Moshe Shapiro

Professor
( Joint with Physics )

Office: Chemistry D407
Office Phone: (604) 822-8449
Lab(s): D432
Lab Phone(s): 2-8374

FAX: (604) 822-2847
Email: mshapiro@chem.ubc.ca

Curriculum Vitae: Presently the Canada Research Chair Professor in Quantum Control. From 1983, The Jacques Mimran Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. Winner of the Landau Prize, The Kolthoff prize, The Weizmann Prize and The Israel Chemical Society Prize. Author (together with P. Brumer) of the book "Principles of Quantum Control of Molecular Processes" (John Wiley & Sons, 2003)

Chemical Physics: Theory and experiments on the control of molecular, atomic, and photonic processes with coherent light. Quantum Pattern recognition, Coherent Chiral Separation and the coherent suppression of spontaneous emission, decoherence and other decay processes

  Experimental Collaborations     Publications [PDF]  

Research/Teaching Interests

Main Research Interests Laser Control of Chemical Reactions Theory of photodissociation and photorecombination processes Laser Catalysis Quantum Computing and Decoherence Transition State Spectroscopy Potential Inversion and Wavefunction Imaging Strong Field Phenomena in Atoms and Molecules Quantum theory of elementary exchange reactions Foundations of quantum mechanics

Some recent papers

• Quantum State Holography
  (C. Leichtle, W. Schleich, I. Sh. Averbukh and M. Shapiro),
  Phys. Rev. Letters 80 (1998) 1418

• Laser Catalysis with Pulses
  (A. Vardi, and M. Shapiro), Phys. Rev. A,  58 (1998) 1532

• Population trapping and Laser Induced Continuum Structures in He
  (T. Halfmann, L.P. Yatsenko, M. Shapiro, B.W. Shore and K. Bergmann),
  Phys. Rev. A (rapid communication),  58(1998) R46.

• A Uniform Theory of Preparation, Dissociation, and Product Formation in the Decay of Overlapping Resonances,
  (M. Shapiro),
  J. Phys. Chem., 102,  (1998) 9570-9576.

• Coherent Enhancement and Suppression of Reactive Scattering and Tunneling,
  (E. Frishman, M. Shapiro and P. Brumer),
  J. Chem. Phys, 110,  (1999) 9-11.

• Coherent Control of Atomic, Molecular and Electronic Processes
  (M. Shapiro and P. Brumer),
  in Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 42, pp. 287-343 (Academic Press, San Diego, 1999) B. Bederson and H. Walther - editors.

• Association, Dissociation, and the Acceleration and Suppression of Reactions by Laser Pulses,
  M. Shapiro,
  Adv. Chem. Phys., vol. 114 (2000).

• Coherently Controlled Asymmetric Synthesis with Achiral Light,
  (M. Shapiro, E. Frishman, and P. Brumer),
  Phys. Rev. Lett.,  (2000)84, 1669.

• Identical Collision Partners in the Coherent Control of Bimolecular Reactions,
  ( Brumer, K. Bergmann, and M. Shapiro),
  J. Chem. Phys, 113 ,  (2000) 2053 (Communication).

• Coherently Controlled Nanoscale Molecular Deposition
  (B.K. Dey, M. Shapiro and P. Brumer),
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3125 (2000).