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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For experiments of lowdimensional coherent transport, local imaging, and quantum computation in mesoscopic devices

Overview

Amir Yacoby is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has produced a significant body of work in the fields of physics and materials science. Their research spans multiple specialized areas, including atomic and molecular physics, optics, materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's main topics of study include quantum and electron transport phenomena, topological materials and phenomena, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, graphene research and applications, diamond and carbon-based materials research, mechanical and optical resonators, and cold atom physics and Bose-Einstein condensates.

Amir Yacoby has authored numerous papers, some of the recent ones being:

  • Fractional Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, 2021, Nature
  • The Magnetic Genome of Two-Dimensional van der Waals Materials, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Unconventional sequence of correlated Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Imaging phonon-mediated hydrodynamic flow in WTe2, 2021, Nature Physics
  • Nanoscale Detection of Magnon Excitations with Variable Wavevectors Through a Quantum Spin Sensor, 2020, Nano Letters

Frequent co-authors of Amir Yacoby include:

  • Takashi Taniguchi
  • Kenji Watanabe
  • Prineha Narang
  • Jonathan B. Curtis
  • Marie E. Wesson

Their publications have appeared in a range of venues, with the most frequent including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Physics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review B
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Amir Yacoby has received recognition through several honors, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

They were also elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014, and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012, the latter acknowledged for experiments involving low-dimensional coherent transport, local imaging, and quantum computation in mesoscopic devices.

Best Publications

  • Coherent manipulation of coupled electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots.

    Jason R. Petta;Jason R. Petta;Jason R. Petta;Alexander C. Johnson;Alexander C. Johnson;Alexander C. Johnson;Jacob M. Taylor;Jacob M. Taylor;Jacob M. Taylor;Edward A. Laird;Edward A. Laird;Edward A. Laird

  • Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond

    J. R. Maze;P. L. Stanwix;J. S. Hodges;J. S. Hodges;S. Hong

  • High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution

    J. M. Taylor;P. Cappellaro;L. Childress;L. Childress;L. Jiang

  • Observation of electron–hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor

    J. Martin;N. Akerman;G. Ulbricht;T. Lohmann

  • Coherence and Phase Sensitive Measurements in a Quantum Dot.

    A. Yacoby;M. Heiblum;D. Mahalu;Hadas Shtrikman

  • A robust scanning diamond sensor for nanoscale imaging with single nitrogen-vacancy centres.

    Patrick Maletinsky;Sungkun Hong;Michael Sean Grinolds;Birgit Judith Maria Hausmann

  • Optical magnetic imaging of living cells

    D. Le Sage;K. Arai;D. R. Glenn;S. J. DeVience

  • Dephasing time of GaAs electron-spin qubits coupled to a nuclear bath exceeding 200 μs

    Hendrik Bluhm;Sandra Foletti;Izhar Neder;Mark Rudner

  • Triplet-singlet spin relaxation via nuclei in a double quantum dot.

    A. C. Johnson;Jason R. Petta;J. M. Taylor;A. Yacoby;A. Yacoby

  • Demonstration of Entanglement of Electrostatically Coupled Singlet-Triplet Qubits

    Michael Dean Shulman;O Dial;Shannon Pasca Harvey;H. Bluhm

  • Nonuniversal conductance quantization in quantum wires

    A. Yacoby;H. L. Stormer;Ned S. Wingreen;L. N. Pfeiffer

  • Measurement of the conductance of single conjugated molecules

    Tali Dadosh;Yoav Gordin;Roman Krahne;Ilya Khivrich

  • Probing condensed matter physics with magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond

    Francesco Casola;Toeno van der Sar;Toeno van der Sar;Amir Yacoby

  • Fault-tolerant architecture for quantum computation using electrically controlled semiconductor spins

    J. M. Taylor;H.-A. Engel;W. Dür;A. Yacoby

  • Universal quantum control of two-electron spin quantum bits using dynamic nuclear polarization

    Sandra Foletti;Hendrik Bluhm;Diana Mahalu;Vladimir Umansky

  • Spin-charge separation and localization in one dimension.

    O. M. Auslaender;O. M. Auslaender;O. M. Auslaender;H. Steinberg;H. Steinberg;H. Steinberg;A. Yacoby;A. Yacoby;A. Yacoby;Y. Tserkovnyak;Y. Tserkovnyak;Y. Tserkovnyak

  • Broken-Symmetry States in Doubly Gated Suspended Bilayer Graphene

    R. T. Weitz;M. T. Allen;B. E. Feldman;J. Martin

  • Nanoscale magnetic imaging of a single electron spin under ambient conditions

    Michael Sean Grinolds;Sungkun Hong;Patrick Maletinsky;Patrick Maletinsky;Lan Luan

  • Relaxation, dephasing, and quantum control of electron spins in double quantum dots

    J. M. Taylor;J. M. Taylor;J. R. Petta;J. R. Petta;A. C. Johnson;A. Yacoby;A. Yacoby

  • Coherence and phase sensitive measurements with a quantum dot

    M. Heiblum;A. Yacoby;R. Schuster

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald L. Walsworth
Ronald L. Walsworth University of Maryland, Baltimore
Bertrand I. Halperin
Bertrand I. Halperin Indian Institute of Science
Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Ken W. West
Ken W. West Princeton University
Loren Pfeiffer
Loren Pfeiffer Princeton University
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak University of California, Los Angeles
Charles Marcus
Charles Marcus University of Copenhagen

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