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Overview

Eric J. Heller is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans 53 publications in this main field, with significant contributions to several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Materials Chemistry.

The core subjects that define their work include Quantum chaos and dynamical systems, Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Nonlinear Photonic Systems, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, and Graphene research and applications.

Eric J. Heller has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical review. A/Physical review, A
  • Entropy

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric J. Heller include:

  • "Branched flow," 2021, Physics Today
  • "Direct visualization of relativistic quantum scars in graphene quantum dots," 2024, Nature
  • "Coherent charge carrier dynamics in the presence of thermal lattice vibrations," 2022, Physical Review B
  • "Propagation of waves in high Brillouin zones: Chaotic branched flow and stable superwires," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Bragg Scattering from a Random Potential," 2022, Physical Review Letters

Throughout their career, Eric J. Heller has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Anton M. Graf
  • Joonas Keski-Rahkonen
  • Alhun Aydin
  • Álvar Daza
  • Shaobing Yuan

Best Publications

  • Time‐dependent approach to semiclassical dynamics

    Eric J. Heller

  • The semiclassical way to molecular spectroscopy

    Eric J. Heller

  • Bound-State Eigenfunctions of Classically Chaotic Hamiltonian Systems: Scars of Periodic Orbits

    Eric J. Heller

  • Frozen Gaussians: A very simple semiclassical approximation

    Eric J. Heller

  • Time‐dependent theory of Raman scattering

    Soo‐Y. Lee;E. J. Heller

  • Simple aspects of Raman scattering

    Eric J. Heller;Robert Sundberg;David Tannor

  • Quantum corrections to classical photodissociation models

    Eric J. Heller

  • Wigner phase space method: Analysis for semiclassical applications

    Eric J. Heller

  • Coherent branched flow in a two-dimensional electron gas

    M. A. Topinka;B. J. LeRoy;R. M. Westervelt;S. E. J. Shaw

  • Polyatomic Raman scattering for general harmonic potentials

    David J. Tannor;Eric J. Heller

  • Metabolomic Identification of Novel Biomarkers of Myocardial Ischemia

    Marc S. Sabatine;Emerson Liu;David A. Morrow;Eric Heller

  • Imaging coherent electron flow from a quantum point contact

    M. A. Topinka;B. J. LeRoy;S. E. J. Shaw;E. J. Heller

  • Scattering and absorption of surface electron waves in quantum corrals

    E. J. Heller;M. F. Crommie;M. F. Crommie;C. P. Lutz;D. M. Eigler

  • Cellular dynamics: A new semiclassical approach to time‐dependent quantum mechanics

    Eric J. Heller

  • Quantum dynamical tunneling in bound states

    Michael J. Davis;Eric J. Heller

  • Time dependent variational approach to semiclassical dynamics

    Eric J. Heller

  • Photofragmentation of symmetric triatomic molecules: Time dependent picture

    Eric J. Heller

  • Exact time-dependent wave packet propagation: Application to the photodissociation of methyl iodide

    Soo‐Y. Lee;Eric J. Heller

  • Semiclassical Gaussian basis set method for molecular vibrational wave functions

    Michael J. Davis;Eric J. Heller

  • Time dependent formulation of polyatomic photofragmentation: Application to H3+

    Kenneth C. Kulander;Eric J. Heller

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur C. Gossard
Arthur C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeffrey R. Reimers
Jeffrey R. Reimers University of Technology Sydney
Michael F. Crommie
Michael F. Crommie University of California, Berkeley
Yuan Yang
Yuan Yang Columbia University
Kent R. Wilson
Kent R. Wilson University of California, San Diego
Jeffrey I. Zink
Jeffrey I. Zink University of California, Los Angeles
Robert E. Gerszten
Robert E. Gerszten Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jeffrey B. Neaton
Jeffrey B. Neaton University of California, Berkeley
Jordan A. Katine
Jordan A. Katine Western Digital (Japan)
David Prendergast
David Prendergast Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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