Research topics:
Collision theory, quantum mechanical scattering, light
scattering, nonlinear optics, laser physics and chemistry, atomic and
molecular physics and chemistry, dissociation of molecules, charge
exchange processes, electron transport phenomena in condensed phases,
Bose-Einstein condensation, optimal control theory, thermodynamics
Specific research topics studied in the past include:
Photodissociation of molecules, transport of electrons in small
electronic devices, ultra-cold collision phenomena in laser-cooled atom
traps, Bose-Einstein condensation, coherent matter waves,
thermodynamics of processes occuring in finite time with finite rates,
the relationship of absorption and emission in multilevel systems,
application of the birefringence of solid-state laser media to laser
line narrowing, population transfer in molecules with stimulated Raman
scattering, nonlinear optical properties of molecules, pulse
compression and mode-locking of lasers via processes involving
nonlinear absorption of light, the spectrum of second harmonic
generation, three wave mixing for multimode fields, intracavity and
extracavity second harmonic generation, intracavity and
extracavity Raman processes, pulse compression in fiber Raman lasers,
self-focusing and optical solitons.
Special Research Equipment Available:
Clustered Linux computer network for numerical simulations.
Publications (last five years):
173.
Y. B. Band, M.
Trippenbach, G.W. Bryant, and P. S. Julienne, "Probing Evanescent Modes
from Near-Field Optical Microscopes: Propagation into Anisotropic
Media", Ultra-Microscopy 71, 31-38 (1998).
174. C. Radzewicz, M. Trippenbach, Y. B. Band and J. S.
Krasinski,
"Femtosecond Light Wave Packets", Acta Physica Polonica A93,
237
(1998).
175.
K.-A. Suominen, Y. B.
Band, I. Tuvi, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne, "Quantum and
Semiclassical Calculations of Cold Atom Collisions in Light Fields",
Phys. Rev. A57, 3724-3738 (1998).
176.
M. Trippenbach and
Y. B. Band, "Effects of Self-Steepening and Self-frequency Shifting on
Short-Pulse Splitting in Dispersive Nonlinear Media", Phys. Rev. A57,
4791-4803 (1998).
177. Y. B. Band and M. Trippenbach, "Dynamics of short-intense
pulse
propagation in dispersive media", Proceedings of the SPIE (The
International Society for Optical Engineering,Washington, 1998), Vol.
3264, 132-144.
178.
P. S. Julienne, K.
Burnett, Y. B. Band, W. C. Stwalley, "Stimulated Raman Molecule
Production in Bose-Einstein Condensates", Phys. Rev. A58,
(Rapid
Communication), R797-R780 (1998).
179.
M. Trippenbach, Y. B.
Band, and P. S. Julienne, "Four Wave Mixing in the Scattering of
Bose-Einstein Condensates", Optics Express 3, 530-537 (1998).
180.
Y. Japha, S. Choi, K.
Burnett and Y. B. Band, "Coherent Output, Stimulated Quantum
Evaporation
and Pair Production in a Trapped Atomic Bose Gas", Phys. Rev. Lett. 82,
1079-1083 (1999).
181.
L. Deng, E.W. Hagley,
J. Wen, M. Trippenbach, Y.B. Band, P.S. Julienne, J.E. Simsarian, K.
Helmerson, S.L. Rolston, and W.D. Phillips, "Nonlinear Atom Optics:
Multi-Wave Mixing with Matter Waves", Nature 398, 218-220
(1999).
182.
I. Tuvi and Y. B.
Band, "Non-Adiabatic Coupling using a Corrected Born-Oppenheimer Basis:
The Vibronic Spectrum of HD+", Phys. Rev. A59, 2680-2683
(1999).
183.
Y. B. Band, P. S. Julienne
and M. Trippenbach, "Radio-Frequency Output Coupling of the
Bose-Einstein Condensate in Atom Lasers", Phys. Rev. A59 ,
3823-3831 (1999).
184.
V. A. Yurovsky, A.
Ben-Reuven, P. S. Julienne, and Y. B. Band, "Counterintuitive
Transitions in Multistate Curve-Crossing Involving Linear Potentials",
J. Phys. B32, 1845-1857 (1999).
185. C. Radzewicz, M. Trippenbach, Y. B. Band and J. S.
Krasinski,
"Ultra-short light wavepackets", Proceedings of the SPIE (The
International Society for Optical Engineering,Washington, 1999), Vol.
3609, 130-140.
186. Y. B. Band and M. Trippenbach, "Short-Pulse Splitting and
Pulse
Collisions in Dispersive Nonlinear Media", Proceedings of the SPIE (The
International Society for Optical Engineering,Washington, 1999), Vol.
3609, 141-151.
187.
Y. Avishai, Y. B. Band
and D. Brown, "Conductance Distribution Between Hall Plateaus", Phys.
Rev. B60, 8922 (1999).
188.
I. Tuvi and Y. B.
Band, "Modified Born-Oppenheimer Basis for Non-Adiabatic Coupling:
Application to the Vibronic Spectrum of HD+", J. Chem. Phys. 111,
5808-5823 (1999).
189.
E. W. Hagley, L. Deng,
M. Kozuma, M. Trippenbach, Y. B. Band, M. Edwards, M. Doery, P. S.
Julienne, K. Helmerson, S.L. Rolston, and W.D. Phillips, "Measurement
of
the Coherence of a Bose-Einstein Condensate", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83
, 3112-3115 (1999).
190.
K. Rzazewski, M. Trippenbach, S. J. Singer, and Y. B. Band,
"Statistics of Atomic Populations in Output Coupled Wavepackets from
Bose-Einstein Condensates: Four-Wave Mixing", Phys. Rev. A61,
013606 1-5 (2000).
191.
M. Trippenbach, Y.
B. Band, M. Edwards, M. Doery, and P. S. Julienne, Deng, M. Kozuma, K.
Helmerson, S.L. Rolston, and W.D. Phillips, "Coherence properties of an
atom laser", J. Phys. B33, 47-54 (2000).
192.
S. Kallush and Y. B.
Band, "Short-pulse chirped adiabatic population transfer in diatomic
molecules", Phys. Rev. A61, R41401 1-4 (2000).
193.
Y. B. Band, M.
Trippenbach, J. P. Burke, and P. S. Julienne, "Elastic scattering loss
of atoms from colliding Bose-Einstein condensate wavepackets", Phys.
Rev. Lett. 84, 5462-5465 (2000).
194.
M. Trippenbach, Y. B. Band, and P. S. Julienne, "Theory of Four
Wave Mixing of Matter Waves from a Bose-Einstein Condensate", Phys.
Rev. A62, 23608 1-13 (2000).
195. Y. B. Band, P. S. Julienne and M. Trippenbach, "Nonlinear
Atom
Optics: Four-Wave Mixing", Proceedings of the SPIE (The International
Society for Optical Engineering, Washington, 2000), Vol. 3927, 90-103.
196
. M. Trippenbach, K.Goral, K. Rzazewski, B. Malomed and Y. B.
Band, "Structure of binary Bose-Einstein condensates", J. Phys. B33, 4017-4031 (2000).
197.
G. W. Bryant and Y. B. Band, "T-shaped quantum wires in
magnetic fields: Weakly confined magnetoexcitons beyond the
diamagnetic limit", Phys. Rev. B63,
115304 (2001).
198. M. Trippenbach, Y.B. Band, G.W. Bryant, and Gadi Fibich,
"Nonlinear Optical Pulse Propagation: Expansion to All Orders in
Diffraction and Dispersion", Proceedings of the SPIE (The
International Society for Optical Engineering, Washington, 2001),
Vol. 4271, 121-129.
199.
J-L Kuo, J. V. Coe, S. J. Singer, Y. B. Band and L. Ojamae, "On
the use of graph invariants for efficiently generating hydrogen
bond topologies and predicting physical properties of water
clusters and ice", J. Chem. Phys. 114, 2527-2540 (2001).
200.
Y. B. Band, J. P. Burke, A. Simoni, and P. S. Julienne,
"Suppression of elastic scattering loss for slowly colliding Bose
condensates", Phys. Rev. A64,
023607 1-6 (2001).
201.
Y. B. Band, B. Malomed, M. Trippenbach, "Adiabaticity in Nonlinear
Quantum Dynamics: Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Time-Varying
Box", Phys. Rev. A65, 033607
1-7 (2001).
202.
B. Segev and Y. B. Band, "Electron Magnetic Resonance: The Modified
Bloch Equation", J. Phys. B35,
1085-1094 (2002).
203.
Y. B. Band and M. Trippenbach, "Bose-Einstein Condensates in
Time-Dependent Light Potentials: Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic
Behavior of Nonlinear Wave Equations", Phys. Rev. A65, 053602 1-5
(2002).
204.
Y. Japha and Y. B. Band, "Motion of a condensate in a shaken and
vibrating harmonic trap", J. Phys. B35,
2383–2389 (2002).
205.
M. Trippenbach, W. Wasilewski, P. Kruk, G. W. Bryant, G. Fibich,
Y.B. Band, "An improved nonlinear optical pulse propagation equation",
Opt. Comm. 210, 385-391 (2002).
206.
Y. Band and M. Sokuler, "Momentum-Transfer to and
Elementary-Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate by a
Time-Dependent Optical Potential", Phys. Rev. A66, 043614 1-5 (2002).
207.
S.E. Sklarz, I. Friedler, D.J. Tannor, Y.B. Band and C.J.
Williams, " 'Flat Phase' Loading of a Bose-Einstein Condensate into an
Optical Lattice", Phys. Rev. A66,
053620 1-8 (2002).
208.
Y.B. Band, I. Towers, B. Malomed, "Improved Semiclassical Approximation
for Bose-Einstein Condensates: Application to a BEC in an Optical
Potential", Phys. Rev. A67,
23602 1-11 (2003).
209. M. Matuszewski,
W. Wasilewski, M. Trippenbach, and Y. B. Band, "Self-consistent
treatment of the full vectorial nonlinear optical pulse propagation
equation in an isotropic medium", Optics Communications 221, 337-351
(2003).
210.
M. Trippenbach, M. Matuszewski, E. Infeld, Cao Long Van, R.S. Tasgal,
Y. B. Band, "Enhancement of third harmonic generation by
wave vector mismatch to counter phase-modulation", Optics
Communications 229, 391-335
(2004).
211.
R. Tasgal, M. Trippenbach and Y. B. Band, "Highly nonlinear dynamics of
third-harmonic generation by focused beams", Phys.
Rev. A69, 013809 1-7 (2004).
212.
O. Aharon, B. A. Malomed, Y. B. Band, and U. Mahlab, "Minimization of
the pulse's timing jitter in a dispersion-compensated WDM system",
Optical and Quantum Electronics 36,
349-366 (2004).
212.
O. Aharon, B. A. Malomed, Y. B. Band, and U. Mahlab, "Minimization of
the pulse's timing jitter in a dispersion-compensated WDM system",
Optical and Quantum Electronics 36,
349-366 (2004).
213.
N. Moiseyev, B.A. Malomed, L. D. Carr, Y. B. Band, Transition from
Resonances to Bound States in Nonlinear Systems: Application to
Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Phys. B: At. Molec. Opt. Phys. 37,
L193-L200 (2004).
214.
Y. B. Band, S. Kallush and R. Baer, "Rotational Aspects of short-pulse
population transfer of diatomic molecules", Chem. Phys. Lett. 392,
23-27 (2004).
215.
E. Pazy, A. Vardi, and Y. B. Band, "Conversion Efficiency of Ultracold
Fermionic Atoms to Bosonic Molecules via Feshbach Resonance Sweep
Experiments", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 120409 1-4 (2004).
216.
J. P. Burke Jr., P S. Julienne, C. J. Williams, Y. B. Band, M.
Trippenbach, "Four-Wave Mixing With Multiple Spin States", Phys. Rev.
A70, 033606 1-8 (2004).
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