Takamasa Momose

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver B. C., Canada  V6T1Z1
http://www.chem.ubc.ca/faculty/momose/
http://www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/momose/homepage/index1.html  
Email: momose@chem.ubc.ca


Research Interests:
Low temperature chemistry; ultra-cold molecules; interstellar Chemistry; high-resolution laser spectroscopy; ultra-short pulse shaping

Main Research Directions:
Making and trapping ultra-cold molecules; Tunneling reactions; Quantum computation and simulations; Molecular superfluidity.

Editorial Boards:
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,
Journal of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics,
Journal of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

Selected publications:

  1. T. Momose, H. Hoshina, M. Fushitani, and H. Katsuki, High-resolution Spectroscopy and its analysis of ro-vibrational transitions of molecules in solid parahydrogen, Vib. Spectrosco, 34 (2004) 95.
  2. H. Hoshina, M. Fushitani, T. Momose, and T. Shida, Tunneling Chemical Reactions in Solid Parahydrogen: Direct Measurement of the Rate Constants of R + H2 → RH + H (R=CD3, CD2H, CDH2, CH3) at 5K, J. Chem. Phys. 120 (2004) 3706.
  3. T. Momose, M. Fushitani, and H. Hoshina, Chemical Reactions in Quantum Crystals, Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. 24 (2005) 533.
  4. Y. Morisawa, M. Fushitani, Y. Kato, H. Hoshina, Z. Shimizu, Y. Miyamoto, S. Watanabe, T. Momose, Y. Kasai, and K. Kawaguchi, Correlation between nuclear spin ratio of cyclic-C3H2 and chemical evolution in TMC-1 cores, Astrophys. J. 642 (2006) 954.
  5. S. Kuma, H. Goto, M. N. Slipchenko, A. F. Vilesov, A. Khramov and T. Momose, Laser Induced Fluorescence of Mg-Phthalocyanine in He Droplets: Evidence for Fluxionality of Large H2 Clusters at 0.38 K, J. Chem. Phys. 127 (2007) 214301.
  6. M. Tsubouchi and T. Momose, Rovibrational wave packet manipulation using shaped mid-Infrared femtosecond pulses toward quantum computation 2: Optimization of pulse shape by generic algorithm, Phys. Rev. A. 77 (2008) 052326.
  7. S. Kuma and T. Momose, Deceleration of Molecules by Dipole Force Potential: A Numerical Simulation, New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 055023.
  8. M. Tsubouchi and T. Momose, Pulse-shaping and its characterization of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses: Toward coherent controls of molecules in the ground electronic states, Opt. Comm. 282 (2009) 3757.