Group Members

Prof. Ofer Firstenberg

Principal Investigator

ofer.firstenberg@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6335

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

259

Liron Stettiner

liron.stettiner@weizmann.ac.il

Dr. Bankim Chandra Das

Postdoctoral fellow

bankim.das@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6501

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

194

Dr. Tanim Firdoshi

Postdoctoral fellow

tanim.firdoshi@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Dr. Maheswar Swar

Postdoctoral fellow

maheswar.swar@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

137

Haim Nakav

PhD student

haim.nakav@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-4988 +972-8-934-4336

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

132

Aditya Prakash

PhD student

aditya.prakash@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Felix Ribuot-Hirsch

PhD student

felix.ribuot-hirsch@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Inbar Shani

PhD student

inbar.shani@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

137

Elron Goldemberg

Msc student

elron.goldemberg@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

132 C

Ashley Harkavi

Msc student

ashley.harkavi@weizmann.ac.il

Tamar Levin

Msc student

tamar.levin@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Alon Ner Gaon

Msc student

alon.ner-gaon@weizmann.ac.il

David Zeev Koplovich

Lab Technician

david-zeev.koplovich@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

256

Roy Shaham	PhD, 2023	Efficient, Coherent Coupling to Noble-Gas Spins
Omri Davidson	PhD, 2023 MSc, 2019	Single-photon generation, storage, and synchronization with highly-excited orbitals in atomic vapor Designing, building and characterizing a single-photon source
Ohad Yogev	MSc, 2023	Photon Synchronization Using Atomic Quantum Memory
Lee Drori	PhD, 2022 MSc, 2018	Quantum vortices of strongly interacting photons mediated by cold Rydberg atoms Magneto optical trap with Rydberg excitations and laser system with a frequency comb reference
Yahel Horowicz	MSc, 2022	Critical dynamics and phase transition of a strongly interacting warm spin-gas
Or Tal	MSc, 2022	Light-matter interaction in a high-density alkali gas for quantum memories with lifetimes of hundreds of milliseconds
Eran Reches	MSc, 2022	Storage of light on noble-gas spins and hot Rydberg atoms
Chen Avinadav	PhD, 2021	Improving the dynamic range and stability of acceleration and rotation sensing atom interferometers
Tomer Zohar	MSc, 2021	Attractive photon interactions and bound states mediated by ensemble of cold Rydberg atoms
David Zeev Koplovich	MSc, 2021	Coherent interactions between a super-extended nanofiber guided field and hot atoms
Ran Finkelstein	PhD, 2021	Coherent atom-photon interfaces with highly-excited thermal atoms
Or Arenfrid	MSc, 2020	Light-matter interaction via an extremely-tapered optical fiber in atomic vapor
Gal Winer	PhD, 2020	Quantum and nonlinear optics in quasi-one-dimensional systems
Dimitry Yankelev	PhD, 2020	Atom interferometry with improved sensitivity, stability, and dynamic range
Yakov Solomons	MSc, 2020	Transverse drag of slow light in moving atomic vapor
Ohr Lahad	PhD, 2020	Enhancement of atom-photon interaction for quantum nonlinear optics in thermal vapor
Sebastian Duque-Mesa	MSc, 2019	Search for New Physics with Rydberg atoms
Or Katz	PhD, 2019	Coherent and collective phenomena in dense spin gasses
Yoni Friedman	MSc, 2018	Slow light and electromagnetically-induced transparency of moving beams
Ohad Michel	MSc, 2017	Enhancement of atom-photon interaction for thermal gas in a ladder system
Dan Levy	MSc, 2015	Design of a dense and elongated magneto-optical trap