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Prof. Ofer Aharony
Weakly coupled versions of the AdS/CFT correspondence and possible derivationsCollaboration with: S. Minwalla, G. Gur-Ari, R. YacobyGeneral properties of field theories with quenched disorderCollaboration with: Z. Komargodski, S. YankielowiczStrongly coupled field theories in anti-de Sitter spaceCollaboration with: M. Berkooz, S. Rey, D. Tong, S. YankielowiczDualities between field theories in various dimensionsCollaboration with: G. Gur-Ari, S. Minwalla, P. Narayan, S. Razamat, N. Seiberg, T. Sharma, B. Willett, R. Yacoby
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Prof. Yitzhak Maron
Imploding Plasmas under Pulsed Magnetic Fields:High-Resolution Spectroscopic studies of High-Energy-Density Plasmas (visible to x-ray).Design and build up of fast (ns) and ultra-fast (sub ns) optical spectroscopic systems.Studies of Instabilities and turbulence phenomena.Radiation transport and ion temperature in imploding plasmas.High-Power-Laser matter interaction:Warm dense matter (solid-state with temperatures above the Fermi energy) formed by intense laser solid-state interaction.Intense-Laser-Beam-guiding by the use of plasma channels.Development of novel spectroscopic diagnostic methods for matter under extreme conditions.Experiments are performed in major European laboratories: Jena, Drezden (Germany), Ecole polytechnique (France).Close collaboration with Universities and National plasma laboratories in the US (Cornell, Sandia, NRL, LLNL-NIF).
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Prof. Yuval Gefen
Low-dimensional interacting systems out of equilibrium.Interferometry and dephasing with electronic and anyonic systems.Weak measurement, weak values and foundations of quantum mechanics.Exotic excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect and Topological Insulators.Edge reconstruction and edge channels in the fractional quantum Hall effect and Topological Insulators.
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Prof. Vladimir Usov
Physical processes in relativistic electron-positron plasma.Collaboration with: G.Z. MachabeliThe theory of nonthermal radiation from compact astronomical objects (pulsars, white dwarfs, gamma-ray bursters etc.).Collaboration with: A.K. Harding, D.B. Melrose, M. Milgrom, A.G. Muslimov, A.E. ShabadPhysical processes in very strong magnetic fields.Collaboration with: A.E. ShabadPhysical processes at the surface and astrophysical appearance of strange-quark-matter stars.Collaboration with: K.S. Cheng, T. Harko, M. Milgrom, F.WeberHydrodynamics and high-energy physics of colliding stellar winds in binary systems.Collaboration with: N.N. Pilyugin
