Department of Chemical Physics 

Daniella Goldfarb, Head

Research in the Department covers a broad spectrum of topics, including many subjects of current interest in chemistry and physics. Areas of research include theoretical studies of turbulence, the physics of fractals, properties of glass, chaos (classical and quantum mechanical), tunneling and dissipative phenomena, kinetics, and dynamics in surface condensed phases and ultrafast processes. Other areas include experimental and theoretical diffusion studies of the interaction of coherent light with matter, nonlinear optics, laser-induced processes in van der Waals molecules, coherent control of chemical reactions, cooling of molecules and theoretical quantum optics in dispersive media and in microcavities. A different area of active research is the study of the structure and properties of large molecular systems, and the interaction of electrons and molecules with organized thin films. Molecules on semiconductor surfaces are studied by combination of lasers and STM. A strong magnetic resonance group is active within the department, working on fields such as solid state NMR, MASS NMR of semiconductors, liquid crystals and proteins, porous materials, as well as pulsed EPR and electron-nuclear double resonance on metalloenzymes and porous solids. The department encourages interdisciplinary approaches to science, and there is much collaboration among members of the department and scientists and students from other faculties such as physics and the life sciences.

I. Averbukh
ilya.averbukh@weizmann.ac.il

Atomic and molecular wave packets, ultra-fast optical phenomena.

Laser control of molecular orientation.

Manipulation of atoms and molecules by laser fields, atom lithography.

A. Burshtein 
anatoly.burshtein@weizmann.ac.il

Theory of transfer reactions in solutions
A. Burshtein, V. Gladkikh

1.  Remote electron transfer in radical ion pairs

2.  Spin forbiden recombination of radical ions and exciplexes

3.  Concentration dependence of contact reactions in non-binary theories

4.  Viscosity and magnetic field effects in transfer reactions in solutions

Hopping and diffusional reactions of solvated electron

L. Frydman
lucio.frydman@weizmann.ac.il

Development of new methods in nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging analysis.

Application of novel magnetic resonance methods to the study of new materials, bioinorganic metal-binding processes, liquid crystalline phases.

D. Goldfarb
daniella.goldfarb@weizmann.ac.il

Study of mesoporous and microporous materials by pulsed EPR/ENDOR.

Studies of the structure of paramagnetic active sites in metalloenzymes and model compounds by pulsed ESR and pulse ENDOR.

High field EPR/ENDOR spectroscopy.

G. Haran 
gilad.haran@weizmann.ac.il

Single-molecule Raman spectroscopy as a probe of surface dynamics

Protein conformational and association dynamics studied with single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

Protein folding studied on the level of the individual molecule.

G. Kurizki
gershon.kurizki@weizmann.ac.il

Quantum optics of cold atoms .

Superluminal effects in optics.

Quantum and nonlinear optics in photonic band gap structures.

Control of quantum states and decoherence.

R. Naaman 
ron.naaman@weizmann.ac.il

Penetration of electrons through chiral molecular monolayers
R. Naaman, Zeev Vager, Dep. of Particle Physics

Electron transmission through organized organic thin films.

Molecular controlled semiconductor electronic devices.

Molecular electronics
R. Naaman, David Cahen, Mordechai Sheves

Electronic and magnetic properties of organized organic thin films
R. Naaman, Zeev Vager, Dep. of Particle Physics

E. Pollak 
eli.pollak@weizmann.ac.il

Reaction rate theory in condensed phases, quantum theory of tunneling in dissipative systems, classical and quantum mechanical energy transfer in dissipative systems.

Theory of electron transfer reactions, Cooling and thermometry of polyatomic molecules in excited electronic states, Theory and control of activated surface diffusion, Quantum Monte Carlo methods and inversion of the Laplace transform.

Y. Prior 
yehiam.prior@weizmann.ac.il

Alignment and orientation of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields.

Strong field nonlinear optics.

Preparation and probing of excited molecules by ultrashort shaped femtosecond pulses.

femtosecond laser material processing

I. Procaccia 
itamar.procaccia@weizmann.ac.il

Turbulence.

Fractals and scaling in nonequilibrium physics.

Complex growth problems.

M. Shapiro 
moshe.shapiro@weizmann.ac.il

Quantum theory of elementary exchange reactions, quantum chaos and intramolecular dynamics.

Quantum information and computing.

Control of chemical reactions using coherent light, experiments on coherent control with nonlinear optics.

Theory of photodissociation and photo recombination processes, theory of laser catalysis, strong field effects.

D. Tannor
d.tannor@weizmann.ac.il

Control of chemical reactions with tailored femtosecond pulses.

Laser cooling of molecules.

Quantum theory of dissipation and chemical reactions in solution.

Semiclassical theory of reactive scattering.

S. Vega
shimon.vega@weizmann.ac.il

NMR studies of semiconductor CdS nanoparticles.

CPMAS solid state NMR for interatomic distance measurements in organic materials and polypeptides.

MQMAS of 17O, 23Na and 27Al nuclei in solids.

NMR of multispin systems, theory and experiments.

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