Kenji Ohmori

Kenji Ohmori (大森 賢治, Ōmori Kenji, born November 10, 1962 in Kumamoto City) is a Japanese physicist and chemist. National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan (NIMS), Institute for Molecular Science (IMS)

Education and career

Research

Kenji Ohmori has succeeded in designing and visualizing spatiotemporal images given by the interference of matter waves of atoms in a molecule with picometer and femtosecond resolution [1,2]. The precision of this processing is the highest to date, higher than that of the current nanotechnology by three orders of magnitudes. This ultrahigh-precision processing has been implemented with the temporal oscillations of laser electric fields engineered with attosecond precision and imprinted on the matter waves of atoms and electrons in a molecule. He has utilized this technique to develop a molecular computer in which a single 0.3-nanometer-size molecule can calculate 1000 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer [3,4]. He has also developed an ultrafast quantum simulator that can simulate non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems in one nanosecond, introducing a novel concept where he has combined his ultrafast coherent control with attosecond precision and ultracold atoms cooled down to temperatures close to absolute zero[5].

Honors and awards
  • 1998　Award by Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology
  • 2007　JSPS Prize
  • 2007　Japan Academy Medal
  • 2008　Norman Hascoe Distinguished Lecturer, University of Connecticut, USA
  • 2009　Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 2012　Humboldt Prize
  • 2017　Matsuo Foundation Hiroshi Takuma Memorial Prize
  • 2018　Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan

References
  • Katsuki, H. (2006-03-17). "Visualizing Picometric Quantum Ripples of Ultrafast Wave-Packet Interference". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 311 (5767): 1589–1592. Bibcode:2006Sci...311.1589K. doi:10.1126/science.1121240. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16543456. S2CID 31015979.
  • Katsuki, Hiroyuki; Chiba, Hisashi; Meier, Christoph; Girard, Bertrand; Ohmori, Kenji (2009-03-11). "Actively Tailored Spatiotemporal Images of Quantum Interference on the Picometer and Femtosecond Scales". Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 102 (10): 103602. Bibcode:2009PhRvL.102j3602K. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.103602. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19392112.
  • Hosaka, Kouichi; Shimada, Hiroyuki; Chiba, Hisashi; Katsuki, Hiroyuki; Teranishi, Yoshiaki; Ohtsuki, Yukiyoshi; Ohmori, Kenji (2010-05-03). "Ultrafast Fourier Transform with a Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Molecule". Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 104 (18): 180501. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104r0501H. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.104.180501. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 20482157.
  • Goto, Haruka; Katsuki, Hiroyuki; Ibrahim, Heide; Chiba, Hisashi; Ohmori, Kenji (2011-04-10). "Strong-laser-induced quantum interference". Nature Physics. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 7 (5): 383–385. Bibcode:2011NatPh...7..383G. doi:10.1038/nphys1960. ISSN 1745-2473.
  • Takei, Nobuyuki; Sommer, Christian; Genes, Claudiu; Pupillo, Guido; Goto, Haruka; et al. (2016-11-16). "Direct observation of ultrafast many-body electron dynamics in an ultracold Rydberg gas". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 13449. arXiv:1504.03635. Bibcode:2016NatCo...713449T. doi:10.1038/ncomms13449. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5116092. PMID 27849054.
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