Mustafa Demirplak, research

In my research, I have been occupied with two disjoint areas of chemical physics:

(1) Investigation of the dynamics of open or closed quantum systems. The physical quantities of interest are dephasing/relaxation rates and their statistics, yield of strong field control and its maintenance. What is meant by openness can change from one context to another. In our view, a system is open when it is under the influence of a thermal bath/environment or it is interacting with a noisy field. (We do not consider a quantum system interacting only with a regular field, open. Strictly speaking it is, since according to the standard definition, any system with a time dependent Hamiltonian is open.) The level of modeling can be varied. Since quantum computation scales exponentially with the number of degrees of freedom of a system, a reductive approximation in computational labor is essential. The level of approximation might range from mixed classical quantum mechanics to spin boson baths.

(2) Dynamical systems approach to time series analysis. In this work the purpose is to develop new interpretations based on the analogy between the causal structure of a time series constructed from a statistical analysis and chaos theory. Can we capture cycles, almost invariant partitions in a time series data? What are the quantities to look for? What are the limitations?

References

S. Attal, A. Joye, and C. -A. Pillet, Open Quantum Systems, Springer, 2006.
D. Lind and B. Marcus, An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Yours truly, Quality control, in preperation.
Yours Truly and S. A. Rice, On the consistency, extremal, and global properties of counterdiabatic fields, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 154111 (2008).
Yours Truly and T. Komatsuzaki, Causal structures of epsilon machines constructed from time series: Analogy with the dynamical systems theory, in preperation.
Yours Truly and S. A. Rice, Adiabatic transfer of population in a dense fluid: The role of dephasing statistics, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 194517 (2006).
Yours Truly, Aspects of Adiabatic Population Transfer and Control, PhD Thesis, The University of Chicago, 2005.
Yours Truly and S. A. Rice, Assisted adiabatic passage revisited, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 6838 (2005).
Yours Truly and S. A. Rice, Adiabatic population transfer with control fields, J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 9937 (2003).
Yours Truly and S. A. Rice, Optical control of molecular dynamics in a liquid, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 8028 (2002).

In an ordinary genealogy one lists his parents, then his parents' parents and so on. An academic genealogy (old Turkish: silsile) is similar to this except that one substitutes the primary intellectual influence over him in lieu of his parents, often but not always this person is your PhD advisor. Such a documentation (i) materializes the faces of people whose ideas already live in your mind; (ii) depicts the tradition that you submit to, even if you are unaware of it; (iii) gives a sense of responsibility for intellectual rigor in your work.

Mustafa Demirplak, The University of Chicago, 2005.
Stuart Alan Rice, Harvard University, 1955.
His most up to date autobiography appears on the May 2008 issue of Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.
Paul Mead Doty, Columbia University, 1944.
Joseph Edward Mayer, University of California at Berkeley, 1927.
Download his Statistical Mechanics from archive.
Gilbert Newton Lewis, Harvard University, 1899.
Theodore William Richards, Harvard University, 1888.
Josiah Parsons Cooke, Paris, 1848.
Download his general chemistry textbook, Principles of Chemical Philosophy. For other books by Cooke see the archive search result.
Jean Baptiste André Dumas, Paris, 1832.
Augustin LeRoyer, Geneva, date unknown.
Pierre François Tingry, Paris, 1770.
Guilliaume François Rouelle, (Apothecary) Paris, 1725.
J.G. Spitzley, (Apothecary) Paris, date unknown.
Nicolas Lémery, (Apothecary) Paris, circa 1667.
Christophle Glaser, (MD) Basel, circa 1640.
Etienne de Clave, date unknown.

I gathered much of this information from Chemical Genealogy Database Homepage.