Publications

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals

J. Vala, D. S. Weiss, and K. B. Whaley,

Quantum Error Correction of Qubit Loss in Addressable Optical Lattice,

Phys. Rev. A 72, 052318 (2005).

M.J. Storcz, F.K. Wilhelm, J. Vala, K.R. Brown, J. Kempe, and K. B. Whaley,

Full Protection of Superconducting Qubit Systems from Coupling Errors,

Phys. Rev. B. 72 (2005), 064511, e-print cond-mat/0407780.

M.J. Wright, S.D. Gensemer, J. Vala, R. Kosloff, and P.L. Gould,

Ultracold Collisions with Frequency-Chirped Light,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 063001 (2005),

highlighted in Nature Physics August 11, 2005.

J. Vala, A. V. Thapliyal, S. Myrgren, U. Vazirani, D. S. Weiss, and K. B. Whaley,

Perfect Pattern Formation of Neutral Atoms in an Addressable Optical Lattice,

Phys. Rev. A 71, 032324 (2005).

D. S. Weiss, J. Vala, A. V. Thapliyal, S. Myrgren, U. Vazirani, and K. B. Whaley,

Another Way to Zero Entropy for Finite System of Atoms,

Phys. Rev. A 70, 040302 (2004).

J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley,

Minimal Construction of Two-Qubit Quantum Operations,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 020502 (2004).

J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley,

Optimal Quantum Circuit Synthesis from Controlled-Unitary Gates,

Phys. Rev. A 69, 042309 (2004), e-print quant-ph/0308167.

J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley,

Exact Two-Qubit Quantum Circuit,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027903 (2003), e-print quant-ph/0212109.

J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley,

Geometric Theory of Non-Local Two-Qubit Operations,

Phys. Rev. A 67, 042313 (2003), e-print quant-ph/0209120.

E. Gershgoren, Z. Wang, S. Ruhman, J. Vala, and R. Kosloff,

Investigating Pure Vibrational Dephasing of I₃^- in Solution: Temperature

Dependence of T₂^* for the Fundamental and First Harmonic of ₁,

J. Chem. Phys. 118, 3660 (2003).

K. R. Brown, J. Vala, and K. B. Whaley,

Scalable Ion Trap Quantum Computation with Pairwise Interactions Only,

Phys. Rev. A 67, 012309 (2003), e-print quant-ph/0207155.

J. Vala, Z. Amitay, B. Zhang, S. R. Leone, and R. Kosloff,

Experimental Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm for Three-Qubit

Functions using Pure Coherent Molecular Superpositions,

Phys. Rev. A 66, 062316 (2002), e-print quant-ph/0107058.

J. Vala, and K. B. Whaley,

Encoded Universality for Generalized Anisotropic Exchange Hamiltonians,

Phys. Rev. A 66, 022304 (2002), e-print quant-ph/0204016.

E. Gershgoren, J. Vala, R. Kosloff, and S. Ruhman,

Impulsive Control of Ground State Dynamics of I₃^- in Solution,

J. Phys. Chem. A 105, 5081 (2001)

J. Vala, R. Kosloff, and J. Harvey,

Ab Initio and DIM Potentials for I₂^-, I₂, I₃^-, and I₃ ,

J. Chem. Phys. 114, 7413 (2001).

V. Kokoouline, J. Vala, and R. Kosloff,

Tuning of the Scattering Length of Cs₂ on the Ground Triplet State,

J. Chem. Phys. 114, 3046 (2001), e-print quant-ph/0008075.

J. Vala, and R. Kosloff,

Coherent Mechanism of Robust Population Inversion,

Opt. Express 8, 238 (2001), e-print quant-ph/0012062.

J. Vala, O. Dulieu, F. Masnou-Seeuws, P. Pillet, and R. Kosloff,

Coherent Control of Cold-Molecule Formation through Photoassociation Using

a Chirped-Pulsed-Laser Field,

Phys. Rev. A 63, 013142 (2001),

highlighted in Nature Physics August 11, 2005.

A. Sanov, T. Sanford, L. J. Butler, J. Vala, R. Kosloff, and W. C. Lineberger,

Photodissociation Dynamics of Gas-Phase BrICl^- and BrI₂^- Anions,

J. Phys. Chem. A 103, 10244 (1999).

Z. Wang, T. Wasserman, E. Gershgoren, J. Vala, R. Kosloff, and S. Ruhman,

Geminate Recombination of I₃^- in Cooled Liquid and Glassy Ethanol,

Chem. Phys. Lett. 313, 155 (1999).

R. M. Lynden-Bell, R. Kosloff, S. Ruhman, D. Danovich, and J. Vala,

Does Solvation Cause Symmetry Breaking in the I₃^- Ion in Aqueous Solution?,

J. Chem. Phys. 109, 9928, (1998).

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

J. Vala, J. Zhang, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley,

Two-qubit Module Design of a Universal Quantum Compiler,

the Proceedings of the ERATO Conference on Quantum Information Science,

Niijima –kaikan, Kyoto, Japan, September 2003.

J. Vala, and K. B. Whaley,

Encoded Universality for Generalized Anisotropic Exchange Interactions,

the Proceeding of the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication,

Measurement and Computation, J. Shapiro, and O. Hirota (Eds.),

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002; Rinton Press, New Jersey.

J. Vala, Z. Amitay, S. R. Leone, and R. Kosloff,

Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm into Rovibrational Molecular Wave Packets,

in the Proceeeding of the International Conference on Quantum Information,

Rochester, New York, 2001; OSA, Washington.

E. Gershgoren, S. Ruhman, J. Vala, and R. Kosloff,

Controlling and Probing Impulsively Induced Ground State Vibrational Dynamics,

in the Proceeeding of the Twelfth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena,

Charleston, South Carolina, 2000; OSA, Washington.

Theses

On Quantum Control of Molecular Dynamics

as a Method of Scientific Exploration in Physical Chemistry,

PhD Thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2001.

Nonlinear Chemical Phenomena in Oxidation of Organic Acids by Permanganate (in Czech),

Diploma Thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1990.

Patents

J. Vala, and K. B. Whaley,

Universal Quantum Computing with Generalized Exchange Interactions,

Patent Application submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office 3/18/2003.