Group Members

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Prof. Eric Akkermans

 

Current PhD Students

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Current Master Students

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Research Associates

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Former Master Students

1. Alon Strugatsky
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2024).
   • Coherent Transport in Topological Mesoscopic Materials
2. Tom Shindelman
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2020).
   • Spacetime near the Planck scale as an aperiodic tiling.
3. Yuval Abulafia
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2020).
   • Influence of STM measurements on vacancies in graphene.
4. Amit Goft
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2020).
   • Hubbard model on bipartite lattices: zero modes and entangled spin states.
5. Ariane Soret
   • Master thesis (École Normale Supérieure & Technion, 2015).
   • Quantum dynamics for a fractal spectrum – Applications to simple processes in electrodynamics and quantum optics.
6. Moshe Diamant
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2010).
   • Effect of Polarization on Coherent Back Scattering.
7. Amos Schtalheim
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2006).
   • Topological defects in the Cholesteric-Nematic transition in liquid crystals.
8. Maria Kouchnir
   • Master thesis (Technion, 2005).
   • Mesoscopic transport of spins particles.
9. Dimitri Gangardt
   • Master thesis (Technion, 1995).
   • Semiclassical description of the excitations of a Fermi liquid within the random phase approximation.

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Former PhD Students

1. Boris Rotstein (Timchenko)
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2022).
   • Out of equilibrium heat transfer in atomic systems..
2. Yaroslav Don
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2021).
   • Topological Properties of Aperiodic Tilings and Fractals.
3. Ariane Soret
   • PhD thesis (École Polytechnique & Technion, 2019).
   • Destabilizing coherence and induced forces.
4. Omrie Ovdat
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2019).
   • Scale and Parity Symmetry Breaking in Graphene: Universality, Discrete Scale Invariance and Vacuum charge.
5. Dor Gitelman
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2017).
   • Physical Properties of Self-similar Systems – Applications to Fractals and Quasiperiodic Tilings.
6. Eli Levy
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2016).
   • Topological Properties of Quasiperiodic Chains: Structural and Spectral Analysis.
7. Ohad Shpielberg
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2016).
   • Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Electric Networks, Energy Forms and the Additivity Principle.
8. Tal Goren
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2016).
   • Study of the Dynamics of Quantum Vacuum Using Ramsey Interference.
9. Aharon Gero
   • PhD thesis (Technion, 2008).
   • Cooperative effects in the multiple scattering of photons by atomic gases.
10. Ohad Assaf
    • PhD thesis (Technion, 2007).
    • Intensity Correlations in the Multiple Scattering of Light by Cold Atomic Gases.
11. Dimitri Gangardt
    • PhD thesis (Technion, 2001).
    • Effects of interactions in mesoscopic systems.
12. Dominique Spehner
    • (french cooperation).
    • Distribution function of Chern numbers on fractal structures. Semiclassical description of edge states in quantum Hall systems.
13. Nir Gov
    • PhD thesis (Technion, 1998).
    • Characterization of Superfluidity of ⁴He.
14. Romanas Narevich
    • PhD thesis (Technion, 1997).
    • Some properties of the magnetic response of mesoscopic quantum systems.
15. Yehuda Roth
    • PhD thesis (Technion, 1995).
    • Induced currents in thin samples in the quantum Hall regime.

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Former Post Doctorate Assistants

1. Evgeni Gurevich
   • KLA-Tencor, Israel.
   • Quantum mechanics in fractal systems (2011–2013).
2. Venketeswara Pai
   • Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India.
   • Zeno effect and Coulomb interactions in low dimensional mesoscopic metallic systems.
3. Sankalpa Gosh
   • Indian Institute of Technology, India.
   • Vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates and localization of matter waves (2002–2005).
4. Kirone Mallick
   • Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay, France.
   • Mesoscopic superconductors (1997–99).

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