Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Adam Schwimmer, Head
The Department of Physics of Complex Systems has research programs in applied physics, including optics (holography, image processing, non-linear effects in optical fibers, electro-optics, planar optics and ultrafast optics, atomic lithography and laser cooling, and trapping of atoms). In condensed matter, research is concentrated on theory and experiment (in particular micromagnetics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, crystal and thin film growth, clustering of data, protein folding, liquid crystals, colloids, complex fluids, flame and wet front propagation, and membranes). Experimental and theoretical hydrodynamics concentrates on spatio-temporal chaos, Rayleigh-Benard convection, and turbulence. String theory and conformal field theory, quantum chaos, and in physics of bio-systems are also studied.
Atomic optics, interferometry and chaos.
Bose Einstein Condensation in Ultra cold atomic gas.
Laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
Development of tools and algorithms for large scale data analysis.
Computational Physics
Analysis of biological data (especially gene expression).
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of spin glasses.
Entropy production away from equilibrium.
Cloud turbulence and rain.
Molecular Motor Assemblies and Cell Division.
EEG and Brain Activity.
Neuronal Chips.
High Resolution Imaging in Cells.
D. Mukamel
RNA and DNA denaturation.
Collective phenomena in systems far from thermal equilibrium.
Coarsening processes and slow dynamics.
Systems with long range interactions
A. Schwimmer
String theory.
Conformal field theory.
Dynamics of gauge theory.
Nonlinear optics and soitons.
Ultrafast optics and coherent control.
Nonlinear microscopy.
Mathematical methods for Archaeological research.
Semi-classical quantization.
Chaotic scattering.
Quantum chaos.
Genetic Networks
J. Stavans, Uri Alon
- The SOS response
- The Lambda phage decision circuit
Single-Molecule Biological Physics.
- Proteins of the bacterial chromosome
- DNA motor proteins
Evolution.
Physical hydrodynamics, pattern dynamics of non-equilibrium systems
- Hydrodynamics of polymer solutions.
- Turbulent mixing by polymers.
- Dynamics and conformation of a single polymer molecule in complex flows.
- Development of measurement of vorticity distribution in a turbulent flow.
- Convective turbulence in a fluid near the gas-liquid critical point.
- Microfluidics: mixing, cell separation,chaotic flows.