About
Professor Berman is engaged in theoretical research related to the interaction of radiation with matter. Of particular interest is the identification of atom-field configurations which can result in qualitatively new phenomena. Among topics his research group is currently investigating are the nonlinear spectroscopy of laser cooled atoms; coherent transients of cold atoms; coherent transient studies of atomic recoil accompanying absorption or emissions of radiation; theories of laser cooling; atomic deflection in optical fields; entangled states; atom interferometry, and spin squeezing as applied to quantum information processing.
Professor Berman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Selected Publications
Goos-Hänchen Shift in Negatively Refractive Media, (P. R. Berman), Phys. Rev. E 66, 067603 1-3 (2002).
Microscopic theory of modified spontaneous emission in a dielectric, (P. R.Berman and P. Milonni), Phys. Rev. Letters 92, 053601 1-4 (2004).
Stimulated and spontaneous optical generation of electron spin coherence in charged GaAs quantum dots, (M. V. Gurudev Dutt, Jun Cheng, Bo Li,1 Xiaodong Xu, Xiaoqin Li, P. R. Berman, D. G. Steel, A. S. Bracker, D. Gammon, Sophia E. Economou, Ren-Bao Liu, and L. J. Sham), Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227403 1-4 (2005).
Microscopic Theory of Spontaneous Decay in a Dielectric, (H. Fu and P. R. Berman), Phys. Rev. A 72, 022104 1-6 (2005).
Atom counting statistics in ensembles of interacting Rydberg atoms, (T. Cubel, A. Reinhard, P. R. Berman, and G. Raithel), Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253002 1-4 (2005).
Atomic entanglement generation with reduced decoherence using four-wave mixing, (C. Genes and P. R. Berman), Phys. Rev. A 73, 063828 1-6 (2006).
Dynamic creation of electrostatic fields, (P. R. Berman), Amer. J. of Phys., to appear.
Coherent optical spectroscopy of a strongly driven quantum dot, (X. Xu, B. Sun, P. R. Berman, D. G. Steel, A. S. Bracker, D. Gammon, and L. J. Sham), Science 319, 929-31 (2007).
Spontaneous emission and scattering in a two-atom system: Conservation of probability and energy, (P.R. Berman), Phys. Rev. A 76, 043816 1-8 (2007).
Change in propagation constant and propagation velocity in a dielectric: A microscopic approach, (P.R. Berman), Phys. Rev. A 76, 042106 1-7 (2007).
