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Israel
2026

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D-Index
58
Citations
12062
World Ranking
2503
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For discovering innovative approaches to the control of the quantum properties of electromagnetic fields interacting with atomic, molecular, and condensed media

Overview

Gershon Kurizki is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Computer Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's primary research topics include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture.

Among recent publications, the following papers have been noted:

  • Anti-Zeno quantum advantage in fast-driven heat machines, 2020, Communications Physics
  • Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno Probes of Noise Correlations in Photon Polarization, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • Work Generation from Thermal Noise by Quantum Phase-Sensitive Observation, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Anti-Zeno purification of spin baths by quantum probe measurements, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Minimal quantum thermal machine in a bandgap environment: non-Markovian features and anti-Zeno advantage, 2022, New Journal of Physics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gershon Kurizki include Abraham G. Kofman, Tomáš Opatrný, Goren Gordon, Avijit Misra, and Nilakantha Meher.

Their work has been published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, and New Journal of Physics.

In addition to journal publications, Kurizki has contributed to academic books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Titles include "The Quantum Matrix" (2020) and "Thermodynamics and Control of Open Quantum Systems" (2021).

Gershon Kurizki was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002 for discovering innovative approaches to controlling the quantum properties of electromagnetic fields interacting with atomic, molecular, and condensed media.

Best Publications

  • Quantum technologies with hybrid systems

    Gershon Kurizki;Patrice Bertet;Yuimaru Kubo;Klaus Mølmer

  • Acceleration of quantum decay processes by frequent observations

    AG Kofman;G Kurizki

  • Improvement on teleportation of continuous variables by photon subtraction via conditional measurement

    T. Opatrný;G. Kurizki;D.-G. Welsch

  • Spontaneous and induced atomic decay in photonic band structures

    A.G. Kofman;G. Kurizki;B. Sherman

  • Universal Dynamical Control of Quantum Mechanical Decay: Modulation of the Coupling to the Continuum

    A. G. Kofman;G. Kurizki

  • Unified theory of dynamically suppressed qubit decoherence in thermal baths.

    A. G. Kofman;G. Kurizki

  • Bose-Einstein condensates with 1/r interatomic attraction: electromagnetically induced "gravity".

    D. O'Dell;S. Giovanazzi;G. Kurizki;V. M. Akulin

  • Atomic homodyne detection of continuous-variable entangled twin-atom states

    C. Gross;H. Strobel;E. Nicklas;T. Zibold

  • Quantum engine efficiency bound beyond the second law of thermodynamics.

    Wolfgang Niedenzu;Victor Mukherjee;Victor Mukherjee;Arnab Ghosh;Arnab Ghosh;Abraham G. Kofman;Abraham G. Kofman

  • Thermodynamic control by frequent quantum measurements

    Noam Erez;Goren Gordon;Mathias Nest;Gershon Kurizki

  • Phase-coherent control of photocurrent directionality in semiconductors.

    Gershon Kurizki;Moshe Shapiro;Paul Brumer

  • Optimal dynamical decoherence control of a qubit.

    Goren Gordon;Gershon Kurizki;Daniel A. Lidar

  • Generation and detection of nonclassical field states by conditional measurements following two-photon resonant interactions

    B. M. Garraway;B. M. Garraway;B. Sherman;B. Sherman;H. Moya-Cessa;H. Moya-Cessa;P. L. Knight;P. L. Knight

  • Thermodynamics of Quantum Systems Under Dynamical Control

    David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky;Wolfgang Niedenzu;Gershon Kurizki

  • Quantum Zeno effect on atomic excitation decay in resonators.

    A. G. Kofman;G. Kurizki

  • Minimal universal quantum heat machine.

    D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky;R. Alicki;R. Alicki;G. Kurizki

  • On the operation of machines powered by quantum non-thermal baths

    Wolfgang Niedenzu;David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky;Abraham G Kofman;Abraham G Kofman;Gershon Kurizki

  • Symmetric photon-photon coupling by atoms with Zeeman-split sublevels

    David Petrosyan;Gershon Kurizki

  • Spontaneous and stimulated emission from quasifree electrons

    A. Friedman;A. Gover;G. Kurizki;S. Ruschin

  • Suppression of molecular interactions in periodic dielectric structures.

    G. Kurizki;A. Z. Genack

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlan O. Scully
Marlan O. Scully Texas A&M University
Boris A. Malomed
Boris A. Malomed Tel Aviv University
Wolfgang P. Schleich
Wolfgang P. Schleich University of Ulm
Paul Brumer
Paul Brumer University of Toronto
Dmitri E. Nikonov
Dmitri E. Nikonov Intel (United States)
Daniel A. Lidar
Daniel A. Lidar University of Southern California
Michael Fleischhauer
Michael Fleischhauer Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Lucio Frydman
Lucio Frydman Weizmann Institute of Science
Daan Lenstra
Daan Lenstra Eindhoven University of Technology

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