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Valery Milner

ResearcherPhysics and AstronomyUniversity of British Columbia

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Valery Milner

Researcher

Physics and Astronomy

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (11 NSERC), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Rotons Superfluid helium Ultrafast lasers Helium clusters Helium nanodroplets Light-molecule interaction Many-body quantum systems Molecular dynamics

Latest papers

Control of Molecular Rotation in Helium Nanodroplets with an Optical Centrifuge.
Physical review letters · 2026 · senior author
Controlled Excitation of Rotons in Superfluid Helium with an Optical Centrifuge.
Physical review letters · 2023 · senior author
Dynamics of molecular rotors in bulk superfluid helium.
Science advances · 2023 · senior author

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Urgent replacement of a failed laser in the core experimental setup
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$150,000
Quantum "rotonics": the study of laser-induced ultrafast dynamics of rotons in superfluid helium for terahertz sensing and imaging
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$603,000
Ultrafast ion detector for the study of molecular chirality
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$142,384

All 12 grants and awards

15 publications.

Control of Molecular Rotation in Helium Nanodroplets with an Optical Centrifuge.

MacPhail-Bartley I, Milner AA, Stienkemeier F, Milner V

Physical review letters2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1103/5jnj-97vs PMID: 41651488

Controlled Excitation of Rotons in Superfluid Helium with an Optical Centrifuge.

Milner AA, Milner V

Physical review letters2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.166001 PMID: 37925729

Dynamics of molecular rotors in bulk superfluid helium.

Milner AA, Apkarian VA, Milner V

Science advances2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi2455 PMID: 37379388

Ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics of rotons in superfluid helium.

Milner AA, Stamp PCE, Milner V

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2303231120 PMID: 37071681

Selective rotational control in mixtures of molecular super-rotors.

Amani P, Milner AA, Milner V

The Journal of chemical physics2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1063/5.0062051 PMID: 34598555

Observation of Mechanical Faraday Effect in Gaseous Media.

Milner AA, Steinitz U, Averbukh IS, Milner V

Physical review letters2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.073901 PMID: 34459657

Laser control of molecular rotation: Expanding the utility of an optical centrifuge.

MacPhail-Bartley I, Wasserman WW, Milner AA, Milner V

The Review of scientific instruments2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1063/1.5140358 PMID: 32357749

Controlled Enantioselective Orientation of Chiral Molecules with an Optical Centrifuge.

Milner AA, Fordyce JAM, MacPhail-Bartley I, Wasserman W, Milner V, Tutunnikov I, Averbukh IS

Physical review letters2019

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.223201 PMID: 31283279

Observation of nondispersing classical-like molecular rotation.

Korobenko A, Hepburn JW, Milner V

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP2015Senior author

DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04434g PMID: 25407341

Effects of ultrafast molecular rotation on collisional decoherence.

Milner AA, Korobenko A, Hepburn JW, Milner V

Physical review letters2014Senior author

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.043005 PMID: 25105617

Urgent replacement of a failed laser in the core experimental setup

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

Keywords: Femtosecond pulse shaping; Many-body phenomena; Non-equilibrium dynamics; Nonlinear optics; Quantum control of light-matter interactions; Rotons; Strongly interacting quantum systems; Superfluid helium; Ultrafast lasers

$150,000

Quantum "rotonics": the study of laser-induced ultrafast dynamics of rotons in superfluid helium for terahertz sensing and imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery V

Keywords: quantum many-body phenomena; quantum sensing; rotons; shaped femtosecond laser pulses; superfluid helium; terahertz detectors; terahertz imaging; terahertz sensing; terahertz spectroscopy; ultrafast lasers

$603,000

Ultrafast ion detector for the study of molecular chirality

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

$142,384

Closed-loop cryocooler for continuing an ongoing research on helium nanodroplets

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

$58,951

Control and study of molecular dynamics in many-body quantum systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

Keywords: quantum coherent control; molecular dynamics; light-molecule interaction; many-body quantum systems; superfluidity; helium nanodroplets; helium clusters; molecular super-rotors; optical centrifuge; shaped laser pulses

$300,000

Optical Parametric Amplifier for expanding the utility of an Optical Centrifuge at UBC

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

$132,753

Fast digital oscilloscope for the development of ultrafast magnetic nano-switch with molecular superrotors

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

$150,000

Ultrafast coherent control of molecular dynamics with shaped laser pulses

Principal investigatorNSERC2014Discovery Grants Program - Group

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

$378,000

REMPI spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC2011Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Momose, Takamasa

$149,967

Laboratory for research on cold molecular processes with ultrashort laser pulses

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Milner, Valery

$150,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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