GERSHENSON LAB MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS and QUANTUM COMPUTING |
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Quantum Transport and Interactions in Mesoscopic Conductors at
milli-Kelvin Temperatures This research addresses
experimentally several inter-related fundamental problems of electron
transport in low-dimensional conductors:
The problem of intrinsic and
extrinsic limitations on the dephasing rate in low-dimensional conductors is
crucial for many areas of condensed matter physics, as well as for the solid
state implementation of quantum computing. Further progress in this field is
associated with dephasing measurements at milli-Kelvin temperatures. Our
experiments are aimed at better understanding of dephasing mechanisms
(including the dephasing by external high-frequency electromagnetic noise),
and extending the temperature range of dephasing measurements in 1d and 2d
systems down to T ~ 20 mK by means of thorough suppression of external
noise (elimination of noise-induced dephasing), and optimization of
electron-phonon interaction (elimination of hot-electron effects).
Selected
Publications: Wei Jian, S. Pereverzev, and M. E. Gershenson,
“Microwave-induced dephasing in one-dimensional metal wires, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 086801 (2006). M. E. Gershenson, Low-temperature dephasing in
disordered conductors: experimental aspects, Annalen der Physik 8, 559-568
(1999). Yu. B. Khavin, M. E. Gershenson,
and A. L. Bogdanov, Strong localization of electrons in
quasi-one-dimensional conductors, Phys.Rev. B 58, 8009-8019 (1998). B. L. Altshuler,
M. E. Gershenson, and I. L. Aleiner, Phase relaxation of
electrons in disordered conductors, Physica E 3, 58-68 (1998). Yu. B. Khavin, M. E. Gershenson,
and A. L. Bogdanov, Decoherence and the Thouless crossover in
one-dimensional conductors,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1066-1069 (1998). M. E. Gershenson, Yu. B. Khavin,
A. G. Mikhalchuk, H. M. Bozler, and
A. L. Bogdanov, Crossover from weak to strong localization in
quasi-one-dimensional conductors,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 725-728 (1997).
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