Dmitri Sokolovski

Ikerbasque Research Professor, EHU

Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Technology at EHU in Leioa.

Research line:

Quantum measurement theory, path integrals, chemical reactions, complex angular momentum analysis of elastic, inelastic and reactive scattering

Previous research experience in centres in Russia, Germany and UK

Doctor in Theoretical Physics 1985

2025

Article / Relativistic quantum field theory approach to electron wave-packet tunneling: A fully causal process

Physical Review A

Alkhateeb, M.; Gutierrez De La Cal, X.; Pons, M.; Sokolovski, D.; Matzkin, A.

Article / A Transition State Resonance Radically Reshapes Angular Distributions of the F + H2 → FH(vf = 3) + H Reaction in the 62-102 meV Energy Range

ACS Physical Chemistry Au

Sokolovski, D.; De Fazio, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / A Transition State Resonance Radically Reshapes Angular Distributions of the F+H2→FH(vf=3)+H Reaction in the 62-102 meV Energy Range

ACS Physical Chemistry Au

Sokolovski, D.; De Fazio, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Quantum Weak Values and the “Which Way?” Question

Entropy

Uranga, A.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Sokolovski, D.

2024

Article / Imaginary past of a quantum particle moving on imaginary time

Physical Review Research

A. Urangaa, E. Akhmatskaya and D. Sokolovski

Article / A transition state resonance radically reshapes angular distributions of the F+H_2 FH( v_f=3)+H reaction in the 62.09-101.67 meV} energy range

ACS Physical Chemistry Au

D. Sokolovski, D. de Fazio, and E. Akhmatskaya,

Article / Quantum Weak Values and the

A. Uranga, E. Akhmatskaya, D. Sokolovski,

Article / Relativistic Quantum Field Theory Approach to Wavepacket Tunneling: Lack of Superluminal Transmission

M. Alkhateeb, X. Gutierrez de la Cal, M. Pons, D. Sokolovski, and A. Matzkin

Article / Quantum statistical effects in one-particle densities: scattering and pair production

X. Gutiérrez de la Cal, M. Alkhateeb, M. Pons, A. Matzkin, D. Sokolovski

Article / A macroscopic clock model to solve the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat

Scientific Reports

Sokolovski, D.; Uranga, A.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Quantum Measurements and Delays in Scattering by Zero-Range Potentials

Entropy

Gutiérrez, X.; Pons, M.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Imaginary past of a quantum particle moving on imaginary time

Physical Review Research

Uranga, A.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Sokolovski, D.

2023

Article / Timing the moment when atom decays (and Schrödinger’s cat dies)

Scientific Reports (Nature)

D. Sokolovski1, A. Uranga, and E. Akhmatskaya

Article / A single resonance Regge pole dominates the forward-angle scattering of the state-to-state F + H2 → FH + H reaction at Etrans= 62.09 meV

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

C. Xiahou, J. N. L. Connor, D. De Fazio and Dmitri Sokolovski

Article / Quantum measurements and delays in scattering by zero-range potentials

Entropy (Special Issue)

X. Gutiérrez, M. Pons and D. Sokolovski

Article / Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Measurements

Annalen Der Physik

Sokolovski, D.; Alonso Ramirez, D.; Brouard Martin, S.

Article / On Weak Values and Feynman’s Blind Alley

Quanta

Sokolovski, D.

Article / A single resonance Regge pole dominates the forward-angle scattering of the state-to-state F + H2 → FH + H reaction at Etrans = 62.09 meV

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Xiahou, C.; Connor, J.N.L.; De Fazio, D.; Sokolovski, D.

2022

Article / Wigner’s friends, tunnelling times and Feynman’s “only mystery of quantum mechanics”

EPL Perspective

D. Sokolovski and E. Akhmatskaya

Article / Numerical Regge pole analysis of resonance structures in state-to-state reactive differential cross sections

Computer Physics Communcations

E. Akhmatskaya and D. Sokolovski

Article / Speed-up and slow-down of a quantum particle

Scientific Reports (Nature)

X. Guti'errez de la Cal, M. Pons, and D. Sokolovski

Article / Speed-up and slow-down of a quantum particle

Scientific Reports

de la Cal, X.G.; Pons, M.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Numerical Regge pole analysis of resonance structures in state-to-state reactive differential cross sections

Computer Physics Communications

Akhmatskaya, E.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Unitary Evolution and Elements of Reality in Consecutive Quantum Measurements

Entropy

Sokolovski, D.

2021

Article / Tunnelling times, Larmor clock, and the elephant in the room

Scientific Reports

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Wigner's friends, tunnelling times and Feynman's "only mystery of quantum mechanics"

Epl

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Wigner’s friend scenarios and the internal consistency of standard quantum mechanics

Entropy

Sokolovski, D.; Matzkin, A.

Article / Relativistic time-dependent quantum dynamics across supercritical barriers for Klein-Gordon and Dirac particles

Physical Review A

Alkhateeb, M.; Gutiérrez De La Cal, X.; Pons, M.; Sokolovski, D.; Matzkin, A.

2020

Article / Wigner-friend scenarios with noninvasive weak measurements

Physical Review A

Matzkin, A.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / From quantum probabilities to quantum amplitudes

Entropy

Martínez-Garaot, S.; Pons, M.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Klein paradox for bosons, wave packets and negative tunnelling times

Scientific Reports

Gutiérrez de la Cal, X.; Alkhateeb, M.; Pons, M.; Matzkin, A.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Quantum measurements with, and yet without an observer

Entropy

Sokolovski, D.

Article / An optimal scaling to computationally tractable dimensionless models: Study of latex particles morphology formation

Computer Physics Communications

Rusconi, S.; Dutykh, D.; Zarnescu, A.; Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Review / Wigner's friend, Feynman's paths and material records

EPL

Matzkin, A.; Sokolovski, D.

2019

Article / Paths, negative “probabilities”, and the Leggett-Garg inequalities

Scientific Reports

Sokolovski, D.; Gurvitz, S.A.

Article / A minimalist's view of quantum mechanics

EPL

Sokolovski, D.

Review / From quantum to classical by numbers

New Journal of Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Brouard, S.; Alonso, D.

2018

Article / No time at the end of the tunnel

Communications Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Path probabilities for consecutive measurements, and certain “quantum paradoxes”

Annals of Physics

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Comment on "null weak values and the past of a quantum particle"

Physical Review A

Sokolovski, D.

Article / An even simpler understanding of quantum weak values

Annals of Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

2017

Article / Reply to L.Vaidman's comment on ”Asking photons where they have been in plain language”

arXiv:1704.02172 [quant-ph]

D. Sokolovski

Article / Salecker-Wigner-Peres clock, Feynman paths, and a tunneling time that should not exist

Physical Review A

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Reexamination of continuous fuzzy measurement on two-level systems

Physical Review A

Sokolovski, D.; Rusconi, S.; Brouard, S.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Asking photons where they have been in plain language

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Sokolovski, D.

2016

Article / Symmetry-assisted resonance transmission of noninteracting identical particles

Physical Review A

Sokolovski, D.; Siewert, J.; Baskin, L.M.

Article / Quantum measurements, stochastic networks, the uncertainty principle, and the not so strange 'Weak Values'

Mathematics

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Quantum statistical effects in multichannel wave-packet scattering of noninteracting identical particles

Physical Review A

Sokolovski, D.; Baskin, L.M.

Article / Adiabaticity in a time-dependent trap: A universal limit for the loss by touching the continuum

Physical Review A

Sokolovski, D.; Pons, M.

Article / Weak measurements measure probability amplitudes (and very little else)

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Sokolovski, D.

2015

Article / Adiabaticity in a time-dependent trap: The passage near a continuum threshold

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Pons, M.

Article / Relative frequencies of constrained events in stochastic processes: An analytical approach

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Rusconi, S.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Sokolovski, D.; Ballard, N.; De La Cal, J.C.

Article / Non-Markovian models of the growth of a polymer chain

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Sokolovski, D.; Rusconi, S.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Asua, J.M.

Article / Complex angular momentum theory of state-to-state integral cross sections: Resonance effects in the F + HD → HF(v′ = 3) + D reaction

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Echeverría-Arrondo, C.; De Fazio, D.

Article / The meaning of "anomalous weak values" in quantum and classical theories

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Interference effects in tunneling of Schrödinger cat wave-packet states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.

2014

Chapter / Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2014

Murgante, B., Misra, S., Rocha, A.M.A.C., Torre, C., Rocha, J.G., Falcão, M.I., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O., Gervasi, O

Dmitri Sokolovski and Elena Akhmatskaya

Article / A comment on the paper ”How can a Result of a Single Coin Toss Turn Out to be 100 Heads” by C. Ferrie and J. Combes

arXiv (quant-ph)

D. Sokolovski

Article / Spin measurements and control of cold atoms using spin-orbit fields

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Sherman, E.Y.

Article / Von Neumann spin measurements with Rashba fields

New Journal of Physics

Ya Sherman, E.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Impact of competitive processes on controlled radical polymerization

Macromolecules

Ballard, N.; Rusconi, S.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Sokolovski, D.; De La Cal, J.C.; Asua, J.M.

Article / Statistics of resonance and nonresonance tunneling of fermionized cold atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Baskin, L.M.

Article / Adiabaticity near a continuum threshold: An exactly solvable model

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Pons, M.; Muga, J.G.

Article / Quantum decoherence of an anharmonic oscillator monitored by a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Alonso, D.; Brouard, S.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Numerical Regge pole analysis of resonance structures in elastic, inelastic and reactive state-to-state integral cross sections

Computer Physics Communications

Akhmatskaya, E.; Sokolovski, D.; Echeverría-Arrondo, C.

2013

Article / 'Superluminal paradox' in wave packet propagation and its quantum mechanical resolution

Annals of Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Interference mechanism of seemingly superluminal tunneling

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Path integral approach to space-time probabilities: A theory without pitfalls but with strict rules

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Quantum law of rare events for systems with bosonic symmetry

Physical Review Letters

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Are the weak measurements really measurements?

Quanta

Sokolovski, D.

2012

Article / Anomalous Zeno effect for sharply localized atomic states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Pons, M.; Kamalov, T.

Article / Schrödinger current for discontinuous states from the first-passage-time decomposition

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Fidelity of fermionic-atom number states subjected to tunneling decay

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Pons, M.; Sokolovski, D.; Del Campo, A.

Article / Self-intersecting Regge trajectories in multi-channel scattering

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Felfli, Z.; Msezane, A.Z.

2011

Article / Measurement of noncommuting spin components using spin-orbit interaction

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Sherman, E.Y.

Article / Zeno effect and ergodicity in finite-time quantum measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.

Article / Classification of resonance Regge trajectories and a modified Mulholland formula

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Hartman effect and weak measurements that are not really weak

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Article / Decoherence of a quantum harmonic oscillator monitored by a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Brouard, S.; Alonso, D.; Sokolovski, D.

Article / Extracting S-matrix poles for resonances from numerical scattering data: Type-II Padé reconstruction

Computer Physics Communications

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.; Sen, S.K.

Article / Atomic Fock states by gradual trap reduction: From sudden to adiabatic limits

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Pons, M.; Del Campo, A.; Muga, J.G.

2010

Article / Novel mechanism for nanoscale catalysis

Journal of Physics B

Alfred Z Msezane, Zineb Felfli and Dmitri Sokolovski

Article / Cold fusion mechanism in nanoscale catalysis?

Europhysics news

A.Z.Msezane,Z.Felfli and D.Sokolovski

Article / Causality, apparent superluminality, and reshaping in barrier penetration

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.

Article / "superluminal" transmission via entanglement, superoscillations, and quasi-Dirac distributions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sokolovski, D.; Mayato, R.S.

2024

Invited talk | Energy dependence of reactive differential cross sections of the state-to-state F+H2 → FH+H reaction in the 62.07-101.67 meV range: oscillations, resonances and poles

QRS2024: XVII-th Quantum Reactive Scattering Workshop - Invited talk

D Sokolovski, E. Akhmatskaya

Oral presentation | New approach to tunneling current under external periodic drive of arbitrary shape

FQMT24: Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, - Oral presentation

S.Gurvitz and D. Sokolovski

Poster presentation | Memory of the quantum particle moving on imaginary time

TiQT 2024: Time in Quantum Theory - Poster presentation

A. Uranga, E. Akhmatskaya, and D.Sokolovski,

2023

Oral presentation | Wigner’s friends scenarios and internal consistency of elementary quantum mechanic

D.Sokolovski

Poster presentation | Speed-up and slow-down of a quantum particle

Time in Quantum Theory 2023 - Poster presentation

X. Gutiérrez, M. Pons and D. Sokolovski

Poster presentation | Timing the moment when atom decays and Schrödinger’s cat dies

Time in Quantum Theory 2023 - Poster presentation

A. Uranga, D. Sokolovski, and E. Akhmatskaya

2022

Invited talk | PADÉ_II, ICS_Regge, and DCS_Regge : computer programs which may help to learn more about what happens in a chemical reaction

XVIth Quantum Reactive Scattering Workshop - Invited talk

E. Akhmatskaya, and D. Sokolovski2,

2021

Invited talk | A Multiscale Model for Prediction of Particles Morphology Formation.

SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science - MS 21, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain - Invited talk

Rusconi S., Schenk C., Zarnescu A., Sokolovski D., Akhmatskaya E.

Invited talk | Optimization Problems Arising in the Complex Industrial Processes of Wine Fermentation and Polymerization.

21st ECMI Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ECMI2021) “EU-MATHS-IN: Success Stories of Mathematical Technologies in Societal Challenges and Industry” mini symposium, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany - Invited talk

Schenk C., Rusconi S., Akhmatskaya E., Schulz V., Sokolovski D., Zarnescu A.

Invited talk | Predictive mathematical modeling of dynamical particle morphology formation in polymerization processes.

12th Conference on Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences Virtual DSABNS - Invited talk

Schenk C., Rusconi S., Akhmatskaya E., Sokolovski D., Zarnescu A.

2020

Invited talk | Practical tools for better understanding of chemical reactions

ICCMSE 2020, Quantum science symposium - Invited talk

Dmitri Sokolovski and Elena Akhmatskaya

Invited talk | Population Balance Modelling, Simulation and Optimization: From Wine Fermentation to Polymerization.

University of Trier, Trier, Germany - Invited talk

Schenk C., Rusconi S., Zarnescu A., Sokolovski D., Schulz V., Akhmatskaya E.

Invited talk | Population Balance Modelling, Simulation and Optimization for Advancements in Industrial Processes.

Chemical and Process Engineering Department University of Surrey, UK - Invited talk

Schenk C., Rusconi S., Zarnescu A., Sokolovski D., Schulz V., Akhmatskaya E.

Invited talk | Population Balance Approach for Predicting Polymer Particles Morphology

11th Conference on Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences (DSABNS), Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy - Invited talk

Rusconi S., Dutykh D., Zarnescu A., Sokolovski D., Akhmatskaya E.

2019

Invited talk | From Quantum to Classical, by Numbers

International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering (COUPLED PROBLEMS 2019) - Invited talk

D. Sokolovski, S. Brouard, and D. Alonso

2018

Invited talk | What is measured by the ”weak measurements”, and why ”the tunnelling time” may never be found,

Quantum Frontiers and Foundations 2018 - Invited talk

D. Sokolovski, , and E. Akhmatskaya,

2017

Invited talk | REGGE POLES AS A PRACTICAL TOOL: TOWARDS SOFTWARE FOR ANALYSING RESONANCE EFFECTS IN REACTIVE ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS

Quantum Reactive Scattering XIV, - Invited talk

D. Sokolovski, E. Akhmatskaya and D. De Fazio

2014

Conference Paper | Computer software for understanding resonances and resonance-related phenomena in chemical reactions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) - Conference Paper

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

2012

Conference Paper | Causality, 'superluminality', and reshaping in undersized waveguides

ECCOMAS 2012 - European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, e-Book Full Papers - Conference Paper

Sokolovski, D.; Akhmatskaya, E.

Invited talk | Anomalous Zeno effect for sharply localised atomic states

2nd International Conference on Theoretical Physics - Invited talk

D. Sokolovski

Invited talk | Causality, apparent â€œsuperluminality,â€ and reshaping in wavepacket propagation

ECCOMAS 2012 - Invited talk

D. Sokolovski and E. Akhmatskaya

Oral presentation | Complex angular momentum (CAM) route to reactive scattering resonances: methods and tools

CECAM, Theoretical and Computational Astrochemistry - Oral presentation

D. Sokolovski