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Post-Docs Graduate Students
Jeremy Levy
Professor
Ph.D., 1993, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jeremy Levy is an undergraduate advisor.
My research interests are primarily based upon exploring novel phenomena in solid state systems, in order to provide the physical foundation for future technologies. Areas of interest include physical systems capable of quantum information processing and quantum computation, nanoscale control over metal-insulator transition in polar/non-polar oxide heterostructures, the study of ferroelectric domain dynamics using optical probes, ferroelectrically nanostructured semiconductors, formation of Ge/Si quantum dots by "directed self-assembly", and development of novel optical and scanning probe techniques including near-field optical microscopy. I am the director of the Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation (COSMQC).
Selected Publications
- "Nanoscale Control of an Interfacial Metal-Insulator Transition at Room Temperature," C. Cen et al, Nature Materials, 7, 298 (2008)
- "GHz Apertureless Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy of Ferroelectric Nanodomain Dynamics," H. Ma and J. Levy, Nano Letters 6, 341 (2006).
- "Patterning of sub-10-nm Ge islands on Si(100) by directed self-assembly," O. Guise, J. Ahner, J. John T. Yates, V. Vaithyanathan, D. G. Schlom, and J. Levy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 1902 (2005).
- "Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity in Strained SrTiO3," J. H. Haeni, P. Irvin, W. Chang, R. Uecker, P. Reiche, Y. L. Li, S. Choudhury, W. Tian, M. E. Hawley, B. Craigo, A. K. Tagantsev, X. Q. Pan, S. K. Streiffer, L. Q. Chen, S. Kirchoefer, J. Levy, and D. G. Schlom, Nature 430, 758 (2004).
- "Universal quantum computation with spin-1/2 pairs and Heisenberg exchange," J. Levy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 147902 (2002).
- "Quantum Information Processing with Ferroelectrically Coupled Quantum Dots," J. Levy, Phys. Rev. A 64, 52306 (2001).
