Prof Gabriel Aeppli

Biography

• Quantum information processing
• Magnetism
• Superconductivity
• Metrology for biomedicine

Gabriel Aeppli is the Quain Professor of Physics and the Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Prior to taking up these posts in the autumn of 2002, he was a Senior Research Scientist for NEC (Princeton), a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, a Research Assistant at MIT, and an industrial co-op student at IBM. He obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and PhD, M.Sc. & B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Honours include Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS) (2010), the IOP (Institute of Physics) Mott Prize (2008), the APS Oliver Buckley Prize (2005), the IUPAP Magnetism Prize/Neel Medal (2003), Riso National Laboratory Fellow (2002), Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2002), Mildner Lecturer, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, UCL (2002), Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997), Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1996). In addition, he has been a member and chairman of many panels, sponsored by the USDOE, American Physical Society, EPSRC, and National Research Council (US), among others. His personal research is currently focused on the implications of nanotechnology for information processing and health care.

Recent publications:

• Rahnejat, K.C. et al. "Charge density waves in the graphene sheets of the superconductor CaC₆." Nat. Commun. 2:558 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1574 (2011).

           Graphene Earns its Stripes - Nature, November 2011

• Morley GW, Warner M, Stoneham AM, Greenland PT, van Tol J, Kay CWM, Aeppli G "The initialization and manipulation of quantum information stored in silicon by bismuth dopants" Nature Materials 9 725-729 (2010)
• Fratini M, Poccia N, Ricci A, Campi G, Burghammer M, Aeppli G, Bianconi A "Scale-free structural organization of oxygen interstitials in La2CuO4+y"  Nature 466 841-844 (2010)
• Gaudet M, Remtulla N, Jackson SE, Main ERG, Bracewell DG, Aeppli G, Dalby PA "Protein denaturation and protein:drugs interactions from intrinsic protein fluorescence measurements at the nanolitre scale" ProteinScience 19 1544-1554 (2010)
• Wang H, Mauthoor S, Din S, Gardener JA, Chang R, Warner M, Aeppli G, McComb DW, Ryan MP, Wu W, Fisher AJ, Stoneham M, Heutz S "Ultra long copper phthalocyanine nanowires with new crystal structure and broad optical absorption" ACS NANO 4 3921-3926 (2010)
• Greenland PT, Lynch SA, van der Meer AFG et al."Coherent control of Rydberg states in silicon"  Nature 465 1057-U116 (2010)
• Silevitch DM, Aeppli G, Rosenbaum TF " Switchable hardening of a ferromagnet at fixed temperature"  TFPNAS USA 107 2797-2800 (2010)
• Gardener JA, Liaw I, Aeppli G et al. "A novel route for the inclusion of metal dopants in silicon" Nanotechnology 21 025304 (2010)
• Saxena A, Aeppli G "Phase transitions at the nanoscale in functional materials" MRS Bulletin 34 804-81 (2009)
• Ghosh S, Rosenbaum TF, Aeppli G "Macroscopic signature of protected spins in a dense frustrated magnet" Physical Review Letters 101 (15) (2008)
• Lynch SA, Greenland PT, Vinh NQ et al. presented at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Sorrento, ITALY, 2008 (unpublished)
• Manyala N, DiTusa JF, Aeppli G et al. "Doping a semiconductor to create an unconventional metal" Nature 454 (7207), 976-980 (2008)
• Ndieyira JW, Watari M, Barrera AD et al. "Nanomechanical detection of antibiotic mucopeptide binding in a model for superbug drug resistance" Nature Nanotechnology 3 (11), 691-696 (2008)
• Vinh NQ, Greenland PT, Litvinenko K et al. "Silicon as a model ion trap: time domain measurements of donor Rydberg states" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (31), 10649-10653 (2008)