Publications by Christiane Koch

Journal publications 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , pre-2011 , Conference Proceedings , Book Contributions


Preprints

S. Zhao, M. G. Krauss, T. Bienaime, S. Whitlock, C. P. Koch, S. Qvarfort, and A. Metelmann.
Fast and robust cat state preparation utilizing higher order nonlinearities.
arXiv:2312.05218 (2023).
arXiv | Abstract ]

Daniel Basilewitsch, Simon-Dominik Börner, Christoph Berke, Alexander Altland, Simon Trebst, and Christiane P. Koch.
Chaotic fluctuations in a universal set of transmon qubit gates.
arXiv:2311.14592 (2023).
arXiv | Abstract ]

Josias Langbehn, Kyrylo Snizhko, Igor Gornyi, Giovanna Morigi, Yuval Gefen, and Christiane P. Koch.
Dilute measurement-induced cooling into many-body ground states.
arXiv:2311.05258 (2023).
arXiv | Abstract ]

R. Esteban Goetz, Christiane P. Koch, and Loren Greenman.
Continuum-electron interferometry for enhancement of photoelectron circular dichroism and measurement of bound, free, and mixed contributions to chiral response.
arXiv:2104.07522 (2021).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2024

Karl P. Horn, Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar, Christiane P. Koch, and Markus Meuwly.
Improving Potential Energy Surfaces Using Experimental Feshbach Resonance Tomography.
Science Advances 10, eadi6462 (2024).
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Monika Leibscher, Eugenio Pozzoli, Alexander Blech, Mario Sigalotti, Ugo Boscain, and Christiane P. Koch.
Quantum control of ro-vibrational dynamics and application to light-induced molecular chirality.
Phys. Rev. A 109, 012810 (2024).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2023

Fernando Gago-Encinas, Tobias Hartung, Daniel M. Reich, Karl Jansen, and Christiane P. Koch.
Determining the ability for universal quantum computing: Testing controllability via dimensional expressivity.
Quantum 7, 1214 (2023).
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Matthias G. Krauss, Christiane P. Koch, and Daniel M. Reich.
Optimizing for an arbitrary Schrödinger cat state. I. Functionals and application to coherent dynamics.
Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 043051 (2023).
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Fernando Gago-Encinas, Monika Leibscher, and Christiane P. Koch.
Graph test of controllability in qubit arrays: A systematic way to determine the minimum number of external controls.
Quantum Sci. Technol. 8, 045002 (2023).
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Baruch Margulis, Karl P. Horn, Daniel M. Reich, Meenu Upadhyay, Nitzan Kahn, Arthur Christianen, Ad van der Avoird, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Markus Meuwly, Christiane P. Koch, and Edvardas Narevicius.
Tomography of Feshbach resonance states.
Science 380, 77-81 (2023).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2022

Shushen Qin, Marcus Cramer, Christiane P. Koch, and Alessio Serafini.
Optimal control for Hamiltonian parameter estimation in non-commuting and bipartite quantum dynamics.
SciPost Phys. 13, 121 (2022).
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Denis S. Tikhonov, Alexander Blech, Monika Leibscher, Loren Greenman, Melanie Schnell, and Christiane P. Koch.
Pump-probe spectroscopy of chiral vibrational dynamics.
Science Advances 8, eade0311 (2022).
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Sabrina Patsch, Martin Zeppenfeld, and Christiane P. Koch.
Rydberg atom-enabled spectroscopy of polar molecules via Förster resonance energy transfer.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 10728 (2022).
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Christiane P. Koch, Ugo Boscain, Tommaso Calarco, Gunther Dirr, Stefan Filipp, Steffen J. Glaser, Ronnie Kosloff, Simone Montangero, Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen, Dominique Sugny, and Frank K. Wilhelm.
Quantum optimal control in quantum technologies. Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe.
EPJ Quantum Technol. 9, 19 (2022).
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Eugenio Pozzoli, Monika Leibscher, Mario Sigalotti, Ugo Boscain, and Christiane P. Koch.
Lie algebra for rotational subsystems of a driven asymmetric top.
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55, 215301 (2022).
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Monika Leibscher, Eugenio Pozzoli, Cristobal Pérez, Melanie Schnell, Mario Sigalotti, Ugo Boscain, and Christiane P. Koch.
Complete Controllability Despite Degeneracy: Quantum Control of Enantiomer-Specific State Transfer in Chiral Molecules.
Commun. Phys. 5, 110 (2022).
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Monika Leibscher, Jonas Kalveram, and Christiane P. Koch.
Rational Pulse Design for Enantiomer-Selective Microwave Three-Wave Mixing.
Symmetry 14, 871 (2022).
DOI | arXiv | PDF | Web | Abstract ]

Daniel Basilewitsch, Yaxing Zhang, S. M. Girvin, and Christiane P. Koch.
Engineering Strong Beamsplitter Interaction between Bosonic Modes via Quantum Optimal Control Theory.
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023054 (2022).
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Manel Mondelo-Martell, Daniel Basilewitsch, Hendrike Braun, Christiane P. Koch, and Daniel M. Reich.
Increasing ion yield circular dichroism in femtosecond photoionisation using optimal control theory.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 9286 (2022).
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Daniel C. Cole, Stephen D. Erickson, Giorgio Zarantonello, Karl P. Horn, Pan-Yu Hou, Jenny J. Wu, Daniel H. Slichter, Florentin Reiter, Christiane P. Koch, and Dietrich Leibfried.
Resource-Efficient Dissipative Entanglement of Two Trapped-Ion Qubits.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080502 (2022).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2021

Prerna Paliwal, Alexander Blech, Christiane P. Koch, and Edvardas Narevicius.
Fano interference in quantum resonances from angle-resolved elastic scattering.
Nature Commun. 12, 7249 (2021).
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Liat Levin, Daniel M. Reich, Moran Geva, Ronnie Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch, and Zohar Amitay.
Coherent Control of Ultrafast Bond Making and Subsequent Molecular Dynamics: Demonstration of Final-State Branching Ratio Control.
J. Phys. B 54, 144007 (2021).
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Daniel Basilewitsch, Jonas Fischer, Daniel M. Reich, Dominique Sugny, and Christiane P. Koch.
Fundamental bounds on qubit reset.
Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013110 (2021).
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Prerna Paliwal, Nabanita Deb, Daniel M. Reich, Ad van der Avoird, Christiane P. Koch, and Edvardas Narevicius.
Revealing the Nature of Quantum Resonances by Probing Elastic and Reactive Scattering in Cold Collisions.
Nature Chem. 13, 94 (2021).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2020

Daniel Basilewitsch, Haidong Yuan, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimally controlled quantum discrimination and estimation.
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033396 (2020).
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Arthur Larrouy, Sabrina Patsch, Rémi Richaud, Jean-Michel Raimond, Michel Brune, Christiane P. Koch, and Sébastien Gleyzes.
Fast Navigation in a Large Hilbert Space Using Quantum Optimal Control.
Phys. Rev. X 10, 021058 (2020).
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Sabrina Patsch, Sabrina Maniscalco, and Christiane P. Koch.
Simulation of open-quantum-system dynamics using the quantum Zeno effect.
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023133 (2020).
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Antonia Karamatskou, R. Esteban Goetz, Christiane P. Koch, and Robin Santra.
Suppression of hole decoherence in ultrafast photoionization.
Phys. Rev. A 101, 043405 (2020).
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Alexander Blech, Yuval Shagam, Nicolas Hölsch, Prerna Paliwal, Wojciech Skomorowski, John W. Rosenberg, Natan Bibelnik, Oded Heber, Daniel M. Reich, Edvardas Narevicius, and Christiane P. Koch.
Phase protection of Fano-Feshbach resonances.
Nat. Commun. 11, 999 (2020).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2019

Michael H. Goerz, Daniel Basilewitsch, Fernando Gago-Encinas, Matthias G. Krauss, Karl P. Horn, Daniel M. Reich, and Christiane P. Koch.
Krotov: A Python implementation of Krotov’s method for quantum optimal control.
SciPost Phys. 7, 080 (2019).
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J. Lim, C. M. Bösen, A. D. Somoza, C. P. Koch, M. B. Plenio, and S. F. Huelga.
Multicolor Quantum Control for Suppressing Ground State Coherences in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 233201 (2019).
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Marec W. Heger, Christiane P. Koch, and Daniel M. Reich.
Optimized sampling of mixed-state observables.
Phys. Rev. E 100, 052105 (2019).
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Daniel Basilewitsch, Francesco Cosco, Nicola Lo Gullo, Mikko Möttönen, Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Christiane P. Koch, and Sabrina Maniscalco.
Reservoir engineering using quantum optimal control for qubit reset.
New J. Phys. 21, 093054 (2019).
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Christiane P. Koch, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Dominique Sugny.
Quantum control of molecular rotation.
Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 035005 (2019).
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R. Esteban Goetz, Christiane P. Koch, and Loren Greenman.
Perfect control of photoelectron anisotropy for randomly oriented ensembles of molecules by XUV REMPI and polarization shaping.
J. Chem. Phys. 151, 047106 (2019).
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Monika Leibscher, Thomas F. Giesen, and Christiane P. Koch.
Principles of enantio-selective excitation in three-wave mixing spectroscopy of chiral molecules.
J. Chem. Phys. 151, 014302 (2019).
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Anne Crubellier, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Eliane Luc-Koenig.
Defining the p-wave scattering volume in the presence of dipolar interactions.
Phys. Rev. A 99, 032709 (2019).
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Anne Crubellier, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Eliane Luc-Koenig.
Controlling ultracold p-wave collisions with non-resonant light: Predictions of an asymptotic model.
Phys. Rev. A 99, 032710 (2019).
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Natan Bibelnik, Sasha Gersten, Alon B. Henson, Etay Lavert-Ofir, Yuval Shagam, Wojciech Skomorowski, Christiane P. Koch, and Edvardas Narevicius.
Cold temperatures invert product ratios in Penning ionisation reactions with argon.
Mol. Phys. 117, 2128 (2019).
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Jonas Fischer, Daniel Basilewitsch, Christiane P. Koch, and Dominique Sugny.
Time-optimal purification of a qubit in contact with a structured environment.
Phys. Rev. A 99, 033410 (2019).
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Daniel Basilewitsch, Christiane P. Koch, and Daniel M. Reich.
Quantum Optimal Control for Mixed State Squeezing in Cavity Optomechanics.
Adv. Quantum Technol. 2, 1800110 (2019).
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R. Esteban Goetz, Christiane P. Koch, and Loren Greenman.
Quantum control of photoelectron circular dichroism.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013204 (2019).
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Other papers 2019

J. Martin Berglund, Michael Drewsen, and Christiane P. Koch.
Fundamental bounds on rotational state change in sympathetic cooling of molecular ions.
arXiv:1905.02130 (2019).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2018

Karl P. Horn, Florentin Reiter, Yiheng Lin, Dietrich Leibfried, and Christiane P. Koch.
Quantum optimal control of the dissipative production of a maximally entangled state.
New J. Phys. 20, 123010 (2018).
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Luigi Giannelli, Tom Schmit, Tommaso Calarco, Christiane P. Koch, Stephan Ritter, and Giovanna Morigi.
Optimal storage of a single photon by a single intra-cavity atom.
New J. Phys. 20, 105009 (2018).
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Daniel Basilewitsch, Lutz Marder, and Christiane P. Koch.
Dissipative Quantum Dynamics and Optimal Control using Iterative Time Ordering: An Application to Superconducting Qubits.
Eur. Phys. J. B 91, 161 (2018).
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Sabrina Patsch, Daniel M. Reich, Jean-Michel Raimond, Michel Brune, Sébastien Gleyzes, and Christiane P. Koch.
Fast and accurate circularisation of a Rydberg atom.
Phys. Rev. A 97, 053418 (2018).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2017

Daniel Basilewitsch, Rebecca Schmidt, Dominique Sugny, Sabrina Maniscalco, and Christiane P. Koch.
Beating the limits with initial correlations.
New J. Phys. 19, 113042 (2017).
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Michael H. Goerz, Felix Motzoi, K. Birgitta Whaley, and Christiane P. Koch.
Charting the circuit QED design landscape using optimal control theory.
npj Quantum Inf. 3, 37 (2017).
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Tobias Chasseur, Daniel M. Reich, Christiane P. Koch, and Frank K. Wilhelm.
Hybrid benchmarking of arbitrary quantum gates.
Phys. Rev. A 95, 062335 (2017).
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Anne Crubellier, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Eliane Luc-Koenig.
Controlling the s-wave scattering length with non-resonant light: Predictions of an asymptotic model.
Phys. Rev. A 95, 023405 (2017).
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R. E. Goetz, T. A. Isaev, B. Nikoobakht, R. Berger, and C. P. Koch.
Theoretical description of circular dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions of randomly oriented chiral molecules after multi-photon photoionization.
J. Chem. Phys. 146, 024306 (2017).
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Ayelet Klein, Yuval Shagam, Wojciech Skomorowski, Piotr S. Zuchowski, Mariusz Pawlak, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Nimrod Moiseyev, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Ad van der Avoird, Christiane P. Koch, and Edvardas Narevicius.
Direct probe of anisotropy in atom-molecule collisions via quantum scattering resonances.
Nature Phys. 13, 35 (2017).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2016

R. Esteban Goetz, Maximilian Merkel, Antonia Karamatskou, Robin Santra, and Christiane P. Koch.
Maximizing hole coherence in ultrafast photoionization of argon with an optimization by sequential parametrization update.
Phys. Rev. A 94, 023420 (2016).
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Christiane P. Koch.
Controlling open quantum systems: Tools, achievements, and limitations.
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28, 213001 (2016).
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R. Esteban Goetz, Antonia Karamatskou, Robin Santra, and Christiane P. Koch.
Quantum optimal control of photoelectron spectra and angular distributions.
Phys. Rev. A 93, 013413 (2016).
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Wojciech Skomorowski, Yuval Shagam, Edvardas Narevicius, and Christiane P. Koch.
Photoassociation Spectroscopy in Penning Ionization Reactions at Sub-Kelvin Temperatures.
J. Phys. Chem. A 120, 3309 (2016).
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Other papers 2016

R. Esteban Goetz, Andrea Simoni, and Christiane P. Koch.
An adaptive-size multi-domain pseudospectral approach for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation.
arXiv:1611.09034 (2016).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2015

Steffen J. Glaser, Udo Boscain, Tommaso Calarco, Christiane P. Koch, Walter Köckenberger, Ronnie Kosloff, Ilya Kuprov, Burkard Luy, Sophie Schirmer, Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen, Dominique Sugny, and Frank K. Wilhelm.
Training Schrödinger’s cat: quantum optimal control.
Eur. Phys. J. D 69, 279 (2015).
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Yuval Shagam, Ayelet Klein, Wojciech Skomorowski, Renjie Yun, Vitali Averbukh, Christiane P. Koch, and Edvardas Narevicius.
Molecular hydrogen interacts more strongly when rotationally excited at low temperatures leading to faster reactions.
Nature Chem. 7, 921 (2015).
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Michael H. Goerz, K. Birgitta Whaley, and Christiane P. Koch.
Hybrid Optimization Schemes for Quantum Control.
EPJ Quantum Technology 2, 21 (2015).
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Liat Levin, Wojciech Skomorowski, Ronnie Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch, and Zohar Amitay.
Coherent Control of Bond Making: The performance of rationally phase-shaped femtosecond laser pulses.
J. Phys. B 48, 184004 (2015).
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Daniel M. Reich, Nadav Katz, and Christiane P. Koch.
Exploiting Non-Markovianity for Quantum Control.
Sci. Rep. 5, 12430 (2015).
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Loren Greenman, Christiane P. Koch, and K. Birgitta Whaley.
Laser pulses for coherent xuv Raman excitation.
Phys. Rev. A 92, 013407 (2015).
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Liat Levin, Wojciech Skomorowski, Leonid Rybak, Ronnie Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch, and Zohar Amitay.
Coherent Control of Bond Making.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 233003 (2015).
Synopsis: On-Demand Chemical Bond Formation
Physics Today: A femtosecond laser pulse makes molecular bonds
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Paul Watts, Jiří Vala, Matthias M. Müller, Tommaso Calarco, K. Birgitta Whaley, Daniel M. Reich, Michael H. Goerz, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler: I. Functionals.
Phys. Rev. A 91, 062306 (2015).
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Michael H. Goerz, Giulia Gualdi, Daniel M. Reich, Christiane P. Koch, Felix Motzoi, K. Birgitta Whaley, Jiří Vala, Matthias M. Müller, Simone Montangero, and Tommaso Calarco.
Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler. II. Application.
Phys. Rev. A 91, 062307 (2015).
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Anne Crubellier, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Eliane Luc-Koenig.
Asymptotic model for shape resonance control of diatomics by intense non-resonant light.
New J. Phys. 17, 045020 (2015).
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Anne Crubellier, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Eliane Luc-Koenig.
Asymptotic model for shape resonance control of diatomics by intense non-resonant light: Universality in the single-channel approximation.
New J. Phys. 17, 045022 (2015).
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Michał Tomza, Christiane P. Koch, and Robert Moszynski.
Cold interactions between an Yb⁺ ion and a Li atom: Prospects for sympathetic cooling, radiative association, and Feshbach resonances.
Phys. Rev. A 91, 042706 (2015).
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H. Schmidt, J. von Vangerow, F. Stienkemeier, A. S. Bogomolov, A. V. Baklanov, D. M. Reich, W. Skomorowski, C. P. Koch, and M. Mudrich.
Predissociation dynamics of lithium iodide.
J. Chem. Phys. 142, 044303 (2015).
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J. Martin Berglund, Michael Drewsen, and Christiane P. Koch.
Femtosecond wavepacket interferometry using the rotational dynamics of a trapped cold molecular ion.
New J. Phys. 17, 025007 (2015).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2014

Michael H. Goerz, Eli J. Halperin, Jon M. Aytac, Christiane P. Koch, and K. Birgitta Whaley.
Robustness of high-fidelity Rydberg gates with single-site addressability.
Phys. Rev. A 90, 032329 (2014).
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Georg Jäger, Daniel M. Reich, Michael H. Goerz, Christiane P. Koch, and Ulrich Hohenester.
Optimal quantum control of Bose-Einstein condensates in magnetic microtraps: Comparison of GRAPE and Krotov optimization schemes.
Phys. Rev. A 90, 033628 (2014).
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Giulia Gualdi, David Licht, Daniel M. Reich, and Christiane P. Koch.
Efficient Monte Carlo characterization of quantum operations for qudits.
Phys. Rev. A 90, 032317 (2014).
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Daniel M. Reich, Giulia Gualdi, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimal qudit operator bases for efficient characterization of quantum gates.
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47, 385305 (2014).
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Katharina Rojan, Daniel M. Reich, Igor Dotsenko, Jean-Michel Raimond, Christiane P. Koch, and Giovanna Morigi.
Arbitrary quantum-state preparation of a harmonic oscillator via optimal control.
Phys. Rev. A 90, 023824 (2014).
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H. A. Fürst, M. H. Goerz, U. G. Poschinger, M. Murphy, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, F. Schmidt-Kaler, K. Singer, and C. P. Koch.
Controlling the transport of an ion: Classical and quantum mechanical solutions.
New J. Phys. 16, 075007 (2014).
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Michael H. Goerz, Daniel M. Reich, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimal control theory for a unitary operation under dissipative evolution.
New J. Phys. 16, 055012 (2014).
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Michał Tomza, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Robert Moszyński.
Controlling magnetic Feshbach resonances in polar open-shell molecules with non-resonant light.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113201 (2014).
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Mamadou Ndong, Christiane P. Koch, and Dominique Sugny.
Time optimization and state-dependent constraints in the quantum optimal control of molecular orientation.
J. Mod. Opt. 61, 857 (2014).
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Daniel M. Reich, José P. Palao, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimal control under spectral constraints: Enforcing multi-photon absorption pathways.
J. Mod. Opt. 61, 822 (2014).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2013

Daniel M. Reich and Christiane P. Koch.
Cooling molecular vibrations with shaped laser pulses: Optimal control theory exploiting the timescale separation between coherent excitation and spontaneous emission.
New J. Phys. 15, 125028 (2013).
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Daniel M. Reich, Giulia Gualdi, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimal strategies for estimating the average fidelity of quantum gates.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 200401 (2013).
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José P. Palao, Daniel M. Reich, and Christiane P. Koch.
Steering the optimization pathway in the control landscape using constraints.
Phys. Rev. A 88, 053409 (2013).
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Saieswari Amaran, Ronnie Kosloff, Michał Tomza, Wojciech Skomorowski, Filip Pawłowski, Robert Moszynski, Leonid Rybak, Liat Levin, Zohar Amitay, J. Martin Berglund, Daniel M. Reich, and Christiane P. Koch.
Femtosecond two-photon photoassociation of hot magnesium atoms: A quantum dynamical study using thermal random phase wavefunctions.
J. Chem. Phys. 139, 164124 (2013).
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Daniel M. Reich, Giulia Gualdi, and Christiane P. Koch.
Minimum number of input states required for quantum gate characterization.
Phys. Rev. A 88, 042309 (2013).
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Giulia Gualdi and Christiane P. Koch.
Renormalization approach to non-Markovian open-quantum-system dynamics.
Phys. Rev. A 88, 022122 (2013).
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Michał Tomza, Wojciech Skomorowski, Monika Musiał, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Robert Moszynski.
Interatomic potentials, electric properties, and spectroscopy of the ground and excited states of the Rb₂ molecule: Ab initio calculations and effect of a non-resonant field.
Mol. Phys. 111, 1781 (2013).
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Mamadou Ndong, Marc Lapert, Christiane P. Koch, and Dominique Sugny.
Comparative study of monotonically convergent optimization algorithms for the control of molecular rotation.
Phys. Rev. A 87, 043416 (2013).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2012

Rosario González-Férez and Christiane P. Koch.
Enhancing photoassociation rates by non-resonant light control of shape resonances.
Phys. Rev. A 86, 063420 (2012).
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Michał Tomza, Michael H. Goerz, Monica Musiał, Robert Moszyński, and Christiane P. Koch.
Optimal production of ultracold ground-state molecules: Stabilization employing potentials with ion-pair character and strong spin-orbit coupling.
Phys. Rev. A 86, 043424 (2012).
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Christiane P. Koch and Moshe Shapiro.
Coherent control of ultracold photoassociation.
Chem. Rev. 212, 4928-4948 (2012).
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Wojciech Skomorowski, Filip Pawłowski, Christiane P. Koch, and Robert Moszyński.
Rovibrational dynamics of the strontium molecule in the A¹Σu⁺, c³Πu, and a³Σu⁺ manifold from state-of-the-art ab initio calculations.
J. Chem. Phys. 136, 194306 (2012).
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Wojciech Skomorowski, Robert Moszyński, and Christiane P. Koch.
Formation of deeply bound ultracold Sr₂ molecules by photoassociation near the Sr(³P)+Sr(¹S) intercombination line.
Phys. Rev. A 85, 043414 (2012).
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Haidong Yuan, Christiane P. Koch, Peter Salamon, and David J. Tannor.
Controllability on relaxation-free subspaces: On the relationship between adiabatic population transfer and optimal control.
Phys. Rev. A 85, 033417 (2012).
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D. Reich, M. Ndong, and Christiane P. Koch.
Monotonically convergent optimization in quantum control using Krotov’s method.
J. Chem. Phys. 136, 104103 (2012).
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Papers published in refereed journals 2011

Leonid Rybak, Saieswari Amaran, Liat Levin, Michał Tomza, Robert Moszyński, Ronnie Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch, and Zohar Amitay.
Generating Molecular Rovibrational Coherence by Two-Photon Femtosecond Photoassociation of Thermally Hot Atoms.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 273001 (2011).
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Leonid Rybak, Zohar Amitay, Saieswari Amaran, Ronnie Kosloff, Michał Tomza, Robert Moszyński, and Christiane P. Koch.
Femtosecond coherent control of thermal photoassociation of magnesium atoms.
Faraday Disc. 153, 383 (2011).
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Matthias M. Müller, Harald Haakh, Tommaso Calarco, Christiane P. Koch, and Carsten Henkel.
Prospects for fast Rydberg gates on an atom chip.
Quantum Inf. Process. 10, 771 (2011).
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Michał Tomza, Filip Pawłowski, Małgorzata Jeziorska, Christiane P. Koch, and Robert Moszyński.
Formation of ultracold SrYb molecules in an optical lattice by photoassociation spectroscopy: theoretical prospects.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 18893 (2011).
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M. M. Müller, D. M. Reich, M. Murphy, H. Yuan, J. Vala, K. B. Whaley, T. Calarco, and C. P. Koch.
Optimizing entangling quantum gates for physical systems.
Phys. Rev. A 84, 042315 (2011).
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M. H. Goerz, T. Calarco, and C. P. Koch.
The Quantum Speed Limit of Optimal Controlled Phasegates for Trapped Neutral Atoms.
J. Phys. B 44, 154011 (2011).
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Other papers 2011

Rosario González-Férez, Ruzin Ağanoğlu, Mikhail Lemeshko, Bretislav Friedrich, and Christiane P. Koch.
Controlling a diatomic shape resonance with non-resonant light.
arXiv:1105.0761 (2011).
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Papers published in refereed journals pre-2011

Mamadou Ndong and Christiane P. Koch.
Vibrational stabilization of ultracold KRb molecules. A comparative study.
Phys. Rev. A 82, 043437 (2010).
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Christiane P. Koch and Ronnie Kosloff.
Correlation dynamics after short-pulse photoassociation.
Phys. Rev. A 81, 063426 (2010).
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Mamadou Ndong, Hillel Tal-Ezer, Ronnie Kosloff, and Christiane P. Koch.
A Chebychev propagator with iterative time ordering for explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians.
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 064105 (2010).
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Christiane P. Koch and Ronnie Kosloff.
Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Two-Body Correlations in Ultracold Gases.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260401 (2009).
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Andrea Merli, Frauke Eimer, Fabian Weise, Albrecht Lindinger, Wenzel Salzmann, Terry Mullins, Simone Götz, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Ruzin Ağanoğlu, and Christiane P. Koch.
Photoassociation and coherent transient dynamics in the interaction of ultracold rubidium atoms with shaped femtosecond pulses. II. Theory.
Phys. Rev. A 80, 063417 (2009).
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Fabian Weise, Andrea Merli, Frauke Eimer, Sascha Birkner, Franziska Sauer, Ludger Wöste, Albrecht Lindinger, Wenzel Salzmann, Terry Mullins, Simone Götz, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Ruzin Ağanoğlu, and Christiane P. Koch.
Characteristic oscillations in the coherent transients of ultracold rubidium molecules using red and blue detuned pulses for photoassociation.
J. Phys. B 42, 215307 (2009).
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Frauke Eimer, Fabian Weise, Andrea Merli, Sascha Birkner, Franziska Sauer, Ludger Wöste, Albrecht Lindinger, Ruzin Ağanoğlu, Christiane P. Koch, Wenzel Salzmann, Terry Mullins, Simone Götz, Roland Wester, and Matthias Weidemüller.
Spectrally resolved coherent transient signal for ultracold rubidium molecules.
European Physical Journal D 54, 711 (2009).
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Subhas Ghosal, Richard J. Doyle, Christiane P. Koch, and Jeremy M. Hutson.
Stimulating the production of deeply bound RbCs molecules with laser pulses: the role of spin-orbit coupling in forming ultracold molecules.
New J. Phys. 11, 055011 (2009).
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Christiane P. Koch, Mamadou Ndong, and Ronnie Kosloff.
Two-photon coherent control of femtosecond photoassociation.
Faraday Discuss. 142, 389 (2009).
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Mamadou Ndong, Hillel Tal-Ezer, Ronnie Kosloff, and Christiane P. Koch.
A Chebychev propagator for inhomogeneous Schrödinger equations.
J. Chem. Phys. 130, 124108 (2009).
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Christiane P. Koch.
Perspectives for coherent optical formation of strontium molecules in their electronic ground state.
Phys. Rev. A 78, 063411 (2008).
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Christiane P. Koch and Robert Moszyński.
Engineering an all-optical route to ultracold molecules in their vibronic ground state.
Phys. Rev. A 78, 043417 (2008).
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José P. Palao, Ronnie Kosloff, and Christiane P. Koch.
Protecting coherence in Optimal Control Theory: state dependent constraint approach.
Phys. Rev. A 77, 063412 (2008).
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H. K. Pechkis, D. Wang, Y. Huang, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley, and C. P. Koch.
Enhancement of the formation of ultracold ⁸⁵Rb₂ molecules due to resonant coupling.
Phys. Rev. A 76, 022504 (2007).
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C. P. Koch, R. Kosloff, E. Luc-Koenig, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and A. Crubellier.
Photoassociation with chirped laser pulses: calculation of the absolute number of molecules per pulse.
J. Phys. B 39, S1017 (2006).
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U. Poschinger, W. Salzmann, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, C. P. Koch, and R. Kosloff.
Theory of adaptive feedback control for ultracold molecule formation.
J. Phys. B 39, S1001 (2006).
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C. P. Koch, R. Kosloff, and F. Masnou-Seeuws.
Short-pulse photoassociation in rubidium below the D₁ line.
Phys. Rev. A 73, 043409 (2006).
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C. P. Koch, E. Luc-Koenig, and F. Masnou-Seeuws.
Making ultracold molecules in a two colour pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses.
Phys. Rev. A 73, 033408 (2006).
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S. Dittrich, H.-J. Freund, C. P. Koch, R. Kosloff, and T. Klüner.
Two-dimensional surrogate Hamiltonian investigation of laser induced desorption of NO/NiO(100).
J. Chem. Phys. 124, 024702 (2006).
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C. P. Koch, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and R. Kosloff.
Creating Ground State Molecules with Optical Feshbach Resonances in Tight Traps.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 193001 (2005).
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D. Gelman, C. P. Koch, and R. Kosloff.
Dissipative quantum dynamics with the Surrogate Hamiltonian approach. A comparison between spin and harmonic baths.
J. Chem. Phys. 121, 661-671 (2004).
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C. P. Koch, J. P. Palao, R. Kosloff, and F. Masnou-Seeuws.
Stabilization of Ultracold Molecules Using Optimal Control Theory.
Phys. Rev. A 70, 013402 (2004).
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C. P. Koch, T. Klüner, H.-J. Freund, and R. Kosloff.
Surrogate Hamiltonian Study of of electronic relaxation in the femtosecond laser induced desorption of NO/NiO(100).
J. Chem. Phys. 119, 1750-1765 (2003).
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C. P. Koch, T. Klüner, H.-J. Freund, and R. Kosloff.
Femtosecond photodesorption of small molecules from surfaces: A theoretical investigation from first principles.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 117601 (2003).
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C. P. Koch, T. Klüner, and R. Kosloff.
A complete quantum description of an ultrafast pump-probe charge transfer event in condensed phase.
J. Chem. Phys. 116, 7983-7996 (2002).
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C. Koch and B. Esser.
Spin boson Hamiltonian and optical absorption of molecular dimers.
Phys. Rev. A 61, 022508 (2000).
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C. Koch and B. Esser.
Spectrum, lifetime distributions and relaxation in a dimer with strong excitonic-vibronic coupling.
J. Lumin. 81, 171-181 (1999).
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Conference Proceedings

C. P. Koch, R. Kosloff, E. Luc-Koenig, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and R. Moszyński.
Ultracold & Ultrafast: Making and Manipulating Ultracold Molecules with Time-depedendent Laser Fields.
In L. Hollberg, J. Bergquist, and M. Kasevich, editors, Laser Spectroscopy: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference (ICOLS 07), Telluride, Colorado, USA, 24-29 June 2007, pages 219-227. World Scientific, 2008.


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Book Contributions

Christiane P. Koch.
Quantum Effects in Cold and Controlled Molecular Dynamics.
In Bretislav Friedrich and Horst Schmidt-Böcking, editors, Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry: From Otto Stern’s Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats, pages 477--490. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
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C. P. Koch.
Coherent Control of Cold Collisions.
In Olivier Dulieu and Andreas Osterwalder, editors, Cold Chemistry: Molecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute Zero, pages 633-662. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018.
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A. Lindinger, V. Bonačić-Koutecký, R. Mitrić, D. Tannor, C. P. Koch, V. Engel, T. M. Bernhardt, J. Jortner, A. Mirabal, and L. Wöste.
Analysis and control of small isolated molecular systems.
In O. Kühn and L. Wöste, editors, Analysis and control of ultrafast photoinduced reactions, pages 25-152. Springer, 2007.

C. P. Koch, D. Gelman, R. Kosloff, and T. Klüner.
Irreversibilität in Quantensystemen mittels der Methode des Surrogate Hamiltonian.
In T. Pöschel, L. Schimansky-Geier, and H. Malchow, editors, Physik Irreversibler Prozesse und Selbstorganisation, pages 33-44. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2006.
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