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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
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Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin
Computational Quantum ChemistryCollaboration with: D. Milstein, M. van der Boom, R. Neumann, M. A. Iron, L. KronikHigh-accuracy ab initio thermochemistry: method development and applications.Development of novel, more universal, density functionalsApplication of density functional methods to organometallic systems, with special reference to homogenous catalysis.Ab initio prediction of rotation-vibration spectra beyond the harmonic approximation.Intermolecular interactions
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