The Department of Physics of Complex Systems has research programs in applied physics, including optics (holography, image processing, non-linear effects in optical fibers, electro-optics, planar optics and ultrafast optics, atomic lithography and laser cooling, and trapping of atoms). In condensed matter, research is concentrated on theory and experiment (in particular micromagnetics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, crystal and thin film growth, clustering of data, protein folding, liquid crystals, colloids, complex fluids, flame and wet front propagation, and membranes). Experimental and theoretical hydrodynamics concentrates on spatio-temporal chaos, Rayleigh-Benard convection, and turbulence. String theory and conformal field theory, quantum chaos, and in physics of bio-systems are also studied.

Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/physics/complex/complex.home.html

N. Davidson

Laser cooling and trapping of atoms and Bose Einstein Condensation.

Atomic optics, interferometry and chaos.

Quantum tunneling and reflection of ultra cold atoms.

E. Domany

Computational Physics

1. Protein folding.

2. Clustering of Data.

3. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~fedomany

G. Falkovich

Cloud turbulence and rain.

Intermittency in Turbulence.

Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fnfal

A.A. Friesem

Optical Information Processing.

Diffractive Optical Elements and Planar Optics.

Photonic Devices.

D. Kandel

Dynamics of atomic steps on crystalline surfaces.

Epitaxical growth of strained films.

Exact continuum modeling of discrete systems.

Statistical mechanics of membranes with embedded inclusions.

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fekandel/

E. Moses

Neuronal Chips.

EEG and Brain Activity.

Motors and Cell Division.

High Resolution Imaging in Cells.

Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~fnmoses

D. Mukamel

Collective phenomena in systems far from thermal equilibrium.

Coarsening processes and slow dynamics.

Modulated structures in liquid crystalline films.

Denaturation transition in DNA molecules.

A. Schwimmer

String theory.

Conformal field theory.

Dynamics of gauge theory.

Y. Silberberg

Nonlinear optics and soitons.

Ultrafast optics and coherent control.

Nonlinear microscopy.

Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~feyaron

U. Smilansky

Quantum chaos.

Chaotic scattering.

Semi-classical quantization.

J. Stavans

Physics of membranes.

Single-Molecule Biological Physics.

Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~festava

V. Steinberg

Physical hydrodynamics, pattern dynamics of non-equilibrium systems

1. Hydrodynamics of polymer solutions.

2. Turbulent mixing by polymers.

3. Dynamics and conformation of a single polymer molecule in complex flows.

4. Development of measurement of vorticity distribution in a turbulent flow.

5. Convective turbulence in a fluid near the gas-liquid critical point.

6. Microfluidics: mixing, cell separation,chaotic flows.

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~fnstein

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