Monday January 5 2004 | |||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||
| 7:25 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) Welcoming Remarks | ||
| 7:30 | Herschel A. Rabitz, Princeton University (Quantum Control) ``Controlling Quantum Phenomena: Why Does it Appear to be so Easy to Achieve?'' | ||
| 8:00 | Charles Munnerlyn, Visx Inc. (Biophysics and Medical Optics) ``Improving Laser Vision Correction'' | ||
| 8:30 | Winthrop Smith, University of Connecticut (Sympathetic Cooling) ``The kinetics of trapped atomic/molecular ion cooling by ultracold atoms, using a hybrid Paul trap/MOT'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||
| Femtosecond Spectroscopic Techniques | Novel Optics | Quantum Information | |
| 9:10 | Manjusha Mehendale, Princeton University ``Towards FAST CARS: CARS Spectroscopy of Bacterial Spores'' |
Josef Bille, University of Heidelberg ``Femtosecond Laser Surgery'' |
Mark Hillery, Hunter College, CUNY ``Quantum walks and scattering theory'' |
| 9:30 | John Reintjes, Naval Research Laboratory ``Femtosecond CARS in DPA Solutions: Temporal Dynamics'' |
John Holzrichter, UC Davis and LLNL ``Optical and Microwave Interferometry for Human Speech Characterization'' |
Janos Bergou, Hunter College, CUNY ``Optimum strategies for the discrimination of quantum states'' |
| 9:50 | Guy Beadie, Naval Research Laboratory ``Femtosecond CARS in DPA Solutions: Spectral Dynamics'' |
Christopher Fang-Yen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ``Nonclassical photon statistics in the Cavity QED Microlaser'' |
Hwang Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Non-photon number-discriminating detectors'' |
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| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||
| 10:30 | Warren Warren, Princeton University (Novel Spectroscopic Techniques) ``Breasts and Brains, Similarities and Differences: Exploiting Unconventional Molecular Coherences to Improve Imaging'' | ||
| 11:00 | Heiner Linke, University of Oregon (Quantum Ratchets) ``Brownian Motors from Biology to Quantum Electronics'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||
| Novel Spectroscopic Techniques | Quantum Ratchets | Sympathetic Cooling | |
| 11:40 | Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University ``Towards Ultraintense Ultrashort Laser Pulses via Raman Backscattering in Plasma and Prospect for X-Ray Lasers'' |
Franco Nori, RIKEN and University of Michigan ``Controlling the Motion of Particles in Mixtures and the Motion of Magnetic flux Quanta in Superconductors'' |
Michael Drewsen, University of Aarhus ``Sympathetically cooled molecular ions in a linear Paul trap'' |
| 12:00 | Kevin Lehmann, Princeton University ``Spectroscopy and Dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets'' |
Wolfgang Porod, Notre Dame ``Reversibility, Mawell's Demon, and Computation'' |
Deep Gupta, University of California at Berkeley ``Sympathetic Cooling in Atom Traps: Road to Fermi Degeneracy and Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules'' |
| 12:20 | Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ``Prospective sub-cycle field shaping by molecular modulation, and its potential applications'' |
Ken Segall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ``Josephson Junctions for Quantum Ratchets'' |
Randall G. Hulet, Rice University ``Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Molecular Bose Gas'' |
| 12:40 | Wolfgang Wagner, Rutgers University ``Femtosecond phase cycled 2D spectroscopy'' |
Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory ``Ratchet Superconducting Vortex Cellular Automata'' |
Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut ``Modeling coherent association of fermionic atoms into molecules --or-- Half of a fermion in an optical lattice |
| 13:00 | |||
| -- Evening -- | |||
| 19:00 | Sergey Bezrukov, National Institutes of Health (Sensing and Information) ``Information and Noise in Ion Channel Signals'' | ||
| 19:30 | Theo Nieuwenhuizen, University of Amsterdam (Quantum Thermodynamics and the Second Law) ``Quantum thermodynamics: thermodynamics at the nanoscale'' | ||
| 20:00 | H. Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology (Quantum Optics) ``A One-Atom Laser in the Regime of Strong Coupling'' | ||
| -- Break -- | |||
| Monday Evening Invited Session | |||
| Solid-state Nonlinear Optics | Quantum Thermodynamics and the Second Law | Sensing and Information | |
| 20:50 | Lute Maleki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Nonlinear optics with whispering gallery mode crystal resonators'' |
Andrew Jordan, University of Geneva, Switzerland ``Energy fluctuations, persistent current and entanglement in the ground state of a system coupled to a bath'' |
Laszlo B. Kish, Texas A&M University ``Fluctuation-Enhanced Sensing'' |
| 21:10 | Elena Kuznetsova, Texas A&M University ``Possibility to suppress excited state absorption in solid-state lasers'' |
Christopher Jarzynski, Los Alamos National Laboratory ``Quantal foundations of far-from-equilibrium work identities'' |
Peter Heszler, Uppsala University, Sweden ``Performance of Spatial Quantum Optical Fourier Transformation in the Entanglement and Non-entanglement Limit'' |
| 21:30 | Min Xiao, University of Arkansas ``Modified Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots by Photonic Structures'' |
Alan E. Hill, Texas A&M University and Plasmatronics ``The Quantum Otto Mobile: its Experimental Verification and Application to Directed Energy'' |
Robert Lucht, Purdue University ``Electronic-Resonance-Enhanced Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering for Molecular Detection: Experiments and Theory'' |
| 21:50 | C.-K. (Ken) Shih, University of Texas at Austin ``Rabi oscillation damping in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot'' |
M. Howard Lee, University of Georgia ``Some special low temperature statistical thermodynamics: Fermi-Bose equivalence in 2d and pseudo BEC'' |
Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ``Light Scattering at an Angle of Zero Degrees using Four-Wave Mixing'' |
| 22:10 | |||
Tuesday January 6 2004 | |||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||
| 7:30 | Award Lamb Medal (Lamb Medal) ``The presentation of the 2002 Willis E. Lamb medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics to Stuart Rice, Karl Kompa, and Lu Sham'' | ||
| 8:00 | Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University (Current-Driven Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Electronics) ``Dynamics in Quantum Electronics: From Nanochemistry to New Forms of Molecular Machines'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||
| Nano-photonics | Quantum Optics | Current-Driven Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Electronics | |
| 8:40 | Joe Haus, University of Dayton ``Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Photonic Band Gap Structures'' |
Kohzo Hakuta, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Manipulating Atoms Using Evanescent Fields around a Thin Optical Fiber'' |
Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern University ``Probing Charge Transport through Individual Molecules on Degenerately Doped Silicon Surfaces'' |
| 9:00 | Steve Blair, University of Utah ``Light transmission through nanostructured metal films'' |
Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin ``Quantum Engineering of Atomic Number States'' |
Gérald Dujardin, Université Paris Sud ``Electronic control of an individual bistable molecule'' |
| 9:20 | Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona ``Ultrashort optical pulses in active medium with embedded metallic nanoparticles'' |
Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Frequency modulation of light using three correlated Raman coherences'' |
Karina Morgenstern, Freie Universität Berlin ``Local investigation of electron induced processes in water-metal systems'' |
| 9:40 | David D. Smith, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ``Coherence effects in coupled resonators'' |
Wolfgang Schleich, University of Ulm, Germany ``Fresnel representation of the Wigner function'' |
Xiaoyang Zhu, University of Minnesota ``Understanding molecular electronics from femtosecond spectroscopy'' |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||
| 10:20 | Karl L. Kompa, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Novel Optics) ``Getting ahead of IVR -- entering a new age of laser chemistry'' | ||
| 10:50 | Stuart A. Rice, University of Chicago (Novel Optics) ``Variations on Adiabatic Transfer With Applications to Product Selection in a Reaction'' | ||
| 11:20 | Lu J. Sham, University of California, San Diego (Semiconductor Nonlinear Optics) ``Progress in optical control of semiconductor systems for quantum information'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||
| Nano-photonics | Semiconductor Nonlinear Optics | Molecular Spectroscopy | |
| 12:00 | Marc Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ``High efficiency phosphorescence from metal-organic complexes'' |
Martin Wegener, University of Karlsruhe ``Extreme Nonlinear Optics In Semiconductors'' |
Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ``Chirp dependent fluorescence from cyanine dye molecules'' |
| 12:20 | Andrew Steckl, University of Cincinnati ``Nature's Photonic Nanostructures - Photoemission from rare earths and hybrid inorganic/organic materials'' |
Martino Poggio, University of California at Santa Barbara ``Local Manipulation of Nuclear Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Well'' |
Roland E. Allen, Texas A&M University ``The Intricate Dance of of Electrons and Nuclei in a Photochemical Reaction'' |
| 12:40 | Ted Sargent, University of Toronto ``Electroluminescence from Quantum Dot Crystals'' |
Rolf Binder, University of Arizona ``Many-particle theory of all-optical polarization switching in semiconductor quantum wells'' |
Yusheng Dou, Texas A&M University ``Detailed dynamics of photoisomerization of stilbene'' |
| 13:00 | |||
| -- Evening -- | |||
| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | |||
| 19:00 | Birgitta Whaley, University of California at Berkeley (Quantum Information) ``Optimally Efficient Control of Quantum Circuits'' | ||
| 19:30 | Art Smirl, University of Iowa (Spin Coherence) ``Putting a new spin on quantum interference: Independent control of spin and charge'' | ||
| 20:00 | Eric Forsythe, Army Research Laboratory (Nano-photonics) ``Molecular-Based Devices for Photon Emitting Applications: Advantages and Challenges'' | ||
| -- Break -- | |||
| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | |||
| Slow light, superluminal light, and their applications | Spin Coherence | Quantum Information | |
| 20:50 | Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke University ``The information velocity in fast- and slow-light media'' |
John Mamin, IBM Almaden Research Center ``Magnetic resonance force microscopy and the quest for single spin detection'' |
Lorenza Viola, Los Alamos National Laboratory ``Advances in Decoherence Control'' |
| 21:10 | Lijun Wang, NEC ``Quantum fluctuation, causality, and Abraham force'' |
Alexei Tyryshkin, Princeton University ``Spin Decoherence Times of Trapped and Conduction Electrons in Silicon-Based Structures'' |
Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto ``Security of quantum key distribution with imperfect devices'' |
| 21:30 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ``Buffer-gas induced absorption resonances and large negative pulse delay times in Rb vapor'' |
Bill Rippard, NIST Boulder ``Coherent Microwave Oscillations in Spin Momentum Transfer Device'' |
Deborah Jackson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``What are the Physical Limitations on Achieving Perfect Quantum Efficiencies?'' |
| 21:50 | Andrey Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``EIT in resonator chains: similarities and differences with atomic media'' |
Frank Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ``"Measurement of Ground State Recovery Times'' |
Raymond Beausoleil, HP Laboratories ``Applications of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency to Quantum Information Processing'' |
| 22:10 | |||
Wednesday January 7 2004 | |||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||
| 7:30 | David Attwood, University of California at Berkeley (EUV and Xray) ``Imaging at 20 nm Spatial Resolution: Soft X-Ray Microscopy and EUV Lithography'' | ||
| 8:00 | Robert Boyd, University of Rochester (Nano-photonics) ``Slow and Fast Light in Room Temperature Solids'' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||
| Slow light, superluminal light, and their applications | Semiconductor Optoelectroncs | EUV and Xray | |
| 8:40 | Kurt E. Oughstun, University of Vermont ``Accuracy of the Group Velocity Description and the Question of Superluminal Pulse Velocities'' |
Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory ``Engineered Energy Flows in Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Assemblies'' |
Ernie Glover, LBL ``Picosecond Metal-Insulator Transitions in An Expanding Metallic Fluid: Kinetics of Particle Formation'' |
| 9:00 | Dmitry Strekalov, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Influence of inhomogeneous broadening on group velocity in coherently pumped atomic vapor'' |
Kenji Ikushima, University of Tokyo, Japan ``Quantum dot photon detectors, novel THz scanning microscopes, and their application'' |
Justin Peatross, Brigham Young University ``Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation'' |
| 9:20 | Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University ``Plasmonic Nanoantennae for Manipulating Light, Sensing Molecules, and Nanomanufacturing'' |
Nikolai Kalugin, Texas A&M University ``Sensitive tunable THz detector based on a quantum Hall device'' |
Henry Kapteyn, JILA ``Coherent Control and Chemical Sensing'' |
| 9:50 | John Howell, University of Rochester ``Pixel entanglement: position-momentum quantum information processing'' |
Jacek Szczytko, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland ``Direct measure of exciton formation in quantum wells from interband luminescence'' |
Margaret Murnane, JILA ``Multiphoton Photonics'' |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||
| 10:20 | Eric Mazur, Harvard University (Femtosecond Micromachining) ``Femtosecond Micromachining'' | ||
| 10:50 | Hailin Wang, University of Oregon (Recent developments in EIT from A (atoms) to Z (zemiconductors)) ``Electromagnetically induced transparency from spin coherence in semiconductors'' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||
| Femtosecond Micromachining | Recent developments in EIT from A (atoms) to Z (zemiconductors) | Optical Communications | |
| 11:30 | Richard Haight, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ``High Resolution Material Ablation and Deposition with Femtosecond Lasers'' |
Connie Chang-Hasnain, University of California at Berkeley ``EIT and all-optical buffers'' |
Markus Pollnau, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ``Ti:sapphire waveguide emitters as light sources for interferometry'' |
| 11:50 | Minoru Obara, Keio University, Japan ``Surface microstructuring and photonic device fabrication in transparent materials with temporally tailored ultrashort laser'' |
Weng Chow, Sandia National Laboratory ``Coherent effects and dephasing in semiconductor quantum dots'' |
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University ``Comparative analysis of optical buffers and nonlinear switches for high bit rate systems'' |
| 12:10 | Andy Weiner, Purdue University ``Femtosecond Pulse Shaping: Laser Machining and Frequency Conversion'' |
Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ``Applications of EIT in doped solids'' |
Martin Richardson, University of Central Florida ``Defying diffraction - High intensity femtosecond laser propagation through the atmosphere'' |
| 12:30 | Stefan Nolte, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena ``Ultrafast laser processing: New options for 3D photonic structures'' |
Andrew Charman, University of California at Berkeley and LBNL ``EIT in Magnetized Plasmas: Quantum Treatments and Atomic Analogies'' |
Eric Van Stryland, University of Central Florida ``Nondegenerate Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy'' |
| 12:50 | Peter R. Herman, University of Toronto ``Advanced lasers for writing 3-D optical circuits and biophotonic chips'' |
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| -- Evening -- | |||
| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | |||
| 19:00 | Peter D. Keefe, Keefe & Associates (Intellectual Property) ``Principles of Intellectual Property for Scientists'' | ||
| 19:30 | Yurii Vlasov, IBM Watson Research Center (Nano-optics) ``Silicon photonic crystals - thrust toward ultradense optical integration'' | ||
| 20:00 | Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampon, UK (Nano-optics) ``Assault on Time Reversal in Chiral Flatland'' | ||
| -- Break -- | |||
| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | |||
| Nano-optics | The Quantum/Classical Interface | Intellectual Property | |
| 20:50 | Naomi Halas, Rice University ``Tunable Plasmonic Nanostructures: fundamental components for nano-optics'' |
Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ``Joint representations for arbitrary variables'' |
William D. Blackman, Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C. ``Patent Strategy'' |
| 21:10 | Evgenii Narimanov, Princeton University ``Light in asymmetric resonant cavities: chaos, tunneling and localization'' |
Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ``The phase space of non-stationary noise'' |
Donald J. Ersler, Donald J. Ersler, S.C. ``Obtaining a Patent'' |
| 21:30 | Mikhail A. Noginov, Norfolk State University ``Emission control in scattering and composite media'' |
David H. Hughes, Air Force Research Laboratory ``Moment density characterization of FDTD generated electromagnetic pulses in linear and nonlinear dispersive media'' |
Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr., Patent Litigation Consultant ``Intellectual Property: Trends and Concerns for the Scientific Community'' |
| 21:50 | Peter Nordlander, Rice University ``Plasmon hybridization in nanostructures'' |
Michael Steiner, Naval Research Laboratory ``Matter-based Measurement Theory'' |
Participants ``Intellectual Property Workshop'' |
| 22:10 | |||
Thursday January 8 2004 | |||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||
| 7:30 | Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University (Novel Spectroscopic Techniques) ``Tutorial on Prospect for X-Ray Lasers via Raman Backscattering in Plasma'' | ||
| 8:00 | Steve Cundiff, JILA (Solid State Lasers) ``Femtosecond spectroscopy of semiconductors'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||
| Quantum Informatics | Solid State Lasers | Quantum Optics | |
| 8:40 | James Franson, Johns Hopkins University ``Linear Optics Quantum Computing'' |
Kent Choquette, University of Illnois ``Photonic Crystal Vertical Cavity Lasers'' |
Howard Brandt, Army Research Laboratory ``Finite vacuum energy density in quantum field theory'' |
| 9:00 | Barry Sanders, University of Calgary ``Sharing quantum secrets: theory and experiment'' |
Diana Huffaker, University of New Mexico ``Atomic Structure of Self-Assembled and Patterned Quantum Dots'' |
Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ``Nonadiabatic mechanisms of radiation from atoms in cavity QED'' |
| 9:20 | James Chou, California Institute of Technology ``Generation of Nonclassical Photon Pairs for Scalable Quantum Communication with Atomic Ensembles'' |
Ravi Jain, University of New Mexico ``Recent Advances in Fiber Lasers and Applications'' |
Paul Voss, Northwestern University ``Experimental and theoretical work on twin-photon production via four-wave-mixing in optical fiber'' |
| -- Break -- | |||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||
| 10:10 | Bob Doering, Texas Instruments (Semiconductors) ``Introduction to the Limits of CMOS Technology and Prospects for Post-CMOS'' | ||
| 10:40 | Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University (Quantum Optics) ``Femtosecond Adaptive Spectroscopic Techniques'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||
| Quantum Entanglement | Gamma-ray Optics | Semiconductors | |
| 11:20 | Yanhua Shih, UMBC ``Beyond the Heisenberg uncertainty'' |
Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ``Laser manipulation of nuclear transitions: theory'' |
Tom Theis, IBM ``Carbon Nanotube Transistors: What We've Learned about Molecular Electronics'' |
| 11:40 | Ashok Muthukrishnan, Texas A&M University ``Making unallowed two-atom transitions allowed using entangled photons'' |
Silviu Olariu, Texas A&M University ``Laser manipulation of nuclear transitions: experiment'' |
Mark Lundstrom, Purdue University ``Physics of the Ultimate Transistor'' |
| 12:00 | M. Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M University ``Quantum disentanglement eraser'' |
Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory ``Anomalous isotopic dependence of thermal expansion coefficient of Ge measured by X-ray Normal Incidence Diffraction'' |
Christoph Wasshuber, Texas Instruments ``Single-Electron Transistors: Are they any good? |
| 12:20 | Selim M. Shahriar, Northwestern University ``Generation of Motional Entanglement via Single-Photon Controlled Single-Atom Interferometry'' |
Jos Odeurs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ``Aspects of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency with Nuclear Radiation'' |
Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University ``Metal/semiconductor nanosystems: Spaser and other phenomena'' |
| 12:40 | Ryan Bennink, University of Rochester ``Quantum Imaging and EPR: Violation of the continuous-variable EPR bound by a factor of 100'' |
Gilbert Hoy, Old Dominion University ``Stimulated Emission of Gamma-Radiation: A Proposed Experiment'' |
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| -- Evening -- | |||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | |||
| 19:00 | Mark Byrd, Harvard University (Quantum Error Correction) ``Strategies for Preserving Quantum Information'' | ||
| 19:30 | Mikhail D. Lukin, Harvard University (Slow light, superluminal light, and their applications) ``Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium'' | ||
| -- Break -- | |||
| Thursday Evening Invited Session | |||
| Quantum Error Correction | CPT | Solid State Optoelectroncs | |
| 20:20 | Gavin Brennen, NIST Gaithersburg ``Maintaining a robust quantum computer register in periodic systems with Bose-Hubbard dynamics'' |
Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ``Radiation trapping under the presence of coherent drive'' |
Junichiro Kono, Rice University ``Ultrafast Optical Processes in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors'' |
| 20:40 | Charlene Ahn, California Institute of Technology ``Protecting quantum states through feedback control'' |
Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Texas A&M University ``Electromagnetically induced magnetochiral anisotropy in rubidium vapor'' |
Cory Hill, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Recent developments in Sb-based mid-IR interband cascade lasers'' |
| 21:00 | Frank Gaitan, Southern Illinois University ``Controlling Qubit Transitions during Non-Adiabatic Rapid Passage with Application to Quantum Computing'' |
Roman Kolesov, Texas A&M University ``Diagnostics of Magnitude and Direction of the Magnetic Field in Plasmas by means of CPT'' |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ``Highly efficient nonlinear light generation in quantum cascade lasers'' |
| 21:20 | Andrew Scott, University of New Mexico ``Multipartite entanglement and quantum-error-correcting codes'' |
Justin Nash, Naval Air Systems Command ``Nonlinear Polarization Rotation in Ultra Cold Sodium'' |
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Last updated: Sun Jan 11 12:30:46 CST 2004