Quantum devices: engineering electronic coherence in nanostructures

我们的团队建造和测量纳米级的电子设备，其几何结构旨在从传输(电阻)测量中产生新的物理。我们的实验是在低温下进行的--通常不到1开尔文--在那里电子性质由相干量子力学效应主导。在这个极限下，从实验室设备发送到被测设备的信号提供了对量子力学自由度的原位控制。我们提出了未来5年我们的研究的三管齐下的方法。第一个建立在我们过去5年最成功的一组实验的基础上；第二个继续我们团队扩展到凝聚态物理最热门的新领域之一；第三个利用我们团队的独特地位进入一个具有巨大潜在回报的新方向：

Our group builds and measures nanoscale electronic devices whose geometries are designed to yield new physics from a transport (resistance) measurement. Our experiments are performed at low temperature--typically less than 1 Kelvin--where electronic properties are dominated by coherent quantum mechanical effects. In this limit, signals sent from laboratory equipment to the device under test provide in situ control over quantum mechanical degrees of freedom. We propose a three-pronged approach to our research in the coming 5 years. The first builds off of our most successful set of experiments from the past 5 years; the second continues our group's expansion into one of the hottest new fields in condensed matter physics; the third takes advantage of our group's unique position to move into a new direction with great potential payoff: