Prof. Abraham
Ben-Reuven
+972-3-6408565 
+972-3-6409293 
abram@post.tau.ac.il
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Chairperson
of Chemistry 1980-1984
JILA
visiting fellow 1979-1980
Previous
and Present Topics of Research:
- Thermodynamics of irreversible phenomena.
- Light scattering in fluids.
- Collision broadening of spectral lines.
- Collision induced fluorescence.
- Spectral line shapes in systems far from equilibrium.
- Molecular dynamics in strong radiation fields.
- Radiatively-damped collisions in ultracold atoms.
- Collision induced losses in Bose-Einstein condensates.
- Formation of Molecular Bose-Einstein condensates.
List of Recent Group Publications:
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Incomplete optical shielding in cold atom traps: three-dimensional
Landau-Zener theory.
Phys. Rev. A 55, 3772-3779
(1997).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Multistate curve crossing: an exactly soluble model with degeneracy.
J. Phys B 31, 1-13 (1998).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A. Channel interference in optical
collisions of cold atom beams.
J. Phys. Chem. A 102,
9476-9481 (1998).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A., Julienne P. S., Band Y. B.
Counterintuitive transitions in multistate curve crossing involving
linear potentials.
J. Phys. B 32, 1845-1857
(1999).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A., Williams C. J. and Julienne P. S.
Atom loss from Bose-Einstein condensate due to Feshbach resonance.
Phys. Rev. A 60, R765-R768
(1999).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Saturated transitions in exactly soluble models of two-state curve
crossing with time-dependent potentials.
Phys. Rev. A 60, 4561-4566
(1999).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A., Williams C. J. and Julienne P. S.
Atom loss and the formation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate by
Feshbach resonance.
Phys. Rev. A 62, 043605
(2000), 12 pages.
Yurovsky V. A. and Ben-Reuven A.
Curve crossing in linear potential grids: the quasidegeneracy
approximation.
Phys. Rev. A 63, 043404
(2001), 8 pages.
Vardi A., Yurovsky V. A., Anglin J. R.
Quantum effects on the dynamics of a two-mode atom-molecule
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Phys. Rev. A, 64, 063611
(2001), 5 pages.
Yurovsky V. A.
Quantum effects on dynamics of instabilities in Bose-Einstein
condensates.
Phys. Rev. A 65, 033605
(2002), 11 pages.
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A., Julienne P. S.
Quantum effects on curve crossing in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Phys. Rev. A 65, 043607
(2002), 5 pages.
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Formation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate and an
entangled atomic gas by Feshbach resonance.
Phys. Rev. A 67, 043611
(2003), 8 pages.
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Generalized parametric approximation and a hybrid atom-molecule quantum
gas.
Laser Physics 13,
1095-1101 (2003).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Three-body loss of trapped ultracold 87Rb atoms due to a
Feshbach resonance.
Phys. Rev. A 67, 050701(R)
(2003), 4 pages.
Yurovsky V .A., Ben-Reuven A.
Atom loss from the 85Rb Bose-Einstein condensate by a
Feshbach resonance.
J. Phys. B 36, L335-L340
(2003).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Formation of molecules in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate.
Phys. Rev. A 70, 013613
(2004), 5 pages.
Yurovsky V. A.
Feshbach resonance scattering under cylindrical harmonic confinement.
Phys. Rev. A 71, 012709
(2005), 7 pages.
Yurovsky V. A.
Formation of molecules and entangled atomic pairs from atomic BEC due
to Feshbach resonances.
In Soft Condensed Matter: New Research. (Nova Science Publishers,
Hauppauge, NY, 2005), 40 pages
(in press).
Yurovsky V. A., Ben-Reuven A.
Formation of molecules from a Cs Bose-Einstein condensate.
cond-mat/0505180
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