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Dr. Christiane Koch

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Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Arnimallee 14
14195 Berlin
Germany

phone: +49-30-838-56116
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Publications

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Preprints

Papers published in peer-reviewed journals

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-5948-2008
  1. Fabian Weise, Andrea Merli, Frauke Eimer, Sascha Birkner, Franziska Sauer, Ludger Wöste, Albrecht Lindinger, Wenzel Salzmann, Terence G Mullins, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Ruzin Ağanoğlu and Christiane P Koch
    Characteristic oscillations in the coherent transients of ultracold rubidium molecules using red and blue detuned pulses for photoassociation
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.. 42, 215307 (2009)
    Abstract and PDF
  2. F. Eimer, F. Weise, A. Merli, S. Birkner, F .Sauer, L. Wöste, A. Lindinger, R. Ağanoğlu, C. P. Koch, W. Salzmann, T. Mullins, S. Götz, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller
    Spectrally resolved coherent transient signal for ultracold rubidium molecules
    Eur. Phys. J. D 54, 711 (2009)
    Abstract and PDF
  3. Subhas Ghosal, Richard J. Doyle, Christiane P. Koch, and Jeremy M. Hutson
    Stimulating the production of deeply bound RbCs molecules with laser pulses: the role of spin-orbit coupling in forming ultracold molecules
    New J. Phys. 11, 055011 (2009) (arXiv:0810.5703)
    Abstract and PDF
  4. Christiane P. Koch, Mamadou Ndong and Ronnie Kosloff
    Two-photon coherent control of femtosecond photoassociation
    Faraday Discussions 142, 389 (2009) (arXiv:0810.5738)
    Abstract and PDF
  5. Mamadou Ndong, Hillel Tal-Ezer, Ronnie Kosloff, and Christiane P. Koch
    A Chebychev propagator for inhomogeneous Schrödinger equations
    J. Chem. Phys. 130, 124108 (2009) (arXiv:0812.4428)
    Abstract and PDF
  6. Christiane P. Koch
    Perspectives for coherent optical formation of strontium molecules in their electronic ground state
    Phys. Rev. A 78, 063411 (2008) (arXiv:0811.0015)
    Abstract and PDF
  7. Christiane P. Koch and Robert Moszynski
    Engineering an all-optical route to ultracold molecules in their vibronic ground state
    Phys. Rev. A 78, 043417 (2008) (arXiv:0810.0179)
    Abstract and PDF
  8. José P. Palao, Ronnie Kosloff, and Christiane P. Koch
    Protecting coherence in Optimal Control Theory: State dependent constraint approach
    Phys. Rev. A 77, 063412 (2008) (arXiv:0803.0921)
    Abstract and PDF
  9. H. K. Pechkis, D. Wang, Y. Huang, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley, C. P. Koch
    Enhancement of the formation of ultracold 85Rb2 molecules due to resonant coupling
    Phys. Rev. A 76, 022504 (2007) (arXiv:0707.2401)
    Abstract and PDF
  10. Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff, Eliane Luc-Koenig, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, and Anne Crubellier
    Photoassociation with chirped laser pulses : Calculation of the absolute number of molecules per pulse
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, S1017 (2006)
    Abstract and PDF
  11. Ulrich Poschinger, Wenzel Salzmann, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff
    Theoretical model for ultracold molecule formation via adaptive feedback control
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, S1001 (2006) (physics/0604140)
    Abstract and PDF
  12. Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
    Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D1 line
    Phys. Rev. A 73, 043409 (2006) (physics/0511235)
    Abstract and PDF
  13. Christiane P. Koch, Eliane Luc-Koenig, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
    Making ultracold molecules in a two color pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses
    Phys. Rev. A 73, 033408 (2006) (physics/0508090)
    Abstract and PDF
  14. Sören Dittrich, Hans-Joachim Freund, Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff, and Thorsten Klüner
    Two-dimensional surrogate Hamiltonian investigation of laser-induced desorption of NO/NiO(100)
    J. Chem. Phys. 124, 024702 (2006)
    Abstract and PDF
  15. Christiane P. Koch, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, Ronnie Kosloff
    Creating Ground State Molecules with Optical Feshbach Resonances in Tight Traps
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 193001 (2005) (quant-ph/0412166)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  16. Christiane P. Koch, José P. Palao, Ronnie Kosloff, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
    Stabilization of Ultracold Molecules Using Optimal Control Theory
    Phys. Rev. A 70, 013402 (2004) (quant-ph/0402066)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  17. David Gelman, Christiane P. Koch, Ronnie Kosloff
    Dissipative quantum dynamics with the Surrogate Hamiltonian approach. A comparison between spin and harmonic baths
    J. Chem. Phys. 121, 661 (2004) (quant-ph/0402144)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  18. Christiane P. Koch, Thorsten Klüner, Hans-Joachim Freund and Ronnie Kosloff
    Surrogate Hamiltonian Study of of electronic relaxation in the femtosecond laser induced desorption of NO/NiO(100)
    J. Chem. Phys. 119, 1750-1765 (2003)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  19. Christiane P. Koch, Thorsten Klüner, Hans-Joachim Freund and Ronnie Kosloff
    Femtosecond Photodesorption of Small Molecules from Surfaces: A Theoretical Investigation from First Principles
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 117601 (2003)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  20. Christiane P. Koch, Thorsten Klüner and Ronnie Kosloff
    A complete quantum description of an ultrafast pump-probe charge transfer event in condensed phase
    J. Chem. Phys. 116, 7983-7996 (2002)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  21. Christiane Koch and Bernd Esser
    Spin-boson Hamiltonian and optical absorption of molecular dimers
    Phys. Rev. A 61, 022508 (2000) (quant-ph/9911042)
    Abstract and gzipped PS/PDF
  22. Christiane Koch and Bernd Esser
    Spectrum, lifetime distributions and relaxation in a dimer with strong excitonic-vibronic coupling
    J. Lumin. 81, 171-181 (1999)
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Conference proceedings

Book contributions

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Short CV

since 2007 Project leader in collaboration with Ronnie Kosloff from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel of project C8 Control of light by ultracold matter within the SFB 450: Analysis and control of ultrafast photoinduced reactions
since 2006 Head of the junior research group Coherent and Optimal Control of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules in the Dept. of Physics of the Freie Universität Berlin, funded within the Emmy Noether programme of the DFG
2003-2006 Postdoc with Françoise Masnou-Seeuws in the cold molecule group (theory) at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton Orsay, France and in the group of Ronnie Kosloff at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel with a research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and within the European Research & Training network Cold Molecules
2003 Otto Hahn Medal 2002 of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
2002-2003 Postdoc in the theory group of the Dept. of Chemical Physics at FHI Berlin
2002 PhD in theoretical physics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1999-2001 Research stays with Ronnie Kosloff at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem and The University of Colorado at Boulder
1998-2002 PhD student with Thorsten Klüner and Hans-Joachim Freund in the Dept. of Chemical Physics at FHI Berlin
1998 WE Heraeus award
1998 Diplom in physics from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Diplom thesis "Signatures Of Chaos In A Generalized Spin Boson Model" (in German) supervised by Bernd Esser
1995/96 Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas at Austin
1992-1998 physics student at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1991/92 Studium generale at the Leibniz-Kolleg Tübingen (Et In Arcadia Ego)
1991 Abitur at the Lessing Oberschule Döbeln

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Last modified: 12.08.2009 by Christiane Koch.