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.
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I. Averbukh
Atomic and molecular wave packets, ultra-fast optical phenomena.
Laser control of molecular orientation.
Manipulation of atoms and molecules by laser fields, atom lithography.
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A.I. Burshtein
Photogeneration of ions and radicals in liquid solutions and exciplex formation.
Hopping and reversible reactions of charged particles.
Magnetic field effects in charge separation and photoconductivity.
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L. Frydman
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.
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D. Goldfarb
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.
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G. Haase
Light-induced chemical processes at well-defined semiconductor single-crystal surfaces, are studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), atomically-resolved photovoltage imaging, and laser-induced desorption in ultrahigh vacuum.
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G. Haran
Single molecule spectroscopy of adsorption and diffusion in zeolite-like materials.
Long-time spectral diffusion of single chromophores in proteins as a marker for protein conformational dynamics.
Protein folding studied on the level of the individual molecule.
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G. Kurizki
Quantum optics of cold atoms .
Superluminal effects in optics.
Quantum and nonlinear optics in photonic band gap structures.
Control of quantum states and decoherence.
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V. L'vov
Anomalous scaling in hydrodynamic turbulence.
Anisotropy of turbulence.
Shell models of turbulence.
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R. Naaman
Molecular controlled semiconductor electronic devices.
Laser induced processes in van der Waals molecules: Photochemistry and reaction dynamics.
Electron transfer through organized organic thin films.
Penetration of electrons through chiral molecular monolayers (in collaboration with Z. Vager from the Department of Particle Physics).
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Z. Olami
Front propagation in porous media; the effect of disorder and defects; growth in disordered media.
Dynamics and geometry of glasses.
Flame propagation, pole dynamics noise, fractalization.
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E. Pollak
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.
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Y. Prior
Preparation and probing of excited molecules by ultrashort shaped femtosecond pulses.
Strong field nonlinear optics.
Alignment and orientation of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields.
Near Field Microscopy
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I. Procaccia
Turbulence.
Fractals and scaling in nonequilibrium physics.
Complex growth problems.
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M. Shapiro
Quantum theory of elementary exchange reactions, quantum chaos and intramolecular dynamics.
Control of chemical reactions using coherent light, experiments on coherent control with nonlinear optics.
Quantum information and computing.
Theory of photodissociation and photo recombination processes, theory of laser catalysis, strong field effects.
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D.J. Tannor
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.
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S. Vega
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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