer (Reliability Physics Dept., Sandia National Laboratories)