Seminars

• Condensed Matter Seminar

  NMR-STM of metals at an atomic scale

  Vladi Pankrushin, Physics department, BGU

  19 Jan 2026, 11:10 Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics (54), room 207

• Condensed Matter Seminar

  Hidden magnetic phases and field-induced spin dynamics in the i-MAX compounds

  Dror Yahav, Physics department, BGU

  19 Jan 2026, 11:35 Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics (54), room 207

Condensed Matter Theory

Disordered Systems

Yevgeny Bar Lev

Characterization of the anomalous ergodic phase, leaves many questions open.

Disorder allows avoiding thermalization and defy conventional statistical mechanics, through the mechanisms of Anderson or many-body localization. We study these ergodicity breaking mechanisms in detail. In particular the nature of transport and correlations spreading in systems on the verge of localization.

Astrophysics and Cosmology

Space Weather

Michael Gedalin

The Sun governs the life of the Earth. Solar-terrestrial relations occur not only via radiation coming to the Earth but also via time-varying plasma flow. This solar wind is decelerated and diverted by the bow shock forming at the distance of about 10 Earth radii toward the Sun. The diverted plasma flows around the Earth, shaping a magnetosphere with a long tail and a current sheet where the so called "magnetic reconnection" (see movie) occurs, causing magnetic substorms. We study the basic processes in this interaction.

Seminars

• Condensed Matter Seminar

  NMR-STM of metals at an atomic scale

  Vladi Pankrushin, Physics department, BGU

  19 Jan 2026, 11:10 Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics (54), room 207

• Condensed Matter Seminar

  Hidden magnetic phases and field-induced spin dynamics in the i-MAX compounds

  Dror Yahav, Physics department, BGU

  19 Jan 2026, 11:35 Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics (54), room 207

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Attosecond Science and Nanophotonics Lab

Eugene Frumker

We are setting up a brand-new research laboratory of Attosecond Science and Nanophotonics in the Physics Department of the Ben-Gurion University. In our group, we focus on both experimental and theoretical studies at the interface of ultrafast nonlinear optics, attosecond science and nanoscience. More specifically, our work involves generation, measurement and control of the interaction of light and matter in atoms, molecules and nanosystems in space and time at extremely short (attosecond=10^(-18)sec) time scales. Our interests range from fundamental physical phenomena to applications.

Biological and Soft Matter Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics and Biological Applications

Arik Yochelis

Biological systems show a plethora of fascinating self-organized behaviors that range from organ to cellular levels, such as spiral waves, pulses, synchronization, and steady states that are periodic in space. These non-equilibrium phenomena emerge through either spontaneous or forced symmetry breaking mechanisms. Employing nonlinear dynamics methods, we attempt to understand specific cases (localized waves in the inner ear) as well as gain general insights into the emergence of traveling waves with motivation taken from molecular motors, actin polymerization and cardiac system.

Seminars

• Condensed Matter Seminar

  NMR-STM of metals at an atomic scale

  Vladi Pankrushin, Physics department, BGU

  19 Jan 2026, 11:10 Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics (54), room 207

• Condensed Matter Seminar

  Hidden magnetic phases and field-induced spin dynamics in the i-MAX compounds

  Dror Yahav, Physics department, BGU

  19 Jan 2026, 11:35 Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics (54), room 207

Condensed Matter Experimental

Mechanical properties on the nm scale

Yishay Manassen

Strain map from Gd islands and Local young modulus of nanoparticles.

The scanning tunneling microscope is a device capable of observing an image with atomic resolution and is capable of observing physical phenomena on the atomic scale. In this study we are interested in the nm scale mechanical properties, normally studied macroscopically, which can vary in different locations on the surface. These properties are the stress and strain tensors, the elastic constants, the surface energy and stress. These values can be measured either using a external perturbation (the STM tip) or internal perturbation (a heteroepitaxial island, chemical reaction).

High-Energy Physics

Effective Theories and Quantum Gravity

Eran Palti

Effective theories are simplified physics models which neglect high-energy processes. If those theories include gravitational physics, then the omitted high-energy physics must include that of Quantum Gravity. Not all effective theories can be consistently completed at high energies into Quantum Gravity. Those which can are said to belong to the Landscape of effective theories. While those which cannot are said to belong to the Swampland of inconsistent theories. We study what are the criteria which differentiate an effective theory in the Landscape from one in the Swampland.