Dr. David E. Weeks
Professor of Physics
Research Interests
Atomic and Molecular Physics - Wave packet propagation, reactive scattering, non-adiabatic chemistry, molecular reaction dynamics, Rovibrational dynamics and spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, high resolution molecular spectroscopy, molecular symmetry, rotation-vibration coupling, non-linear dynamics, C60.
Molecular Physics - Rovibrational dynamics and spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, high resolution molecular spectroscopy, molecular symmetry, rotation - vibration coupling, non - linear dynamics, C60.
Computational and Theoretical Chemistry - Classical and Quantum Molecular dynamics simulations, Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, Reactive scattering, Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Nonadiabatic dynamics.
Laser Modeling and Simulation - Diode pumped alkali lasers, rare gas lasers, unstable resonators, high gain systems, fiber lasers.
Quantum Information – Foundational elements of quantum information technologies, entanglement, quantum computing.
Computer graphics – Software development for animation and visualization of complicated molecular dynamics. Especially for teaching and presentation purposes.
Mathematical Physics – Applied group theory.
Condensed Matter Physics – Envelope function theory, Quantum well structures.
Quantum Information Theory – Quantum Computing, Entanglement, Quantum Sensing.