Zohar Amitay
Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications
January, 2003
Date and Place of Birth: October 11, 1964 in Tel-Aviv, Israel
Family Status: Married, two children
Citizenship: Israel
Military Service: 1983-1990, System analysis and computer programming, IDF
Academic Degrees
1995-1998: Ph.D. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Thesis: “Experimental Study of Initial and Final States in Dissociative
Recombination of Molecular Ions”
Research Advisor: Prof. Daniel Zajfman
1993-1994: M.Sc. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Thesis: “Measurements of Dissociative Recombination of Internally Cold OH+”
Research Advisor: Prof. Daniel Zajfman
1989-1991: B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude), BarIlan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Academic Appointments
Since October 2001: Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Yigal Alon Fellow)
1998-2001: Postdoctoral Research Associate, JILA, National Institute of
Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry and Department of Physics, Boulder, Colorado, USA,
with Prof. Stephen R. Leone.
Awards and Honors
2001-2004: The Yigal Alon Fellowship, awarded by The Council for Higher
Education in Israel
2001-2002: Konigsberg Career Development Chair, Technion, Israel
1991: Physics department distinction prize, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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External Research Grants
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1/10/2002-31/9/2006, Coherent control of molecules, Israel Science
Foundation, $71,000 per year, principle investigators - Zohar Amitay.
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2001,2002: The James Franck Program in Laser-Matter Interaction.
Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences
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The 14th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators In
Research and Industry, Denton, Texas, USA, November 1996, invited talk:
“Dissociative Recombination of Cold Molecular Ions - Cross Section and
Branching Ratios Measurement”.
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The 44th Israel Physical Society Meeting, Rehovot, Israel, April 1998,
invited talk: “Dissociative Recombination of HD+ - State-to-State Experimental
Investigation Using Fragment Imaging and Storage Ring Techniques”.
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The James-Franck Symposium, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, February 2000,
invited talk: “State-Selective Coherent Phase Control to Manipulate the
Dynamics of Li2 Multistate Rovibrational Wave Packets”.
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Multiphoton Processes Gordon Conference, Tilton, NH, USA, June 2000,
invited talk (hot topic): “State-Selective Coherent Phase Control of Molecular
Wave Packets”.
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MOLEC 2000, The XIIIth European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular
Collisions, Jerusalem, Israel, September 2000, invited talk: “State-Selective
Coherent Phase Control of Molecular Wave Packets”.
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Conference on Cold Molecules 2001: Coherent Control and Cold Molecules,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France, October 2001, invited talk: “Coherent Control of Small
Molecules: Tailored Wave Packets and Information Processing”.
 The James-Franck Symposium, Ringberg Castle, Germany, July 2002,
invited talk: “State-Selective Coherent Control and Quantum Computation”.
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Full List of publications
Papers in Scientific Journals
1. P. Forck, C. Broude, M. Grieser, D. Habs. J. Kenntner, J. Liebmann, R.
Repnow, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, Z. Amitay, and D. Zajfman. ”New
Resonances in the Dissociative Recombination of Vibrationally Cold
CD+'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, pp. 2002-2005 (1994).
2. Z. Amitay, D. Zajfman, and P. Forck. “Rotational and Vibrational Lifetime
of Isotopically Asymmetrized Homonuclear Diatomic Molecular Ions”,
Phys. Rev. A 50, pp. 2304-2308 (1994).
3. D. Zajfman and Z. Amitay. “Measurement of the Vibrational Populations
of Molecular Ions and Its Application to Dissociative Recombination in
Storage Rings'', Phys. Rev. A 52, pp. 839-842 (1995).
4. D. Zajfman, Z. Amitay, C. Broude, P. Forck, B. Seidel, M. Grieser, D.
Habs, D. Schwalm, and A. Wolf. “Measurement of Branching Ratios for
the Dissociative Recombination of Cold HD+ using Fragment Imaging”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, pp. 814-817 (1995).
5. Z. Amitay, D. Zajfman, P. Forck, T. Heupel, M. Grieser, D. Habs, R.
Repnow, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, and S. Guberman. ”Dissociative
Recombination of Cold OH+: Evidence for Indirect Recombination
Through Excited Core Rydberg States", Phys. Rev. A 53, pp. R644-R647
(1996).
6. Z. Amitay, D. Zajfman, P. Forck, U. Hechtfischer, B. Seidel, M. Grieser,
D. Habs, R. Repnow, D. Schwalm, and A. Wolf. “Dissociative
Recombination of CH+: Cross Section and Final States”, Phys. Rev. A 54,
pp. 4032-4050 (1996).
7. J. Semaniak, S. Rosen, G. Sundstrom, C. Stromholm, S. Datz, H.
Danared, M. Af Ugglas, M. Larsson, W. J. van der Zande, Z. Amitay, U.
Hechtfischer, M. Grieser, R. Repnow, M. Schmidt, D. Schwalm, R.
Wester, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman. “Product-State Distributions in the
Dissociative Recombination of 3HeD+ and 4HeH+”, Phys. Rev. A 54, pp.
R4617-R4620 (1996).
8. Z. Amitay and D. Zajfman. “A New Type of Multiparticle ThreeDimensional Imaging Detector with Subnanosecond Time Resolution”,
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 68, pp. 1387-1392 (1997).
9. D. Zajfman, Z. Amitay, M. Lange, U. Hechtfischer, L. Knoll, D. Schwalm,
R. Wester, A. Wolf, and X. Urbain. “Curve Crossing and Branching Ratios
in the Dissociative Recombination of HD+”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, pp. 18291832 (1997).
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10. D. Ben-Hamu, A. Baer, H. Feldman, J. Levin, O. Heber, Z. Amitay, Z.
Vager, and D. Zajfman. “Energy Loss of Fast Clusters Through Matter”,
Phys. Rev. A 56, pp. 4786-4794 (1997).
11. U. Hechtfischer, Z. Amitay, P. Forck, M. Lange, J. Linkemann, M.
Schmitt, U. Schramm, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, D. Zajfman, and A. Wolf.
“Near-Threshold Photodissociation of Cold CH+ in a Storage Ring”, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 80, pp. 2809-2812 (1998).
12. Z. Amitay, A. Baer, M. Dahan, L. Knoll, M. Lange, J. Levin, I. F.
Schneider, D. Schwalm, A. Suzor-Weiner, Z. Vager, R. Wester, A. Wolf,
and D. Zajfman. “Dissociative Recombination of HD+ in Selected
Vibrational Quantum States”, Science 281, pp. 75-78 (1998).
13. Z. Amitay, A. Baer, M. Dahan, J. Levin, Z. Vager, D. Zajfman, L. Knoll, M.
Lange, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, A. Wolf, I. F. Schneider, and A. SuzorWeiner. “Dissociative Recombination of Vibrationally Excited HD+: StateSelective Experimental Investigation”, Phys. Rev. A 60, pp. 3769-3785
(1999).
14. D. Zajfman, Z. Amitay, A. Baer, L. Knoll, M. Lange, J. Levin, D. Schwalm,
R. Wester, A. Wolf, and Z. Vager. “State-Specific Dissociative
Recombination Rates of Molecular Ions'', Comments on Atomic and
Molecular Physics, Comments on Modern Physics, Vol. 1, Part D, pp.
141-153 (1999).
15. R. Uberna, Z. Amitay, R. A. Loomis, and S. R. Leone. “Phase Control of
Wavepacket Dynamics using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses”, Faraday
Discuss. 113, pp. 385-400 (1999).
16. S. Krohn, Z. Amitay, A. Baer, J. Levin, D. Zajfman, M. Lange, L. Knoll, D.
Schwalm, A. Wolf, and R. Wester. “Electron Induced Vibrational DeExcitation of H2+”, Phys. Rev. A. 62, 032713 (2000).
17. Z. Amitay, R. Uberna, and S. R. Leone. “Time-Shifting the Dynamics of
Li2 Multistate Rovibrational Wave Packets by State-Selective Coherent
Phase Control”, Advances in Multiphoton Processes and Spectroscopy
14, pp. 3-14 (2001).
18. L. Pesce, Z. Amitay, R. Uberna, S. R. Leone, M. A. Ratner, and R.
Kosloff. “Quantum Dynamics Simulation of the Ultrafast Photoionization
of Li2”, J. Chem. Phys. 114, pp. 1259-1271 (2001).
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19. J. P. Bouhnik, I. Gertner, B. Rosner, Z. Amitay, O. Heber, D, Zajfman, E.
Y. Sidky, and I. Ben-Itzhak. “Measurements of the Mean Lifetime and
Kinetic Energy Release of Metastable CO2+”, Phys. Rev. A 63, 032509
(2001).
20. Z. Amitay, J. B. Ballard, H. U. Stauffer, and S. R. Leone. “Phase-Tailoring
Molecular Wave Packets to Time-Shift their Dynamics”, Chemical Physics
267/1, pp. 141-149 (2001) (special issue entitled ``Laser Control of
Quantum Dynamics'').
21. R. Uberna, Z. Amitay, C. X. W. Qian, and S. R. Leone. “Ultrafast
Spectroscopy of Wavelength-Dependent Coherent Photoionization
Cross-Sections of Li2 Wave Packets in the E-State: The Role of Rydberg
States”, J. Chem. Phys. 114, pp. 10311-10320 (2001).
22. H. U. Stauffer, J. B. Ballard, Z. Amitay, and S. R. Leone. “Simultaneous
Phase Control of Li2 Wave Packets in Two Electronic States”, J. Chem.
Phys. 116, pp. 946-954 (2002).
23. J. B. Ballard, H. U. Stauffer, Z. Amitay, and S. R. Leone. “Optimization of
Wave Packet Coefficients in Li2 using an Evolutionary Algorithm: The
Role of Resonant and Non-Resonant Wavelengths”, J. Chem. Phys. 116,
pp. 1350-1360 (2002).
24. Z. Amitay, R. Kosloff, and S. R. Leone. “Experimental Coherent
Computation of a Multiple-Input AND gate using Shaped Molecular Wave
Packets”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 359, pp. 8-14 (2002).
25. P. Kral, Z. Amitay, and M. Shapiro. “Analytic Solution of the NonDegenerate Quantum Control Problem”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 063002
(2002).
26. J. Vala, Z. Amitay, B. Zhang, S. R. Leone, and R. Kosloff. “Experimental
Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm for Three-Qubit
Functions using Pure Coherent Molecular Superpositions”, Phys. Rev. A
66, 062316 (2002).
27. Z. Amitay, J. P. Palao, and R. Kosloff, “Experimental scheme for
designing arbitrary molecular unitary transformations induced by shaped
femtosecond pulses”, in preparation.
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Manuscripts in Books
1. D. Zajfman, Z. Amitay, P. Forck, D. Habs, D. Schwalm, and A. Wolf.
“Dissociative Recombination at the TSR Storage Ring: Branching Ratios
with 2D Imaging and New processes”, in Dissociative Recombination:
Theory, Experiment and Applications, World Scientific, 1996.
2. Z. Amitay and D. Zajfman. “Measurement of Vibrational Population of
Molecular Ions and Its Application in Dissociative Recombination in
Storage Rings”, in Dissociative Recombination: Theory, Experiment and
Applications, World Scientific, 1996.
3. Z. Amitay, D. Zajfman, P. Forck, U. Hechtfischer, M. Grieser, D. Habs, D.
Schwalm, and A. Wolf. “Electron Impact Dissociation of Cold CH +: Cross
Sections and Branching Ratios”, in Proceedings of the Fourteenth
International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research
and Industry, pp. 51-54, AIP Press, 1996.
4. J. Vala, Z. Amitay, S. R. Leone, and R. Kosloff. “Implementation of the
Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm with Rovibrational Molecular Wave packets”, in
Proceedings of the International Conference on Quantum Information
(ICQI), Optical Society of America, 2001.
Invited Reviews
1. Z. Amitay, “Coherent Control of Small Molecules for Information
Processing”, Chemical Society Reviews, in preparation.
Participation in Organizing Conferences
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The James-Franck Symposium on “Quantum Control and Coherent
Ultrafast Interactions”, to be take place on March 2003, Jerusalem.
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