Shaul Mukamel

Professor of Chemistry
Telephone: (716)-275-3080
Email: samu@db1.cc.rochester.edu



Research Interests

Ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy of isolated molecules, clusters, and in condensed phases; Solvation dynamics and intermolecular interactions in liquids; Cooperative electronic excitations and optical response of confined excitons in conjugated polymers, organic superlattices and semiconductor nanostructures; Optical materials; Nonlocal quantum electrodynamics and many-body effects in nonlinear optics; Biological electron and energy transer in the photosynthetic reaction center and antenna systems; Transport and quantum localization in disordered materials. Recently, Prof. Mukamel completed a graduate-level textbook entitled, Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy, for use in a course for Physics, Chemistry, Optics, Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering students.


Recent Publications

"Electronic Coherence and Collective Optical Excitations of Conjugated Molecules", S.Mukamel, S. Tretiak, T. Wagersreiter and V. Chernyak, Science Aug. 8: 277(5327),78 (1997).

"Density-Matrix-Electronic-Oscillator Representation of Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals", S. Yokojima, T. Meier and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 3837-3853 (1997).

"Size-Consistent Quasiparticle Representation of Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities in Many-Electron Systems", V. Chernyak and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 104 (1996).

"Classical Chaos and Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations for Nonlinear Response", S. Mukamel, V. Khidekel, and V. Chernyak, Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Commun.) 53, 1-4 (1996).

"Femtosecond Spectroscopic Signatures of Electronic Correlations in Conjugated Polyenes and Semiconductor Nanostructures", T. Meier and S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3471(1996).

"High-Order Echoes in Vibrational Spectroscopy of Liquids", V. Khidekel and S. Mukamel,Chem. Phys. Lett. 240, 304-314 (1995).

"Semiclassical Theory of Molecular Nonlinear Optical Polarization", M. A. Sepulveda and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 102, 9327-9344 (1995).

"Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Intermolecular Vibrations in Molecular Dimers", Y. Tanimura and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 1981-1894 (1995).

"Time-Dependent Density Functional in Liouville Space Based on the Reduced Electron Density Matrix", V. Chernyak and S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. A 52, 3601-3621 (1995).

"Anharmonic Oscillator Representation of Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities of a Charged Soliton, a Neutral Soliton and a Polaron in Conjugated Polymers", A. Takahashi and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 7144-7155 (1995).

"Reduced Electronic Density Matrices, Effective Hamiltonians, and Nonlinear Susceptibilities of Conjugated Polyenes", G. Chen and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 9355-9362 (1995).

"Generalized Sum Rules for Optical Nonlinearities of Many-Electron Systems", V. Chernyak and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 7640-7644 (1995).

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