Research
- Quantum wave packets
- Ultra-fast light-matter interactions, atoms and molecules in strong laser fields
- Laser-induced molecular alignment and orientation
- Laser control of molecular scattering
- Quantum information with single photons and single atoms
- Quantum optics
- Cavity-QED
- Single-atom mediated photon-photon interactions
Baran Eren
- Atomic structure of crystal surfaces in the presence of reactant gases and liquids
- Chemical nature of adsorbed molecules relevant to heterogeneous catalysis
- New instruments and ways to bridge the ‘pressure gap’ between surface science and heterogeneous catalysis
- Development of cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy for 3D imaging of cells and macromolecules
- Thermodynamics of nucleo-cytoplasmic transport in the eukaryotic cell
- Supramolecular protein assembly in live cells
- Anomalous diffusion in macromolecular transport
- Development of new concepts and methods in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)Nuclear hyperpolarization: hardware and methods for NMR and MRI sensitivity enhancement
- Advanced multidimensional NMR studies of protein structure and function MRI and NMR of health and disease: From animal models to patients
- Collective cell migration
- Driven by curvature: Cell shapes and dynamics
- Dynamic phases of molecular motors: pulses, shocks and traffic-jams
- Collective motion of organisms
- Active particles and membranes
- Quantum-assisted sensing, from the single-spin limit to coherent, macroscopic objects
- Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging of molecules
- Observation of quantum coherence in chemical reactions
Gilad Haran
- We employ single-molecule spectroscopy to study diverse problems in biophysics, from protein folding to molecular machine dynamics to localization of receptors on cell membranes
- We also combine quantum emitters with metal structures to study the interactions of excitons and plasmons with single-molecule/single-particle resolution
Gershon Kurizki
- Thermodynamic control
- Decoherence control, quantum-Zeno & anti-Zeno dynamics
- Quantumness control in open systems
- Quantum Information Processing (QIP) control in hybrid systems
- Dynamical control for diagnostics
- Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC)
- Atom field interactions and entanglement
- Spin dependent electron transmission through chiral molecules
- Spintronics devices based on the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect
- The role of electron spin in water splitting and carbon fixation
- The role of the electron spin in Biology
- Molecular quantum rotor in low temperature reactions
- Simultaneous deceleration of oxygen molecules and metastable argon
- Observation of the isotope effect in cold collisions and of quantum effects in cold reactions
- Magnetic deceleration of supersonic beams
- Single photon molecular cooling
- Quantum dynamics in real time
- Ab initio Chemistry
- Quantum thermodynamics
- Heavy atom-surface scattering
Yehiam Prior
- Nonlinear Optics on the Nanoscale
- Rational Design of Plasmonic Metasurfaces
- Ultrafast Orientation and Alignment of Molecules
- Developed hydrodynamic and convective turbulence; turbulent advection
- Interface roughening in Laplacian growth and flame propagation
- Physics of fractals
- Theory of glass-formation and the mechanical properties of amorphous systems
- Human physiology and metabolism with the aid of magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Shaping electromagnetic fields and coherently manipulating the time evolution of nuclear spins
- Target specific metabolic processes in-vivo and observe the biochemical underpinnings of brain activation
- The upper limit of conductance across metal-molecule junctions
- Spin transport and magnetism in atomic and molecular conductors
- Electro-mechanical interactions in molecular systems
- Heat dissipation and heat to electricity conversion in molecular conductors
- Design of specially tailored laser pulses to control breaking of chemical bonds and laser cooling of molecules
- Phase space approach to exact quantum dynamics with an emphasis on attosecond multielectron dynamics
- Use of complex-valued classical trajectories to solve the time-dependent Schrodinger equation
- Calculation of chemical reaction probabilities and rate constants, using quantum mechanical and semiclassical methods
- Soft matter and biological physics: theory
- Physics of mechanobiology – collaborations on experiments on active cellular forces and beating cardiomyocytes
- Soft nuclear physics of cells – deformations and damage to stressed nuclei in collaboration with experiments on cell migration relevant to physical oncology
- Entropy and electrostatic interactions in soft matter – collaborations on experiments on anomalous screening near charged surfaces
