Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Physics

Contact Information

Tel:972-8-9343377 
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Email:

moshe.kugler@weizmann.ac.il

Secretariat: 
Corinne Hasdai
Tel :972-08-9343835 
Email: corinne.hasdai@.weizmann.ac.il

Moshe Kugler Professor  Department of Particle Physics  Weizmann Institute,  76100 Rehovot,  Israel

Current Research Interests

My research deals with several topics in particle physics and in condensed matter physics.

Solitons are particle-like solutions of non-linear wave equations.  I have dealt with many properties of solitons, concentrating on solitons that owe their stability to topological reasons.

I have treated the nature of condensed phases that appear in aggregates of chiral molecules.  This includes the blue phases that in cholesteric liquid crystals of short molecules and the similar structures that appear in bundles of long DNA molecules.

I have investigated systems with phononic band gaps, namely composite crystals that can be designed so that at given frequency ranges they may serve as sound insulators.  Sound at these frequencies cannot propagate inside the structure and is exponentially damped.