:Ronnie Kosloff
{{Short description|Professor (born 1948}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|07|26}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles
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| fields = Theoretical chemistry, quantum thermodynamics
| workplaces = The Hebrew University
| alma_mater = Hebrew University
| doctoral_advisor = Raphael David Levine
| academic_advisors = Stuart A. Rice
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| awards = {{no wrap|Feher Prize for distinguished researchers in science (1995)
Kolthoff Prize(2003)
The Israel Chemical Society Prize of Excellence (2007)}}
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Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew: רוני קוזלוב; born July 26, 1948) is a professor of theoretical chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Education and career
Ronnie Kosloff grew up in Jerusalem and then moved to Haifa in Israel. He graduated from Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1966.
He joined the armoured corps of the Israel Defence Force. He studied at the Hebrew University from 1969
to 1978 when he obtained his PhD. From 1978 to 1980 he was a post doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.
Ronnie Kosloff joined the Hebrew University faculty at 1981 where he serves as a Sonneborn professor of theoretical chemistry.
Research
Ronnie Kosloff contributed to the theory of quantum molecular dynamics.
He developed methods to follow the evolution of a molecular system by solving the time dependent Schrödinger equation.{{cite journal | last1=Kosloff | first1=D | last2=Kosloff | first2=R | title=A fourier method solution for the time dependent Schrödinger equation as a tool in molecular dynamics | journal=Journal of Computational Physics | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=52 | issue=1 | year=1983 | issn=0021-9991 | doi=10.1016/0021-9991(83)90015-3 | pages=35–53| bibcode=1983JCoPh..52...35K }}{{cite journal | last1=Tal-Ezer | first1=H. | last2=Kosloff | first2=R. | title=An accurate and efficient scheme for propagating the time dependent Schrödinger equation | journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=81 | issue=9 | year=1984 | issn=0021-9606 | doi=10.1063/1.448136 | pages=3967–3971| bibcode=1984JChPh..81.3967T | doi-access=free }}
Together with David Tannor and Stuart A Rice they originated the pump-dump scheme for coherent control.
{{cite journal | last1=Tannor | first1=David J. | last2=Kosloff | first2=Ronnie | last3=Rice | first3=Stuart A. | title=Coherent pulse sequence induced control of selectivity of reactions: Exact quantum mechanical calculations | journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=85 | issue=10 | date=1986-11-15 | issn=0021-9606 | doi=10.1063/1.451542 | pages=5805–5820| bibcode=1986JChPh..85.5805T | s2cid=94455480 }}{{cite journal | last1=Kosloff | first1=R. | last2=Rice | first2=S.A. | last3=Gaspard | first3=P. | last4=Tersigni | first4=S. | last5=Tannor | first5=D.J. | title=Wavepacket dancing: Achieving chemical selectivity by shaping light pulses | journal=Chemical Physics | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=139 | issue=1 | year=1989 | issn=0301-0104 | doi=10.1016/0301-0104(89)90012-8 | pages=201–220| bibcode=1989CP....139..201K }} The idea of coherent control was extended to Unitary transformations, a key
ingredient in quantum gates.{{cite journal | last1=Palao | first1=José P. | last2=Kosloff | first2=Ronnie | title=Quantum Computing by an Optimal Control Algorithm for Unitary Transformations | journal=Physical Review Letters | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=89 | issue=18 | date=2002-10-14 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.89.188301 | page=188301| pmid=12398642 |arxiv=quant-ph/0204101| bibcode=2002PhRvL..89r8301P | s2cid=9237548 }}
More recent work is on coherent control of binary chemical reactions.{{cite journal | last1=Levin | first1=Liat | last2=Skomorowski | first2=Wojciech | last3=Rybak | first3=Leonid | last4=Kosloff | first4=Ronnie | last5=Koch | first5=Christiane P. |author-link5=Christiane Koch| last6=Amitay | first6=Zohar | title=Coherent Control of Bond Making | journal=Physical Review Letters | volume=114 | issue=23 | date=2015-06-10 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.114.233003 | page=233003| pmid=26196798 |arxiv=1411.1542| bibcode=2015PhRvL.114w3003L | s2cid=32145743 }}
Ronnie Kosloff originated the dynamical study of quantum heat engines.{{cite journal | last=Kosloff | first=Ronnie | title=A quantum mechanical open system as a model of a heat engine | journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=80 | issue=4 | date=1984-02-15 | issn=0021-9606 | doi=10.1063/1.446862 | pages=1625–1631| bibcode=1984JChPh..80.1625K }} This study is part of the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics.
Honors and awards
Ronnie Kosloff is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and Academia Europaea.
He won the Feher Prize for distinguished researchers in science in 1995. He won the Kolthoff Prize of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2003.[http://www.technion.ac.il/technion/chemistry/events/kolth_03.html Kolthoff Prize] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717210009/http://www.technion.ac.il/technion/chemistry/events/kolth_03.html |date=2011-07-17 }}
He won the Israel Chemical Society Prize of Excellence in 2007.[https://www.chemistry.org.il/outstanding-scientist] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090504/http://www.chemistry.org.il/en/prizes |date=2014-08-19 }}
He is an Alexander von Humboldt fellow 2019.
References
External links
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- [http://www.iaqms.org/members/kosloff.php His International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science page]
- [https://scholars.huji.ac.il/ronniekosloff His University web pages]
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Category:Scientists from Los Angeles
Category:Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science