Faculty

Room: Ryan 4016
Phone: 847-467-4979
Email: t-seideman@northwestern.edu
Seideman Research Group Website
Division: Physical
Research Interests: Physical, Energy Related, Energy and Environmental, Nanoscience, Theoretical, Materials
B.S.: The Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 1982
Ph.D.: The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

Program Assistant: Tory Helgeson

Research Statement

The Seideman group is engaged with theoretical and numerical research at the fascinating interface between chemistry, physics, and material sciences. Problems of specific interest include coherent control and coherence spectroscopies in isolated molecules and in dissipative media; quantum transport, current-driven dynamics and molecular machines; ultrafast nanoplasmonics and information guidance in the nanoscale; the interaction of matter with intense laser fields; and mathematical method development.

Selected Publications

R. Jorn and T. Seideman, "Implications and Applications of Current Induced Dynamics in Molecular Junctions", Accounts of Chemical Research 43, 1186 (2010)

M. G. Reuter, M. Sukharev, and T. Seideman, "Laser Field Alignment of Organic Molecules on Semiconductor Surfaces: Toward Ultrafast Molecular Switches", Phys.Rev.Lett. 101, 208303 (2008).

T. Seideman and R. J. Gordon, Two-Pathway Excitation as a Coherence Spectroscopy, Advances in Chemical Physics, 140, 147 (2008).

S. Ramakrishna and T. Seideman, "On the Information Content of High Harmonics Generated from Aligned Molecules", Phys.Rev.Lett. 99 113901 (2007).

S. S. Viftrup, V. Kumarappan, S. Trippel, H. Stapelfeldt, E. Hamilton and T. Seideman, Holding and Spinning Molecules in Space, Phys.Rev.Lett. 99, 143602 (2007).

S. Ramakrishna and T. Seideman, Torsional Alignment by Intense Pulses, Phys.Rev.Lett. 99, 103001 (2007).

N. L. Yoder, N. P. Guisinger, M. C. Hersam, R. Jorn, C.-C. Kaun, and T. Seideman, "Quantifying Desorption of Saturated Hydrocarbons from Silicon with Quantum Calculations and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy", Phys.Rev.Lett. 97, 187601 (2006).

M. Sukharev and T. Seideman, Phase and Polarization Control as a Route to Plasmonic Nano-Devices, Nanolett. 6, 715 (2006).

C.-C. Kaun and T. Seideman, Current-Driven Oscillations and Time-Dependent Transport in Nano-Junctions, Phys.Rev.Lett. 94, 226801 (2005).

S. Ramakrishna and T. Seideman, Intense Laser Alignment in Dissipative Media as a Route to Solvent Properties, Phys.Rev.Lett. 95, 113001 (2005).

Awards

• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation
• Senior A. von Humboldt Research Award
• Member at Large of the American Physical Society Division of Chemical Physics
• Weston Award
• Galileo Galilei Lectureship
• ITAMP Fellowship
• Wegner Award
• Fulbright Research Award
• Chaim Weizmann Fellowship
• Knesset of Israel Award
• J.F. Kennedy Award
• Daniel Brener Award