Assistant Professor of Physics

News items and recent publications:

Quantum Undemolition Featured on the

Cover of New Scientist magazine:

Hello Kitty!

Curiosity doesn't have to kill the quantum cat, just be careful how you open the box,

by Amanda Gefter

See also the University of Rochester, Currents article.

Gap theory of rectification in ballistic three-terminal conductors

Phys. Rev. B 77, 075334 (2008)

with Markus Buttiker

Entangled state preparation in nano-mechanical resonators

Europhysics Letters, 82 (2008) 18003

with Kurt Jacobs and Elinor Irish

Weak values and the Leggett-Garg inequality

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026804 (2008)

with Nathan Williams

See also the departmental news story

Weak Measurement theory

of quantum dot spin qubits

 Phys. Rev. B 76, 155324 (2007)

with Björn Trauzettel and Guido Burkard

Quantum Dots and Single Electron Current

 Nature Physics 3, 243 (2007)

with Eugene Sukhorukov and the ETH-experimental team

UR Science Portal Story - Nanoscale Conductors: Predicting & Measuring Single-Electron Currents

Pole-Vaulting Superconductors

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136803 (2007)

with Eugene Sukhorukov

See here for a popular summary.