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| Research interests and experience |
- Quantum and Atom Optics
- Bose-Einstein Condensation and Atom Lasers
- Degenerate Fermi gases
- Coupled atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
- Photo-association and Feshbach resonances
- Macroscopic correlations and entanglement in quantum atom optics
- Quantum gases in systems of reduced dimensionality
- Pair correlations in one-dimensional Bose gases
- Quantum and Classical Soliton Theory
- Nonlinear Optics
- Squeezed and Non-classical States of Light
- Phase-Space Representation Theory
| Current research projects |
- Quantum atom optics with molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
- Fermion and boson correlations in molecular dissociation
- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and Bell's inequalities in ultracold quantum gases
- Atomic-molecular Bose gases in Optical Lattices
- Thermomentry of 1D Bose gases
- Non-local pair correlations in 1D Bose gases
| Most significant contributions to the field |
Citation: Karen Kheruntsyan made important pioneering contributions to the theory of coupled atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates and produced a number original proposals for the generation of strongly correlated and entangled atomic ensembles using molecular dissociation. In addition, he is well known for his fundamental contribution to the theory of atom-atom pair correlations in one-dimensional (1D) Bose gases. His work has led to a number of breakthrough experiments in leading laboratories around the world. These include the Nobel Prize winning research labs of C. Wieman at JILA and W. Phillips at NIST. The JILA group was the first to observe coherent oscillations between atomic and molecular condensates, predicted by Kheruntsyan. Similarly, the group at NIST performed the world-first measurement of atom pair correlations in a 1D Bose gas, in excellent agreement with Kheruntsyan's earlier theoretical predictions.
Karen Kheruntsyan's high research impact is summarized as follows: total number of journal articles – 42; total number of citations received – 494 (ISI Science Citation Index); 24% of publications since 1998 are published in the discipline's leading journal Physical Review Letters. Two most cited papers have received 139 and 109 citations. For comparison, only 2,340 publications in the entire history of Physical Review (from 1893 to June 2003) have received more than 100 citations [Physics Today, June 2005, p.49].
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